Name: WPC Theoretical Physics Symposium 2021
Start: 2021-11-08T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-11-12T18:30:00+01:00
Location: DESY Hamburg

WPC Theoretical Physics Symposium 2021

from Monday, 8 November 2021 (10:00) to Friday, 12 November 2021 (18:30)

Monday, 8 November 2021

10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:30 QFT without infinities and hierarchy problem - M. Shaposhnikov (EPFL)
QFT without infinities and hierarchy problem
- M. Shaposhnikov (EPFL)
10:30 - 11:20
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
11:20 Slow and safe gravitinos - E. Dudas (remote) (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Slow and safe gravitinos
- E. Dudas (remote) (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
11:20 - 12:10
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
12:10 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 - 14:00
14:00 High quality GW relics - O. Pujolas (IFAE)
High quality GW relics
- O. Pujolas (IFAE)
14:00 - 14:50
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
14:50 Challenges in Cosmology and Gravitational Frontiers - L. Heisenberg (ETH Zurich)
Challenges in Cosmology and Gravitational Frontiers
- L. Heisenberg (ETH Zurich)
14:50 - 15:40
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
16:30 BICEP/Keck and cosmological attractors - A. Linde (remote) (Stanford U.)
BICEP/Keck and cosmological attractors
- A. Linde (remote) (Stanford U.)
16:30 - 17:20
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
Tuesday, 9 November 2021

10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:30 Black Holes & Vacuum Decay Catalysis - R. Gregory (Kings College, London)
Black Holes & Vacuum Decay Catalysis
- R. Gregory (Kings College, London)
10:30 - 11:20
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
11:20 Black holes beyond GR - E. Trincherini (SNS, Pisa)
Black holes beyond GR
- E. Trincherini (SNS, Pisa)
11:20 - 12:10
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
12:10 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 - 14:00
14:00 Neutrinos and new physics at low energy scales - A. Smirnov (MPIK, Heidelberg and ICTP, Trieste)
Neutrinos and new physics at low energy scales
- A. Smirnov (MPIK, Heidelberg and ICTP, Trieste)
14:00 - 14:50
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
14:50 Making black holes from WIMP dark matter in the present-day Universe - P. Tinyakov (ULB, Brussels)
Making black holes from WIMP dark matter in the present-day Universe
- P. Tinyakov (ULB, Brussels)
14:50 - 15:40
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
16:20 Demystifying Black-Holes - G. Dvali (LMU and MPI, Munich)
Demystifying Black-Holes
- G. Dvali (LMU and MPI, Munich)
16:20 - 17:10
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
17:10 Metastable multiparticle resonances: from Q-balls to helium-3 - D. Son (remote) (Chicago U.)
Metastable multiparticle resonances: from Q-balls to helium-3
- D. Son (remote) (Chicago U.)
17:10 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
09:00 How the Hall effect exposes which particles carry the current - Assa Auerbach
How the Hall effect exposes which particles carry the current
- Assa Auerbach
09:00 - 09:35
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
09:35 The quantum mechanics of a perfect fluid - R. Rattazzi (EPFL)
The quantum mechanics of a perfect fluid
- R. Rattazzi (EPFL)
09:35 - 10:20
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:50 Quantum geometry effects on superconductivity, light-matter interactions, and Bose-Einstein condensation - P. Törmä
Quantum geometry effects on superconductivity, light-matter interactions, and Bose-Einstein condensation
- P. Törmä
10:50 - 11:25
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
11:25 The three jewels in the crown of the LHC - Y. Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science)
The three jewels in the crown of the LHC
- Y. Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science)
11:25 - 12:10
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
12:10 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 - 14:00
14:00 Universality in nonequilibrium evolution - J. Schmiedmayer
Universality in nonequilibrium evolution
- J. Schmiedmayer
14:00 - 14:35
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
14:35 Hidden Symmetry of Vanishing Love - S. Dubovsky (NYU)
Hidden Symmetry of Vanishing Love
- S. Dubovsky (NYU)
14:35 - 15:20
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:20 - 15:45
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:45 Spin waves and skyrmions in a graphene quantum Hall state - B. Halperin (remote)
Spin waves and skyrmions in a graphene quantum Hall state
- B. Halperin (remote)
15:45 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
17:30 17:30 Shuttle bus from the CSSB, bldg. 15 to Planetarium Hamburg
17:30 Shuttle bus from the CSSB, bldg. 15 to Planetarium Hamburg
17:30 - 17:35

