Agenda

Winter School Agenda

Monday, November 10th

Time	School	Location
8:00 - 8:50 am	Breakfast and registration	5th Floor O'Connor
8:50 - 9:00 am	Opening remarks	5th Floor O'Connor
9:00 - 10:00 am	Lucas Caretta (Brown University) – “Synthesis and Characterization of Thin Films Grown via Pulsed Laser Deposition”	5th Floor O'Connor
10:00 - 10:30 am	Coffee break/Discussion	5th Floor O'Connor
10:30 - 11:30 am	Linda Ye ( Caltech) – “Chemical Vapor Transport Growth of Quantum Materials”	5th Floor O'Connor
11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Poster and lunch	5th Floor O'Connor
1:30 - 2:30 pm	Bharat Jalan (University of Minnesota) – “Art and Science of Quantum Materials Synthesis”	5th Floor O'Connor
2:45 - 3:45 pm	Practical Session 1	5th Floor O'Connor
4:00 - 5:00 pm	Practical Session 2	5th Floor O'Connor

Tuesday, November 11th

Time	School	Location
8:15 - 9:00 am	Breakfast	5th Floor O'Connor
9:00 - 10:00 am	Ruijuan Xu (North Carolina State University) – “Quantum Material Synthesis via Pulsed Laser Deposition”	5th Floor O'Connor
10:00 - 10:30 am	Coffee break/Discussion	5th Floor O'Connor
10:30 - 11:30 am	Practical Session 3	5th Floor O'Connor
11:45 am - 12:00 pm	Group Photo	5th Floor O'Connor
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch	5th Floor O'Connor
2:00 - 3:00 pm	Practical Session 4	5th Floor O'Connor
3:15 - 4:15 pm	Practical Session 5	5th Floor O'Connor
4:30 - 5:30 pm	Päivi Törmä (Aalto U.) – “Quantum Geometry and Superconductivity”	5th Floor O'Connor

Wednesday, November 12th

Time	School	Location
8:15 - 9:00 am	Breakfast	5th Floor O'Connor
9:00 - 10:00 am	Nirmal J. Ghimire (University of Notre Dame) – “Single Crystal Growth of Quantum Materials by Molten-metal Flux Method”	5th Floor O'Connor
10:00 - 10:30 am	Coffee break/Discussion	5th Floor O'Connor
10:30 - 11:30 am	Panel Discussion – Quantum Materials Synthesis in the Modern Era	5th Floor O'Connor
11:30 - 11:45 am	Closing remarks	5th Floor O'Connor

Wednesday, November 12th

Time	Event	Location
12:00 - 1:50 pm	Lunch and registration	5th Floor O'Connor
1:50 - 2:00 pm	Opening remarks	5th Floor O'Connor
2:00 - 2:50 pm	Päivi Törmä (Aalto U.) -- “Quantum Geometry and Superconductivity: non-equilibrium transport, relevance to graphene-based materials, and effects of nearest-neighbor pairing”	5th Floor O'Connor
2:50 - 3:40 pm	Long Ju (MIT) – “Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Chiral Superconductivity in Graphene”	5th Floor O'Connor
3:40 - 4:10 pm	Coffee break	5th Floor O'Connor
4:10 - 5:00 pm	Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice U.) – Dynamic correlations in twisted MoTe2: Non-perturbative renormalization group and interacting band topology	5th Floor O'Connor
6:00 - 8:30 pm	Reception at the InterContinental Hotel (Invitation Only)

Thursday, November 13th

Location: 5th Floor O'Connor

Time	Event	Location
8:00 - 9:00 am	Breakfast	5th Floor O'Connor
9:00 - 9:50 am	Abhay Pasupathy (Columbia U.) – “Bound States in Geometrically Frustrated Lattices”	5th Floor O'Connor
9:50 - 10:40 am	Qiong Ma (Boston College) - "Quantum Geometric Light-Matter Interactions in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials"	5th Floor O'Connor
10:40 - 11:10 am	Coffee break	5th Floor O'Connor
11:10 am - 12:00 pm	Marc Bockrath (Ohio State University) – “Quantum Geometry and Flat Band Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene”	5th Floor O'Connor
12:00 - 12:10 pm	Group Photo	5th Floor O'Connor
12:10 - 2:00 pm	Lunch and Poster Session	5th Floor O'Connor
2:00 - 2:50 pm	Fan Zhang (UT Dallas) – “Quarter-Metal Superconductivity in Rhombohedral Graphene”	5th Floor O'Connor
2:50 - 3:40 pm	Bruno Uchoa (U. of Oklahoma) – “Topological excitons in flat bands with non-trivial quantum geometry”	5th Floor O'Connor
3:40 - 4:10 pm	Coffee break	5th Floor O'Connor
4:10 - 5:00 pm	Andrei Bernevig (Princeton U.) – “Quantum Geometry Beyond Toy Models: superconductors and materials with a high electron phonon coupling”	5th Floor O'Connor
5:00 - 6:00 pm	Panel Discussion: Quantum Geometry: from theoretical predictions to novel experimental probes	5th Floor O'Connor
6:30 - 8:30 pm	Banquet (Invitation Only)

Friday, November 14th

Location: 5th Floor O'Connor

Time	Event	Location
8:00 - 9:00 am	Breakfast	5th Floor O'Connor
9:00 - 9:50 am	Philip Kim (Harvard U.) – “Probing the Quantum Geometry of 2D Materials Using Microwave Reflectometry”	5th Floor O'Connor
9:50 - 10:40 am	Raquel Queiroz (Columbia University) – “Cell Natural Orbitals: How to use quantum geometry to write low energy models”	5th Floor O'Connor
10:40 - 11:10 am	Coffee break	5th Floor O'Connor
11:10 am - 12:00 pm	Liang Wu (U. Penn) – “Observation of magnetically switchable quantum geometric photocurrents”	5th Floor O'Connor
12:00 - 12:10 pm	Closing remarks	5th Floor O'Connor
12:10 - 2:00 pm	Lunch	5th Floor O'Connor
2:00 - 3:30 pm	Shared Equipment Authority tours (optional)	TBA
4:00 pm	Open tab at Valhalla	Valhalla