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Preliminary Program - Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter

Tuesday, May 30th
Morning Session: Light-induced superconductivity
08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 09:10	Jairo SINOVA, Mainz: Opening Remarks
09:10 – 10:00	Andrea CAVALLERI, Max Planck Hamburg: Intro to light-induced SC
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:00	Dante KENNES, MILLIS group Columbia: Electronic squeezing of pumped phonons: negative U and transient superconductivity (theory)
11:10 – 11:40	Corinna KOLLATH, University of Bonn: Light-induced superconductivity
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Eugene DEMLER, Harvard: Light-induced superconductivity
Afternoon Session I: Materials driven strongly out of equilibrium and related systems
14:10 – 14:40	Steve JOHNSON, ETH Zurich: Non-equilibrium materials
14:50 – 15:20	Elena OSTROVSKAYA, Australian National University: Non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons
15:30 – 15:50	Break
15:50 – 16:20	Yaroslav TSERKOVNYAK, UCLA: Condensation and superfluidity in magnetic insulators
16:30 – 17:00	Aditi MITRA, New York University: A large-N study of critical quenches of interacting fermions and implications for pump-probe spectroscopy
Afternoon Session II: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions
17:10 – 17:40	Sandro STRINGARI, University of Trento: Dynamics and superfluidity in the presence of spin-orbit coupling
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner
Wednesday, May 31st
Morning Session I: Dynamics of topological excitations in superfluids
09:00 – 09:30	Martin ZWIERLEIN, MIT: Solitonic excitations in fermionic superfluids
09:40 – 10:10	Joachim BRAND, Massey U. New Zealand: Dark solitons and vortices in strongly-correlated and topological superfluids
10:20 – 10:35	Break
10:35 – 11:05	Johannes HOFMANN, Cambridge UK: Quantum soliton friction and soliton diffusion
Morning Session II: Exotic quantum non-equilibrium phenomena (cont.)
11:15 – 11:45	Lev IOFFE (Rutgers): Quantum butterfly effect
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
Afternoon Session: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions
13:30 – 14:20	Anatoly POLKOVNIKOV, Boston University: Dynamical phase transitions
14:30 – 15:30	Rapid presentation of posters (1.5 min each)
15:30 – 18:00	Poster session
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner
Thursday, June 1st
Morning Session: Interplay between Floquet perturbations and topology
09:00 – 09:50	Gil REFAEL, Caltech: Introduction to Floquet topological insulators
10:05 – 10:35	Edbert Jarvis SIE, GEDIK group MIT: Floquet topological states in solids
10:45 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 11:30	Mohammad HAFEZI, JQI Maryland: Quantum Hall physics in photonic systems
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Nethanel LINDNER, Technion: New developments in Floquet TIs
Afternoon Session I: Many-body localization and Floquet time crystals
14:10 – 14:40	Immanuel BLOCH, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Many-body localization
14:50 – 15:20	Curt VON KEYERLINGK, Princeton: Eigenstate order and floquet phases
15:30 – 15:50	Break
15:50 – 16:20	Andrew POTTER, University of Texas at Austin: New non-equilibrium chiral topological phases from time-periodic driving
Afternoon Session II: Exotic quantum non-equilibrium phenomena
16:30 – 17:00	Jeff STEINHAUER, Technion: Hawking radiation in BECs
17:10 – 17:40	Grigorii VOLOVIK, Landau Inst. & Aalto U.: Analogue general relativity & cosmology in quantum fluids
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner
Friday, June 2nd
Morning Session: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions (cont.)
09:00 – 9:30	Ana-Maria REY, JILA UC Boulder: Quantum spin dynamics, coherences and entanglement in systems with long-range interactions
09:40 – 10:20	Klaus SENGSTOCK, U. of Hamburg: Dynamical phase transitions
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 11:15	Jörg SCHMIEDMAYER, Vienna Center for Quantum Science & Technology: Integrable dynamics in 1D
11:30 – 12:00	Meera PARISH, Monash University Australia: Dynamics of impurities in quantum fluids
12:10 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Sebastian LOTH, Max Planck Hamburg: Dynamics of Heisenberg spin chains
Afternoon Session: Quantum chaos in kicked cold atomic and related systems
14:10 - 14:40	Chushun TIAN, Inst. for Advanced Study Tsinghua U.: The kicked rotor: from classical chaos to integer quantum Hall effect
14:50 – 16:20	Jean-Claude GARREAU, LU of Lille France: Quantum simulation of the Anderson transition with a dynamical cold-atom system atoms
16:30 – 17:00	Sriram GANESHAN, Simons Center for Geomentry & Physics: Many-body dynamical localization & quantum Lyapunov exponent of kicked rotors
17:00 – 17:10	Closing Remarks

