
March Meeting 2024 Workshop
This invitation-only workshop will review most active topics in modern day experimental and theoretical condensed matter research. The workshop is sponsored by the Simons Foundation, through the UMN William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.
Please see our Google folder for images from the "FTPI March Meeting."
"FTPI March Meeting"
March 1 - 3, 2024
Friday, 3/1 ~ Saturday, 3/2 ~ Sunday, 3/3
Friday, March 1st
AM session. Correlated electron systems
A. Chubukov - chair
8:45-9:00
Light breakfast
9:00-9:40
“The role of disorder in the theory of strange metals”
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
9:40-10:20
“Next-generation two-dimensional quantum liquids”
Erez Berg
Weizmann Institute of Science
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:30
“The two-dimensional electron gas: A nearly frozen quantum liquid”
Ilya Esterlis
University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:30-12:10
“Exciton mechanism for superconductivity in multilayer 2d materials”
Valentin Crépel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:10-13.40 Lunch Break (on your own)
Please see this link to Google maps for lunch ideas.
PM session. Quantum magnetism
N. Perkins –chair
13.40-14:20
“Fractionalization in synthetic quantum matter”
Simon Trebst
University of Cologne
14:20-15:00
“Dynamics of quantum spin systems”
Cristian Batista
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:10
“Thermal and electrical Hall conductivity in magnets”
Lucile Savary
CNRS, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
16:10-16:50
“Field theory of non-collinear antiferromagnets”
Oleg Tchernyshyov
Johns Hopkins University
16:50-17:30
“Altermagnetism in correlated and topological matter”
Rafael Fernandes
University of Minnesota
18:00-20:30
Workshop Banquet
Campus Club on the 4th floor of Coffman Memorial Union
300 Washington Ave SE
18:00 - Reception in the Lounge Corridor (adjacent to the Terrace)
18:30 - Seated dinner in the A,B,C conference rooms
Friday, 3/1 ~ Saturday, 3/2 ~ Sunday, 3/3
Saturday, March 2nd
AM session. Topology
A. Kamenev – chair
8:45-9:00
Light breakfast
9:00:9:40
“Majorana physics with charge conservation”
Ivar Martin
Argonne National Laboratory
9:40-10:20
“Quantum geometric origin of capacitance in insulators”
Raquel Queiroz
Columbia University
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:30
“Recent developments in constrained many body physics: new phases and slow dynamics”
Ethan Lake
University of California, Berkeley
11:30-12:10
"Learnability phase transitions"
Romain Vasseur
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
12:10-13.40 Lunch Break (on your own)
Please see this link to Google maps for lunch ideas.
PM session. Quantum transport
A. Levchenko – chair
13.40-14:20
“Microwave and Transport Spectroscopy of the Schmid Transition”
Leonid Glazman
Yale University
14:20-15:00
“Linear and nonlinear magnetotransport on a topological edge”
Dmytro (Dima) Pesin
University of Virginia
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:10
“Sigma model for a dirty Planckian metal: Interference, superconductivity, and shot noise”
Matthew Foster
Rice University
16:10-16:50
“Anyons in low-dimensional electron systems”
Michael Manfra
Purdue University
16:50-17:30
“Critical Matter”
Leo Radzihovsky
University of Colorado, Boulder
Friday, 3/1 ~ Saturday, 3/2 ~ Sunday, 3/3
Sunday, March 3rd
AM session. Moire systems
R. Fernandes – chair
8:45-9:00
Light breakfast
9:00:9:40
“Twisted Bilayer Graphene as a Heavy Fermion System”
B. Andrei Bernevig
Princeton University
9:40-10:20
“Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene Multilayers”
Steven Simon
University of Oxford
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:30
“Disorder and Prospects for Control of Van der Waals Moire Structure”
David Goldhaber-Gordon
Stanford University
11:30-12:10
“(Fractional) Quantum Anomalous Hall effect in moire graphene structures”
Senthil Todadri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:10-13.40 Lunch Break (on your own)
Please see this link to Google maps for lunch ideas.
PM session. Topology and Superconductivity
A. Levchenko – chair
13.40-14:20
“Topology, fractionalization and energy gap”
Liang Fu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:20-15:00
“A overview of open Floquet systems”
Inti Sodemann
University of Leipzig
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:10
“Debye mechanism of dissipation in superconductors”
Anton Andreev
University of Washington
16:10-16:50
“The Superconducting State of UTe2”
Johnpierre Paglione
University of Maryland

Rafael Fernandes
University of Minnesota
CNRS, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Oleg Tchernyshyov
Johns Hopkins University
Speakers
Lodging for non-local invited speakers will be provided by the workshop sponsors at the Graduate Minneapolis (room and tax only). Information regarding details of hotel arrangements will be sent via e-mail to each participant of the workshop after registration. Please DO NOT contact the hotel to update reservations; contact the email address below for any changes that need to be made.
Associates of workshop speakers
There is a courtesy block at the Days Inn University for postdocs/grad students to reserve and pay for their lodging at the UMN discounted rate. You will be contacted after registration with information on how to book your reservation.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions by e-mail at [email protected].

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, March 1st in the Campus Club A,B,C conference room.
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).
The Metro Transit Light Rail is the most efficient and cost effective mode of travel. It will cost $2.00 or $2.50 (rush hours) for a one-way ticket. The trains run every 10 - 15 minutes on weekdays and will get you to the UMN campus in about 30 minutes. From MSP, take the Blue Line north to US Bank Station. From there you will transfer to the Green Line and take that east to East Bank Station or Stadium Village Station. Find more information on the Light Rail Transit page of the MSP website.
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.
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.
Car rental is not recommended. Parking around campus is limited and can be expensive.
Local Restaurants:
Please see our Restaurant Locations Map for ideas on where to eat in the area.