Nordita Winter School 2018 in Condensed Matter Physics

Daily Program

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NORDITA WINTERSCHOOL 2018
Schedule

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All lectures will be in seminar room FA32 in the AlbaNova main building.

Week 1	Monday Jan 22	Tuesday Jan 23	Wednesday Jan 24	Thursday Jan 25	Friday Jan 26
9:30 – 10:30	Wen	Polkovnikov	Balatsky	Jagannathan	Hansson
11:00 – 12:00	Polkovnikov	Jagannathan	Jagannathan	Hansson	Wen
14:00 – 15:00	Balatsky	Wen	Hansson	Balatsky	Balatsky
15:30 – 16:30	Polkovnikov	Polkovnikov	Wen	Hansson	Jagannathan
				School Dinner

Week 2	Monday Jan 29	Tuesday Jan 30	Wednesday Jan 31	Thursday Feb 1	Friday Feb 2
9:30 – 10:30	Schmalian	Goriely	Schmalian	Vella	Bernevig
11:00 – 12:00	Goriely	Schmalian	Schmalian	Vella	Bernevig
14:00 – 15:00	Schmalian	Goriely	Vella	Bernevig	Bernevig
15:30 – 16:30	Juričić	Juričić	Juričić	Goriely 15.15 - 16.15 AlbaNova Colloquium	Vella
		16:45 – 18:45 Poster session		17:00 – 18:00 3 selected talks from best posters: 3 x 20 min

HARD CONDENSED MATTER

• Alexander Balatsky (Nordita)
  Unconventional superconductivity: topological, odd frequency and AdS
• Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University)
  Topological states of matter
• Hans Hansson (Nordita and Stockholm University)
  Fermi and Luttinger liquids
• Anuradha Jagannathan (Universite Paris-Sud)
  Electronic properties of aperiodic solids
  • Introduction to aperiodic structures and their physical properties
  • Models of non-interacting electrons - multifractal spectra and states in one dimension
  • Single electron models in two dimensional quasicrystals
  • Interaction-induced phenomena - magnetism and superconductivity
• Vladimir Juričić (Nordita)
  Introduction to quantum phase transitions
• Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University)
  Non-adiabatic response and geometry
  • Motion in the moving frame
  • Gauge potentials as generators of adiabatic transformations
  • Hall type response and inertia
  • Counter-diabatic driving
• Jörg Schmalian (TKM, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Superconductivity
• Hai Hu Wen (Nanjing University)
  Iron based superconductors: physics and materials
  • Materials, structures and magnetism
  • Band structure, multiband and multigap
  • Order parameter and pairing mechanism
  • Recent development: nematcity, BEC/BCS crossover and possible QCP

SOFT CONDENSED MATTER

• Alain Goriely (Oxford University)
  Physical Modelling of the Brain (from Axons to Skull, from Birth till Death)
• Dominic Vella (Oxford University)
  Buckle, wrinkle and snap: the many faces of elastica
  • Lecture 1: Snap, crack and pop: What can toys teach us about mechanics?
  • Lecture 2: Ironing out the wrinkles: static deformations
  • Lecture 3: Dynamics of instability