PROGRAM PROGRAM
PROGRAM

Schedule

(Updated as of Jun 6, 2024)
Important notes:

1. This program will be held in face-to-face mode.
2. Unauthorized recording of any session is prohibited.
3. Please obtain the consent from the speaker concerned for any adaptation/sharing of his/her presentation materials.
 
Should you have further enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat by email at ias2024tmb@ust.hk.
 


 

 

Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
June 16, 2024 (Sun)
Time
Event
18:00 – 20:00 Registration and Welcoming Reception (By Invitation)

 

June 17, 2024 (Mon)
Time
Event
Session M-01: Recent Developments in Moiré Superlattices I
09:00 – 09:05 Opening Remarks
09:05 – 09:40 Chern Insulators and Anomalous Hall Crystals from Parent Berry Curvature
Trithep DEVAKUL (Stanford University)
09:40 – 10:15 Molecular Pairing in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Superconductivity
Zhi-Da SONG (Peking University)
10:15 – 10:50 Interactions, Topology and Quantum Criticality in Moiré Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Materials
Debanjan CHOWDHURY (Cornell University)
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:55 Imaging Many-Body Phases in Magic-Angle Graphene
Kevin NUCKOLLS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:55 – 12:30 Imaging Electric Potential within Moiré Superlattices Using the Atomic SET
Dahlia KLEIN (Weizmann Institute of Science)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (By Invitation)
Session M-02: New Developments in Topological Quantum Materials I
14:00 – 14:35 Topological Quantum Chemistry and Single Particle Greens’ Function for Correlated Topological Materials
Maia VERGNIORY (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
14:35 – 15:10 Spin- and Orbital-poles in Chiral Topological Semimetals
Niels SCHRÖTER (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)
15:10 – 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 – 16:25 Epitaxial Square Net Intermetallics; New Structures and Enhanced Superconductivity
Joseph FALSON (California Institute of Technology)
16:25 – 17:00 Unraveling Z4 Invariants in Topological Materials with Spin-Resolved Topology in Insulators and Dual Charge-Resolved Topology in Superconductors
Benjamin WIEDER (Université Paris-Saclay)

 

June 18, 2024 (Tue)
Time
Event
Session Tu-01: New Developments in Topological Quantum Materials II
09:00 – 09:35 Bridging Topological Band Theory and Molecular Chemistry: A Novel Approach to Understanding Reaction Dynamics
Lukas MUECHLER (The Pennsylvania State University)
09:35 – 10:10 Topological and Excitonic States in Ta2Pd3Te5
Zhijun WANG (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:10 – 10:45 Topological Surface Van Hove Singularity and Charge-Density-Wave Enhanced Excitons in metallic TbNiC2’
Junzhang MA (City University of Hong Kong)
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:50 Conjoined Charge Density Waves in Correlated Topological Quantum Materials
Haoxiang LI (HKUST (GZ))
11:50 – 12:25 The Topology and Chirality for Phonons
Tiantian ZHANG (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (By Invitation)
Session Tu-02: Plenary Discussion - Conceptional Frontier in Topological / Correlated Quantum Materials
14:00 Opening remarks and Chairing
Julia Chan (Science Advances)
15:10 – 15:40 Coffee Break

 

June 19, 2024 (Wed)
Time
Event
Session W-01: Topological and Quantum Magnetism
09:00 – 09:35 Emergent Electrodynamics in Centrosymmetric Materials and in van-der-Waals Magnets
Max HIRSCHBERGER (University of Tokyo)
09:35 – 10:10 Using Anisotropic Strain to Probe Multipolar Order Parameters
Linda YE (California Institute of Technology)
10:10 – 10:45 Flat Bands in Bulk Quantum Materials
Ming YI (Rice University)
10:45 – 11:20 Coffee Break & Group Photo Taking
11:20 – 11:55 Synthesis and Search of New Topological Magnetic Textures (Beyond the classical ones)
Takashi KURUMAJI (California Institute of Technology)
11:55 – 12:30 Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Topological Materials
Luyi YANG (Tsinghua University)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (By Invitation)
14:00 – 17:30 Excursion (By Invitation)
18:00 Banquet (By Invitation)

 

June 20, 2024 (Thu)
Time
Event
Session Th-01: Recent Developments in Moiré Superlattices II
09:00 – 09:35 Strong Interactions and Isospin Symmetry Breaking in a Supermoiré Lattice
Yonglong XIE (Rice University)
09:35 – 10:10 Generalized Anomalous Hall Crystals in a Graphene Moiré Lattice
Matthew YANKOWITZ (University of Washington)
10:10 – 10:45 Edge Transport Theory of Chiral Topological Systems
Biao LIAN (Princeton University)
10:45 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:55 Bootstrapping the Quantum Hall Problem
Eslam KHALAF (Harvard University)
11:55 – 12:30 Composite Fermions and the Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect
Hart GOLDMAN (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (By Invitation)
Session Th-02: Plenary Discussion - Material Trends in QM to Address the Open Physical Questions
14:00 Opening remarks and Chairing
Jakub Jadwizszak (Nature Communications)
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break

 

June 21, 2024 (Fri)
Time
Event
Session Fr-01: Quantum Transport in Topological Materials
09:00 – 09:35 Encapsulated Chemistry and Quantum Engineering of Superconductivity in 2D Topological Chalcogenides
Sanfeng WU (Princeton University)
09:35 – 10:10 Amorphous Topological Metals
Adolfo GRUSHIN (Institut Néel, Grenoble)
10:10 – 10:45 Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in 2D Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices
Tingxin LI (Shanghai JiaotongUniversity)
10:45 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40 Anomalous Quasiparticle Motion from Quantum Geometry
Tobias HOLDER (Tel Aviv University)
11:40 – 12:20 Probing Moiré Quantum Materials Using THz Excitation
Denis BANDURIN (National University of Singapore)
12:20 – 12:30 Closing Remarks
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (By Invitation)