PROGRAM PROGRAM
PROGRAM

Schedule

(Updated as of August 3, 2026)
Important notes:

1. This Workshop 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 ias2026qgc@ust.hk.
 


 

 

Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
August 17, 2026 (Mon)
Time
Event
08:45 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 - 09:30 Opening Remarks
Session #01
Session Chair: Zhenyu ZHANG (University of Science and Technology of China)
09:30 - 10:00 Talk#081701 - ARPES Evidence for Unconventional Topological Superconductivity in the Fermi Arc States of t-PtBi2 [Abstract]
Sergey BORISENKO (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden)
10:00 - 10:30 Talk#081702 - Extended Strange Metal and Superconductivity in Partially Filled Moiré Hubbard Bands
Kin Fai MAK (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
11:00 - 11:30 Talk#081703 - Quantum Geometry Adaptiveness and Fractional Chern Insulators in Non-Chern Flat Bands [Abstract]
Wang YAO (The University of Hong Kong)
11:30 - 12:00 Talk#081704 - Theory of Chiral Topological Superconductivity and Pair Density Wave in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 [Abstract]
Hong YAO (Tsinghua University)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session #02
Session Chair: Yong P. CHEN (Aarhus University; Tohoku University)
14:00 - 14:30 Talk#081705 - A Unified Understanding of Altermagnets Based on C-paired Spin-momentum Locking [Abstract]
Junwei LIU (HKUST)
14:30 - 15:00 Talk#081706 - Multiple Wave Mixing in a Room Temperature Altermagnet [Abstract]
Berthold JAECK (HKUST)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
15:30 - 16:00 Talk#081707 - Detecting Topological Superconductivity via Quantum Geometric Effects [Abstract]
Yi-Ting HSU (University of Notre Dame)
16:00 - 16:30 Talk#081708 - Minimal Loop Currents and Strong Pairing in Doped Mott Insulators [Abstract]
Zhengyu WENG (Tsinghua University)

 

August 18, 2026 (Tue)
Time
Event
Session #03
Session Chair: LI Junjie (American Physical Society)
09:00 - 09:30 Talk#081801 - Magnetism and Field Re-entrant Superconductivity in Doped Infinite-layer Samarium Nickelates [Abstract]
Danfeng LI (City University of Hong Kong)
09:30 - 10:00 Talk#081802 - Thin-film Nickelate Superconductivity and Electronic Structures [Abstract]
Zhouyu CHEN (Southern University of Science and Technology; American Physical Society)
10:00 - 10:30 Talk#081803 - Wave Trajectories, Quantum Potential, Superoscillations: Madelung, de Broglie, Newton [Abstract]
Michael BERRY (University of Bristol)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
11:00 - 11:30 Talk#081804 - Quantum Geometry in Nonlinear Transport and Magnetization [Abstract]
Haizhou LU (Southern University of Science and Technology)
11:30 - 12:00 Talk#081805 - Hyperdeterminants: A Flexible Wavefunction for Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter [Abstract]
Di XIAO (University of Washington)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session #04
Session Chair: Haruki WATANABE (HKUST)
14:00 - 14:30 Talk#081806 - Engineering Topological Flat Bands in Moiré Quantum Materials: From Symmetry-Enforced Topology to Ideal Quantum Geometry [Abstract]
Chaoxing LIU (The Pennsylvania State University)
14:30 - 15:00 Talk#081807 - Correlated Quantum Nonlinearities [Abstract]
Justin Chien Wen SONG (Nanyang Technological University)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
15:30 - 16:00 Talk#081808 - Large Transverse Thermoelectric Effect Induced by Topological Flat Bands [Abstract]
Akito SAKAI (The University of Tokyo)
16:00 - 16:30 Talk#081809 - Fractional Topological Phases and Unconventional Superconductivity in Twisted MoTe2 [Abstract]
Tingxin LI (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
16:30 - 17:30 Short Break
17:30 - 20:30 Workshop Dinner (For Organizers/ Invited Speakers/ Session Chairs Only)

 

