Topology and Physics on Mount Carmel
08:30 Departure from Carmel Center, Registration
09:00 Gathering and morning refreshments
09:30 Opening – Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan and Dean Prof. Adi Nusser
10:00 Allan MacDonald – “The quantum anomalous Hall effect in Moiré materials” – Link to Video
10:55-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 Henning Schomerus – “Physical response of non-Hermitian topological systems” – Link to Video
12:05 Shinsei Ryu – “Extracting higher central charges from many-body wavefunctions” – Link to Video
12:55 Lunch
14:30 David Vanderbilt (Colloquium) – “From the Zak phase to the axion angle” – Link to Video
15:30-16:10 Coffee break
16:15 Hélène Bouchiat – “Revealing dissipationless orbital currents using magnetoresistive sensors or SQUID interferometry: From graphene to topological insulators”
17:00 Gathering for students and speakers over pizzas
08:10 Departure from Carmel Center
08:30 Gathering and morning refreshments
09:00 Duncan Haldane – “Electric quadrupole density and Hall viscosity of incompressible quantum Hall fluids” – Link to Video
09:50 B. Andrei Bernevig – “Quantum Geometry, the Electron Phonon Coupling, and a Famous Superconductor” – Link to Video
10:40-11:10 Coffee break + Group photo
11:10 Shahal Ilani – “The Pomeranchuk Effect in Magic Angle Graphene – Topology Meets Localization” – Link to Video
12:00 Poster session & Lunch
14:10 Eva Andrei – “Superconductor to insulator quantum transition in magic angle twisted trilayer graphene”
15:00 Yasuhiro Hatsugai – “Topological Pump of Interacting Systems” – Link to Video
15:50-16:10 Coffee break
16:10 Barry Simon – “A Tale of Three Coauthors: Comparison of Ising Models – Link to Video
17:00 Honoring Prof. Joshua Zak
18:30 Conference Dinner
08:10 Departure from Carmel Center
08:30 Gathering and morning refreshments
09:00 Charles Kane – “Topology of the Fermi Sea”
09:50 Immanuel Bloch – “Probing Topology and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics Using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices” – Link to Video
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Michael Berry – “Caustic of colours in Newton’s prism”
11:50 Ady Stern – “Topology, Symmetry and Localization”
12:40 Guided Tour / Lunch
08:10 Departure from Carmel Center
08:30 Gathering and morning refreshments
09:00 Ian Spielman – “Topology in time-dependent systems”
09:50 Jacqueline Bloch – “Topological photonics in non-linear driven dissipative systems”
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Jean-Noel Fuchs – “Zak, Su-Schrieffer-Heeger & Kitaev” – Link to Video
11:50 Gilles Montambaux – “Zak phase and edge states in artificial graphenes”
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Fabrice Mortessagne – “Multifractality and p-wave topological phase transition in microwave resonator lattices”
14:50 Lawrence Schulman – “Need for special states in quantum measurement”
15:40-16:05 Closing remarks & Coffee break