WORKSHOP ON ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS IN TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS SINGAPORE JUNE 28-30TH Workshop Venue: Performance Hall, Yale-NUS College, 16 College Avenue West, Singapore 138527 Welcome It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you America, and at varying career stages from to Singapore. The seeds for this workshop chaired professors and a Nobel Prize win- were actually planted 5 years ago when my ner to postdocs and graduate students. By program officer at the National Research now the areas of topological materials and Foundation suggested the idea of a workshop strongly correlated materials are each some- as a forum to showcase the exciting research what well established. However, the inter- happening in Singapore, and to exchange section of these two fields -- the question of ideas about topological matter with experts how electron-electron interactions influence around the world. Back in 2012, who would topological materials is still somewhat in its have guessed that topology would have been infancy. What might distinguish our con- le thème à la mode this Summer. With the ference is that by bringing together experts Nobel Prize in physics last year awarded for on both topological materials and interac- the theory of topological phases, the past tion physics, we might define together the few weeks have been a whirlwind of con- key questions and frameworks to explore ferences. Earlier this month, the Singapore this confluence. Institute of Advanced Studies sponsored a conference that brought two of these No- Of course this workshop would not have bel Prize winners, and the pre-conference been possible without the generous support school at Nanyang Technological Univer- of the Singapore National Research Foun- sity the week before was a boot camp for dation, the Center for Advanced 2D Materi- our students and postdocs. And just this als and Yale-NUS College. But I also thank past week saw the International Conference the many people working behind the scenes on Materials for Advanced Technologies in to make this possible. In particular, thanks Singapore, the Gordon Research Confer- to the Yale-NUS team (Aniza, Grace, Suha- ence on topological and correlated matter na and Nabila), the CA2DM team (Shirley, in Hong Kong, and the strongly interacting Bernice, Wei Fen, Miguel, and Ruifang) and conformal theory workshop in Beijing. members of my research group. I also ex- press my gratitude to my partners-in-crime Our workshop today shares speakers with all on the organizing committee: Antonio Cas- of these wonderful events. We have a won- tro Neto, Fakher Assaad, Igor Herbut and derful line up of speakers: 9 speakers each Justin Song. from Europe and Asia, and 6 from North Shaffique Adam Yale-NUS College NUS Department of Physics Center for Advanced 2D Materials Singapore, June 28, 2017 CONFRENCE PROGRAM WED THU JUNE JUNE 8:00-9:00 Breakfast 8:00-9:00 Breakfast MARYLAND TOPOLOGICAL THEORIES ARE ESSENTIALLY 28 9:00-9:45 Kostya Novoselov EVIDENCE OF ELECTRON-ELECTRON 29 9:00-9:45 Sankar Das Sarma NON-INTERACTING. WHAT THEN ARE THE MANCHESTER INTERACTIONS IN GRAPHENE ROLE OF INTERACTIONS? 9:45-10:30 Igor Herbut VANCOUVER NON-FERMI LIQUIDS, FIXED POINT 9:45-10:30 Cristiane de Morais Smith TBD COLLISIONS, AND TENSORIAL ORDER IN GREY UTRECHT TIN AND IN SOME POPULAR FIELD THEORIES 10:30-11:15 Coffee Break 10:30-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-11:35 Natália Menezes UTRECHT CONFORMAL QED IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL 11:15-11:35 Derek Ho SINGAPORE THEORY OF COULOMB DRAG IN SPATIALLY TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS INHOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS SINGAPORE THE ROLE OF ELECTRON-ELECTRON 11:35-11:55 Ho Kin Tang SINGAPORE DIRAC AND WEYL SUPERCONDUCTORS IN INTERACTIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONAL 11:35-11:55 Shengyuan Yang THREE DIMENSIONS DIRAC FERMIONS 12:00-2:00 Lunch 12:00-2:00 Lunch WURZBURG DECONFINED PHASES AND PHASE 2:00-2:45 Fakher Assaad TRANSITIONS OF DIRAC FERMIONS 2:00-2:45 Giovani Vignale MISSOURI BERRY CURVATURE AND EDGE PLASMONS 2:45-3:30 Lucas Wagner URBANA PREDICTIVE CALCULATIONS FOR 2:45-3:30 Euyheon Hwang SEOUL QUASIPARTICLE INTERFERENCE AND FOURIER CORRELATED MATERIALS TRANSFORM SCANNING TUNNELING SPEC- TROSCOPY IN TYPE II WEYL SEMIMETAL WTE2 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00-4:45 Hong Yao BEIJING FERMION-INDUCED QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS 4:00-4:45 Vladimir Juricic STOCKHOLM DISORDERED WEYL SEMIMETALS: GLOBAL PHASE DIAGRAM, THE FATE OF FERMI ARCS 4:45-5:30 Erez Berg CHICAGO DETECTABLE SIGNATURES OF SPIN LIQUIDS AND THE BULK-BOUNDARY CORRESPONDENCE 7:00-10:00 CONFERENCE DINNER 