Spin Dynamics in the Dirac Systems

Mainz, Germany: June 6th – 9th 2017

Modern scientific research in condensed matter physics has been marked by a newly perceived role of the quantum nature of a spin in the most basic properties of materials. This breakthrough reflected itself in a new comprehension of fundamental physical symmetries, the concept of the topological classification of the quantum states properties, some of which are close to practical applications.

The aim of the SPICE workshop “Spin Dynamics in Dirac System” is to offer a platform for the knowledge exchange between diverse novel condensed matter domains such as topological insulators and superconductors, Weyl physics, topological Josephson junctions, spintronics in graphene, spin valves, spin-logic devices, quantum magnetism, spin lattices, frustrated magnets, spin liquids, non-trivial spin states, etc.

The day schedule of the 4-days workshop is split in 4 sections, four 20+5 minutes talks in a section. Each section devoted to a special topic will start with a tutorial given by a key speaker, and the different sections will be shuffled to create the maximal involvement of all participants into the unfamiliar topics.

Organizers

Oleksiy Kashuba (Würzburg)
Björn Trauzettel (Würzburg)
Matthias Vojta (Dresden)

SPICE Co-Organizers

Jairo Sinova (JGU Mainz)
Matthias Sitte (JGU Mainz)

Invited Speakers

Dmitry Abanin (University of Geneva) Yoichi Ando (Köln) Alexander Balatsky (NORDITA, Sweden) Sebastian Bergeret (CSIC/UPV ) Andrei Bernevig (Princeton) Ralph Claessen (Würzburg) Rui-Rui Du (Rice University) Vladimir Fal’ko (Manchester) Claudia Felser (MPI Dresden) Philipp Gegenwart (Augsburg) Joseph Maciejko (Alberta, Canada) Charles Marcus (Niels Bohr) Ivan Vera Marun (Manchester University) Laurens W. Molenkamp (Würzburg) Alberto Morpurgo (Geneva) Shuichi Murakami (Tokyo)

Titus Neupert (Uni Zürich) Nai Phuan Ong (Princeton) Natasha Perkins (Minnesota) Stephan Rachel (TU Dresden) Stephan Roche (ICN2, Barcelona) Leonid Rhokinson (Purdue University) Shinsei Ryu (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Pascal Simon (Orsay) Christoph Stampfer (Aachen) Hidenori Takagi (MPI Stuttgart) Bart van Wees (Groningen) Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard) Ali Yazdani (Princeton) Alfredo Levy Yeyati (Madrid) Alexander Zyuzin (Basel)

Young Research Leaders Group Workshop: Insulator spintronics – strong-coupling, coherence and entanglement

Mainz, Germany: July 31st – August 4th 2017

Magnetic insulators are extremely versatile materials. They’re used for fundamental research into magnetism and in real world devices. They have become a vital tool across many research disciplines to the extent that they are now micro-scale laboratories in their own right. The lack of charge currents in these materials allows for a very controlled environment where pure spin currents can flow and single magnons can be excited. However, nature is not so kind and the majority of magnetic insulators are a complex class of materials with many complications which must be understood.

One of the most remarkable aspects of magnetic insulator research is that people have been interested in it for more than six decades. But new ground is being broken with the advent of simple ways to couple to the magnetic system, such as strong coupling of magnon-polaritons and electrical coupling via spin-orbit interactions with metallic contacts. This has allowed phenomenon such as spin Seebeck effect and the coherent coupling between a ferromagnetic magnon and a superconducting qubit to be observed for the first time. There are many effects which have been proposed but are yet to be observed, for example spin-superfluidity. The race is on to use this versatile class of materials to make new discoveries.

This SPICE Young Research Leaders Workshop aims to bring together young scientific leaders who are interested in how magnetic insulators can be used to push the frontier of our understanding of basic science as well as technological frontiers such as spintronics and quantum computing. Specifically, this workshop will bring together researchers from the fields of insulator spintronics, magnon-polaritons and quantum magnetism to exchange ideas and discuss new ways in which magnetic insulators can be applied to fundamental research and applications.

