Strongly
Correlated Quantum Phases
Program
Sunday
14.06.09
09:15-09:45 Registration and coffee
09:45-10:30 Dan Arovas,
Gamma matrix generalizations of the Kitaev model
10:30-11:15 Ashvin Vishwanath,
Novel phenomena from dislocations, vortices and other
topological
defects in quantum systems
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Ady Stern, Weizmann
Interacting topological insulators
12:00-12:30 Misha Reznikov, Technion
Magnetic susceptibility of two dimensional electrons
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Duncan Haldane,
Hall viscosity and incompressibility tensors of
anisotropic
Fractional Quantum Hall states
15:15-15:45 Yuval Oreg, Weizmann
Slow relaxation and
aging in the electron glass
15:45-16:15 Emil Polturak, Technion
Unexplained phenomena is solid Helium
16:15 -16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:15 Students/postdocs short (10 min) talks.
Roni Ilan, Weizmann Institute
Coulomb blockade as a
probe for non-Abelian quantum Hall phases.
Maoz Ovadia,
Weizmann Institute
Electron-phonon
decoupling near the superconductor-insulator transition.
Moshe Goldstein,
Population switching
as a quantum phase transition
Monday
15.06.09
09.45-10:30 ZlatkoTesanovic,
Iron-Pnictide superconductors as multiband correlated metals
10:30-11:15 Gil Rafael, CalTech
Quantum oscillations in the cuprates
from Fermi Arcs - a numerical
and semi-classical study
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Amit Kanigel, Technion
Energy scales and energy gaps in under-doped cuprates
12:00-12:30 Dror Orgad,
Enhancement of Tc in bilayers
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-14:35 Moshe Sidi, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Technion.
Greetings
14.35:15:120 Subir Sachdev, Harvard
Electron pockets and competing orders in the underdoped cuprates
15:20-16:05 Kathryn Moler,
Iron pnictides
and their superconducting order parameters
16:05-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:00 Students/postdocs short (10 min) talks.
Erez Berg,
Inhomogeneity enhances superconductivity in the plaquette Hubbard ladder.
Lilach Goren, Weizmann Institute
Enhancement of
superconducting transition temperature in Cuprate heterostructures.
Eran Amit,
Technion
Supporting evidence
of a magnetic mechanism for cuprate
superconductivity
Tuesday
16.06.09
09.45-10:30 Eugene Demler, Harvard
Dynamics of doubly occupied sites in the fermionic Hubbard model
10:30-11:15 Gabriel Kotliar,
Hidden order in URu2Si2: a DMFT perspective
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Yigal Meir,
Transport through disordered
superconducting films
12:00-12:30 Assa Auerbach, Technion
Vortex dynamics in low superfluid
density superconductors
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Shoucheng Zhang,
Topological insulators and topological superconductors
15:15-15.30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Ehud Altman,
Weizmann
Quantum steady states and phase transitions in the
presence of non
equilibrium noise
15:45-16:30 Students/postdocs short (10 min) talks.
Netanel Lindner,
Technion
Kubo
and Chern Calculations of Transport Coefficients
of Two Dimensional Lattice Bosons"
Daniel Golubchik, Technion
Kibble-Zurek effects in He-4
Anna Satan, Technion
The BCC
phase of 4He - a "high temperature supersolid?
Dganit Meidan, Weizmann Institute
The
superconductor insulator transition in parallel field"
Wednesday
17.06.09
LECTURE
ROOM 502,
09:45-10:30 Thierry Giamarchi,
Spin ladders, BEC, Luttinger liquids and beyond
10:30-11:00 Daniel Podolsky,
Mott transition between a spin-liquid insulator and a
metal in
three dimensions
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:45 Efrat Shimshoni,
Diversity
of transport phenomena at the zero-plateau Quantum
11:45-12:15 Amit Keren, Technion
Interaction between magnetism and superconductivity in cuprates
12:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Dan Shahar, Weizmann
The insulator in the
superconductor-insulator transition
15:00 -15:45 Panel Discussion: Open Problems in SCQP
16:00-18:00 Visit
To "Body Worlds", MadaTech,
http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html
Thursday
18:06.09
09:00
- Evening EXCURSION To