4:45-5:30 Jeil Jung SEOUL NON-LOCAL EXCHANGE DRIVEN BRO- KEN SYMMETRY PHASES IN MULTILAYER GRAPHENE FRI JUNE 8:00-9:00 Breakfast Session chairs 30 9:00-9:45 Subir Sachdev HARVARD QUANTUM MATTER WITHOUT Wed 28th June Thu 29th June Fri 30th June QUASIPARTICLES 9:00-10:30 Cristiane de Morais Yuan Ping Feng Giovanni Vignale 9:45-10:30 Antonio H. Castro Neto 2D MATERIALS: AN UPDATE SINGAPORE Smith 10:30-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-11.55 Jeil Jung Justin Song Marco Polini (TBC) 11:15-11:35 EXCITONIC GAP GENERATION IN THIN-FILM Giandomenico Palumbo 2:00-3:30 LC Kwek Pinaki Sengupta Igor Herbut UTRECHT TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS 4:00-5:30 Dario Poletti F Assaad Yidong Chong A MODEL OF CHIRAL SPIN LIQUIDS WITH 11:35-11:55 ZURICH Jyong-Hao Chen ABELIAN AND NON-ABELIAN TOPOLOGICAL PHASES 12:00-2:00 Lunch ARTIFICIAL GRAPHENE IN GALLIUM ARSENIDE 2:00-2:45 GENOA Vittorio Pellegrini QUANTUM WELLS 2:45-3:30 Masaki Oshikawa TOKYO TBD Speaker Profile from Europe 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 9 4:00-4:45 Marco Polini GENOA FERMI ARC PLASMONS IN WEYL SEMIMETALS 6 from America 4:45-5:30 Justin Song SINGAPORE BLOCH BAND GEOMETRY AND NEW 5 from Singapore COLLECTIVE MODES 4 from Asia (excluding Singapore) MEALS MAPS AND LUNCH SPOTS UTOWN, HOLLAND V, CLUNY COURT T COLLEGE AVE ES EA ST W E V A RESIDENTIAL E G E COLLEGE 4 L L O C Nearby Restaurants as Lunch Options NUS UTown Area: Flavours of Utown Waa Cow! Stephen Riady Center Waa Cow! is a relatively new establishment. Opening Hours: Daily 7.30 am-10:30pm With a clean and minimalist interior, it cer- YALE NUS COLLEGE tainly stands out from the other food places at UNIVERSITY Koufu Food Court NUS. Their popular mains include Signature SCHOLARS Town Plaza PROGRAMME Wagyu Beef Rice Bowl ($17.90) and Aburi Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 7.00 am-10:00pm Bara Chirashi Bowl ($16.90). Other sides such Sat-Sun 10.00 am-10:00pm as Sweet Garlic Soy Glazed Chicken Wings ($8.90) and Shrimp Karaage With Mentaiko SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND The Royals Bistro Mayo ($6.90) are also worth a try. LIFELONG EDUCATION The café offers a variety of western food such Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 11:30am to as Beef Shepherd’s Pie ($8.50) and Braised 3pm Tel: 8168 8777 Lamb Shank ($16.90). They’ve also got pretty U-TOWN STARBUCKS RESIDENCES looking cakes like rainbow cake and red velvet Sapore Italiano CREA cake, but the selection changes weekly and are TE W Sapore Italiano offers a cozy and quiet envi- AY subjected to availability. ronment for a nice meal with friends or to en- Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 11am -8:30pm gage in people watching. Also, it could be the CREATE Tel: 9777 1353 STEPHEN RIADY CENTRE only place that serves alcohol in the whole of Spice Table by Pines NUS, so now you know where to go when you AY TE W need booze. The prices here are actually quite CREA Serving comfort food at food court prices in reasonable, with pastas and pizzas priced below CREATE a casual environment, Spice Table is a halal es- CR EATE W $20. Tortellini al Nero di Seppia ($16.90+) and AY tablishment located right behind the UTown Risotto Al Funghi Porcini ($14.90+) are some bus stop. Offering Asian fusion food such as of the better dishes there. Gelato is also avail- Indonesian-style Sambal Fried Rice ($5), Jap- able and you can enjoy them at UTown green anese Beef Teriyaki Set ($8.50) and Chicken or the breezy alfresco seating area. Baked Rice ($6.50). Opening Hours: Mon-Sun 11am to Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10:30am-10pm Tel: 6339 9912 9:45pm Tel: 6684 5137 Nearby Restaurants as Lunch Options Holland Village El Patio long baos. Filled with hearty, rich broth and Take a walk down Lorong Mambong, and tender pork, Crystal Jade is the standard that you’ll quite literally run the gamut of culinary xiao long baos are judged by. styles. El Patio is a rustic, homely eatery that Address: 29 Lorong Liput, Singapore HOLLAND ROAD H OL LA offers fuss free and reasonably priced Mexican 277740. Tel: 6464 9303. ND RO AD L OR MAM food. If you’re seated outdoors and the heat gets a little too much for you, cool off with 363 Katong Laksa BONG a coronas or a couple of margaritas. El Patio Like prata at Jalan Kayu, there are throngs of also wins points for the free-flow nachos that laksa specialists claiming to be the original Ka- go with drinks. tong Laksa. We don’t know that for sure, but Address: 34 Lorong Mambong, Singapore 363 Katong Laksa checks all the boxes for us 277691. Tel: 6468 1520. with their chewy rice noodles (small enough to eat with just a spoon of course), rich, spicy E AV RNA ROAD Nakhon Kitchen broth, and a generous portion of prawns.