Organizers

Joseph Barker (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan)
So Takei (Queens College of the City University of New York, USA)
Yunshan Cao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Confirmed Speakers

Joseph Barker (Tohoku University) Scott Bender (Utrecht) Davide Bossini (University of Tokyo) Yunshan Cao (UESTC, China) Felix Casanova (nanoGUNE, Spain) Ludo Cornelissen (University of Groningen (UG)) James A. Haigh (Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory) Cecilia Holmqvist (Linnaeus University) Dazhi Hou (Tohoku University) Hans Huebl (Walther-Meißner-Institut) Akashdeep Kamra (University of Konstanz)

Se Kwon Kim (UCLA) Takahiro Moriyama (Kyoto University) Kouki Nakata (University of Basel) Juan-Carlos Rojas-Sanchez (CNRS, Lorraine) Lucile Savary (MIT) Ka Shen (Delft University of Technology, Delft) So Takei (Queens College, New York) Vitaliy Vasyuchka (TU – Kaiserslauten) Mathias Weiler (Walther-Meißner-Institut) Kei Yamamoto (JGU Mainz)

Exotic New States in Superconducting Devices:
The Age of the Interface

Mainz, Germany: September 25th – 28th 2017

Superconducting material such as a ferromagnet, a topological insulator or a semiconductor, a range of electronic states can be induced which are radically different from either constituent material. To be able to probe these states requires a broad range of expertise, spanning basic materials science to fundamental physics modeling of interfaces and transport behaviour. At this meeting we have the opportunity to bring together scientists working on distinct and overlapping areas, such as superconductivity, magnetism, topological materials, quantum computing, and spin-electronics. This science community will have an opportunity to appreciate how these different transport phenomena are linked conceptually and thereby stimulate further understanding particularly with respect to realising useful devices with unique properties for spin-electronics and quantum computing.

Organizers

Sebastian Bergeret (CSIC/DIPC)
Jason Robinson (University of Cambridge)
Kjetil Hals (JGU Mainz)

Invited Speakers

Jan Aarts (University of Leiden) Norman Birge (Michigan State University) Mark Blamire (University of Cambridge) Silvano De Franceschi (CEA Grenoble) Matthias Eschrig (Royal Holloway, London) Mikael Fogelström (Chalmers) Katharina Franke (Freie Universität Berlin) Francesco Giazotto (CNR-Pisa) Sophie Gueron (CNRS) Ewelina Hankiewicz (Würzburg Univ.) Tero Heikkilä (University of Jyväskylä) Yoshi Maeno (University of Kyoto)

Leo Kouwenhoven (Delft) Dirk Manske (MPI-Stuttgart) Julia Meyer (CEA Grenoble) Jagadeesh Moodera (MIT) Yossi Paltiel (The Hebrew University) Stuart Parkin (MPI, Halle) Dimitri Roditchev (INSP Paris) Charis Quay Huei Li (Université Paris-Sud) Ilya Tokatly (University of Basque Country) Javier Villegas (CNRS-Thales) Felix von Oppen (FU Berlin) Roland Wiesendanger (Hamburg)

Topology Matters

Mainz, Germany: July 25th - 28th 2017

In recent years the concepts of topology have entered strikingly all areas of physics, interlinking many previously unrelated areas of research.New topological materials and topological phases with exotic properties have been discovered at a rapid pace. However, these new phases are still being studied primarily within their own sub-disciplines of condensed matter, with not enough interaction among them to explore new emerging paths to hybrid and multifunctional advanced materials.

The workshop "Topology Matters" aims to bring together the top scientists in the fields of spintronics, superconductivity, topological insulators, and multiferroics in order to explore their connections via topology. The rapid developments in each of these fields, and the emerging importance of topology in all of them makes this workshop very timely.

The mathematical concept of topology enters nowadays in many different physical realizations. In this conference we would like to explicitly cover the subfields of spintronics, superconductivity, topological insulators, and multiferroics where in the last decade tremendous progress has been made.

Each of the sub-disciplines is interesting in its own and exploits the mathematical concept of topology. Recently some sporadic studies have shown the potential for merging the concepts developed in each sub-discipline by creating hybrid systems that contain tunable properties relevant to each sub-discipline. Merging their efforts can exploit synergies and create new paths towards these important multi-functional advance materials. Here, it is fascinating to study how the different topological properties of the corresponding materials enter, intermix and give rise to new physics (e.g. by merging topological properties in real space and momentum space).

