"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

09:30 → 10:30 To be announced

Speaker: Christian Rüegg (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Topological phases and associated low-energy excitations in condensed matter

Speaker: Ming Shi (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:00 → 13:00 A new Spin on Superconductivity

Speaker: Amir Yacobi

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 Polaritonic excitations in the quantum Hall regime

Speaker: Atac Imamoglu

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Observed quantization of heat flow in FQHE

Speaker: Moty Heiblum

17:00 → 18:00 Theory of Quantum Hall interferometers

Speaker: Bernd Rosenow

Tuesday 4 July

09:30 → 10:30 The computational complexity of birdsong learning

Speaker: Richard Hahnloser

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Non-Hermitian Localization in Biological Networks

Speaker: David Nelson

12:00 → 13:00 Reflection symmetric-order topological insulators and superconductors

Speaker: Piet Brouwer

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:30 To be announced

Speaker: Stanislas Leibler

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Critical wetting, an old story without a good ending

Speaker: Edouard Brézin

17:00 → 18:00 Chiral Anomaly, Topological Field Theory, and Novel States of Matter

Speaker: Jürg Fröhlich

Wednesday 5 July

09:30 → 10:30 The many body localization transition: A dynamical phase transition beyond standard paradigms

Speaker: Markus Müller

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Classical loop models and quantum magnets

Speaker: John Chalker

12:00 → 13:00 Topological Mechanics of Critically Coordinated Lattices

Speaker: Tom C. Lubensky

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:30 Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids: from condensed matter to cold atomic gases

Speaker: Thierry Giamarchi

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Pairing and clustering in quantum wires and in non-abelian quantum Hall states

Speaker: Ady Stern

17:00 → 18:00 Magnetic Ordering on the Surface of a Topological Crystalline Insulator

Speaker: Herb Fertig

Thursday 6 July

09:30 → 10:30 Edge universality in interacting topological insulators

Speaker: Marcello Porta

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 The Search For Exotic Quantum Statistics

Speaker: Steve Simon

12:00 → 13:00 Recent results in spin glass theory

Speaker: Nick Read

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:30 Visit of PSI Facilities