A Multicultural Approach to Fractionalization and Electronic Correlations in 2d Materials
from
Monday, 10 August 2026 (09:00)
to
Friday, 28 August 2026 (19:00)
Monday, 10 August 2026
10:30
Moiré excitons: equilibrium or non
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Tessa Cockmeyer
(
UCSB
)
Moiré excitons: equilibrium or non
Tessa Cockmeyer
(
UCSB
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
TBD
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Po-Shen Hsin
(
Imperial College
)
TBD
Po-Shen Hsin
(
Imperial College
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
10:30
Relaxation-driven band topology in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
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Zoe Zhu
(
Boston College
)
Relaxation-driven band topology in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
Zoe Zhu
(
Boston College
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
Solving billion-size topological and correlated super-moire materials with tensor networks
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Jose Lado
(
Aalto University
)
Solving billion-size topological and correlated super-moire materials with tensor networks
Jose Lado
(
Aalto University
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
10:30
Partons and Anyon Superconductivity
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Steve Simon
(
Oxford
)
Partons and Anyon Superconductivity
Steve Simon
(
Oxford
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
Chiral superconductor near a fractional Chern insulator
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Taige Wang
(
Harvard/MIT
)
Chiral superconductor near a fractional Chern insulator
Taige Wang
(
Harvard/MIT
)
11:05 - 11:40
14:00
Coloring in Anyon Superconductivity
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Hart Goldman
(
University of Minnesota
)
Coloring in Anyon Superconductivity
Hart Goldman
(
University of Minnesota
)
14:00 - 14:35
14:35
TBD
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Xueyang Song
(
HKUST
)
TBD
Xueyang Song
(
HKUST
)
14:35 - 15:10
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:50
Thursday, 13 August 2026
10:30
Emergent heavy fermion physics and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene
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Ya-Hui Zhang
(
Johns Hopkins
)
Emergent heavy fermion physics and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene
Ya-Hui Zhang
(
Johns Hopkins
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
Finite-size topology
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Anne Nielsen
(
Aarhus University
)
Finite-size topology
Anne Nielsen
(
Aarhus University
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:50
18:30
Dinner
Dinner
18:30 - 18:50
Friday, 14 August 2026
10:00
Chern Insulator Boundary Criticality
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Benjamin Moy
(
UIUC
)
Chern Insulator Boundary Criticality
Benjamin Moy
(
UIUC
)
10:00 - 10:35
10:35
Rare Regions Win: The Density of States of a Disordered Weyl Semimetal, Exponent and Prefactor
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Justin Wilson
(
Louisiana State University
)
Rare Regions Win: The Density of States of a Disordered Weyl Semimetal, Exponent and Prefactor
Justin Wilson
(
Louisiana State University
)
10:35 - 11:10
Whether the nodal point of a three-dimensional Weyl semimetal survives weak short-range disorder has been genuinely contested: instanton calculations including fluctuations have claimed that the zero-energy density of states ρ(0) vanishes identically, while exact numerics find it finite. I will show how the question is settled within a controlled saddle-point calculation. In a supersymmetric formulation, the saddle obeys a nonlinear Weyl equation, which I solve in its exact hedgehog j = 1/2 form, and then carry out the fluctuation integral about it in full: every zero mode is accounted for — six bosonic against four fermionic — and the reduced superdeterminant is evaluated as a convergent Fredholm determinant. No fermionic zero mode beyond a Kramers doublet survives to annihilate the result. What emerges is the Nandkishore–Huse–Sondhi form with both its exponent and its absolute prefactor, ρ(0) = A w-4 exp(−s*/w2) with s* = 6.4163(2) and A = 27.47(8) for Gaussian-correlated disorder, matching exact single-cone numerics over four orders of magnitude with no fitted parameters. The density of states is therefore nonvanishing at any finite disorder strength, and the semimetal–metal transition is avoided rather than critical.
11:10
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:40
11:40
The long-wavelength correlations of the composite-Fermi surface".
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Prashant Kumar
(
IIT Bombay
)
The long-wavelength correlations of the composite-Fermi surface".