Therefore, at the workshop we do not plan to strictly separate the subfields but instead encourage to also present and discuss the interdisciplinary research aspects.

The conference will be planed family friendly. We encourage having partners/children joining for the conference. Child care will be arranged if needed. Moreover, all social gatherings (besides the scientific program) and the conference dinner will be planed family friendly.

Organizers

J. Sinova (JGU, Mainz)
K. Everschor-Sitte (JGU, Mainz)

Invited Speakers

M. Aronson (TAMU) M. Bibes (CNRS/Thales) C. Draxl (HU Berlin) B. Dupé (JGU Mainz) C. Felser (MPI Dresden) A. Fert (UMP CNRS/Thales) K. Franke (FU Berlin) L. Glazman (Yale University) E. Hankiewicz (Würzburg) M. Hentschel (TU Ilmenau) M. Hermanns (Köln) L. J. Heyderman (ETH Zürich - PSI) N. Leo (PSI Villigen)

A. H. MacDonald (University of Texas) L. W. Molenkamp (University Würzburg) N. Nagaosa (RIKEN) G. Platero (ICM Madrid) E. Soergel (University Bonn) L. Steinke (TAMU) S. G. E. te Velthuis (Argonne) R. Valentí (GU Frankfurt) K. von Bergmann (University of Hamburg) A. Yacoby (Harvard) M. Yi (UC Berkeley) X. Yu (RIKEN)

Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Bridges to Germany: Junior Faculty Professional Development Workshop

Mainz, Germany: May 17th - May 19th 2017

This workshop aims to bring together junior group leaders in chemistry, physics, and astronomy, their academic administration leaders at German Universities, the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative(CSC) and the Fulbright Komission in a unique professional development workshop.

The workshop offers training for junior group leaders in Germany how to best implement evidence-based pedagogies, how to integrate research and teaching, new strategies for communicating science to the public, and to develop skills in time management, leadership, mentoring students, and networking. The workshop also engages the academic administration leaders in Germany in a dialogue how to leverage professional development for the future academic leaders and lifting the impact of the University.

The workshop has the following objectives

• Apply change theory to promote academic initiatives (New German Tenure-Track Model). We will cover how junior faculty can maximize their chances for promotion by influencing change, and what skills are key for the transition to a tenure-track model
• Apply communication skills that convince authority figures and rally subordinates: convincing and motivating effectively in an academic environment.
• Develop skills to optimize student learning: applying evidence-based methods on learning that transcend the classroom and aid research success.
• Examine the alignment of the Fulbright-RCSA Cottrell-Scholar Initiative with the 1000 New Tenure-Track Professors German Initiative: debunking the myth of the research-and-teaching zero sum game. How the top researchers are usually the best educators and can bring universities to a higher level.

This workshop combines aspects of two established programs offered by the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative:The CSC New Faculty Workshop and the CSC Academic Leadership Training Workshop.

Resources

• Teaching
• Lab Management
• Mentoring

This workshop is sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement that sponsors the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative, a group of top academics who are renowned for the quality of both their research and their teaching. Since 2016, it has widened its scope to German scholars through partnership with the German-American Fulbright Commission by establishing the Fulbright-Cottrell Award, the first type of junior academic teaching award of its kind in Germany.

Target Group: i) Junior group leaders and habilitated researchers (including junior professors, Junior-dozenten, and Privatdozenten) who are working, or planning to work, at a German university with teaching responsibilities in programs of Chemistry, Physics, or Astronomy. ii) Academic leaders of German Universities.

Organizers

Olalla Vazquez (Philipps Universität Marburg)
Carla Frohlich (North Carolina State University)
Jairo Sinova (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Invited Speakers

Ralph Bruder (TU Darmstadt)
Andrew Feig (Wayne State University)
Peter Hassenbach (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)
Rigoberto Hernandez (Johns Hopkins University)
Stefanie Kiefer (VCI)
Mathias Kläui (JGU Mainz)
Stefan Müller-Stach (JGU Mainz)
Tobias Ritter (MPI Mühlheim)
Reiner Rohr (Fulbright)
Silvia Ronco (RCSA)
Alexander Wanner (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Rory Waterman (University of Vermont)

Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Bridges to Germany: Junior Faculty Professional Development Workshop

Mainz, Germany: May 17th - May 19th 2017

About The Cottrell Scholars Collaborative: 

The Cottrell Scholars Collaborative is a network of top academic scientists who are past recipients of the Cottrell Scholar Award given out by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The members are firmly committed to the ideal of the teacher scholar who excels both in the laboratory and in the classroom, and are dedicated to using the scientific method to improve STEM education. As a group, they promote transformative change in science education through the exploration of new pedagogies and the dissemination of proven methods, always asking themselves, are we doing this in the best possible manner and can we improve the learning outcomes for our students.

