Schedule
(Updated as of January 7, 2026)
Important notes:
| 1. | This focused 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 ias2026mftm@ust.hk. | |
Venue: IAS1038, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
January 6, 2026 (Tue)
Time
Event
| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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| 09:00 - 09:10 |
Opening Remarks |
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Session #01 Session Chair: Hai ZHANG |
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| 09:10 - 10:00 |
Talk #01: An Elementary Derivation of the Periodic Table of Topological Matter [Abstract] Gian Michele GRAF (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) |
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| 10:00 - 10:50 |
Talk #02: Topology of Invertible Quantum Spin Systems [Abstract] Yosuke KUBOTA (Kyoto University) |
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| 10:50 - 11:00 |
Group Photo Taking |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:20 - 12:10 |
Talk #03: Cantor Spectrum of Quasi-periodic Schrödinger Operators [Abstract] Jiangong YOU (Nankai University) |
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| 12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session #02 Session Chair: Guowu MENG |
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| 14:00 - 14:50 |
Talk #04: Periodically Driven Systems and the Bott Map in K-theory [Abstract] Christopher Jack BOURNE (Nagoya University) |
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| 14:50 - 15:40 |
Talk #05: Vanishing Fredholm Determinants, Quantized Traces, and Algebraic K-theory [Abstract] Guo Chuan THIANG (Peking University) |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:00 - 16:50 |
Talk #06: Topological Matter Protected by Momentum Space Crystallographic Groups [Abstract] Yuxin ZHAO (The University of Hong Kong) |
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January 7, 2026 (Wed)
Time
Event
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Session #03 Session Chair: Junshan LIN |
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| 09:00 - 09:50 |
[Online via Zoom] Talk #07: Talk title To be confirmed Michael WEINSTEIN (Columbia University) |
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| 09:50 - 10:40 |
Talk #08: General Properties of Frustration Free Systems Haruki WATANABE (The University of Tokyo) |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 - 11:50 |
Talk #09: Photonics Topology in Semiconductor Platforms: Basics and Applications [Abstract] Xiao HU (Shanghai University) |
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| 11:50 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session #04 Session Chair: Yayan LU |
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| 14:00 - 14:50 |
Talk #10: Bulk-spatiotemporal Vortex Correspondence at Photonic Topological Critical Points [Abstract] Ruoyang ZHANG (Nanjing University) |
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| 14:50 - 15:40 |
Talk #11: Recent Progress on the Bulk-edge Correspondence Principle in Finite Systems [Abstract] Jiayu QIU (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:00 - 16:50 |
Talk #12: Latent-Geometry Duality: Unravelling Hidden Symmetry Groups with Graph Theory [Abstract] Wenlong GAO (Eastern Institute of Technology) |
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January 8, 2026 (Thu)
Time
Event
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Session #05 Session Chair: Hai ZHANG |
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| 09:00 - 09:50 |
Talk #13: Scattering Theory for Waveguides in Topological Insulator Models [Abstract] Guillaume BAL (University of Chicago) |
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| 09:50 - 10:40 |
Talk #14: Two Topological Devices [Abstract] Ling LU (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:50 |
Talk #15: Unnecessary Criticality in 2D Magnets from Symmetry and Anomalies Xueyang SONG (HKUST) |
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| 11:50 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 - 18:00 |
Excursion |
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| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Banquet (By invitation only; Location: Sai Kung) |
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January 9, 2026 (Fri)
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Event
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Session #06 Session Chair: Yayan LU |
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| 09:00 - 09:50 |
Talk #16: From Topology to Thermodynamic Paradoxes in Electromagnetic Systems [Abstract] Mario G. SILVEIRINHA (University of Lisbon) |
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| 09:50 - 10:40 |
Talk #17: Mathematical Analysis of Topological Waves in Super-honeycomb Structured Media [Abstract] Yi ZHU (Tsinghua University) |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 - 11:50 |
Talk #18: On Phase Transitions in Quasiperiodic Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Systems [Abstract] Qi ZHOU (Nankai University) |
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| 11:50 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session #07 Session Chair: Junshan LIN |
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| 14:00 - 14:50 |
Talk #19: Band Structure and Dynamics of Single Photons in Atomic Lattices [Abstract] John Carl SCHOTLAND (Yale University) |
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| 14:50 - 15:40 |
[Online via Zoom] Talk #20: From Orbital Magnetism to Bulk-edge Correspondence [Abstract] Decebal Horia CORNEAN (Aalborg University) |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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