Symposium Schedule
Venue: Thompson Conference Center, Room 1.110
Venue: Thompson Conference Center, Room 1.110
08:30 – 09:00: Breakfast (non-UT guests, outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session I: Chair: Elaine Li, University of Texas at Austin, US
09:00 – 09:15 Pablo Laguna, University of Texas at Austin, US
Opening Remarks
09:15 – 09:45 Qian Niu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Spin-orbit Effects in Magnetic Systems
09:45 – 10:15 Hideo Ohno, Tohoku University, Japan
Realizing the Potential of Spintronics: From Physics to Technology
10:15 – 10:45 Tomas Jungwirth, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
From Superfluid 3He to Altermagnets
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break (outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session II: Chair: Hongki Min, Seoul National University, South Korea
11:15 – 11:45 Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland, US
Bilayer Excitonic Superfluids
11:45 – 12:15 Emanuel Tutuc, University of Texas at Austin, US
To Twist, or Not Twist: Adventures in Flatlands
12:15 – 14:00 Working Lunch (non-UT guests, TCC Room 2.120)
Session III: Chair: Sami Mitra, American Physical Society, US
14:00 – 14:30 Philip Kim, Harvard University, US
Searching for Anyons in Quantum Materials
14:30 – 15:00 Fengcheng Wu, Wuhan University, China
The Emergence of Fractional Chern Insulators in Allan's Moiré Flatlands
15:00 – 15:30 Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington at Seattle, US
New Developments in Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break (outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session IV: Public lecture
16:00 – 17:00 Steven Girvin, Yale University, US
Progress and Prospects for the 2nd Quantum Revolution: The Race to Build 'Impossible' Computers
Dinner (invitation only)
08:30 – 09:00 Breakfast (non-UT guests, outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session I: Chair: Jeil Jung, University of Seoul, South Korea
09:00 – 9:30 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
09:30 – 10:00 Rafi Bistritzer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Allan's Bonus Question
10:00 – 10:30 James Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology, US
30 Years of Fun and Games with Bilayer 2D Electron Systems
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break (outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session II: Chair: Herbert Fertig, Indiana University Bloomington, US
11:00 – 11:30 John Perdew, Tulane University, US
Predictive Power of the Exact Constraints in Density Functional Theory: New Evidence from 3d Atoms
11:30 – 12:00 Warren Pickett, University of California at Davis, US
LaNiGa2 and Fragile Magnetic Superconductors
12:00 – 12:30 Eva Andrei, Rutgers University, US
Moiré and More – Crystals, Inter-crystals, and Quasi-crystals
12:30 – 14:00 Working Lunch (non-UT guests, TCC Room 2.120)
Session III: Chair: Wei-Cheng Lee, Binghamton University–SUNY, US
14:00 – 14:30 Matthew Fisher, University of California at Santa Barbara, US
Quantum Dynamics of the 1d "Repetition Code"
14:30 – 15:00 Gregory Boebinger, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, US
Missing Quantum Hall States: How Allan Helped Me Win One Against Referee B
15:00 – 15:30 Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University, US
How Allan Made 100,000 pz Orbitals Equal to 1 f Electron:
New Results in the Topological Heavy Fermion Theory of Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break (outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session IV: Chair: Guru Khalsa, University of North Texas, US
16:00 – 16:30 Ali Yazdani, Princeton University, US
Visualizing Correlated Phases of Matter in Flatlands
16:30 – 17:00 Fan Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, US
Rhombohedral Magic in Allan's Quantum Pencils
17:00 – 17:15 Group Photo
Banquet (invitation only): Chair: Ken Shih, University of Texas at Austin, US
08:30 – 09:00 Breakfast (non-UT guests, outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session I: Chair: Rembert Duine, Utrecht University, Netherlands
09:00 – 09:30 Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania, US
Fractional Excitonic Insulator
09:30 – 10:00 Kin Fai Mak, Cornell University, US
Electrical Transport and Quantum Oscillations in Dipolar Excitonic Insulators
10:00 – 10:30 Anton Burkov, University of Waterloo, Canada
Disordered Weyl Semimetal as a Coupled Hubbard Chain Array
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break (outside TCC Room 1.110)
Session II: Chair: Enrico Rossi, College of William & Mary, US
11:00 – 11:30 Jeanie Lau, Ohio State University, US
Superconductors and Insulators in Flat Bands of Flatland
11:30 – 12:00 Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory, US
Quantum Hall Superconductivity
12:00 – 12:15 Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin, US
Closing Remarks
12:15 – 14:00 Working Lunch (non-UT guests, TCC Room 2.120)