The members are among the most decorated scientist in the USA. Most of them have received many other wards, such as the NSF CAREER Award. They are a clear proof that the excellence in research and in innovative teaching and science communication is never a zero sum game.

Sponsored by RCSA, they have started a series of initiatives to help promote this teacher scholar model at the highest level of academia. As their rankings grow and their members enter more influential roles in academia, this is an important network that will impact the future of academia.

In this new evolution, the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative is bringing these ideas to Germany, where many of his members have established their academic careers.

Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter

Mainz, Germany: May 30th - June 2nd 2017

In contrast to equilibrium quantum systems, which exist in just a tiny corner of an immense configuration space, non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems can access the totality of configuration space and represent a rich resource for novel quantum states, including light-induced quantum-coherent phases of matter, topological phases and spin textures in solids and cold atom systems. Non-equilibrium many-body quantum dynamics is perhaps the last frontier in physics, where even the basic understanding is still lacking and a number of outstanding fundamental questions are wide open. However, there has been much recent progress in exploring these fundamental aspects on both theoretical and experimental sides.

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together leading experts – both theorists and experimentalists – working in the broad field and focuses on the most exciting recent developments in non-equilibrium many-body physics including: light-induced superconductivity, topological Floquet states, soliton motion in quantum superfluids, acoustic Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates, and quantum chaos and quantum butterfly effect.

The aforementioned developments, being the main motivation for the proposed workshop, make it clear that the theme of non-equilibrium quantum physics is not specific to a particular subfield, but cuts across different seemingly unrelated disciplines, including topological insulators, superconductors, cold atoms, bosonic and fermionic, neutral superfluids, driven cold atoms systems. The theory involved is equally diverse and spans fields from classical condensed matter, to mathematical physics (integrable systems and inverse scattering methods in the context of solitons), to even general relativity (geometric descriptions of superfluid’s dynamics).

The proposed program will include representatives from all these fields and promises to lead to a lively, intellectually stimulating, and highly interdisciplinary program. There will be a poster session on one of the days, where non-speakers can present their work, too.

Organizers

M. Foerst (Max Planck, Hamburg)
V. Galitski (University of Maryland)
M. Fuhrer (Monash University, Australia)
I. Spielman (University of Maryland)

Invited Speakers

Igor Aleiner (University of Columbia) Immanuel Bloch (LMU, Munich) Joachim Brand (Massey University, New Zealand) Andrea Cavalleri (Max Planck, Hamburg) Cheng Chin (University of Chicago) Eugene Demler (Harvard) Sriram Ganeshan (Simons Center, NY) Jean-Claude Garreau (LU of Lille, France) Mohammad Hafezi (JQI, Maryland) Johannes Hofmann (Cambridge, UK) Lev Ioffe (Rutgers) Steve Johnson (ETH, Zurich) Dante Kennes (Columbia) Corinna Kollath (University of Bonn) Nethanel Lindner (Technion) Sebastian Loth (Max Planck, Hamburg) Aditi Mitra (New York University)

Elena Ostrovskaya (Australian National University) Meera Parish (Monash University, Australia) Anatoly Polkovnikov (Boston University) Andrew Potter (University of Texas at Austin) Gil Refael (Caltech) Ana-Maria Rey (University of Maryland) Edbert Jarvis Sie (Gedik Group, MIT) Curt von Keyerlingk (Princeton) Jörg Schmiedmayer (VCQ, Vienna) Jeff Steinhauer (Technion) Sandro Stringari (University of Trento) Chushun Tian (Tsinghua University) Yaroslav Tserkovniak (UCLA) Klaus Sengstock (University of Hamburg) Grigorii Volovik (Landau Instititute and Aalto University) Martin Zwierlein (MIT)