Prashant Kumar
(
IIT Bombay
)
11:40 - 12:15
Saturday, 15 August 2026
Sunday, 16 August 2026
Monday, 17 August 2026
10:30
Zero-Clustering Geometry in Realistic Fractional Quantum Hall Wave Functions
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Zhao Liu
(
Zhejiang University
)
Zero-Clustering Geometry in Realistic Fractional Quantum Hall Wave Functions
Zhao Liu
(
Zhejiang University
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
TBD
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Dan Mao
(
University of Zurich
)
TBD
Dan Mao
(
University of Zurich
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:35
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
10:30
TBD
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Dan Parker
(
UCSD
)
TBD
Dan Parker
(
UCSD
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
“Exploring correlation physics in M-Point moire materials
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Sid Parameswaran
(
University of Oxford
)
“Exploring correlation physics in M-Point moire materials
Sid Parameswaran
(
University of Oxford
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:35
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
10:30
TBD
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Oscar Vafek
(
University of Minnesota
)
TBD
Oscar Vafek
(
University of Minnesota
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
TBD
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Patrick Ledwith
(
MIT
)
TBD
Patrick Ledwith
(
MIT
)
11:05 - 11:40
14:00
Skyrmion Fractional Chern Insulators
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Trithep Devakul
(
Stanford University
)
Skyrmion Fractional Chern Insulators
Trithep Devakul
(
Stanford University
)
14:00 - 14:35
14:35
Many Crystals in Rhombohedral Graphene
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Ahmed Abouelkomsan
(
MIT
)
Many Crystals in Rhombohedral Graphene
Ahmed Abouelkomsan
(
MIT
)
14:35 - 15:10
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:50
Thursday, 20 August 2026
10:30
TBD
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David Mross
(
Weizmann Institute of Science
)
TBD
David Mross
(
Weizmann Institute of Science
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
TBD
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Hao-Ran Cui
(
University of Minnesota
)
TBD
Hao-Ran Cui
(
University of Minnesota
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:35
Friday, 21 August 2026
10:30
Ground-state search as an optimization problem
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Andre Fonseca
(
MIT
)
Ground-state search as an optimization problem
Andre Fonseca
(
MIT
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:25
11:30
Anyon binding at impurities
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Glenn Wagner
(
ETH Zurich
)
Anyon binding at impurities
Glenn Wagner
(
ETH Zurich
)
11:30 - 12:05
Saturday, 22 August 2026
Sunday, 23 August 2026
Monday, 24 August 2026
10:30
Fractionalization all around: fermions, bosons, and cavities
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Raul Perea-Causin
(
Nordita
)
Fractionalization all around: fermions, bosons, and cavities
Raul Perea-Causin
(
Nordita
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
Mapping the quantum limits of classical simulatability
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Leyna Shakleton
(
MIT
)
Mapping the quantum limits of classical simulatability
Leyna Shakleton
(
MIT
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:35
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
10:30
Long-lived modes and hydrodynamic transport in interaction-dominated Fermi liquids
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Johannes Hofmann
(
University of Gothenburg
)
Long-lived modes and hydrodynamic transport in interaction-dominated Fermi liquids
Johannes Hofmann
(
University of Gothenburg
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
TBD
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Dam Son
(
University of Chicago
)
TBD
Dam Son
(
University of Chicago
)
11:05 - 11:40
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:35
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
10:30
Symmetric quantum phase in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice
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Nick Bultnick
(
Ghent University
)
Symmetric quantum phase in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice
Nick Bultnick
(
Ghent University
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
TBD
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Tomo Soejima
(
NYU/Flatiron
)
TBD
Tomo Soejima
(
NYU/Flatiron
)
11:05 - 11:40
14:00
New insights on 2D chiral many body states from Coulomb gases
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Inti Sodeman
(
Leipzig University
)
New insights on 2D chiral many body states from Coulomb gases
Inti Sodeman
(
Leipzig University
)
14:00 - 14:35
14:35
TBD
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Hui Liu
(
Stockholm University
)
TBD
Hui Liu
(
Stockholm University
)
14:35 - 15:10
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:35
Thursday, 27 August 2026
10:30
TBD
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Bo Yang
(
NTU
)
TBD
Bo Yang
(
NTU
)
10:30 - 11:05
11:05
TBD
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Annica Black-Shaffer
(
Uppsala University
)
TBD
Annica Black-Shaffer
(
Uppsala University
)
11:05 - 11:40
14:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:30 - 14:50
15:15
(Special) AlbaNova Colloquium: The emergent "graviton" in the fractional quantum Hall effect
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Dam Son
(
University of Chicago
)
(Special) AlbaNova Colloquium: The emergent "graviton" in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Dam Son
(
University of Chicago
)
15:15 - 16:15
In fractional quantum Hall states, electrons self-organize into a strongly interacting fluid with nontrivial emergent properties. It has recently been understood that fractional quantum Hall fluids accommodate one or several spin-2 excitations, which have been argued to be condensed-matter analogues of the graviton. In this talk we will review the origin of the idea of the graviton and the basic physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect. We then discuss a recent experiment claiming observation of a graviton-like mode in fractional quantum Hall effect and its broader implications.
Friday, 28 August 2026
10:00
No Talks
No Talks
10:00 - 18:00