Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond’ 25

Paris, France, July 27- August 1, 2025

Program

Sunday, July 27th

Time Event
18:00 – 20:00 Welcome Reception

Monday, July 28th

Time Event
Morning Moiré Quantum Matter
8:30 – 9:00 Light Breakfast
9:00 – 9:35

TBD

Kevin Nuckolls, MIT

9:35 – 10:10

Flat bands and correlations in twisted 2D materials

Carmen Rubio-Verdu, ICFO

10:10 – 10:45

Programming twist angle and strain gradient in two-dimensional materials

Maëlle Kapfer, Paris-Saclay

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:50

The origin of correlated Chern insulators in rhombohedral graphene

Trithep Devakul, Stanford

11:50 – 12:25

Spin-Polarons, Intertwined Orders and Quantum Criticality in Tunable Chern Bands

Debanjan Chowdhury, Cornell

12:25 – 12:35 Group photo
12.35 – 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon New Developments in Correlated Materials
14:00 - 14:35

Symmetry-protected electronic metastability in driven quantum materials

Matteo Mitrano, Harvard

14:35 - 15:10

THz-frequency magnons & chiral phonons in a kagome ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal

Luyi Yang, Tsinghua

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:05

Long-range nontopological edge currents in charge-neutral graphene

Arthur Marguerite, ESPCI

16:05 - 16:40

A new topological monolayer

Qiong Ma, Boston College

20:30 - 22:30 Workshop dinner

Tuesday, July 29th

Time Event
Morning New Concepts in Topological Materials
8:30 - 9:00 Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35

Fractional quantum Hall effect in non-crystalline systems

Adolfo Grushin, CNRS Grenoble

9:35 - 10:10

Thermodynamics of dilute anyon gases from fusion constraints

Hart Goldman, U. Minnesota

10:10 - 10:45

Quantized transport of superconducting fractional quantum Hall edges

Biao Lian, Princeton

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:50

Entanglement renormalization for a chiral edge mode

Adrian Po, HKUST

11:50 - 12:25

Bridging Topological Band Theory and Orbital Symmetry Controlled Reactions via
Green's functions

Lukas Muechler, PSU.

12:25 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Free Time

Wednesday, July 30th

Time Event
Morning Topological Flat Bands
8:30 - 9:00 Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35

Topology and correlation in flat band kagome systems

Min Gu Kang, Seoul National University

9:35 - 10:10

Electronic Flat bands in Layered Electride Materials

Haoxiang Li, HKUST (GZ)

10:10 - 10:45

Quasiparticle Spectroscopy of Chiral Charge Order

Berthold Jack, HKUST

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:50

Electronic nematicity in layered antiferromagnet CoTa3S6

Linda Ye, Caltech

11:50 - 12:25

Composite fermion tunneling at quantum anomalous Hall/superconductor interfaces

Alex Tomson, UC Davis

12:25 - 13:40 Lunch
Afternoon New materials platforms
13:40 - 14:15

Engineering of the Anomalous Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Crystals

Shiming Lei, HKUST

14:15 - 14:50

Large Hall responses in frustrated semimetals

Takashi Kurumaji, Caltech

14:50 - 15:25

Realization of a Spin Glass in a Two-Dimensional van der Waals Material

Banabir Pal, MPI Halle

15:25 - 16:00

Unconventional conventional superconductivity in two dimensions

Joe Falson, Caltech

16:00 - 18:30 Excursion - Champagne Cruise

Thursday, July 31st

Time Event
Morning Quantum Geometry
8:30 - 9:00 Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35

Exciton Berry Phase

Frank Schindler, Imperial College

9:35 - 10:10

Electronic shifts from quantum geometry: Applications to excitons and spin transport

Tobias Holder, Tel Aviv University

10:10 - 10:45

Interaction hierarchies from quantum geometry

Raquel Queiroz, Columbia

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:50

Partial Wannier Bases, Emergent Kondo Lattices, and Optical Probes of Interacting Topological Bands

Martin Claassen, UPenn

11:50 - 12:25

Quantum-geometric dipole: a topological boost to flavor ferromagnetism in flat bands

Valentin Crépel, Flatiron institute

12:25 – 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Chirality in Quantum materials
14:00 - 14:35

What are chiral superconductors good for?

Junyeong Ahn, UT Austin

14:35 - 15:10

Recent Advances in Phonons: From Band Topology to Quasiparticle Chirality

Tiantian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science

15:10 - 16:10

Plenary discussion: the next frontiers of Quantum Materials

David Abergel, Nature Physics

16:10 - 16:40 Discussion for YRLTM’26

Friday, August 1st

Time Event
Morning Novel Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Systems
8:30 - 9:00 Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects and competing quantum phases in twisted MoTe2

Tingxin Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University

9:35 - 10:10

van der Waals nanoreactors

Sanfeng Wu, Princeton

10:10 - 10:45

Non-Majorana origin of anomalous current-phase relation and Josephson diode effect in TI-based Josephson junctions

Denis Bandurin, National University of Singapore

10:45 - 11:00 Concluding remarks and lunch