WPC Theoretical Physics Symposium 2021

8 Nov 2021, 10:00 → 12 Nov 2021, 18:30 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium CSSB, bldg. 15 (DESY Hamburg)

The Wolfgang Pauli Centre for Theoretical Physics, a joint forum of the Universität Hamburg and DESY,  in collaboration with the Clusters of excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter and the Quantum Universe,   organzises a scientific Symposium to honor the Hamburg Prizes for Theoretical Physics 2020 and 2021 which are being awarded to Prof. Valery Rubakov (INR Moskow) and Prof. Eugene Demler (ETH Zuerich), respectively. 

The first half of the Symposium on Nov 8-10 is devoted to the work of Valery Rubakov and it will feature scientific talks in the following areas:

• Advanced topics in Quantum Field Theory
• Cosmology
• Modified gravity

The second half of the Symposium on Nov 10-12 is devoted to the work of Eugene Demler and it will feature scientific talks in the following areas:

• Novel phases of matter in quantum many-body systems
• Driven quantum many-body systems
• Topological effects in quantum many-body systems, such as quantum antiferromagnets, quantum spin liquids, etc.
• Nonlinear xray spectroscopy of condensed matter

The award ceremony for the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics is organized by the Joachim Herz Stiftung on November 10 in Hamburg's Planetarium. Participation requires a separate registration.  

Recordings of the talks:

Video recordings of the talks are available on the DESY webcast portal (search for WPC 2021).

Confirmed Speakers Nov 8-10

S. Dubovsky (New York U., USA)
E. Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FR)
G. Dvali (LMU and MPI, Munich, DE)
R. Gregory (Kings College, London, UK)
L. Heisenberg (ETH, Zurich, CH)
A. Linde (Stanford U., USA)
Y. Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IS)
O. Pujolas (IFAE, Bellaterra, ES)
R. Rattazzi (EPFL, CH)
M. Shaposhnikov (EPFL, CH)
A. Smirnov (MPIK, Heidelberg, DE and ICTP, Trieste, IT)
D. Son (Chicago U., USA)
P. Tinyakov (ULB, BE)
E. Trincherini (SNS, Pisa, IT)

Confirmed Speakers Nov 10-12

H. Aoki (University of Tokyo)
A. Auerbach (Technion)
I. Bloch (MPQ and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)  
A. Bohrdt (Harvard University)
A. Cavalleri (MPSD Hamburg)
I. Cirac (MPQ and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
R. Citro (University of Salerno)
N. Cooper (Cambridge University)   
E. Demler (ETH Zurich)
T. Esslinger (ETH Zurich)
T. Giamarchi (University of Geneva)
B. Halperin (Harvard University)
A. Imamoglu (ETH Zurich)
E. Kim (Cornell University)
M. Lukin (Harvard University)
S. Mukamel (University of California Irvine)
P. Narang (Harvard University)
H. Park (Harvard University)
A. Polkovnikov (Boston University)
A. Maria Rey (University of Colorado)  
A. Rubio (MPSD Hamburg)
J. Schmiedmayer (TU Vienna)
K. Sengstock (Universität Hamburg)  
P. Torma (Aalto University)  

 

 

Local organizing committee
Hans Behringer, Michael Grefe, Christophe Grojean, Michael Thorwart, Volker Schomerus .

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 8 November

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:20 QFT without infinities and hierarchy problem

Speaker: M. Shaposhnikov (EPFL)

Shaposhnikov.pdf

11:20 → 12:10 Slow and safe gravitinos

Speaker: E. Dudas (remote) (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

Dudas.pdf

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:50 High quality GW relics

Speaker: O. Pujolas (IFAE)

Pujolas.pdf

14:50 → 15:40 Challenges in Cosmology and Gravitational Frontiers

Speaker: L. Heisenberg (ETH Zurich)

15:40 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:20 BICEP/Keck and cosmological attractors

Speaker: A. Linde (remote) (Stanford U.)

