TIQM 2020 Inaugural workshop

SATURDAY 18 JANUARY

9.00  Anton Andreev and Larry Yaffe – Welcome 

9:10  Helen Thouless – David Thouless in Seattle

9: 25  Marcel den Nijs – David's Nobel  Prize

9.50  Qian Niu – An inside look at Chern numbers

10.40  coffee 

11.10  Leonid Glazman – Topology of the Fermi surface wavefunctions and magnetic oscillations in metals

12:00  Ashvin Vishwanath – Topology and the insulating ground state of magic angle graphene

12.50  lunch buffet

2.00  Chetan Nayak – Quantum Computation with Majorana Zero Modes

2.40  Matthias Troyer – Quantum algorithms for correlated electronic systems

3.20  Charlie Marcus – Phase controlled topological superconductivity

4.10  coffee

4.30  Tony Leggett – The London moment of a rotating superconductor:some unsuspected subtleties

5.20  Leonid Levitov – Long-lived excitations, directional memory and electron fluidity in two dimensions

6.10  dinner, not organized

SUNDAY 19 JANUARY

9.00  David Cobden– 2D topological semimetal     

9.25  Jiun-Haw Chu – 3D topological semimetal

9.50  Xiaodong Xu – Moire lattices of excitons 

10.15  Matthew Yankowitz – Correlations in twisted graphene multilayers

10.40  coffee

11.00  Allan MacDonald – Strong Correlation Physics in Moiré Superlattices

11.50  Dam Thanh Son – Dynamic metric and Kelvin circulation theorem in fractional quantum Hall effect

12.40  lunch break

2.00  Eduardo Fradkin – Loop Models, Dualities in 2+1 dimensions and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

2.50  David Vanderbilt – Theory of axion insulators

3.40  coffee

4.00  Joel Moore – Thouless-type quantization of nonlinear optical properties in chiral Weyl semimetals

4.50  Liang Fu – Supermetal

5.40  break

6.30  Conference Dinner, Walker-Ames Room (sorry, this is by invitation only due to limited seating).

MONDAY 20 JANUARY

9.00  Igor Aleiner – Saturation of Strong Electron-Electron Umklapp Scattering at High Temperature

9.50  Steve Girvin – Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

10.40  coffee

11.00  Nick Read – One-step replica symmetry breaking below the de Almeida-Thouless line in low dimensional spin glasses

11.50  Patrick Lee – Finding Majorana and partner on an island in a sea of gold

12.40  Closing