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Workshop and Conference on Geometrical Aspects of Quantum States in Condensed Matter | (smr 2469)
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  • Monday, 1 July 2013
    • 08:30 - 09:15 Registration Formalities
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration Formalities 45'
    • 09:15 - 09:30 Opening Comments
      • 09:15 Opening Comments 15'
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Lifshitz Holography with Lifshitz Gravity
      • 09:30 Lifshitz Holography with Lifshitz Gravity 1h0'
        Speaker: Petr Horava (University of California, Berkeley)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 -
      • 10:45 - 1h0'
        Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology)
    • 11:45 - 12:45 Entanglement Entropy and Temperature
      • 11:45 Entanglement Entropy and Temperature 1h0'
        Speaker: Christopher P. Herzog (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location:
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Partition functions and stability criteria of topological insulators
      • 14:00 Partition functions and stability criteria of topological insulators 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrea Cappelli (INFN and Department of Physics, Florence, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 On the effective hydrodynamics of Quantum Hall fluids
      • 15:00 On the effective hydrodynamics of Quantum Hall fluids 1h0'
        Speaker: Alexander Abanov (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 15'
    • 16:15 - 17:35 Participants' Talks 
      Please see the activity notice board for timings and titles.
      • 16:15 Participants' Talks 1h20'
        Speaker: C. Benjamin, X. Dong, U. Fischer, S. Kourtis
    • 19:30 - 22:00 Welcome Reception 
      Buffet reception for all Faculty and Participants
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 19:30 Welcome Reception 2h30'
  • Tuesday, 2 July 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 The quantum criticality of metals in two dimensions: the interplay of antiferromagnetism, d-wave superconductivity, and bond order
      • 09:00 The quantum criticality of metals in two dimensions: the interplay of antiferromagnetism, d-wave superconductivity, and bond order 1h0'
        Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Non-demolition measurement and real time imaging of quantum and thermal fluctuations
      • 10:00 Non-demolition measurement and real time imaging of quantum and thermal fluctuations 1h0'
        Speaker: Denis Bernard (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Towards controlled non-Fermi liquid fixed points
      • 11:30 Towards controlled non-Fermi liquid fixed points 1h0'
        Speaker: Shamit Kachru (Stanford University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location:
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 2D hydrodynamics of 1D integrable models in phase space
      • 14:00 2D hydrodynamics of 1D integrable models in phase space 1h0'
        Speaker: Eldad Bettelheim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Novel Topological Phases and Surface States in Interacting Systems
      • 15:00 Novel Topological Phases and Surface States in Interacting Systems 1h0'
        Speaker: Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California, Berkeley)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 15'
    • 16:15 - 17:35 Participants' Talks 
      Please see the activity notice board for timings and titles.
      • 16:15 Participants' Talks 1h20'
        Speaker: J.M. Matera, D. Monaco, J.N. Fuchs, W. Witczak-Krempa, T. Can
  • Wednesday, 3 July 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Topological Order at the Surface of a Topological Insulator
      • 09:00 Topological Order at the Surface of a Topological Insulator 1h0'
        Speaker: Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Holographic entanglement beyond classical gravity
      • 10:00 Holographic entanglement beyond classical gravity 1h0'
        Speaker: Sean Hartnoll (Stanford University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 -
      • 11:30 - 1h0'
        Speaker: ShouCheng Zhang (Stanford University)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Discusssion time
      • 14:00 Discusssion time 1h0'
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Participants' Talks 
      Please see the activity notice board for timings and titles.
      • 15:00 Participants' Talks 1h0'
        Speaker: M.P. Heller, A. Amoretti, A. Protogenov
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 15'
    • 16:15 - 17:50 Participants' Talks 
      Please see the activity notice board for timings and titles.
      • 16:15 Participants' Talks 1h35'
        Speaker: D.V. Khveshchenko, A. Shapere, S. Dickmann, Q.H. Liu
    • 19:30 - 22:30 Conference Dinner 
      Full details are on the board and on the leaflet given to you at registration.  Those who wish to go to the conference dinner should sign up with the secretary (room 3) and pay the quota by 12 noon on Tuesday 2 July.
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      • 19:30 Conference Dinner 3h0'
  • Thursday, 4 July 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Momentum space topology in Standard Model and in condensed matter
      • 09:00 Momentum space topology in Standard Model and in condensed matter 1h0'
        Speaker: Grigori E. Volovik (Aalto University, Helsinki and Landau Institute, Moscow)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Truncated CFT Approach to Matrix Product States For Non-Abelian FQH States
      • 10:00 Truncated CFT Approach to Matrix Product States For Non-Abelian FQH States 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Inflation from Chern-Simons Terms
      • 11:30 Inflation from Chern-Simons Terms 1h0'
        Speaker: Emil Martinec (University of Chicago)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location:
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Dirac Medal Ceremony
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Dirac Medal Ceremony 3h0'
  • Friday, 5 July 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Geometry Topology and Entanglement in the FQHE
      • 09:00 Geometry Topology and Entanglement in the FQHE 1h0'
        Speaker: Duncan Haldane (Princeton University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Quantum Renormalization Group and Quantum Gravity
      • 10:00 Quantum Renormalization Group and Quantum Gravity 1h0'
        Speaker: Sung-sik Lee (McMaster University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Closing Comments
      • 11:00 Closing Comments 30'