Big Ideas Program
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Monday December 14:
Monday December 14:
6:30-9:00 pm reception for invited speakers and session chairs
Marine Room, La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club
Tuesday, December 15 - Scripps Forum
8:00-8:15 am Opening remarks DB, JO and AJM.
8:15-10:15 Topology and New States of Matter - I
8:15-8:30 Introduction by J. Moore (UCB)
8:30-8:50 S.C. Zhang (Stanford) Title: Topological insulators and topological superconductors
8:50-9:05 Discussion
9:05-9:25 P. Armitage (JHU) Title: Low energy electrodynamics of topological insulators
9:25-9:40 Discussion
9:40-10:00 N. Samarth (Penn State) Title: Hybrid Topological Materials: from Novel Quantum Phases to Spintronics
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:45 Societal Impact
10:45 – 11:00 Introduction by M. Aronson (Texas A & M)
11:00 – 11:20 P. Littlewood (ANL) Title: Can the "market" drive science?
11:20 – 11:35 Discussion
11:35 – 11:55 F. Koppens (IFCO) Title: Will 2d materials live up to their hype?
11:55—12:10 Discussion
12:10 – 12:30 E. Yablonovitch (UCB) Title: Why We Need To Replace the Transistor, and What Would be the Newly Required Material Properties?
12:30 – 12:45 Discussion
12:45 – 3:30 Lunch followed by Poster Session and discussions
3:30 – 6:40 Two Dimensional Materials
3:30 – 3:50 Introduction E. Andrei (Rutgers)
3:50 – 4:10 Philip Kim (Harvard) Title: Electronic and Optoelectronic Physics in the van der Waals Heterojunctions
4:10 – 4:25 Discussion
4:25 – 4:45 T. Heinz (Stanford) Title: TBA
4:45 –- 5:00 Discussion
5:00 – 5:30 Coffee break
5:30 – 5:50 F. Guinea (CSIC, Madrid) Title: Novel quantum effects in graphene and two dimensional sichalcogenides
5:50 – 6:05 Discussion
6:05 – 6:25 J. Hone (Columbia) Title: Using van der Waals heterostructures to study 2D materials in the ultraclean limit
6:25 – 6:40 Discussion
6:40 - 6:50 Y. Maeno (Kyoto) Title: Introducing "Topo-Q" international network program
Wednesday, December 16 - Scripps Forum
8:00 -- 10:00 Superconductivity - I
8:00 -- 8:15 Introduction by I.K. Schuller (UCSD)
8:15 -- 8:35 L. Taillefer (Sherbrook) Title: On the fundamental quantum critical point of cuprate superconductors
8:35 – 8:50 Discussion
8:50 -- 9:10 S. Davis (Cornell/BNL) Title: Cooper-pair Condensate Visualization - Spatial Symmetry Breaking & Intertwined Orders
9:10 -- 9:25 Discussion
9:25 – 9:45 A. Kapitulnik (Stanford) Title: The Superconductor-(Metal)-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions: A Possible Paradigm for Understanding Quantum Phase Transitions
9:45 --10:00 Discussion
10:00 --10:30 Coffee break
10:30 -- 12:30 Quantum Control and Information
10:30 – 10:45 Introduction by J. Petta (Princeton)
10:45 – 11:05 D. Awschalom (Chicago) Title: Designing and controlling quantum materials with defects
11:05 – 11:20 Discussion
11:20 – 11:40 M. Lipson (Columbia) Title: Graphene photonics
11:40—11:55 Discussion
11:55 – 12:15 M. Lukin (Harvard) Title: New interface between quantum optics and nanoscience
12:15 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 3:00 Lunch followed by Poster Session and discussions
3:00 – 6:10 Visualization of Physical Phenomena
3:00 – 3:20 Introduction K. A. Moler (Stanford)
3:20 – 3:40 A. Yacoby (Harvard) Title: Imaging Skyrmions and the Spatially Varying Order Parameter in Proximitized HgCdTe Quantum Wells
3:40 – 3:55 Discussion
3:55 – 4:15 A. Pasupathy (Columbia) Title: Advancing the state of the art in scanning tunneling microscopy
4:15 –- 4:30 Discussion
4:30 – 5:00 Coffee break
5:00 – 5:20 M. Fogler (UCSD) Title: "Hot" topics in van der Waals materials
5:20 – 5:35 Discussion
5:35 – 5:55 M. Crommie (UCB) Title: Tuning the Energy Landscape of Graphene through Molecular and Defect Charge Manipulation
5:55 – 6:10 Discussion
7:00 – 10:00 Dinner & After Dinner Talk R. Ramesh (UC Berkeley)
Thursday, December 17 - Scripps Forum
8:00 -- 10:00 Topological States and New States of Matter - II
8:00 -- 8:15 Introduction by N. Gedik (MIT)
8:15 -- 8:35 V. Madhavan (UIUC) Title: STM insights into topological insulators
8:35 – 8:50 Discussion
8:50 -- 9:10 N.P. Ong (Princeton) Title: Evidence for the chiral anomaly in Dirac and Weyl semimetals
9:10 -- 9:25 Discussion
9:25 – 9:45 A. Vishwanath (UCB) Title: Smoking gun signatures of 3D Weyl fermions and hidden Dirac fermions in the half filled landau level
9:45 --10:00 Discussion
10:00 --10:30 Coffee break
10:30 -- 12:30 Superconductivity - II
10:30 – 10:45 Introduction by A. Chubukov (Minnesota)
10:45 – 11:05 M.B. Maple (UCSD) Title: Musings about strategies for searching for high temperature superconductors
11:05 – 11:20 Discussion
11:20 – 11:40 B. Keimer (MPI-Stuttgart) Title: Control of collective quantum phenomena in metal-oxide superlattices
11:40—11:55 Discussion
11:55 – 12:15 Z.X. Shen (Stanford) Title: Towards complete photoemission spectroscopy - energy, momentum, spin and time
12:15 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 3:30 Lunch followed by Poster Session and discussions
3:30 – 6:40 Non-equilibrium Phenomena and Measurements Under Extreme Conditions
3:30 – 3:50 Introduction R. Averitt (UCSD)
3:50 – 4:10 M. Murnane (Colorado) Title: TBA
4:10 – 4:25 Discussion
4:25 – 4:45 A. Georges (College de France) Title: Control of correlated quantum materials by light and strain
4:45 –- 5:00 Discussion
5:00 – 5:30 Coffee break
5:30 – 5:50 A. Lanzara (UCB) Title: Switching quantum materials properties with light
5:50 – 6:05 Discussion
6:05 – 6:25 G. Boebinger (NHMFL) Title: Measurements under extreme conditions
6:25 – 6:40 Discussion
6:40 – 7.00 A. Cavalleri (MPI-Hamburg and Oxford) Mode-selective coherent control of the solid state
7.00 – 7:15 Discussion
7:15 – 7:20 Concluding remarks DNB, JO, AJM
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