Topological and Holographic Quantum Matter
School and Conference
January 11-13 and 15-17, 2024
Santiago, Chile
The Topological and Holographic Quantum Matter School and Conference is an event organized by the HolographyCL collaboration (ANID/ACT210100). Its purpose is to promote the interaction between researchers working in the areas of Condensed Matter and High Energy Physics and other related topics. Special focus is put on the training of future Latin American researchers.
Lecturers and speakers are recognized experts and leaders in their fields, making the event a highly valuable contribution to the local and international community. Our distinguished guests include:
Lecturers
- Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
- Andrew Lucas, University of Colorado Boulder (USA)
- Bitan Roy, Lehigh University (USA)
Speakers
Plenary:
- Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland (USA)
- Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
- Blaise Goutéraux, École Polytechnique (France)
- Nicolas Regnault, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, CNRS (France)
- Bitan Roy, Lehigh University (USA)
Invited:
- David Abergel, Nature Physics
- Wladimir Benalcazar, Emory University (USA)
- Eric Bergshoeff, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
- Nicolás Grandi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
- Karl Landsteiner, Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC (Spain)
- Joseph Maciejko, University of Alberta (Canada)
- Paula Mellado, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile)
- Enrique Muñoz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)
- Ignacio Salazar Landea, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
- Luis Rosales, Universidad Federico Santa María (Chile)
- Pedro Orellana, Universidad Federico Santa María (Chile)
- Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile)
- Marcello B. Silva Neto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Alexander Tyner, NORDITA (Sweden)
Contributed:
- Mauro Cambiaso, Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile)
- Dunkan Martínez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
- Javier Moreno, Haifa U-Technion (Israel)
- Mario Solís, Instituto Balseiro (Argentina)
The school and conference are back-to-back but separate events; you can register for either or both. Students are strongly encouraged to attend both events.
School: January 11-13, 2024.
Workshop: January 15-17, 2024.
All participants must register. There is no registration fee.
Funding (travel and accommodation) is available for a limited number of participants. Those who receive funding must give a talk or present a poster at the conference. A brief research statement or talk/poster abstract is required to apply for funding. Students must also include a letter of recommendation from their advisor. All documents must be sent to [email protected].
Funding application deadline: October 15, 2023 (expired).
General registration deadline: November 30, 2023 (expired).
To register please fill in the following form:
Confirmed participants:
Lectures
- Eduardo Fradkin: Dualites in CMT and QFT
- Andrew Lucas: Holographic Quantum Matter
- Introduction to AdS/CFT
- Phases of matter
- Transport
- Planckian dynamics
The lectures will overview the theory of “AdS/CMT”, i.e. holographic duality with an eye to condensed matter applications. They will: 1) introduce the holographic correspondence and dictionary; 2) explain how adding bulk fields can reproduce phases of matter known from condensed matter physics (e.g. non-trivial scaling exponents, superconductivity); 3) explain how to calculate electrical conductivity as a key application of the holographic method; 4) discuss the universality and applicability of a Planckian bound, namely that dynamics at temperature T cannot occur on time scales faster than h/k_B T.
- Bitan Roy: Topological phases of matter
- Introduction to topology of vector fields, and computation of topological invariants
- Brief discussion on Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
- Dirac and Weyl semimetals, and Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem.
- Tight-binding model for graphene
- Topological insulator and bulk-boundary correspondence
- Topological lattice defects (dislocation)
- David Abergel: How to write a great paper
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Venue
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Campus San Joaquín
Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul
Metro L5, San Joaquín
The school and conference will take place in the classroom C201 located in the Construcción Civil faculty.
Metro
In order to ride the Santiago subway system (https://www.metro.cl/) you need a Bip! card, which you can purchase and charge at any station. Keep in mind that each trip costs $800 CLP approximately, regardless of length and duration.
