JULY 20-31, 2015
| WEEK 1: All events held in McDonnell Hall, A02, unless otherwise noted. |
| July 20 | July 21 | July 22 | July 23 | July 24 |
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8:30 - 9:30 am Breakfast |
8:30 - 9:30 am Breakfast |
8:30 - 9:30 am Breakfast |
9:00 - 10:00 am Breakfast |
9:00 - 10:00 am Breakfast |
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9:30 - 10:00 am Opening Remarks |
9:30 - 11:00 am "Topological Band Theory II" by Kane |
9:30 - 11:00 am "Topological Band Theory III" by Kane |
10:00 - 11:30 am "Fermions and Topological Phases II" by Witten |
10:00 - 11:30 am "Fermions and Topological Phases III" by Witten |
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10:00 - 11:30 am "Topological Band Theory I" by Kane |
11:00 - 11:15 am Break |
11:00 - 11:15 am Break |
11:30 - 11:45 am Break |
11:30 - 11:45 am Break |
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11:30 - 11:45 am Break |
11:15 am - 12:45 pm "Topological Order in Floquet Systems" by Sondhi |
11:15 am - 12:45 pm "Fermions and Topological Phases I" by Witten |
11:45 am - 12:45 pm "STM Investigations of Topological Phenomena II" by Madhavan |
11:45 am - 12:45 pm "Interpay of Superconductivity and Spin-Orbit Interaction in HgCdTe Quantum Wells II" by Yacoby |
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11:45 am - 12:45 pm "Topological Insulators, Berry Phase and Helical Dirac Fermions" by Hasan |
12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch |
2:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch |
12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch |
12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch |
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12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch |
2:15 - 3:15 pm "STM Investigations of Topological Phenomena I" by Madhavan |
2:15 - 3:15 pm "Interpay of Superconductivity and Spin-Orbit Interaction in HgCdTe Quantum Wells I" by Yacoby |
2:15 - 3:15 pm "Tunneling Between Chern States in a Quantum Anomalous Hall Device: Inflation Meets Dissipation" by Ong |
2:15 - 3:15 pm "Engineering Topological Band Structures for Ultracold Atoms II" by Bakr |
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2:15 - 3:45 pm "Spin Ice as a System with Classical Topological Order" by Sondhi |
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break |
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break |
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break |
3:15 - 3:45 Closing Remarks |
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3:45 - 4:00 pm Break |
3:30 - 4:30 pm "Topological Superconductors and Majorana Platforms" by Hasan |
3:30 - 4:30 pm "Signature of the Chiral Anomaly in the Semimetal Na3Bi" by Ong |
3:30 - 4:30 pm "Weyl Fermion Semimetals with Topological Fermi Arcs" by Hasan |
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4:00 - 5:00 pm "Engineering Topological Band Structures for Ultracold Atoms I" by Bakr |
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WEEK 2: All events held in Wolfensohn Hall, unless otherwise noted.
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July 27 |
July 28 |
July 29 |
July 30 |
July 31 |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 am |
Breakfast (IAS Dining Hall) |
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9:30 - 11:00 am |
"Introduction to Topological and Conformal Field Theory I" by Dijkgraaf (see lecture 2 for slides) |
"Generalized Global Symmetries" by Seiberg |
"Anyon condensation" by Bernevig |
"A Theory of Symmetry Protected Topological Order (2 of 3)" by Wen (see lecture 3 for slides) |
"A Theory of Symmetry Protected Topological Order (3 of 3)" by Wen |
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11:00 - 11:15 am |
Water Break |
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11:15 am - 12:45 pm |
"Fun with Free Field Theory" by Seiberg |
"Introduction to Topological and Conformal Field Theory II" by Dijkgraaf |
"A Theory of Symmetry Protected Topological Order (1 of 3)" by Wen (see lecture 3 for slides) |
"Quantum Geometry in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect" by Haldane |
"Hall viscosity, central charge, and entanglement" by Read |
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12:45 - 2:15 pm |
Lunch Break |
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2:15 - 3:45 pm |
"Quantum Mechanics and the Ten-Fold Way (1 of 2)" by Moore |
"Quantum Mechanics and the Ten-Fold Way (2 of 2)" by Moore |
"Topological phases of matter and fractional quantum Hall effect" by Read |
"Conformal field theory methods and effective field theory" by Read |
PROGRAM ENDS WITH LUNCH on July 31 |
| 3:45 - 4:15 pm |
Afternoon Tea Break |
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4:15 - 5:45 pm |
"Topological superconductors, Majorana fermions, Projective symmetries and interactions" by Bernevig |
"Category Theory and the Kitaev 16 fold way" by Bernevig |
Discussion Time |
"Fermion Path Integrals and Topological Phases" by Witten |
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| 5:45 - 6:00 pm |
Discussion Time |
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| 6:15 - 8:00 pm |
Dinner & Socializing (IAS South Lawn and Dining Hall) |
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