Scientific Calendar Event



Description
An ICTP Meeting

This workshop and school, featuring lectures, tutorials, roundtables, and talks, will explore strongly correlated electron systems, focusing on novel phases, quantum criticality, exotic magnetic states, fractional excitations, moiré physics, and non-equilibrium phenomena.

This workshop and school will explore the rich physics of strongly correlated electron systems, focusing on their novel ground states, quantum critical phenomena, and emergent behaviors. Topics include fractionalized excitations in quantum spin liquids and topological phases, unconventional superconductivity, strange and bad metals, and transport in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Special attention will be given to the impact of disorder, spin-phonon interactions, and non-equilibrium dynamics and light-induced, as well as cutting-edge developments in moiré systems such as twisted bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides. The event aims to integrate experimental and theoretical perspectives through lectures, tutorials, and in-depth discussions, fostering collaborations and advancing understanding.

Topics
  • Novel ground states of matter and excitations
  • Spectroscopies and transport of fractionalized excitations in topological phases of matter, such as quantum spin liquids and fractional Chern insulators.
  • The roles of disorder and spin-phonon interaction in quantum matter
  • A revolutionary "twist" on the quantum two-dimensional physics provided by exciting experiments on moire systems such as twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers
  • Quantum-critical behavior and superconductivity in correlated electron systems due to continuing discoveries of new materials
  • Transport in strange and bad metals, including Weyl and Dirac semimetals
  • Non-equilibrium dynamics and light-induced phenomena and dynamic phase transitions in quantum matter
 
Lecturers
L. BALENTS, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, USA
E. BERG, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
P. CANFIELD, Iowa State University, USA
P. COLEMAN, Rutgers University, USA
R. FERNANDES, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
L. FU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
A. KAMENEV, University of Minnesota, USA
A. KAPITULNIK, Stanford University,USA
H.-Y. KEE, Univeristy of Toronto, Canada
Y. B. KIM, Univeristy of Toronto, Canada
D. MASLOV, Florida University, USA
E. MOROSAN Rice University, USA
S. SACHDEV, Harvard University, USA
J. SCHMALIAN, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
M. G. VERGNIORY, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada*
*To be confirmed

Invited Speakers
E. ANDREI, Rutgers University, USA
C. BATISTA, University of Tennesse, USA
F. BECCA, Trieste University, Italy
A. CHUBUKOV, University of Minnesota, USA
A. COLDEA, Oxford University, UK
R. COLDEA, Oxford University, UK
B. DOUÇOIT, Sorbonne University, France
M. GASTIASORO, Univeristy of Donostia San Sebastian, Spain
S. ILANI, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Y. IQBAL, IIT Madras, India
L. JU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
A. HALLAS, University British Columbia, Canada
J. KNOLLE, Technical University of Munich, Germany
E. KÖNIG, University of Wisconsin, USA
Q. MA, Boston College, USA
K. F. MAK, Cornell University,USA
L. MANGEOLLE, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Y. MOTOME, Tokyo University, Japan
T. SAHA-DASGUPTA, Kolkata University, India
J. SHAN, Cornell University, USA
H. TAKAGI, MPI Stuttgart, Germany
A. YAZDANI, Princeton University, USA
L. YE, Caltech, USA
M.YI, Rice University, USA

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, 4 August 2025
    • 08:30 - 09:00
      • 08:30 Registration Formalities 30'
        REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Leonardo Building (Lobby). The Registration Desk will be open from 8:30 to 9:00
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Joerg SCHMALIAN (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
      
      • 09:00 FL* theory of the pseudogap in the cuprates I: mean-field theory using ancillas 1h0'
        Speaker: Subir SACHDEV (Harvard University, USA)
      • 10:00 Superconductivity in graphene multilayers 1h0'
        Speaker: Erez BERG (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Classical memory effects in application to resistive anomalies near second-order phase transitions 1h0'
        Speaker: Dmitry MASLOV (Florida University, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 18:00
      Chairs: Erez BERG (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
      Vítor DANTAS MEIRELES (University of Minnesota, USA)
      Alejandro RAMOS ALONSO (Columbia University, USA)
      • 14:30 SYK Generalisations 1: A framework for strange transport and non-quasi particle superconductivity 1h0'
        Speaker: Joerg SCHMALIAN (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Topology in Quantum Materials I 1h0'
        Speaker: Maia GARCIA VERGNIORY (UDS, Canada)
      • 17:00 Quantum Materials: How to make them — phase diagrams and blow torches 1h0'
        Speaker: Paul CANFIELD (Iowa State University, USA)
    • 18:00 - 19:30
      • 18:00 Welcome Reception 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Terrace )
        All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception
  • Tuesday, 5 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Paul CANFIELD (Iowa State University, USA)
      