Linde.pdf

Tuesday 9 November

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:20 Black Holes & Vacuum Decay Catalysis

Speaker: R. Gregory (Kings College, London)

Gregory.pdf

11:20 → 12:10 Black holes beyond GR

Speaker: E. Trincherini (SNS, Pisa)

Trincherini.pdf

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:50 Neutrinos and new physics at low energy scales

Speaker: A. Smirnov (MPIK, Heidelberg and ICTP, Trieste)

Smirnov.pdf

14:50 → 15:40 Making black holes from WIMP dark matter in the present-day Universe

Speaker: P. Tinyakov (ULB, Brussels)

15:40 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 17:10 Demystifying Black-Holes

Speaker: G. Dvali (LMU and MPI, Munich)

Dvali.pdf

17:10 → 18:00 Metastable multiparticle resonances: from Q-balls to helium-3

Speaker: D. Son (remote) (Chicago U.)

Son.pdf

Wednesday 10 November

09:00 → 09:35 How the Hall effect exposes which particles carry the current

Speaker: Assa Auerbach

09:35 → 10:20 The quantum mechanics of a perfect fluid

Speaker: R. Rattazzi (EPFL)

Rattazzi.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:25 Quantum geometry effects on superconductivity, light-matter interactions, and Bose-Einstein condensation

Speaker: P. Törmä

Hamburg2021PT.pdf

11:25 → 12:10 The three jewels in the crown of the LHC

Speaker: Y. Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Nir.pdf

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:35 Universality in nonequilibrium evolution

Speaker: J. Schmiedmayer

14:35 → 15:20 Hidden Symmetry of Vanishing Love

Speaker: S. Dubovsky (NYU)

Dubovsky_v2.pdf

15:20 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:20 Spin waves and skyrmions in a graphene quantum Hall state

Speaker: B. Halperin (remote)

17:30 → 17:35 17:30 Shuttle bus from the CSSB, bldg. 15 to Planetarium Hamburg

18:30 → 21:00 Award ceremony & reception Joachim Herz Foundation

Thursday 11 November

09:00 → 09:35 Designing superconducting and topological systems in and out of equilibrium

Speaker: H. Aoki (remote)

DemlerSymp_Nov21_aoki_v2.pdf

09:35 → 10:10 Non-Gaussian variational methods in many body quantum physics

Speaker: I. Cirac

10:10 → 10:45 Strongly Interacting Polaritons in Moiré Materials

Speaker: N. Cooper

Cooper_Hamburg_2021.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 11:50 Driven Quantum Materials

Speaker: A. Cavalleri

11:50 → 12:25 Machine Learning for Quantum Simulation

Speaker: E. Kim

12:25 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:05 Quantum transport with cold atomic gases

Speaker: T. Giamarchi

15:05 → 15:40 Strong pairing in mixed dimensional bilayer antiferromagnetic Mott insulators

Speaker: A. Bohrdt

15:40 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:50 Exploring new scientific frontiers with programmable atom arrays

Speaker: M. Lukin (remote)

16:50 → 17:25 Simulating dynamical phases of BCS Superconductors with cavity QED and trapped ion systems

Speaker: A. Rey (remote)

17:25 → 18:00 Multidimensional monitoring of elementary exciton and polariton dynamics in molecules by X- ray pulses and entangled photons

Speaker: S. Mukamel (remote)

Friday 12 November

09:00 → 09:35 Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms

Speaker: I. Bloch

09:35 → 10:10 First principles modeling of polaritonic matter

Speaker: A. Rubio

10:10 → 10:45 Feshbach resonances in 2D materials

Speaker: A. Imamoglu

Hamburg-2021-imamoglu.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 11:50 A direct view in optical lattices: dynamics, topology and dissipation

Speaker: K. Sengstock

11:50 → 12:25 Illusive many-body localization

Speaker: A. Polkovnikov

12:25 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:05 Lattice modulation spectroscopy of interacting one-dimensional systems

Speaker: R. Citro

15:05 → 15:40 Self-consistent geometric pumping

Speaker: T. Esslinger (remote?)

15:40 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:50 Ab initio approaches to correlated light-matter interactions

Speaker: P. Narang

16:50 → 17:25 Bilayer Wigner Crystals on an Atomically Thin Canvas

Speaker: H. Park (remote)

17:25 → 18:00 Using quantum simulators to solve real world problems: quantum assisted NMR inference

Speaker: E. Demler