Topological Aspects of Solid State Physics

Program for Workshop at ISSP (June 2 - June 22)


All the talks for the workshop will be at A615 Seminar Room, ISSP Main Building (6th Floor), unless noted otherwise.


WEEK 1
June 2 (Mon.) ------ ------ ------
June 3 (Tue.) ------ ------ ------
June 4 (Wed.) 11:00 - 12:00 Xiaoliang Qi
(Stanford University)
Topological Field Theory of Time-Reversal Invariant Insulators and Beyond VIDEO
13:30 - 14:30 Igor Herbut
(Simon Fraser University)
Zero-energy states of Dirac fermions in two dimensions and orders in graphene VIDEO
June 5 (Thu.) 11:00 - 12:00 Ken-Ichiro Imura
(Tohoku University)
Colossal spin fluctuations in a molecular quantum dot magnet VIDEO / PDF
17:30 - --- Event ---
(ISSP)
ISSP Beer party
June 6 (Fri.) 11:00 - 12:15 Vincent Pasquier
(CEA Saclay)
Quantum Hall Effect from the wave function point of view, Part 1 (Introductory Lectures) VIDEO
13:30 - 14:45 Vincent Pasquier
(CEA Saclay)
Quantum Hall Effect from the wave function point of view, Part 2 (Introductory Lectures) VIDEO
June 7 (Sat.) ------ ------ ------
June 8 (Sun.) ------ ------ ------




WEEK 2
June 9 (Mon.) 11:00 - 12:00 Kazuki Hasebe
(Takuma National College of Technology)
Supersymmetric extension of the quantum Hall effect VIDEO/ PDF
June 10 (Tue.) 11:00 - 12:00 Akiyuki Tokuno
(Hokkaido University)
Dynamics of one-dimensional Bose liquids in Y-junction and its related system: Andreev-like reflection and absence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect VIDEO / PDF
16:00 - 17:00 Shoucheng Zhang
(Stanford University)
Quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators (joint with theory seminar) VIDEO
June 11 (Wed.) 11:00 - 12:00 Zenji Hiroi
(ISSP, University of Tokyo)
Recent topics on two frustrated spin compounds VIDEO
June 12 (Thu.) 11:00 - 12:00 Hsiu-Hau Lin
(National Tsing-Hua University)
Topological nanomagnet: Quantized magnetic moment at the edge of single-walled carbon nanotube VIDEO / PDF
13:30 - 14:30 Pierre Pujol
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Gauge theory picture of an ordering transition in a dimer model VIDEO
(Q and A)
June 13 (Fri.)
Mini-Symposium on Mathematical Approaches
10:30 - 11:30 Murray Batchelor
(Australian National University)
1D anyon models and fractional exclusion statistics VIDEO
11:30 - 12:30 Mitsuhiro Arikawa
(University of Tsukuba)
Analytic results on the Gutzwiller wave function VIDEO
14:00 - 15:00 Paul Pearce
(University of Melbourne)
Logarithmic Minimal Models, Critical Dense Polymers, Percolation and W-Extended Fusion Rules VIDEO / PDF
15:00 - 16:00 Vincent Pasquier
(CEA Saclay)
Alternating sign matrices and the Quantum Hall effect? VIDEO
18:00 - 20:00 --- Event --- Cheese and Wine (or Sushi and Sake?)
(This mini-party will be held in A512.)
June 14 (Sat.) --- Event --- Excursion: Bicycle trip to Teganuma (Lake) and Japanese Hotspring Bath
June 15 (Sun.) ------ ------ ------




WEEK 3
June 16 (Mon.) 11:00 - 12:00 Dung-Hai Lee
(University of California)
Dynamic effects in topological insualtor/superconductor VIDEO
June 17 (Tue.) 11:00 - 12:00 Yoshichika Otani
(ISSP, University of Tokyo)
Spin current and the spin hall effect in metallic nano-structures VIDEO
June 18 (Wed.) 11:00 - 12:00 Takahiro Fukui
(Ibaraki University)
On a method of computing Chern numbers and Z2 invariant on a discretized Brillouin zone VIDEO
June 19 (Thu.) 11:00 - 12:00 Jung Hoon Han
(Sung Kyun Kwan University)
Aspects of multiferroic behavior In spin-chirality- and exchange-striction-driven compounds VIDEO / PDF
18:00 - 20:00 -- Event -- Banquet
June 20 (Fri.) 11:00 - 12:00 Takashi Oka
(University of Tokyo)
Photo-induced Tomonaga-Luttinger-like liquid in a one-dimensional Mott insulator VIDEO
13:30 - 14:30 Satoru Nakatsuji
(ISSP, University of Tokyo)
Exotic Freezing Phenomena in Metallic and Insulating Frustrated Magnets VIDEO
June 21 (Sat.) 10:30 - 11:30 Subir Sachdev
(Harvard University)
Hydrodynamic transport near quantum critical points and the AdS/CFT correspondence VIDEO / PDF
12:30 - 18:00 --Event -- Excursion: Visiting Soy-Sauce Capital and Hands-On Experience on Soy-Sauce Making
June 22 (Sun.) ------ ------ ------