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Program

Following the ICAM tradition, each speaker must save 1/3rd of their allotted time for questions and discussion.
Sunday, Jan 13th, 2019
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome Reception (For invited speakers and ICAM representatives only)
Monday, Jan 14th, 2019
08:20 – 08:50 Registration
08:50 – 09:00 Directors Introduction
(Piers Coleman, Rajiv Singh, Chong-Sun Chu)
  Frontiers in Biological and Soft Matter (Chair: Piers Coleman)
09:00 – 10:00 Naomi Halas Nanomaterials and Light for Sustainability and Societal Impact
10:00 – 10:30 Break time
10:30 – 11:30 Fu-Tong Liu Cytosolic galectins as sensors for endo-lysosomal damage
11:30 – 12:15 Karine Guevorkian Polymerization and growth in biological systems
12:15 – 13:00 Costantino Creton A molecular picture of fracture of elastomers
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
  Frontiers in Biological and Soft Matter (Chair: Rajiv Singh)
14:30 – 15:30 David Schwab “Renormalizing Data”
15:30 – 16:00 Round table discussion on emergence, machine learning and the future!
16:00 – 16:30 Break time
16:30 – 18:00 Special Public Lecture(Chair: Chong-Sun Chu):
Title: Topological quantum matter, entanglement and the second quantum revolution
Speaker: F. Duncan M. Haldane (2016 Nobel Prize)
18:30 - TBD Dinner in Hall of Fame (清華名人堂)
Tuesday, Jan 15th, 2019
08:30 – 09:30 ICAM Board of Governors Meeting
(Venue: NCTS Lecture Room A, 4F of General Building III, NTHU)
09:30 – 10:30 ICAM Science Steering Committee: Policy and Directions
(Venue: NCTS Lecture Room A, 4F of General Building III, NTHU)
10:30 – 11:00 Break time
  David Pines Legacy in Physics (Chair: James Allen)
11:00 – 11:30 David Campbell A Moveable Feast of the Mind: Five Decades with David Pines
11:30 – 12:00 Piers Coleman David Pines, Pioneer par excellance in Quantum Many Body Physics
12:30 – 13:00 Laura Greene DP Beyond Correlations: Pioneering in Science Diplomacy and Public Engagement
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
  Frontiers of Quantum Matter (Chair: Silke Buehler-Paschen)
14:30 – 15:15 Yuji Matsuda Majorana fermions and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a quantum spin liquid
15:15 – 16:00 Henri Alloul Correlated quantum matter: Mott transition, unconventional superconductivity,... charge order
16:00 – 16:30 Discussion
16:30 – 17:00 Break time
17:00 – 18:00 Women in Physics in 2019: Towards the next generation of Nobel Laureates. Laura Greene, Eva Andrei, Silke Buehler-Paschen, Liling Sun, Suchitra Sebastian, Naomi Halas, Karine Guevorkian, David Campbell + representative from Taiwan
18:30 - TBD ICAM Dinner (by invitation only)
 









































































 
Wednesday, Jan 16th, 2019
  NCTS Frontiers Meeting in Quantum Matter: Plenary session
(Chair: Suchitra Sebastian)
09:00 – 10:00 Paul Canfield Synthesis as the heart of New Materials Physics
10:00 – 10:30 Break time
10:30 – 11:30 Duncan Haldane Emergent metric of flux attachment in the fractional quantum Hall effect
11:30 – 12:30 Eva Andrei Twist stretch and poke – transforming the band structure of 2D materials by non-chemical means
12:30 – 13:00 Break
13:00 – Excursion and NCTS Banquet (by invitation only)
Thursday, Jan 17th, 2019
  Correlation and Superconductivity in d- and f- Electron Systems I.
(Chair: Henri Alloul)
09:00 – 09:40 John Tranquada From Pseudogaps to Pair-Density Waves in Cuprate Superconductors
09:40 – 10:20 Maw-Kuen Wu Role of Fe-vacancy in FeSe and Related Superconductors
10:20 – 10:40 Break time
  Correlation and Superconductivity in d- and f- Electron Systems I.
(Chair: Alexei Tsvelik)
10:40 – 11:20 Ting-Kuo Lee Evolution of pairing order between superconducting and pseudogap phases of copper oxide superconductors
11:20 – 12:00 Christos Panagopoulos Emergent Superconductivity in Low Dimensions
12:00 – 15:00 Lunch and Poster Session
  Correlation and Superconductivity in d- and f- Electron Systems II.
(Chair: Chung-Yu Mou)
15:00 – 15:40 Xi Dai Chiral magnetic effect and collective modes in topological semimetals
15:40 – 16:20 Suchitra Sebastian Fermi surfaces in Kondo Insulators
16:20 – 16:40 Break time
  Novel Many-body Physics in Synthetic Quantum Systems
(Chair: Sungkit Yip)
16:40 – 17:20 Stefan Kirchner Correlation, localization, and liquid phases in models of annealed disorder
 
17:20 – 18:00 Meera Parish Dynamics of quantum impurities
Friday, Jan 18th, 2019
  Kondo Physics and Heavy-fermions (Chair:        Natan Andrei)
09:00 – 09:40  Silke Paschen Weyl-Kondo semimetal behavior in Ce3Bi4Pd3
09:40 – 10:20 Joe Thompson Unexpected Anisotropies in the Ce115s
10:20 – 11:00 Alexei Tsvelik Physics of Arbitrary Doped Kondo Lattices: from a Commensurate Insulator to a Heavy Luttinger Liquid and a Protected Helical Metal
11:00 – 11:20 Break time
  Frustrated magnets (Chair: Chung-Hou Chung)
11:20 – 12:00 Collin Broholm Frustrated Magnetism in Mott Insulating (V1-xCrx)2O3
12:00 – 12:40 Nic Shannon A Hitchiker's Guide to Frustrated Magnets
12:40 – 14:10 Lunch
  Topological quantum matter (Chair: Guang-Yu Guo)
14:10 – 14:50 Liling Sun Phenomena and physics related to superconductivity observed in our recent high pressure studies
14:50 – 15:30 Qian Niu General relativity of Bloch electrons
15:30 – 15:50 Break time
15:50 – 16:30 Alix McCollam Phase transition from composite fermion liquid to Wigner solid in the lowest Landau level of MgZnO/ZnO
16:30 – 16:40 Closing remarks