18:30 Award ceremony & reception Joachim Herz Foundation
Award ceremony & reception Joachim Herz Foundation
18:30 - 21:00
Thursday, 11 November 2021
09:00 Designing superconducting and topological systems in and out of equilibrium - H. Aoki (remote)
Designing superconducting and topological systems in and out of equilibrium
- H. Aoki (remote)
09:00 - 09:35
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
09:35 Non-Gaussian variational methods in many body quantum physics - I. Cirac
Non-Gaussian variational methods in many body quantum physics
- I. Cirac
09:35 - 10:10
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:10 Strongly Interacting Polaritons in Moiré Materials - N. Cooper
Strongly Interacting Polaritons in Moiré Materials
- N. Cooper
10:10 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
11:15 Driven Quantum Materials - A. Cavalleri
Driven Quantum Materials
- A. Cavalleri
11:15 - 11:50
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
11:50 Machine Learning for Quantum Simulation - E. Kim
Machine Learning for Quantum Simulation
- E. Kim
11:50 - 12:25
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
12:25 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:25 - 14:30
14:30 Quantum transport with cold atomic gases - T. Giamarchi
Quantum transport with cold atomic gases
- T. Giamarchi
14:30 - 15:05
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:05 Strong pairing in mixed dimensional bilayer antiferromagnetic Mott insulators - A. Bohrdt
Strong pairing in mixed dimensional bilayer antiferromagnetic Mott insulators
- A. Bohrdt
15:05 - 15:40
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:15
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
16:15 Exploring new scientific frontiers with programmable atom arrays - M. Lukin (remote)
Exploring new scientific frontiers with programmable atom arrays
- M. Lukin (remote)
16:15 - 16:50
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
16:50 Simulating dynamical phases of BCS Superconductors with cavity QED and trapped ion systems - A. Rey (remote)
Simulating dynamical phases of BCS Superconductors with cavity QED and trapped ion systems
- A. Rey (remote)
16:50 - 17:25
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
17:25 Multidimensional monitoring of elementary exciton and polariton dynamics in molecules by X- ray pulses and entangled photons - S. Mukamel (remote)
Multidimensional monitoring of elementary exciton and polariton dynamics in molecules by X- ray pulses and entangled photons
- S. Mukamel (remote)
17:25 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
Friday, 12 November 2021
09:00 Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms - I. Bloch
Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms
- I. Bloch
09:00 - 09:35
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
09:35 First principles modeling of polaritonic matter - A. Rubio
First principles modeling of polaritonic matter
- A. Rubio
09:35 - 10:10
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:10 Feshbach resonances in 2D materials - A. Imamoglu
Feshbach resonances in 2D materials
- A. Imamoglu
10:10 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
11:15 A direct view in optical lattices: dynamics, topology and dissipation - K. Sengstock
A direct view in optical lattices: dynamics, topology and dissipation
- K. Sengstock
11:15 - 11:50
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
11:50 Illusive many-body localization - A. Polkovnikov
Illusive many-body localization
- A. Polkovnikov
11:50 - 12:25
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
12:25 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:25 - 14:30
14:30 Lattice modulation spectroscopy of interacting one-dimensional systems - R. Citro
Lattice modulation spectroscopy of interacting one-dimensional systems
- R. Citro
14:30 - 15:05
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:05 Self-consistent geometric pumping - T. Esslinger (remote?)
Self-consistent geometric pumping
- T. Esslinger (remote?)
15:05 - 15:40
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:15
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
16:15 Ab initio approaches to correlated light-matter interactions - P. Narang
Ab initio approaches to correlated light-matter interactions
- P. Narang
16:15 - 16:50
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
16:50 Bilayer Wigner Crystals on an Atomically Thin Canvas - H. Park (remote)
Bilayer Wigner Crystals on an Atomically Thin Canvas
- H. Park (remote)
16:50 - 17:25
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15
17:25 Using quantum simulators to solve real world problems: quantum assisted NMR inference - E. Demler
Using quantum simulators to solve real world problems: quantum assisted NMR inference
- E. Demler
17:25 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15