August 19, 2026 (Wed)
Time
Event
Session #05
Session Chair: Yiming XU (American Physical Society)
09:00 - 09:30 Talk#081901 – Quantum Geometry in Nonlinear Responses [Abstract]
Qian NIU (University of Science and Technology of China)
09:30 - 10:00 Talk#081902 - Discovery of Higher Charge Superconductivity Beyond Charge-2e Cooper Pairs [Abstract]
Jian WANG (Peking University)
10:00 - 10:30 Talk#081903 - Quantum Geometric Tensor and Luttinger Liquids: A Framework for Fractionalized Topological Phases [Abstract]
Yuval OREG (Weizmann Institute of Science)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
11:00 - 11:30 Talk#081904 - Symmetry Theory of Magnetism [Abstract]
Qihang LIU (Southern University of Science and Technology)
11:30 - 12:00 Talk#081905 - Quantum Theory of Electric Polarization in Inhomogeneous Crystals [Abstract]
Shuichi MURAKAMI (RIKEN; The University of Tokyo)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session #06
Session Chair: Qian NIU (University of Science and Technology of China)
14:00 - 15:30 Talk#081906 – Public Lecture: What We Learn(ed) from Rainbows [Abstract]
Michael BERRY (University of Bristol)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
16:00 - 17:30 Poster Session

 

August 20, 2026 (Thu)
Time
Event
Session #07
Session Chair: Kin Fai MAK (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
09:00 - 09:30 Talk#082001 - Quantum Metric Lengths as Fundamental Length Scales in Superconductivity, Disordered Systems and Beyond
Kam Tuen LAW (HKUST)
09:30 - 10:00 Talk#082002 - Flat Band Physics [Abstract]
Sergej FLACH (Institute for Basic Science)
10:00 - 10:30 Talk#082003 - Fractionalization of High-Chern Insulators [Abstract]
Xiaobo LU (Peking University)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
11:00 - 11:30 Talk#082004 - Emergent Electromagnetic Phenomena in Spin Chiral Matter [Abstract]
Yoshinori TOKURA (RIKEN; The University of Tokyo)
11:30 - 12:00 Talk#082005 - Unconventional Fractional Topological States [Abstract]
Xiong-Jun LIU (Peking University)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session #08
Session Chair: Xueyang SONG (HKUST)
14:00 - 14:30 Talk#082006 - To be confirmed
Leon BALENTS (University of California, Santa Barbara)
14:30 - 15:00 Talk#082007 - Topological-topological Flat Bands [Abstract]
Chen FANG (Institute of Physics, CAS)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
15:30 - 16:00 Talk#082008 - Wavefunctions for Anyon Superconductors [Abstract]
Gil Young CHO (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
16:00 - 16:30 Talk#082009 - Abelian and Non-Abelian Fractionalized States in Twisted MoTe2 [Abstract]
Fengcheng WU (Wuhan University)

 

August 21, 2026 (Fri)
Time
Event
Session #09
Session Chair: Zhenhua QIAO (University of Science and Technology of China)
09:00 - 09:30 Talk#082101 - Quantum-mechanical Formulation of Current-generating Local Orbital Magnetization [Abstract]
Akito DAIDO (Kyoto University)
09:30 - 10:00 Talk#082102 - Chiral Magnons in Altermagnets [Abstract]
Stefan BLÜGEL (Forschungszentrum Jüich)
10:00 - 10:30 Talk#082103 - To be confirmed
Jie SHAN (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Venue: Lobby, G/F)
11:00 - 11:30 Talk#082104 - Chiral Superconductivity: Systems and Mechanisms [Abstract]
Zhenyu ZHANG (University of Science and Technology of China)
11:30 - 12:00 Talk#082105 - To be confirmed
Zhida SONG (Peking University)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session #10
Session Chair: Adrian Hoi Chun PO (HKUST)
14:00 - 14:30 Talk#082106 - Anyons Everywhere [Abstract]
Jonah HERZOG-ARBEITMAN (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:30 - 15:00 Talk#082107 - Quantum Geometric Effect in Landau’s Fermi-Liquid Theory [Abstract]
Shuai CHEN (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
15:00 - 15:30 Closing Remarks