Workshop Program

The program is also available as a PDF file.

A booklet with the abstracts of the posters is available (PDF file).

Monday 5

8:30 – 10:00 Registration  
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome Welcome & brief talk about the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
10:10 – 10:45 Amir Yacoby Controlled Finite Momentum Pairing and Induced Triplet Pairing in Superconductor - Spin Orbit - Superconductor Junctions
10:45 – 11:20 Jonas Wiedenmann Signatures of Gapless Andreev Bound States in HgTe Based Topological Insulators
11:20 – 11:50 COFFEE BREAK  
11:50 – 12:25 Siego Tarucha Superconductor junctions to nanowires and 2DEGs with strong spin-orbit interactions and topological insulators
12:25 – 13:00 Erez Berg Beyond parafermions: non-Abelian statistics of defects in Ising anyon systems
13:00 – 15:00 LUNCH  
15:00 – 15:35 Daniel Loss Majorana and Para-Fermions in Nanowires and Helical Edge States
15:35 – 16:10 Ady Stern Wire construction of familiar and novel non-abelian quantum Hall states
16:10 – 16:45 Jay Sau Parafermions in the 2/3 Fractional quantum Hall state without superconducting back-scattering

 

Tuesday 6

9:00 – 9:35 Alexander Altland Majorana surface code: Basics
9:35 – 10:10 Reinhold Egger Majorana surface code: Operations
10:10 – 10:50 COFFEE BREAK  
10:50 – 11:25 Manuel Houzet Andreev-Weyl singularities in multiterminal Josephson junctions
11:25 – 12:00 Francesco Giazotto Phase-engineering of artificial Josephson topological materials
12:00 – 12:35 Yuli Nazarov Topological protection-unprotection transition in hybrid superconducting heterostructures
12:35 – 15:00 LUNCH  
15:00 – 15:35 Carlo Beenakker Chiral magnetic effect in a topological Weyl semimetal
15:35 – 16:10 Andrei Bernevig Two Types of Nonsymmorphic Topological Insulators
16:10 – 16:45 Jennifer Cano Creating Chiral Anomalies
16:45 – 19:15 Poster session A A booklet with the abstracts of all posters is available here (PDF file).
Best-poster prizes are sponsored by Nature Reviews Materials

 

Wednesday 7

9:00 – 9:35 Liang Fu Majorana takes charge: from teleportation to quantum computation
9:35 – 10:10 Charles Marcus Majorana Zero Modes in Epitaxial Semiconductor-Superconductor Nanowire Devices
10:10 – 10:50 COFFEE BREAK  
10:50 – 11:25 Nadya Mason Mesoscopic Transport in Topological Nanowires
11:25 – 12:00 Leo Kouwenhoven Majoranas in semiconductor nanowires
12:00 – 12:35 Silvano De Franceschi Josephson supercurrent in a spin-split quasi-ballistic channel
12:35 – 12:45 committee Award of prizes for best posters of Poster session A
12:45 – 15:00 LUNCH  
15:00 – 15:35 Kam Tuen Law Ising Superconductivity, Majorana fermions and nodal topological superconducting phases in transition metal dichalcogenides
15:35 – 16:10 Ivo Souza Chern-Simons magnetoelectric coupling and the surface Chern number
16:10 – 16:45 Chetan Nayak Time Crystals
16:45 – 17:15 COFFEE BREAK  
17:15 – 17:50 Ali Yazdani Majorana Fermions in Atomic Chains: Spin and Charge Signatures
20:00 – 22:00 Conference dinner Cofradía Vasca de Gastronomía
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Thursday 8

9:00 – 9:35 Gleb Finkelstein Supercurrent in the quantum Hall regime
9:35 – 10:10 Ramón Aguado Majorana Zero Modes in Graphene
10:10 – 10:50 COFFEE BREAK  
10:50 – 11:25 Piet Brouwer The weak side of strong topological insulators
11:25 – 12:00 Björn Trauzettel Odd-frequency superconductivity at the helical edge
12:00 – 12:35 Dganit Meidan Transport signatures of interacting fermions in quasi-one-dimensional topological superconductors
12:35 – 15:00 LUNCH  
15:00 – 15:35 Yuval Oreg Time Reversal Invariant Topological Superconductor
15:35 – 16:10 Evgueni Chulkov Magnetism and quantum Hall effects in topological insulators: model and ab-initio calculations
16:10 – 16:45 Susanne Mueller Edge conduction in the 2D topological insulator candidate InAs/GaSb
16:45 – 19:15 Poster session B A booklet with the abstracts of all posters is available here (PDF file).
Best-poster prizes are sponsored by Nature Reviews Materials

 

Friday 9

9:00 – 9:35 Sergey Frolov Experiments on Majorana fermions in nanowires and quantum dot chains
9:35 – 10:10 Michael Wimmer Identifying a helical gap in the quantum point contact conductance
10:10 – 10:50 COFFEE BREAK  
10:50 – 11:25 Parsa Bonderson Modular transformations of fermionic topological phases
11:25 – 12:00 Jelena Klinovaja Topological States in Coupled Wire and Floquet Systems
12:00 – 12:35 Gil Refael Lighting up topological insulators: large surface photocurrents from magnetic superlattices
12:35 – 12:45 committee Award of prizes for best posters of Poster session A
12:45 – 15:00 LUNCH  
15:00 – 15:35 Falko Pientka Signatures of topological Josephson junctions
15:35 – 16:10 Fabrizio Nichele InAs/Al Superconductive Two Dimensional Heterostructures
16:10 – 16:45 Patrik Recher Detecting the Exchange Phase of Majorana Bound States in a Corbino Geometry Topological Josephson Junction
16:45 – 16:55 Closing remarks