WPC Theory Workshop

7 Jun 2017, 09:15 → 8 Jun 2017, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

SR II + III, Bldg. 99 (DESY Hamburg)

Wednesday 7 June

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 10:30 The Origin of Mass of the Visible Universe

Speaker: Zoltan Fodor (Univ. of Wuppertal)

Slides Fodor-Slides-WPC.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Topological superconductors: from band theory to interaction effects

Speaker: Shinsei Ryu (Univ. of Chicago)

Slides Ryu-Slides-WPC.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 New frontiers of chiral dynamics at electronic time scales

Speaker: Olga Smirnova (MBI Berlin)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 Fate of Kosterlitz-Thouless physics in driven open quantum systems

Speaker: Sebastian Diehl (Univ. of Cologne)

Slides Diehl_Hamburg.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Quantum Quenches in isolated many-particle systems

Speaker: Fabian Essler (Univ. of Oxford)

Slides DESY.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Dinner reception

Thursday 8 June

09:30 → 10:30 Quantum Monte Carlo approach to exact diagonalisation of interacting Fermionic systems

Speaker: Ali Alavi (MPI Stuttgart)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Nonrelativistic multiscale systems

Speaker: Nora Brambilla (TU Munich)

Slides Brambilla.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 On Symmetry-Protected Topological States: From Free Fermions to the Haldane phase

Speaker: Martin Zirnbauer (Univ. of Cologne)

Slides Zirnbauer-Slides-WPC.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 Theories of `bad metals'

Speaker: Sean Hartnoll (Stanford Univ.)

Slides Hartnoll-Slides-WPC.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Nearly perfect fluidity: From cold gases to hot plasmas

Speaker: Thomas Schaefer (Univ. of North Carolina)

Slides lect_desy_2017.pdf