Preliminary Program
Long-range Interactions and Strong Disorder: In Physics and in Life
May 3-5, 2024
Friday, 5/3 ~ Saturday, 5/4 ~ Sunday, 5/5
Friday, May 3rd
AM Session Chair
Brian Skinner
9:00 – 9:10 am
Welcome
9:10 – 10:10 am
Quantum makes the difference
Klaus von Klitzing
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
10:10 -10:50 am
Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 am
Anyon braiding in graphene quantum Hall interferometer
Philip Kim
Harvard University
11:30-12:10 pm
TBA
Michael Zudov
University of Minnesota
12:10 – 2:00 pm
Lunch break (on your own)
PM Session
Chair
Alex Kamenev
2:00 – 2:40 pm
Theory of Anomalous Hall Effects in TMD Homobilayer Moiré Materials
Allan MacDonald
University of Texas at Austin
2:40 – 3:20 pm
Seeing phonons with quantum twisting microscope
Leonid Glazman
Yale University
3:20 – 3:50 pm
Coffee break
3:50 – 4:30 pm
Multi-moiré magic
Aviram Uri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:30 – 5:10 pm
Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature
Brian Skinner
The Ohio State University
5:30 pm
Banquet
Campus Club ABC rooms
Coffman Memorial Union
300 Washington Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Friday, 5/3 ~ Saturday, 5/4 ~ Sunday, 5/5
Saturday, May 4th
AM Session Chair
Michael Fogler
9:00 – 9:40 am
Universal relations between energy gap, dielectric constant and topology
Liang Fu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:40 – 10:20 am
Fundamental spatial scales for charge transport and recombination in disordered semiconductors
Sergei Baranovskii
Philipps-Universität Marburg
10:20 – 10:50 am
Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 am
Time, momentum, and energy resolved pump-probe tunneling spectroscopy of 2D electron systems
Raymond Ashoori
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:30 – 12:10 pm
Understanding Disorder in TMD Monolayers
Yi Huang
University of Maryland
12:10 – 2:00 pm
Lunch break (on your own)
PM Session Chair
TBD
2:00 – 2:40 pm
Coulomb gap in disordered 1D systems
Michael Fogler
University of California, San Diego
2:40 – 3:20 pm
Chemical Control of Photoluminescence in CdSe Nanoplatelets
Alexander Efros
Naval Research Laboratory
3:20 – 3:50 pm
Coffee break
3:50 – 4:30 pm
From neurons to Newton: The evolution of brains and physics
Alexei Koulakov
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
4:30 – 5:10 pm
What does the neuron do? A controller model for Neuroscience and AI
Mitya Chklovskii
Flatiron Institute and NYU
Friday, 5/3 ~ Saturday, 5/4 ~ Sunday, 5/5
Sunday, May 5th
AM Session Chair
TBD
8:30 – 9:10 am
Electron-hole bilayers for exciton condensates and trion Fermi liquids
Kin Fai Mak
Cornell University
9:10 – 9:50 am
Debye relaxation in superconductors
Boris Spivak
University of Washington
9:50 - 10:30
Hydrodynamic electron transport near charge neutrality
Anton Andreev
University of Washington
10:30 – 11:00 am
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40 am
Long-range exchange interaction in excitons: from optics to transport
Mikhail Glazov
Ioffe Institute
11:40 – 12:20 pm
Coulomb Physics with Neutral Particles
Alexander Grosberg
New York University
