Flat bands and high-order Van Hove singularities

Intercontinental Binodal Workshop
27 May - 7 June 2024

Workshop week: 27 May to 31 May
Seminar week: 3 June to 7 June

Band engineering effectively increasing interaction effects holds the promise for a better understanding and eventual control over quantum many-body states of matter. This can be achieved in various ways, e.g., by globally reducing the bandwidth, by locally inducing high-order Van Hove points, or by designing lattice geometries which yield flat bands. Recently, there has been a surge in applications ranging from prominent solid-state systems such as cuprates or ruthenates over superconducting vanadates to moiré materials and semiconductors. Therefore, a broad community of mathematical, theoretical, and experimental physicists is interested in this topic and its outstanding challenges. The workshop aims at bringing together these physicists from different backgrounds to foster exchange and ignite collaborations on flat bands and high-order Van Hove singularities.

Format

The event will be held in a novel format, with participants attending from two nodes, one in Europe (Dresden, Germany) and one in Asia (Daejeon, Korea). Interested participants are encouraged to attend from the geographically closer node, considering the environmental footprint (see at the bottom of the page for application links).

Topics include

  • Van-Hove-like singularities

  • Lifshitz transition

  • Flat bands

  • Symmetry and Topology

  • Quantum geometry

  • Fractional Chern insulators

  • Fractional topological insulators

  • Strongly correlated materials

  • Cuprates

  • Ruthenates

  • Vanadates

  • Moiré materials

  • Graphene

  • Electronic instabilities

  • Many-body physics

Confirmed invited speakers (Dresden node)

Eva Andrei (US)
Andrei Bernevig (US)
Elena Bascones (ES)
Anirudh Chandrasekaran (UK)
Andrey Chubukov (US) 
Dmitry Efetov (DE) 
Dmitriy Efremov (DE)
Vladimir Falko (UK)
Claudia Felser (DE)
Liang Fu (US) 
Mark Greenaway (UK)
Francisco Guinea (ES) 
Clifford Hicks (UK) 
Nick Hine (UK) 
Shahal Ilani (IL) 
Atac Imamoglu (CH)
Phil King (UK) 
Andrew Mackenzie  (DE)
Walter Metzner (DE) 
Christopher Mudry (CH)
Rahul Nandkishore (US) 
Titus Neupert (CH)
Raquel Queiroz (US) 
Andreas Rost (UK)
Nicolas Regnault (FR)
Manfred Salmhofer (DE)
Michael Scherer (DE)
Jörg Schmalian (DE)
Andreas Schnyder (DE)
Ronny Thomale (DE) 
Peter Wahl (UK)
Thomas Weitz (DE)
Stephen Wilson (US)
Xiaodong Xu (US) 
Ali Yazdani (US) 
Gertrud Zwicknagl (DE)

 

Confirmed invited speakers (Daejeon node)

Alexei Andreanov (KR)
Gil Young Cho (KR)
Xi Dai (HK)
Carlo Danieli (IT)
Jeil Jung (KR)
Mikito Koshino (JP)
Vic K T Law (HK)
Pilkyung Moon (CN)
Tomoki Ozawa (JP)
Moon Jip Park (KR)
Jun-Won Rhim (KR)
Auditya Sharma (IN)
Young Woo Son (KR)
Youichi Yanase (JP)
Bo Yang (SG)

 


Scientific Coordinators (Dresden node)

Laura Classen
(Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)


Claudio Chamon
(Boston University, USA)


Joseph Betouras
(Loughborough University, UK)

Scientific Coordinators (Daejeon node)

Bohm-Jung Yang
(Seoul National
University, Korea)


Sergej Flach
(Institute for Basic
Science, Korea)

Organisation

Anna Anastasiou

(Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden, Germany)

Gileun Lee

(Institute for Basic Science, Korea)

Application

For participation from the Daejeon node, please visit the following link for further information or register here.
 

For participation from the Dresden node:
you are welcome to apply here. The application deadline is 31st March 2024. The number of attendees is limited.
The registration fee for the international workshop is 200 Euro and should be paid by all participants.
Costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute.
Limited funding is available to partially cover travel expenses.

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Scientific Program

Program structure:

Sunday, 26th May - arrival (recommended)

Monday, 27th May - 8.30 am program start (workshop)

Friday, 31st May - noontime end of workshop

Monday, 3rd June - 8.30 am program start (seminar)

Friday, 7th June - noontime program closure & departure

The detailed program can be found here.

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