Preliminary Program - Topology Matters

Tuesday, July 25th

Morning Session
Session Topic: Topological insulators and graphene

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks
09:10 – 09:40 C. Felser, MPI Dresden & J. Gooth, IBM Zürich 
Topology in magnetic Heusler compounds
09:50 – 10:20 S. Parkin, MPI Halle
TBA
10:30 – 11:10 Coffee break & Poster session
11:10 – 11:40 M. Hentschel, TU Ilmenau
Frustrated light: Working around Berry phases
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session
Session Topic: Spintronics and skyrmions

13:00 – 14:00 S. te Velthuis, Argonne
Current-induced creation and manipulation of room temperature magnetic skyrmions
14:00 – 14:40 Coffee break & Poster session
14:40 – 15:10 A. Yacoby, Harvard
TBA
15:20 – 15:50 K. von Bergmann, University of Hamburg
Manipulation of interface-induced Skyrmions studied with STM

Wednesday, July 26th

Morning Session
Session Topic: Superconductivity

09:00 – 10:00 M. Yi, UC Berkeley
Emergent Orders in Iron-Based Superconductors
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break & Poster session
10:30 – 11:00 K. Franke, FU Berlin
From single magnetic adatoms to coupled chains on a superconductor
11:10 – 11:40 R. Valentí, GU Frankfurt
Modelling correlated superconductors
11:50 – 13:00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session
Session Topic: Multiferroics

13:00 - 14:00 N. Leo, ETH Zürich - Paul Scherrer Institute
Multiferroic domains: Bulk and Boundaries
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee break & Poster session
14:30 – 15:00 L. J. Heyderman, ETH Zürich - Paul Scherrer Institute
Artificial Ferroic Systems: from hybrid systems to magnetic metamaterials

Session Topic: Topological insulators and graphene

15:10 – 15:40 G. Platero, ICM Madrid
Dynamics of interacting electrons in ac-driven dimer chains
18:00 Conference Dinner
Restaurant Schwayer
Göttelmannstr. 40
55131 Mainz

You can travel from Hauptbahnhof West to the Restaurant with the following bus lines. It takes around 10 minutes to get there, exit the bus at Volkspark:
Line 62 in the direction Weisenau/Friedrich-Ebert-Straße at 17:22 and 17:42
Line 63 in the direction Laubenheim at 17:12 and 17:32

Thursday, July 27th

Morning Session
Session Topic: Spintronics and skyrmions

09:00 – 09:30 N. Nagaosa, RIKEN
Dynamics of skyrmions and monopoles in chiral magnets
09:40 – 10:10 X. Yu, RIKEN
Nucleation, stabilization and manipulation of magnetic skyrmions
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break & Poster session

Session Topic: Multiferroics

10:40 – 11:10 M. Bibes CNRS/Thales
Imaging, controlling and harnessing non-collinear magnetism in perovskite oxides
11:20 - 11:50 E. Soergel, University of Bonn
From "plug & play" towards a better understanding of scanning probe microscopy imaging
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session
Session Topic: Multiferroics

13:00 – 13:30 Lucia Steinke, TAMU
Chiral transport and electronic correlations in surface states of HfNiSn single crystals
13:40 – 14:10 B. Dupé, JGU Mainz
Skyrmion à la carte
14:20 – 15:00 Coffee break & Poster session

Session Topic: Topological insulators and graphene

15:00 – 15:30 Laurens W. Molenkamp, University of Würzburg
Topological Physics in HgTe-based Quantum Devices
15:40 – 16:10 A. H. MacDonald, University of Texas
Topological Boundary State Arrays in Graphene Moirés

Friday, July 28th

Morning Session
Session Topic: Topological insulators and graphene

09:00 – 09:30 M. Hermanns, Köln
Classification of 3D Kitaev spin liquids
09:40 – 10:10 C. Draxl, HU Berlin
Graphene off the Dirac point

Session Topic: Superconductivity

10:20 – 11:00 Coffee break & Poster session
11:00 – 11:30 E. Hankiewicz, Würzburg
From the parity anomaly to a Majorana fermion - realization of the ultrarelativistic physics in topological insulators
11:40 - 12:10 L. Glazman, Yale University
Two-terminal conductance via Majorana fermions
12:20 - 12:30 Closing remarks