      • 09:00 Altermagnets I: symmetries, mechanisms, and topological properties 1h0'
        Speaker: Rafael FERNANDES (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
      • 10:00 SYK Generalisations 2: A framework for strange transport and non-quasi particle superconductivity 1h0'
        Speaker: Joerg SCHMALIAN (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Topology in Quantum Materials II 1h0'
        Speaker: Maia VERGNIORY (UDS, Canada)
      • 12:30 Group Photo 5'
      • 12:35 Lunch Break 1h55'
    • 14:30 - 18:00
      Chair: Premi CHANDRA (Rutgers University, USA)
      
      • 14:30 Heavy Fermion Perspectives on Quantum Materials: Part I Overview of Heavy Fermion Physics 1h0'
        Speaker: Piers COLEMAN (Rutgers State University, USA)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Altermagnetism from a symmetry-based perspective II 1h0'
        Speaker: Jeff RAU (University of Windsor, Canada)
      • 17:00 Quantum Materials: How to discover them— Negotiations with Nature 1h0'
        Speaker: Paul CANFIELD (Iowa State University, USA)
  • Wednesday, 6 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chairs:Piers COLEMAN (Rutgers State University, USA)
      
      • 09:00 FL* theory of the pseudogap in the cuprates II: critical quantum spin liquids and d-wave superconductivity 1h0'
        Speaker: Subir SACHDEV (Harvard University, USA)
      • 10:00 Strong correlations in twisted bilayer graphene 1h0'
        Speaker: Erez BERG (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Transport in conventional and "strange” Fermi liquids 1h0'
        Speaker: Dmitry MASLOV (Florida University, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 18:00
      Chair: Liang FU (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
      • 14:30 Altermagnets II: symmetries, mechanisms, and topological properties 1h0'
        Speaker: Rafael FERNANDES (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Altermagnetism from a symmetry-based perspective I 1h0'
        Speaker: Jeff RAU (University of Windsor, Canada)
      • 17:00 Optical studies of gyrotropic quantum materials I 1h0'
        Speaker: Aharon KAPITULNIK (Stanford University, USA)
  • Thursday, 7 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Emilia MOROSAN (Rice University, USA)
      • 09:00 Introduction to quantum spin liquid and quantum spin ice I 1h0'
        Speaker: Yong Baek KIM (University of Toronto, Canada)
      • 10:00 From Berry phase to nonlinear and fractional anomalous Hall effects I 1h0'
        Speaker: Liang FU (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Heavy Fermion Perspectives on Quantum Materials: Part II Strange Metals,Topology and Fractionalization 1h0'
        Speaker: Piers COLEMAN (Rutgers State University, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 18:00
      Chair: Yong Baek KIM (University of Toronto, Canada)
      • 14:30 Many-body dynamics of open quantum systems 1h0'
        Speaker: Alex KAMENEV (University of Minnesota, USA)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Microscopic insights into diverse spin models 1h0'
        Speaker: Hae Young KEE (University of Toronto, Canada)
      • 17:00 Transition metal dichalcogenides: polytypes, properties: CDW, exciton state, superconductivity 1h0'
        Speaker: Emilia MOROSAN (Rice University, USA)
  • Friday, 8 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Rafael FERNANDES (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
      • 09:00 Quantum optimization and neural networks 1h0'
        Speaker: Alex KAMENEV (University of Minnesota, USA)
      • 10:00 Optical studies of gyrotropic quantum materials II 1h0'
        Speaker: Aharon KAPITULNIK (Stanford University, USA)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 From Berry phase to nonlinear and fractional anomalous Hall effects II 1h0'
        Speaker: Liang FU (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 18:00
      Chair: Jeff RAU (University of Windsor, Canada)
      • 14:30 Routes to exactly solvable spin and spin-orbital models 1h0'
        Speaker: Hae Young KEE (University of Toronto, Canada)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Introduction to quantum spin liquid and quantum spin ice II 1h0'
        Speaker: Yong Baek KIM (University of Toronto, Canada)
      • 17:00 Transition metal dichalcogenides: vapor transport crystal growth, intercalation, doping 1h0'
        Speaker: Emilia MOROSAN (Rice University, USA)
  • Monday, 11 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Yukitoshi MOTOME (Tokyo Univeristy, Japan)
      • 09:00 Kinetic Energy Frustration as New Paradigm for Correlated Metals 40'
        Speaker: Christian BATISTA (University of Tennessee, USA)
      • 09:40 Interaction-induced phases in the half-filled Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model in one dimension 40'
        Speaker: Federico BECCA (University of Trieste, Italy)
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:50 From continuum excitations to sharp magnons via transverse field in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet 40'
        Speaker: Radu COLDEA (University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory, UK)
      • 11:30 Tunneling through complex trajectories: Magnetism of Wigner crystal under magnetic field and Berry curvature 30'
        Speaker: Kyung-Su KIM (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
      • 12:00 Microscopic theory of pair density waves in spin-orbit coupled Kondo lattice 30'
        Speaker: Alexei Tsvelik
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 18:30
