Moiré Materials Magic Workshop

Workshop

When

  • All Day

  • All Day

  • All Day

Where

160 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor Conference Room

160 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

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.

Wednesday, May 28
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
Thursday, May 29
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
Friday, May 30
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

May 28, 2025

Ashvin Vishwanath: Anyons and Superconductivity in moire’ materials

May 28, 2025

Sid Parameswaran: Textured Exciton Insulators

May 28, 2025

Nicolas Regnault: Moiré and more

May 28, 2025

Erez Berg: Exotic superconductivity in graphene multilayers

May 28, 2025

Dan Parker: Vortexablity: a journey from holomorphic wavefunctions to zero field quantum Hall experiments

May 29, 2025

Mitchell Luskin: Continuum models for moire materials: extended accuracy, phonons, interaction, machine learning

May 29, 2025

Maciej Zworski: WKB structure in a scalar model of flat bands

May 29, 2025

Lin Lin: Many-Body Ground State Manifold for Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

May 29, 2025

Allan MacDonald: The Mathematics and Physics of Moire Materials

May 30, 2025

Trithep Devakul: The counterintuitive consequences of high Berry curvature: new insights from an exactly solvable model

May 30, 2025

Eric Cances: A mathematical perspective on quantum embedding methods
image of fermion systems

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Speakers

Pilar Cossio, Jutta Rogal

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Angel Rubio, Timothy Berkelbach, Jutta Rogal, Ankit Mahajan, Diptarka Hait, + 2 more

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