Main Topics

Topic 1: Interacting Luttinger Liquids.

Topic 2: Topological order in devices for quantum computing.

Topic 3: Topological quantum computing.

Topic 4: Selected Topics in conformal and topological field theories.

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Invited Speakers

I. Affleck - University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: The Kondo screening cloud: what it is and how to measure it in mesoscopic devices

B. L. Altshuler - Columbia University, USA
Title: P-N junctions and Random Resistor Network in Graphene

L. Amico - Università di Catania, Italy
Title: Entanglement in spin chains

S. Bravyi - IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Title: Statistical physics and quantum computation

P. Calabrese - Università di Pisa, Italy
Title: Entanglement entropy and quantum field theory

D. K. Campbell - Boston University, USA
Title: Intrinsic Localized Modes: Localizing Energy Through Nonlinearity and Discreteness

J. Cardy - University of Oxford, UK
Title: Quantum Quenches in Extended Systems

C. Chamon - Boston University, USA
Title: Electron Fractionalization in 2D via Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Graphene-like Structures

S. Das Sarma - University of Maryland, USA
Title: Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation

P. Degiovanni - ENS Lyon & Boston University
Title: Mesoscopic devices for cavity QED: from quantum optics to quantum impurity problems

B. Douçot - Universités Paris 6 et 7, C.N.R.S., France
Title: Physical implementation of protected qubits

R. Egger - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Title: Interaction effects in quantum point contacts and quantum wires

P. Fendley - University of Virginia, USA
Title: Topological entanglement entropy and the holographic partition function

C. Fort - LENS Firenze, Italy
Title: Experiments with ultracold atoms in a bichromatic optical lattice: searching for disorder induced effects

E. Fradkin - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Title: Entanglement Entropy at two dimensional quantum critical points and topological phases: can you hear the shape of Schrödinger's cat?

L. Georgiev - INRNE Sofia, Bulgaria
Title: Topological Quantum Computation with non-Abelian anyons in the Pfaffian quantum Hall state

D. Giuliano - Università della Calabria, Italy
Title: Boundary Field theories of SQUID devices

R. Jackiw - MIT, USA
Title: Topology and Fractional Charge in Polyacetylene and Graphene

D. Khveshchenko - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Title: Coulomb Interacting Dirac Fermions in Disordered Graphene

M. Kohmoto - University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: Jahn-Teller theorem, quantized flux and monopole confinement of the honeycomb lattice

V. Korepin - Stony Brook, USA
Title: Entanglement in spin chains

J. I. Latorre - Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Title: Quantum Information and the simulation of quantum systems

A. Ludwig - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Title: Boundary Critical Behavior and Multifractality at Anderson (De-)Localization Transitions

R. Moessner - University of Oxford, UK
Title: Artificial square ice and related dipolar nanoarrays

C. Nayak - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Title: Physics of the 5/2 quantum Hall State

S.-Y. Pi - Boston University, USA
Title: Topological Mass Generation in Four Dimensions

M. Rasetti - Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Title: Topological quantum computation as a tool for Topology

G. W. Semenoff - University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: Stretched states from Majorana modes

G. Sierra - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Title: Superconductivity and the Riemann zeros

P. Silvestrini - Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy
Title: Macroscopic Quantum Coherence and Quantum Computing

M. Zvonarev - Université de Genève, Switzerland
Title: Dynamics of spin waves in one-dimensional spinor Bose gas

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