The workshop focused on the interplay of mathematics, computation and physics in the theory of Moire materials and featured presentations from leading researchers including participants in the Simons Targeted Grant on Moiré Materials Magic.
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8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 - 9:45 AM Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard) Anyons and Superconductivity in moire' materials 9:45 - 10:30 AM Simon Becker (ETH Zurich) Semiclassical localization with applications to TMDs 10:30 - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 - 11:45 AM Dan Parker (UCSD) Vortexablity: a journey from holomorphic wavefunctions to zero field quantum Hall experiments 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Erez Berg (Weizmann Institute) Exotic superconductivity in graphene multilayers 12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch 1:30 - 2:15 PM Sid Parameswaran (University of Oxford) Textured Exciton Insulators 2:15 - 3:00 PM Guillaume Bal (University of Chicago) Edge transport in topological insulators with application to rhombohedral graphene 3:00 - 3:30 PM Break 3:30 - 4:15 PM Di Xiao (University of Washington) Topological States in Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 4:15 - 5:00 PM Nicolas Regnault ( Princeton & CCQ) Moiré and more 5:00 - 7:30 PM Reception -
8:30 - 9:30 AM Breakfast & Check In 9:30 - 10:20 AM Allan MacDonald (University of Texas) The Mathematics and Physics of Moire Materials 10:20 - 11:00 AM Break /Poster Session #1 11:00 - 11:50 AM Lin Lin (UC Berkeley) Many-Body Ground State Manifold for Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch 1:00 - 1:50 PM Maciej Zworski (UC Berkeley) WKB structure in a scalar model of flat bands 1:50 - 2:30 PM Break /Poster Session #1 2:30 - 3:20 PM Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota) Continuum models for moire materials: extended accuracy, phonons, interaction, machine learning 3:20 - 4:00 PM Break /Poster Session #2 4:00 - 4:50 PM Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard) Twisted multi-layer graphene: a fresh look from ab-initio results and tight-binding models 5:00 - 7:30 PM Dinner -
8:30 - 9:30 AM Breakfast & Check In 9:30 - 10:20 AM Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Berkeley) Mathematics Behind the Hofstadter Butterfly: the robust ten martini problem 10:20 - 11:00 AM Break /Poster Session #2 11:00 - 11:50 AM Trithep Devakul (Stanford University) The counterintuitive consequences of high Berry curvature: new insights from an exactly solvable model 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch 1:00 - 1:50 PM Eric Cances (ENCP) A mathematical perspective on quantum embedding methods 1:50 - 2:00 PM Conclusion 2:30 - 5:00 PM Moiré Group Meeting