Talks+&+Discussions

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//2. Transport in 3D TIs: bulk versus surface contributions// //3. chiral p-wave superconductivity in mesoscopic systems// ||  || ---the story of topological states || [|blackboard lunch] || //2. Surface-edge state and half quantized anomalous Hall effect in topological insulator.// //3. Quantum transport and absence of Anderson localization in strong and weak topological insulators.// || discussion || //2. Dissipationless Phonon Hall Viscosity// || discussion || //2. Fractional topological insulators// //3. Axionic instability in topological magnetic insulators// //4.// Geometric aspects of adiabatic quantum response in open systems ||  ||
 * ~ **Week1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Sep 20 || 1:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// || **//All interested.//** ||
 * Tue, Sep 20 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Charles Kane** || //Topological Insulators and Superconductors// || [|A Pedagogical Introduction] ||
 * Wed, Sep 21 || 10:00am || Aud || **Zahid Hasan** || //Topological Insulators : Experiments// || [|click here] ||
 * Thu, Sep 22 || 10:00am || Aud || **Nigel Cooper** || //Topological Bandstructures for Ultracold Atoms// || [| click here] ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Wed, Sep 28 || 10:00am || Aud || **Andreas Ludwig** || //Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors: The `Ten-Fold Way', Responses, and Quantum Anomalies// || Pedagogical/Review Talk ||
 * Thu, Sep 29 || 10:00am || Aud || **Joel Moore** || //Axion Electrodynamics in Solids and Topological Field Theories for TIs// || [|click here] ||
 * Fri, Sep 30 || 1:00pm || Aud || **Congjun Wu (1),**
 * Ewelina Hankiewicz (2),**
 * Fuchun Zhang (3)** || //1. Isotropic Landau Levels of Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Fermions in 3D Flat Space//
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon,Oct. 3 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Xiaoliang Qi** || To see a knot in a grain of sand
 * Tue, Oct. 4 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Nitin Samarth** || The superconducting proximity effect in mesoscopic Bi 2 Se 3 channels: possible evidence for surface transport & vortices || [|click here] ||
 * Wed, Oct. 5 || 12:00pm || Aud || **Akira Furusaki (1),**
 * Shun-Qing Shen (2),**
 * Jens Bardarson (3)** || //1. Anderson localization and delocalization in 2D electron systems with strong spin-orbit interaction.//
 * Thu, Oct. 6 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Naoto Nagaosa** || Theoretical design of topological materials ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct. 7 || 1:00pm || Main seminar room || **Joseph Maciejko (1),**
 * Maissam Barkeshli (2)** || //1. Parton models of 3D fractional topological insulators//
 * ~ **Week 4** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Oct. 11 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Peter Armitage** || //Low frequency electrodynamic response of topological insulator surface states and their superconducting bilayers// ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct. 13 || 10:00am || Aud || **Matthew Hastings** || //An Exotic Quantum Critical Point in a Bose-Hubbard Model// || abstract ||
 * Fri, Oct. 14 || 1:00pm || Aud || **Victor Gurarie (1),**
 * Christopher Mudry (2),**
 * Masaki Oshikawa (3)**
 * Yosi Avron (4)** || //1. From the topological invariants to the characterization of edge states of topological insulators//

Seminar Room || **Yosi Avron** || //Baron von Munchhausen and the cat: Swimming in curved space// || Abstract-KITP-Colloquium ||
 * ~ **Week 5** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Wed, Oct. 19 || 10:00am || Aud || **Hans Hansson** || // Topological Field Theory for p-wave Superconductors // || abstract ||
 * Wed. Oct.19 || 2:00pm || Main
 * Thu, Oct. 20 || 10:00am || Aud || **Laurens Molenkamp** || //Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells// || abstract ||
 * Fri, Oct. 21 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Alexei Kitaev** || //Toward topological classification of phases with short-range entanglement// || a blackboard talk ||

//2. Light Induced Topological Phenomena// || discussion session || //2. Interface between Topological and Superconducting Qubits// || discussion session ||
 * ~ **Week 6** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Oct. 25 || 2:00pm || Aud || **John Saunders** || //Experiments on superfluid helium-three confined in controlled nanofabricated geometries: model systems of topological quantum matter// ||  ||
 * Wed. Oct.26 || 10:00am || Aud || **Shuichi Murakami** || //Berry curvature and Hall effect of magnons in insulating ferromagnets// ||  ||
 * Wed. Oct. 26 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Tarun Grover** || //Some Results in the Entanglement Entropy of Gapped Phases// || informal discussion. Abstract ||
 * Thu, Oct. 27 || 10:00am || Aud || **Fakher Assaad (1),**
 * Netanel Lindner (2)** || //1. Phase diagram of the Kane-Mele Hubbard model: quantum Monte Carlo studies//
 * Fri, Oct. 28 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Pavel Ostrovsky (1)**
 * Liang Jiang (2)** || //1. Localization of Dirac fermions and metal-insulator transition in chiral systems//

//Self-similar expansion of turbulent Bose-Einstein condensates// ||  || states in d-dimensions //2.// Topological phases on honeycomb bilayer //3.// Staggered current Mott insulator of kinetically frustrated bosons || discussion session ||
 * ~ **Week 7** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Nov. 1 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Ali Yazdani** || //Visualizing Helical Metals on Topological Insulators// ||  ||
 * Wed. Nov. 2 || 10:00am || Aud || **Shou-Cheng Zhang** || //Interacting topological insulators// ||  ||
 * Wed. Nov. 2 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Alexander Fetter** || KITP Special Condensed Matter Seminar:
 * Thu, Nov. 3 || 10:00am || Aud || **Yasuhiro Hatsugai (1),**
 * Milica Milovanovic** **(2)**
 * Arun Paramekanti (3)** || //1.// Quantized Berry phases for characterization of short range entangled
 * Fri, Nov. 4 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

