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Moiré Materials Workshop 2026

Workshop

Computational Quantum Physics

When

May 11, 2026
All Day
May 12, 2026
All Day
May 13, 2026
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.

Monday, May 11

8:00 – 9:00 AM	Breakfast & Check In
9:00 – 9:40 AM	Philip Kim (Harvard University)	Superconducting in Two Dimensional van der Waals Quasicrystals, Ta1.6Te
9:40 – 10:20 AM	Xiaodong Xu (University of Washington)	Observation of fractional charges via anyon-trions
10:20 – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 – 11:10 AM	Senthil Todadri (MIT)	Doping fractional quantum anomalous Hall insulators to zero field quantum Hall experiments
11:10 – 11:50 AM	Dmitri Efetov (LMU München)	Cumulative Phase Diagram of Twisted Bilayer Graphene from Multi-Device Analysis
11:50 AM – 12:30 PM	Emanuel Tutuc (University of Texas at Austin)	Beyond the Single Moiré: Independently Tunable Flat Bands in a Double Moiré System
12:30 – 2:00 PM	Lunch & Poster Session
2:00 – 2:40 PM	Maciej Zworski (Berkeley)	Mathematics of periodic band inversion
2:40 – 3:20 PM	Eslam Khalef (Harvard University)	Dynamics of dispersing anyons in moiré flat bands: emergent phases and microscopic origin
3:20 – 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 – 4:10 PM	Tomohiro Soejima (CCQ, NYU)	Topological crystals in two-dimensional materials
4:10 – 4:50 PM	Zoe Zhu (Boston College)	Relaxation-driven flat bands and topology in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
4:50 – 5:30 PM	Jed Pixley (Rutgers University)	A “critical” take on the magic-angle in twisted bilayer graphene
5:30 – 7:00 PM	Reception & Poster Session

Tuesday, May 12

8:00 – 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 AM	Shiwei Zhang (CCQ)	Many-body computation of interacting electrons in 2D: connecting theory, experiment, and mathematics
9:40 – 10:20 AM	Eric Cances (Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech)	Mathematical and numerical analysis of DFT models: from molecules to moiré materials
10:20 – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 – 11:10 AM	Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard University)	Electronic states in twisted bilayer graphene from first principles and implications for correlated-electron behavior
11:10 – 11:50 AM	Lin Lin (Berkeley)	Ab initio quantum embedding description of interacting magic angle twisted bilayer graphene
11:50 AM – 12:30 PM	Päivi Törmä (Aalto University)	Quantum Geometric aspects of superconductivity in layered 2D flat-band materials
12:30 – 2:00 PM	Lunch & Poster Session
2:40 – 3:20 PM	Vieri Mastropietro (Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza)	Incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene: Emerging quasiperiodicity and stability
3:20 – 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 – 4:10 PM	Alex Watson (University of Minnesota)	Moiré materials in the continuum limit
4:10 – 4:50 PM	Hui Deng (University of Michigan)
4:50 – 5:30 PM	Leo Li (University of Texas at Austin)	Charge Crystalline Order as a Platform for Quantum Hall and Superconducting Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene

Wednesday, May 13

8:00 – 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:40 AM	Zhi-Da Song (Peking University)	Pairing and Topology in Flat Bands
9:40 – 10:20 AM	Vladimir Fal’ko (University of Manchester)	Moire structures in van der Waals ferroelectrics
10:20 – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 – 11:10 AM	Tobias Wolf (University of Texas at Austin)	Rhombohedral graphene multilayers as a non-moiré platform for moiré correlated physics
11:10 – 11:50 AM	Rebeca Ribeiro (University of Paris-Saclay)	Twist-Angle-Controlled Anomalous Gating in Bilayer Graphene/BN Heterostructures
11:50 AM – 12:30 PM	Ivar Martin (University of Chicago)	Soft moiré matter
12:30 – 2:00 PM	Lunch & Poster Session

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