      Chair: Alannah HALLAS (University British Columbia, Canada)
      • 14:30 Quantum kinetic equation approach to thermal Hall conductivity with disorder 40'
        Speaker: Leo MANGEOLLE (TUM, Germany)
      • 15:10 Orbital order and superconductivity in bilayer nickelates 40'
        Speaker: Giniyatulla KHALIULLIN (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
      • 15:50 Coffee Break 40'
      • 16:30 Poster Session 1h30'
        Names: (A-L)
    • 18:00 - 19:30
      • 18:00 Welcome Reception 1h30'
        All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception
  • Tuesday, 12 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:50
      Chair: Radu COLDEA (University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory, UK)
      • 09:00 Probing Majorana-mediated heat and spin transport in Kitaev spin liquids 40'
        Speaker: Yukitoshi MOTOME (Tokyo Univeristy, Japan)
      • 09:40 Quantum transport in disordered Chern insulators 40'
        Speaker: Benoit DOUCOT (Paris VI University)
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:50 Superconductivity in high entropy electron-doped cuprates 40'
        Speaker: Alannah HALLAS (University British Columbia, Canada)
      • 11:30 Magneto thermal transport in quantum magnets 40'
        Speaker: Hidenori TAKAGI (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
      • 12:10 Group Photo 5'
      • 12:15 Lunch Break 2h15'
    • 14:30 - 17:00
      Chair: Andrey CHUBUKOV (FTPI, University of Minnesota, USA)
      • 14:30 Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Kagome Metals 40'
        Speaker: Ming YI (Rice University, USA)
      • 15:10 A New Topological Monolayer 40'
        Speaker: Qiong MA (Boston College, USA)
      • 15:50 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:20 Nickelate Superconductivity: A Story of Axial Orbital 40'
        Speaker: Tanusri SAHA DASGUPTA (S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India)
  • Wednesday, 13 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Leni BASCONES (ICMM-CSIC, Spain)
      • 09:00 Superconductivity inside a ferromagnet 40'
        Speaker: Andrey CHUBUKOV (FTPI, University of Minnesota, USA)
      • 09:40 Visualizing strongly correlated electronic states in two-dimensions 40'
        Speaker: Ali YAZDANI (Princeton University, USA)
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:50 Strain induced electronic anisotropies in a tetragonal iron-based superconductor 40'
        Speaker: Amalia COLDEA (Oxford University)
      • 11:30 Superconducting Diode Effects 30'
        Speaker: Oleksandr LEVCHENKO (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
      • 12:00 Light-driven design of structures and topology in 2D and 3D 30'
        Speaker: Daniel Eliezer KAPLAN (Rutgers University, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 17:10
      Chair: Hae Young KEE (University of Toronto, Canada)
      • 14:30 Nonvolatile Nematic Order in a Layered Antiferromagnet 40'
        Speaker: Linda YE (Caltech, USA)
      • 15:10 Correlations and geometric frustration - a happy marriage? 30'
        Speaker: Thomas Shaffer
      • 15:40 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:10 Thermodynamics of dilute anyon gases from fusion constraints 30'
        Speaker: Hart Jason GOLDMAN (University of Minnesota, USA)
      • 16:40 Towards a minimalist description of strange metals 30'
        Speaker: Simone FRATINI (CNRS, France)
  • Thursday, 14 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Chair: Amalia COLDEA (Oxford University)
      • 09:00 Relativistic effects in the coupling to odd-parity modes in KTaO3 40'
        Speaker: Maria GASTIASORO (University of Donostia San Sebastian, Spain)
      • 09:40 Simulating high-temperature superconductivity in a triangular moiré lattice 40'
        Speaker: Kin Fai MAK (Cornell University, USA)
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:50 Moiré Periodic and Quasiperiodic Crystals 40'
        Speaker: Eva ANDREI (Rutgers University, USA)
      • 11:30 A New Perspective on Correlated Metals: from Concealed Mott Quantum Criticality to Disorder in Heavy Fermi Liquids 30'
        Speaker: Louk RADEMAKER (Genève University, Switzerland)
      • 12:00 Helicity-resolved Raman spectroscopy of chiral materials 30'
        Speaker: G. Blumberg
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 18:00
      Chair: Christian BATISTA (University of Tennessee, USA)
      • 14:30 Perfect Coulomb drag in a dipolar excitonic insulator 40'
        Speaker: Jie SHAN (Cornell University, USA)
      • 15:10 Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Chiral Superconductivity in Graphene 40'
        Speaker: Long JU (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
      • 15:50 Coffee Break 40'
      • 16:30 Poster session 1h30'
        Names: (M-Z)
  • Friday, 15 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 13:15
      Chair: Natalia PERKINS (University of Minnesota, USA)
      • 09:00 Heavy fermions and cascades in twisted bilayer graphene: recent results 40'
        Speaker: Leni BASCONES (ICMM-CSIC, Spain)
      • 09:40 Topologically enabled superconductivity: possible implications for rhombohedral graphene 40'
        Speaker: Elio Johannes KOENIG-TARASEVICH (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:50 A Triangle of Spin Liquidity: Does the J1-J2 model on the square, Shastry-Sutherland and Checkerboard lattice share the same QSL? 40'
        Speaker: Yasir IQBAL (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
      • 11:30 Closing Remarks 45'