Flat Bands: Frustration and Correlation Physics Workshop
Workshop
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When
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All Day
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All Day
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All Day
Where
Flatiron Institute, 162 Fifth Avenue
160 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Wednesday, September 10
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:05 AM | Welcome/ Introduction | |
| 9:05 – 9:55 AM | Hidenori Takagi (MPI for Solid State Research) | Formation of heavy quasi-partcles in the semimetallic spinel oxide LiV2O4 |
| 9:55 – 10:45 AM | Uli Schollwock (LMU) | Tensor networks for real materials |
| 10:45 – 11:15 AM | Break | |
| 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM | Riccardo Comin (MIT) | Interplay of correlations and flat bands in frustrated lattices |
| 12:05 – 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 – 2:50 PM | Ryotaro Arita (University of Tokyo) | Flat-band ferromagnetism in permanent ferromagnets |
| 2:50 – 3:20 PM | Break | |
| 3:20 – 4:10 PM | Andrej Pustogow ( TU Wien) | Topological Flat Bands Boost Thermoelectricity |
| 4:10 – 5:00 PM | Jenny Coulter (CCQ) | Metallic flat-band thermoelectrics: electron-phonon transport from the Boltzmann equation and beyond |
| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Reception |
Thursday, September 11
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:50 AM | Linda Ye (CalTech) | Bi-axial strain tuning of strange metallic state in Ni3In |
| 9:50 – 10:40 AM | Leon Balents (UC Santa Barbara) | Flat bands and quantum geometry |
| 10:40 – 11:10 AM | Break | |
| 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM | Tianping Ying (IOP – CAS) | From Kagome Superconductor to Kagome Kondo Lattice |
| 12:00 – 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 – 2:50 PM | Dumitru Calugaru (University of Oxford) | Flat Bands in M-point Moire Heterostructures and Other Engineered Devices |
| 2:50 – 3:40 PM | Ming Yi (Rice University) | Electronic flat bands in frustrated bulk quantum materials |
| 3:40 – 4:10 PM | Break | |
| 4:10 – 5:00 PM | Hiroshi Kontani (University of Tokyo- Nagoya) | Successive Quantum Phase Transitions and Unconventional Superconductivity in Kagome Metals |
| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Dinner |
Friday, September 12
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:50 AM | Ronny Thomale (University of Wurzburg) | Model building for flat band phenomena |
| 9:50 – 10:40 AM | Santiago Blanco-Canosa (IPCD) | Lattice dynamics of kagome metals |
| 10:40 – 11:10 AM | Break | |
| 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM | Joel Moore (UC Berkeley) | Phase diagrams and non-equilibrium optical effects in ideal interacting flat band materials |
| 12:00 – 12:50 PM | Xavier Roy (Columbia University) | Quantum complexity in a simple material |
| 12:50 – 2:30 PM | Lunch & Departure |
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