//(2) Chain of Majorana fermions along a magnetic domain wall on the surface of superconducting topological insulators// //(3) Zero-energy edge modes, emergent conformal symmetry, and elastic holography// || discussion session ||
 * ~ **Week 8** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Nov. 8 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Dimitrie Culcer (1),**
 * Shigeki Onoda (2),**
 * Kai Sun (3)** || //(1) Anomalous Hall response of topological insulators//
 * Wed. Nov. 9 || 10:00am || Aud || **Leon Balents** || //Topological nodal semimetals// ||  ||
 * Thu, Nov. 10 || 10:00am || Aud || **Alexander Mirlin** || //Electron transport in topological insulators: disorder, interaction and quantum criticality// ||  ||
 * Fri, Nov. 11 || 1:00pm || Aud || **Zhenghan Wang** || //(3+1)-TQFTs and Topological Insulators// || blackboard talk ||

//(2) Half quantum spin Hall effect on the surface of weak topological insulators// //(3) Classification of topological surface states in nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors// || discussion session || //(2)// //The search for elusive Majorana particles in// //semiconductor-superconductor structures// || discussion session ||
 * ~ **Week 9** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Nov. 15 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Markus Koenig** || //Local Probing of the Quantum Spin Hall edge states// ||  ||
 * Wed. Nov. 16 || 10:00am || Aud || **Liang Fu** || //From Odd-Parity Pairing to Topological Superconductivity// ||  ||
 * Thu, Nov. 17 || 10:00am || Aud || **Suk-Bum Chung, (1) **
 * Chao-Xing Liu (2)**
 * Andreas Schnyder (3)** || (1) //How to get Majorana fermions: candidate material and detection//
 * Fri, Nov. 18 || 1:15pm || Aud || **Sankar Das Sarma (1),**
 * Roman Lutchyn (2)** || //(1) Topological insulators and graphene: how puddles couple them into an unholy alliance//


 * ~ **Week 10** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || //Thanksgiving week, no talks scheduled// ||   ||

//(2) Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors // || discussion session ||
 * ~ **Week 11** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon. Nov. 28 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Marcel Franz** || //Majorana fermions in proximity-coupled topological insulator nanowires// ||  ||
 * Tue. Nov. 29 || 10:00am || Aud || **Yuval Oreg**
 * Anton Akhmerov** || //(1) Majorana Fermions in wire networks//
 * Wed Nov. 30 || 10:00am || Aud || **Ashvin Vishwanath** || //Wavefunctions, entanglement and surface states of topological insulators and semimetals// ||  ||
 * Wed Nov. 30 || 1:00pm || Aud || **Masatoshi Sato**
 * Zhengcheng Gu**

(2) Symmetry protected topological order in interacting boson/fermion systems //(3) From Luttinger liquid to non-Abelian quantum Hall states// || discussion session ||
 * Jeffrey Teo** || //(1) Non-Abelian topological phases in superconducting states //
 * Thu Dec. 1 || 10:00am || Aud || **Ady Stern** || //Exactly solvable models for fractional topological insulators// ||  ||

//(2) Spin Berry phase in topological insulators and Weyl semimetals// || discussion session || //(2) Topological adiabatic cycles// //(3) The strong side of weak topological insulators// || discussion session || //(2) Entanglement spectra in FQH states// || discussion session ||
 * ~ **Week 12** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue. Dec. 6 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Victor Galitsky** || //Dual approach to non-equilibrium quantum mechanics and topological dynamical systems// ||  ||
 * Wed. Dec. 7 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Michael Stone** || //Index theorems: Why they work, and why sometimes they don't// ||  ||
 * Wed Dec. 7 || 1:00 pm || Aud || **Zhong Fang**
 * Ken-Ichiro Imura** || //(1) Topological Insulators and Topological Semi-metals//
 * Thu. Dec. 8 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Chetan Nayak** || //Non-Abelian Anyons in 3D// ||  ||
 * Thu. Dec. 8 || 1:00 pm || Aud || **Ying Ran**
 * Rahul Roy**
 * Zohar Ringel** || //(1) Fractional Chern/topological insulators and their possible realizations//
 * Fri. Dec. 9 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Marcus Buttiker**
 * Maria Hermanns** || //(1) Scattering Theory of Chiral Majorana Interferometers//

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 * ~ **Week 13** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon. Dec. 12 || 4:00 pm || Aud || **Xiao-Liang Qi** || //Topological nematic states and non-Abelian lattice dislocations// || an informal talk
 * Tue. Dec. 13 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Rui Du** || //InAs/GaSb: A New Quantum Spin Hall Insulator// ||  ||
 * Wed. Dec. 14 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Yong Baek Kim** || //Topological Phases in Iridates// ||  ||
 * Wed. Dec. 14 || 1:00 pm || Aud || **Catherine Kallin**


 * Xi Dai**

//(2) Mott Physics in Multi-Band Hubbard Model with strong spin orbit interaction// //(3) Complete symmetry based classification of topological phases in two space dimension// || discussion session || ***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge** ⬆TOP
 * Eun-Ah Kim** || //(1) Anomalous Hall Effect in a Multiband Chiral Superconductor//
 * Thu. Dec. 5 || 10:00 am || Aud || **David Goldhaber Gordon** || //Superconducting contacts to topological insulators: experimental transport results// ||  ||