Scientific Calendar Event



Description
This conference will focus on the latest advances in the investigation of topology in condensed matter, with participation by leading theorists and experimentalists, offering an excellent opportunity for cross-fertilisation of ideas and an exciting learning experience for students and early career researchers. 
 
 
Topics:
  • Topological insulators and superconductors
  • Dirac and Weyl semimetals
  • Time-dependent and non-equilibrium topological systems
  • Phononic systems
  • Electronic-structure and ab-initio calculations
  • Transport properties of topological systems
  • Experimental detection of topological properties
  • Physics of unconventional surface states
  • Interaction and disorder effects in topological systems
  • Hetero- and hybrid-structures 
  • Electrodynamics in topological materials
  • Quantum-field-theory approaches
  • Applications and devices

Speakers:
A. AKHMEROV, Delft university of Technology, The Netherlands
J. ALICEA, California Institute of Technology, USA
A. BLACK-SCHAFFER, Uppsala University, Sweden
C. W. J. BEENAKKER, Leiden University, The Netherlands
R. CITRO, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
D. COBDEN, University of Washington, USA
C. DE MORAIS SMITH, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
L. FU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
M. G. VERGNIORY, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Y. GEFEN, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
E. HANKIEWICZ, University of Würzburg, Germany
S. A. JAFARI, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
K. FIJALKOWSKI, University of Würzburg, Germany
J. KLINOVAJA, University of Basel, Switzerland
C. N. LAU, The Ohio State University, USA
S. LAW, Pennsylvania State University, USA
A. LEVY YEYATI, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
S. LUPI, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
D. MEIDAN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
G. PLATERO, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
S. RACHEL, University of Melbourne, Australia
A. STERN, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
F. VON OPPEN, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
A. YOUNG, UC Santa Barbara, USA
S. ZHOU, Tsinghua University, China



Research abstract: Applicants are invited to submit a research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contributed talk. Please use the ICTP templates that are available below for download.


Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Go to day
  • Monday, 11 November 2024
    • 08:30 - 09:15 Registration and administrative formalities
    • 09:15 - 14:30
      Chair: Fabio Taddei, NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR & SNS, Pisa, Italy
      • 09:15 Opening 10'
      • 09:25 Theory of the quantum twisting microscope 45'
        Speaker: F. von Oppen (Freie Universität Berlin)
      • 10:10 Coffee break 50'
      • 11:00 Manipulating the topological spin of Majorana zero modes 45'
        Speaker: I. Adagideli (University of Twente & Sabanci University)
      • 11:50 New results on the 2D topological insulator state in monolayer WTe2 45'
        Speaker: D. Cobden (University of Washington)
        Material: Video
      • 12:35 Lunch break 1h55'
    • 14:30 - 18:35
      Chair: Saurabh Basu, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
      • 14:30 Measuring entanglement in electronic and anyonic interferometers 45'
        Speaker: Y. Gefen (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
        Material: Video
      • 15:15 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:45 Transfer of quantum information mediated by edge states 45'
        Speaker: G. Platero (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 Group photo 5'
      • 16:35 Poster session 2h0'
        P01 - P33
        Material: Booklet
  • Tuesday, 12 November 2024
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: David Cobden, University of Washington, USA
      • 09:00 TBA 45'
        Speaker: A. Young (University of California Santa Barbara)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 Signature of Anyonic Statistics in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime 25'
        Speaker: I. Petkovic (Centre de Nanostructures et de Nanotechnologies (C2N))
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:40 Synthesis of Solid State Spacetimes 45'
        Speaker: S. A. Jafari (RWTH Aachen University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:25 GdAlSi: A potential candidate for altermagnetic topological Weyl semimetal 25'
        Speaker: A. Alam (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
        Material: Video
      • 11:50 Altermagnetism: classifications, topology and non-relativistic transport 45'
        Speaker: M. Vergniory (Donostia International Physics Center)
        Material: Video
      • 12:35 Lunch break 1h55'
    • 14:30 - 16:30
      Chair: Liliana Arrachea, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina
      • 14:30 TBA 45'
        Speaker: A. Stern (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
        Material: Video
      • 15:15 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:45 Correlated topological surface flat bands in rhombohedral graphite 45'
        Speaker: S. Zhou (Tsinghua University)
        Material: Video
  • Wednesday, 13 November 2024
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Seyed Akbar Jafari, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
      • 09:00 Casimir effect in topological condensed matter 45'
        Speaker: C. Beenakker (University of Leiden)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 Local and energy-resolved topological invariants for Floquet systems 25'
        Speaker: A. K. Ghosh (Uppsala University)
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:40 Enhancing topological superconductivity using quasicrystals, dissipation, and non-Hermitian effects 45'
        Speaker: A. Black-Schaffer (Uppsala University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:25 Casimir Effect in Topological Systems 25'
        Speaker: L. Chen (North China Electric Power University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:50 Towards a magnetic topological insulator-based quantum standard of resistance 45'
        Speaker: K. Fijalkowski (Universität Würzburg)
        Material: Video
      • 12:35 Lunch break 1h55'
    • 14:30 - 18:30
      Chair: Gloria Platero, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
      • 14:30 Topological materials for low-energy electronics 45'
        Speaker: M. Fuhrer (Monash University, Australia)
        Material: Video
      • 15:15 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:45 Chiral superconductivity in Sn/Si(111) and Chern-number landscape on the triangular lattice 45'
        Speaker: S. Rachel (University of Melbourne)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 Poster session 2h0'
        P34 - P66
        Material: Booklet
  • Thursday, 14 November 2024
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Dganit Meidan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
      • 09:00 Evidence of non-trivial topology in Josephson junctions 45'
        Speaker: R. Citro (Università degli studi di Salerno)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 Signatures of Majorana bound states in topological Andreev interferometers via electron waiting time distributions 25'
        Speaker: P. Dutta (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad)
      • 10:10 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:40 TBA 45'
        Speaker: A. Akhmerov (Delft University of Technology)
        Material: Video
      • 11:25 Quantum spin Hall insulator in proximity with a superconductor: Transition to the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state driven by a Zeeman field 25'
        Speaker: S. J. De (McGill University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:50 TBA 45'
        Speaker: J. Klinovaja (Universität Basel)
      • 12:35 Lunch break 1h55'
    • 14:30 - 17:15
      Chair: Roberta Citro, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
      • 14:30 Synthesis and plasmonics of topological materials 45'
        Speaker: S. Law (Penn State University)
      • 15:15 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:45 Quantum circuits with multiterminal Josephson-Andreev junctions 45'
        Speaker: A. Levy Yeyati (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
      • 16:30 TBA 45'
        Speaker: C. Morais Smith (Utrecht University)
  • Friday, 15 November 2024
    • 09:00 - 12:00
      Chair: Michele Governale, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
      • 09:00 Measurement-altered quantum matter 45'
        Speaker: J. Alicea (Caltech, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 Can quantum topology be exploited in emerging devices? 25'
        Speaker: B. Muralidharan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:40 TBA 45'
        Speaker: D. Meidan (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
        Material: Video
      • 11:25 Closing 10'
        Material: Video