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Topology meets materials

Minerva Weizmann Workshop

Schedule

SUN, FEB 25th

07:00   Transportation from Weizmann

08:30   Reception

08:55   Welcome

Morning session

Chair: Nurit Avraham

09:00David Mross, Weizmann

             Theory of Disorder-Induced Half-Integer Thermal Hall Conductance           

09:30  Phillip Moll (MPI-CPFS)

              Tuning topological semimetals by high magnetic fields

10:00 -  Binghai Yan Weizmann

              Topological materials with photocurrents generated by nonlinear optical

               effects

10:30    Coffee Break

​Chair: Haim Beidenkopf

10:45 Richard M. Martin, Stanford

             From Shockley surface states to topological insulators

11:15 -  Jorge Facio, IFW Dresden

             Nonlinear quantum Hall effect: response functions from first-principles

11:45 -   Beena Kalisky, Bar Ilan

              Imaging electronic states at interfaces with scanning SQUID

12:15 -  Lunch

Afternoon session
​Chair:  Eli Zeldov

14:20 -  Stuart Parkin, MPI-Halle

              Magnetic antiskyrmions above room temperature in tetragonal Heusler

              materials

14: 50  - Claudia Felser, MPI CPfS

              Magnetic Weyl in Heusler compounds

15:20-  Nitesh Kumar MPI-CPFS

              TBA

15:50 Coffee Break

​Chair: Ady stern

16:05Nurit Avraham, Weizmann

              The dual topological insulator Bi2TeI

16:35 -  Ion Cosma Fulga, IFW Dresden

             Localization counteracts decoherence in noisy Floquet topological chains

17:05 Liu Enke, MPI CPfS

                 Intrinsic, strong anomalous Hall effect in a Kagome-lattice magnetic Weyl                             seimmetal

17:45  Transportation to Weizmann 

MON, FEB 26th

07:30  Transportation from Weizmann

 

Morning session

Chair:  Ion Cosma Fulga 

09:00 -  Jonathan Reiner, Weizmann

              Coulomb staircase in an Al electrode coupled to InAs nanowire

09:30 Ernesto Joselevich, Weizmann

              Aligning, waving, coiling and twisting nanotubes and nanowires of different materials                    (including topological insulators)

10:00 - Roni Ilan

              Bulk-boundary quantum oscillations in inhomogeneous Weyl semimetals

10:30    Coffee Break

Chair: Binghai Yan

10:45 -  Joe Checkelsky, MIT

              Dirac Electrons on the Kagome Lattice 

11:15 - Yan Sun, MPI CPfS

              spin Hall and anomalous Hall effect in Weyl semimetal

11:45 - Yonit Hochberg, HUJI

             Detecting dark matter with condensed matter systems

12:15  Lunch

Afternoon session

Chair:  Yuval Oreg

14:20 - Ron Naaman, Weizmann

              Chiral molecules and the electron spin- New dimensions of spintronics

14:50 -  Yossi Paltiel, HUJI

               Utilizing the Chiral Induced Spin Selective Effect (CISS) to Realize Simple

               Spintronics Devices

15:20 -  Raquel Queiroz , Weizmann

              Selection rules for quasiparticle interference with internal  non-symmorphic symmetries 

15:50 Coffee Break

​Chair: Phillip Moll

16:05 -  Tami Pereg Barnea, McGill

              Time braiding

16:35 -  Chenguang Fu MPI-CPFS

             TBA    

17:05 -  Kyrylo Snizhko, Weizmann

              "Detecting parafermions by exploiting Coulomb blockade physics" 

17:35 -  Anastasous Markou, MPI-CPFS

             Growth and characterization of epitaxial thin films of Heulser compounds

18:15  Transportation to Weizmann  

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