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Fifth Stig Lundqvist Conference on the Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics | (smr 2249)
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  • Monday, 11 July 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:45 Registration
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 09:00 Registration 1h45'
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
      • 10:15 Coffee break 30'
    • 10:45 - 11:00 Welcome and opening remarks
      • 10:45 Welcome and opening remarks 15'
        Speaker: Erio TOSATTI, Aron PINCZUK, Gene MELE
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Topological insulators: Magnetotransport and magnetoelectric effects in solids
      • 11:00 Topological insulators: Magnetotransport and magnetoelectric effects in solids 1h0'
        Speaker: Joel MOORE (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Orbital magnetoelectric effects and topological insulators
      • 14:00 Orbital magnetoelectric effects and topological insulators 1h0'
        Speaker: David VANDERBILT (Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA)
        Material: Abstract D. VANDERBILT
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Engineering a room-temperature spin Hall state in graphene via adatom deposition
      • 15:00 Engineering a room-temperature spin Hall state in graphene via adatom deposition 1h0'
        Speaker: Marcel FRANZ (Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
        Material: Abstract M. FRANZ.pdf
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 5/2 FQHE: Unpaired composite fermion, topological exciton, and zero mode
      • 16:30 5/2 FQHE: Unpaired composite fermion, topological exciton, and zero mode 1h0'
        Speaker: Jainendra JAIN (Department of Physics, Penn State University, USA)
    • 17:30 - 18:30 Majorana fermions, Non-abelian statistics and topological quantum computation in semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures
      • 17:30 Majorana fermions, Non-abelian statistics and topological quantum computation in semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures 1h0'
        Speaker: Jay SAU (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 19:00 - 21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 12 July 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Topological Kondo insulators
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Topological Kondo insulators 1h0'
        Speaker: Maxim DZERO (Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, USA)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Topological Surface States, 3D topological insulators and Platforms for Majorana Fermions
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Topological Surface States, 3D topological insulators and Platforms for Majorana Fermions 1h0'
        Speaker: Zahid HASAN (Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
        Material: Abstract Z. HASAN
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Quantum phases of atoms in optical lattices
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Quantum phases of atoms in optical lattices 1h0'
        Speaker: Massimo INGUSCIO (LENS, Universita' di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Manipulating majorana fermions in one and two dimensions
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Manipulating majorana fermions in one and two dimensions 1h0'
        Speaker: Adiel STERN (CMP, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Topological phases and phase transitions in honeycomb fermionic lattices: Spin-imbalanced QHE, spin textures and merging of Dirac points
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Topological phases and phase transitions in honeycomb fermionic lattices: Spin-imbalanced QHE, spin textures and merging of Dirac points 1h0'
        Speaker: Cristiane MORAIS SMITH (Department of Theoretical Physics. Universty of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
        Material: Abstract C. MORAIS SMITH.pdf
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:00 Quantum spin liquid: Current status
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Quantum spin liquid: Current status 1h0'
        Speaker: Yong Baek KIM (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
  • Wednesday, 13 July 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Graphene: CERN on the desk
      • 09:00 Graphene: CERN on the desk 1h0'
        Speaker: Mikhail KATSNELSON (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
        Material: Abstract M. KATSNELSON.pdf
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Hubbard-Mott physics of electrons in an artificial semiconductor lattice
      • 10:00 Hubbard-Mott physics of electrons in an artificial semiconductor lattice 1h0'
        Speaker: Vittorio PELLEGRINI (NEST & Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy)
        Material: Abstract V. PELLEGRINI.pdf
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Helical metals on the surfaces of topological insulators
      • 11:30 Helical metals on the surfaces of topological insulators 1h0'
        Speaker: Ali YAZDANI (Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
        Material: Abstract A. YAZDANI.pdf
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Z2 Topological invariant for band insulators and non-Abelian Berry, Äôs connection
      • 14:30 Z2 Topological invariant for band insulators and non-Abelian Berry, Äôs connection 1h0'
        Speaker: Xi DAI (Beijing National Laboratory, CMP & Institute of Physics, Beijing, P.R. China)
        Material: Abstract Xi DAI.pdf
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Topological superconductivity and non-Abelian Majorana particles in generic semiconductor heterostructures
      • 15:30 Topological superconductivity and non-Abelian Majorana particles in generic semiconductor heterostructures 1h0'
        Speaker: Sankar DAS SARMA (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 16:30 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION and SHORT ORAL TALKS (3 minutes each)
      • 16:30 POSTER SESSION and SHORT ORAL TALKS (3 minutes each) 1h0'
  • Thursday, 14 July 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells
      • 09:00 Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells 1h0'
        Speaker: Laurens MOLENKAMP (Physics Institute, EP3, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Ultrafast probing of dynamical spin-charge coupling in topological insulators
      • 10:00 Ultrafast probing of dynamical spin-charge coupling in topological insulators 1h0'
        Speaker: Nuh GEDIK (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
        Material: Abstract N. GEDIK
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Evidence for non-Abelian excitations at 5/2 filling factor
      • 11:30 Evidence for non-Abelian excitations at 5/2 filling factor 1h0'
        Speaker: Robert WILLETT (Bell Lab., Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, USA)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Graphene: Revisiting old questions in a new material
      • 14:30 Graphene: Revisiting old questions in a new material 1h0'
        Speaker: Shafique ADAM (NIST, Gaithersburg, USA)
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Comments and Outlook on Recent quantum Hall interferometry experiments
      • 15:30 Comments and Outlook on Recent quantum Hall interferometry experiments 1h0'
        Speaker: Steve SIMON (Rudolf Peierls Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, UK)
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:00 Topological phases in three-dimensional superconductors
      • 17:00 Topological phases in three-dimensional superconductors 1h0'
        Speaker: Andreas SCHNYDER (MPI Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany)
    • 18:00 - 18:30 Final Remarks
      • 18:00 Final Remarks 30'
  • Friday, 15 July 2011
    • 09:00 - 12:00 UNSTRUCTURED LOCAL ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL PURSUITS
      • 09:00 UNSTRUCTURED LOCAL ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL PURSUITS 3h0'
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