"Celebrating Physics with a Good Excuse", Symposium at PSI

3 Jul 2017, 08:00 → 6 Jul 2017, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Auditorium (WHGA/001) (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Christopher Mudry (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Monday, 3 July

1 To be announced

Speaker: Christian Rüegg (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:30 Coffee Break

2 Topological phases and associated low-energy excitations in condensed matter

Speaker: Ming Shi (Paul Scherrer Institut)

3 A new Spin on Superconductivity

Speaker: Amir Yacobi

13:00 Lunch break

4 Polaritonic excitations in the quantum Hall regime

Speaker: Atac Imamoglu

15:30 Coffee Break

5 Observed quantization of heat flow in FQHE

Speaker: Moty Heiblum

6 Theory of Quantum Hall interferometers

Speaker: Bernd Rosenow

Tuesday, 4 July

7 The computational complexity of birdsong learning

Speaker: Richard Hahnloser

10:30 Coffee Break

8 Non-Hermitian Localization in Biological Networks

Speaker: David Nelson

9 Reflection symmetric-order topological insulators and superconductors

Speaker: Piet Brouwer

13:00 Lunch Break

10 To be announced

Speaker: Stanislas Leibler

15:30 Coffee Break

11 Critical wetting, an old story without a good ending

Speaker: Edouard Brézin

12 Chiral Anomaly, Topological Field Theory, and Novel States of Matter

Speaker: Jürg Fröhlich

Wednesday, 5 July

13 The many body localization transition: A dynamical phase transition beyond standard paradigms

Speaker: Markus Müller

10:30 Coffee Break

14 Classical loop models and quantum magnets

Speaker: John Chalker

15 Topological Mechanics of Critically Coordinated Lattices

Speaker: Tom C. Lubensky

13:00 Lunch Break

16 Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids: from condensed matter to cold atomic gases

Speaker: Thierry Giamarchi

15:30 Coffee Break

17 Pairing and clustering in quantum wires and in non-abelian quantum Hall states

Speaker: Ady Stern

18 Magnetic Ordering on the Surface of a Topological Crystalline Insulator

Speaker: Herb Fertig

Thursday, 6 July

19 Edge universality in interacting topological insulators

Speaker: Marcello Porta

10:30 Coffee Break

20 The Search For Exotic Quantum Statistics

Speaker: Steve Simon

21 Recent results in spin glass theory

Speaker: Nick Read

13:00 Lunch Break

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