OCTSCES 2021 Program

OCTSCES 2021 PROGRAM 
(talks are 20 min +10 min for Q&A)

Room 3-180, Kenneth H. Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE


Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Click to download a PDF of the program for Thursday, Friday and Saturday 
(
schedule is subject to change)


See information below for Livestream and Zoom links


 

Thursday,  December 16,  2021

Livestream the Workshop via Zoom Webinar

9:00-9:25 am         

Light breakfast 
Room 3-180, Kenneth H. Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE

9:25-9:30 am   
Welcome from FTPI      

Session 1. Twisted bilayer graphene and related systems – I (A. Chubukov – chair)

9:30-10:00 am         
Correlated states in twisted and buckled  graphene
E. Andrei

10:00-10:30 am         
Correlations, topology, and unconventional superconductivity in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene
A. Yazdani

10:30-11:00 am        
Twisted Bilayer Graphene as a Heavy Fermion Problem at zero and 2 p flux
A. Bernevig (via Zoom)

11:00-11:30 am       
BREAK

11:30 am - 12:00 pm                   
Correlated electrons in twisted bilayer graphene narrow bands
O. Vafek

12:00 - 12:30 pm           
Novel features of small magic angles in twisted bilayer graphene
J. Cano

12:30-2:30 pm       
LUNCH and discussions
McNamara Alumni Center - University Hall
200 Oak Street S.E

Session 2. Twisted bilayer graphene   and related  systems - II   (R. Fernandes – chair)

2:30-3:00 pm            
Correlated electronic states in non-twisted graphene multilayers
L. Levitov

3:00-3:30 pm                             
Exotic superconductivity in graphene multilayers
E. Berg

3:30-4:00 pm                  
Superconductivity in MATBG
A. MacDonald

4:00-4:30 pm         
BREAK

4:30-5:00 pm              
SU(4) symmetry in twisted bilayer graphene - an itinerant perspective   
L. Classen

5:00-5:30 pm                 
Correlated electron physics in Kagome metals
R. Nandkishore

Presentations by FTPI/UMN postdocs (10 min + 5 for discussion)

5:30-5:45 pm       
Phonon-induced rotation of the electronic nematic director in superconducting Bi_2Se_3                               
M. Hecker 

5:45-6:00 pm       
Optical conductivity of a Dirac-Fermi liquid
P. Sharma

6:00 pm
Informal discussions

6:45 pm 
Informal Dinner

Caspian Bistro
2418 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414


Friday, December 17,  2021

Livestream the Workshop via Zoom Webinar

9:00-9:30 am         

Light breakfast 
Room 3-180, Kenneth H. Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE

Session 3.  Strange metals  (A.  Klein – chair)

9:30-10:00 am         
Overview of recent normal state experiments in correlated electron systems
A. Mackenzie   (via Zoom) 

10:00-10:30 am      
Resistivity in a magnetic field and associate properties in the often observed quantum-criticality
C. Varma

10:30-11:00 am                  
Heating and Illuminating Planckian Metals
A. Georges (via Zoom) 

11:00-11:30 am     
BREAK

11:30-Noon                                
Large-N theory of critical Fermi surfaces
I. Esterlis

Noon-12:30 pm                 
Planckian metals  with random interactions
S. Sachdev

12:30-2:30 pm    
LUNCH and discussions

McNamara Alumni Center - University Hall
200 Oak Street S.E

Session 4. More on strange metals    (D. Maslov – chair)

2:30-3:00 pm             
Non-Fermi liquids and the lattice
S. Hartnoll

3:00-3:30 pm 
Strange Metals: general constraints and experimental consequences

T. Senthil (via Zoom)

3:30-4:00 pm  
Order Fractionalization in a family of Kitaev Kondo Models
P. Coleman 

4:00-4:30 pm   BREAK

4:30-5:00 pm 
Pairing, Fibonacci and Duality in Fractional Quantum Hall Fluids
E. Fradkin

5:00-5:30 pm
Quantum Hall transitions: super-universality and dynamical scaling laws
S. Raghu (via Zoom)

5:30-6:00 pm
Boundary criticality of the O(N) model in d = 3 critically revisited
M. Metlitski (via Zoom)

6:00 pm   
Discussions and dinner (on your own) 

Please see our Restaurant Locations Map for ideas on where to eat in the area


Saturday, December 18,  2021

Livestream the Workshop via Zoom Webinar

9:00-9:30 am         

Light breakfast 
Room 3-180, Kenneth H. Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE

Session 5. Strong correlations and Superconductivity  (M. Ye – chair)

9:30-10:00 am         
Hund metal physics:  describing the normal state to understand the superconductivity of the iron 
based superconductors. 
G. Kotliar   (via Zoom) 

10:00 -10:30 am   
 Lessons from the electron-phonon problem at Intermediate Coupling

 S. Kivelson    

10:30-11:00 am       
Pseudospin-triplet superconductivity in CeRh_2As_2
D. Agterberg

11:00-11:30 am       
BREAK

11:30-Noon              
TB or not TB? Contrasting properties of twisted bilayer graphene and alternating twist multilayers

A. Vishwanath (via Zoom)

Noon-12:30 pm        
Mott Physics and Staggered Flux Phases in Twisted WSe2

A. Millis (via Zoom)

12:30-2:30 pm         
LUNCH and discussions
McNamara Alumni Center - University Hall
200 Oak Street S.E

Session 6.  More on strong correlations and superconductivity    (N. Perkins – chair)

2:30-3:00 pm           
Superconductivity from Energy Fluctuations in Dilute Quantum Critical Polar Metals
P. Chandra

3:00-3:30 pm 
Quantum critical Eliashberg theory, SYK superconductivity and their holographic dual
J. Schmalian
         

3:30-4:00 pm 
Symmetry-protected gates of Majorana qubits in a higher-order topological superconductor
Y. Wang
       
  

Presentations by FTPI/UMN postdocs (10 min + 5 for discussion)

4:00-4:15 pm  
Twists and turns of pairing from repulsive dynamical interactions
D. Pimenov 

4:15-4:30 pm      
Dynamic topological phase transition in a superconducting state near a quantum critical point of a metal.
S. Zhang

4:30-4:45 pm       
BREAK
  

Session 7.  Subir @60  (A. Chubukov, D. Maslov chairs) Join Zoom Meeting

4:45-5:45 pm       
Presentations

6:00 pm
Workshop Banquet  (social gathering at 6:00 pm, dinner at 6:30 pm)  

McNamara Alumni Center - Memorial Hall
200 Oak Street S.E

End of the Workshop - Thank you for attending!