Program Schedule

Updated as of 8 Dec 2017

Venue: 

IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

Satellite Conference (13 - 16 Dec) | 18 Dec | 19 Dec

18 Dec (Mon)


Time Event
08:40-08:50 Registration
Session Chair: Vic K. T. Law
08:50-09:00 Welcoming Remarks
Patrick Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
09:00-09:45 "Chiral Majorana Modes in QAH/Superconductor Heterostructures"
Kang Wang (University of California at Los Angeles)
09:45-10:20 "Evidence of Superconducting QAH State"
Rolf Lortz (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
10:20-10:40 Group Photo and Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
10:40-11:15 "Thermal Conductivity in Complex Magnets
Lucile Savary (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:15-11:50 "Towards Understanding Majorana Nanowires"
Hao Zhang (Delft University of Technology)
11:50-14:00 Lunch (For invited speakers and registered participants only;
Venue: Conference Lodge)
Session Chair: Michael Zaletel
14:00-14:35 "Emergent Spacetime Supersymmetry on the Boundary of Topological Phases"
Hong Yao (Tsinghua University)
14:35-15:10 "Topological Crystalline Materials"
Masatoshi Sato (Kyoto University)
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
15:30-17:00 IAS Distinguished Lecture: “Quantum Computation at Microsoft”
Leo Kouwenhoven (Delft University of Technology and Microsoft) [Abstract]
17:00 Group Photo

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19 Dec (Tue)


Time Event
Session Chair: Rolf Lortz
09:00-09:45 "Imaging Anyons with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"
Michael Zaletel (Princeton University) [Abstract]
09:45-10:20 "Exact Solution for the Interacting Kitaev Chain"
Yi Zhou (Zhejiang University)
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
10:40-11:15 "Topological Phases in Transition Metal Chalcogenides"
Junwei Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11:15-11:50 "Floquet Supersymmetry"
Timothy Hsieh (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)
11:50-14:00 Lunch (For invited speakers and registered participants only;
Venue: Conference Lodge)
   
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
15:30-17:00 IAS Distinguished Lecture: “The Second Quantum Revolution”
Xiaogang Wen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [Abstract]

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