
Long-range Interactions and Strong Disorder: In Physics and in Life Workshop
Program
Long-range Interactions and Strong Disorder: In Physics and in Life
May 3-5, 2024
The workshop will be held in Kenneth H. Keller Hall 3-180
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
Quantum Hall stripes: surprising encounter
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
McNamara Alumni Center*
Swain Room
200 Oak Street SE
*Location change
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
Semiconductor Nanocrystals from Discovery to Modern Development
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
Andrey Chubukov
8:30 – 9:10 am
Fractional Chern and fractional topological insulators
Kin Fai Mak
Cornell University
9:10 – 9:50 am
Debye relaxation in superconductors
Boris Spivak
University of Washington
9:50 - 10:30
Giant microwave absorption in a pinned vortex lattice
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
Workshop Location:
The workshop will be held in Keller Hall 3-180 on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
The building can be accessed via the main doors on Washington Avenue and the side doors on Union Street and the Scholars Walk.
Banquet Location:
The banquet for workshop participants will be held on Friday, May 3rd in the Swain Room at the McNamara Alumni Center.
Getting to the University of Minnesota:
Once you land at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP), you have several options you can take to get to the University of Minnesota (UMN).
Taxi services are available at MSP, including Uber and Lyft. It will take approximately 30 - 45 minutes to get to campus depending on traffic and will cost between $25.00 - $60.00. Visit the Ground Transportation page of the MSP website for more information on app-based ride services.
Shuttle service is available from MSP, however the waits can be long and cost may be high at $20.00 - $73.00 depending on whether you share the ride or travel alone. To learn more see the Van and Shuttle service page of the MSP website.
Car rental is not recommended. Parking around campus is limited and expensive.
Local Restaurants:
Please see our Restaurant Locations Map for ideas of where to eat in the area.
Please see our Google Drive folder for photos from the workshop.
This invitation-only workshop is sponsored by the Simons Foundation, through the UMN Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.