Following the ICAM tradition, each speaker must save 1/3rd of their allotted time for questions and discussion.
Sunday January 13, 2019
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Welcome Reception
Monday January 14, 2019
8:20 AM - 8:50 AM
Registration
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Director's Introduction
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Costantion Creton - A molecular picture of fracture of elastomers
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Naomi Halas - Nanomaterials and Light for Sustainability and Societal Impact
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BREAK TIME
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Fu-Tong Liu - Cytosolic galectins as sensors for endo-lysosomal damage
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Karine Guevorkian - Polymerization and growth in biological systems
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
L U N C H
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
David Schwab - "Renormalizing Data"
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Round table discussion on emergence, machine learning and the future.
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
BREAK TIME
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Special Public Lecture:
Title: Topological quantum matter, entanglement and the second quantum revolution
Speaker: F. Duncan M. Haldane (2016 Nobel Prize)
7:30 PM - TBD
Dinner at various locations
Frontiers in Biological and Soft Matter
Chair: Piers Coleman
Emergence and Machine learning
Chair: Rajiv Singh
Tuesday January 15, 2019
6:30 PM - TBD
ICAM Dinner ( By invitation only)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Women in Physics in 2019: Towards the next generation of Nobel Laureates. Laura Greene (Chair), Eva Andrei, Silke Buehler Paschen, Liling Sun, Suchitra Sebastian, Naomi Halas, Karine Guevorkian, David Campbell, Daniel Cox + representative from Taiwan
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
ICAM Science Steering Committee - Policy and Directions
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Yuji Matsuda - Majorana fermions and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a quantum spin liquid
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
ICAM Board of Governors Meeting
(during breakfast time at NTHU Guest House)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
BREAK TIME
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
David Campbell - “A Moveable Feast” of the Mind: Five Decades with David Pines
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Piers Coleman - David Pines, Pioneer par excellance in Quantum Many Body Physics
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Laura Greene - David Pines Beyond Correlations: Pioneering in Science Diplomacy and Public Engagement
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
L U N C H
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Henri Alloul - Correlated quantum matter: Mott transition, unconventional superconductivity,... charge order
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
BREAK TIME
David Pines Legacy in Physics
Chair: James W. Allen
Frontiers of Quantum Matter
Chair: Suchitra Sebastian
Wednesday January 16, 2019
1:00 PM - TBD
Excursion and NCTS Banquet (by invitation only)
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
BREAK TIME
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Paul Canfield - Synthesis as the heart of New Materials Physics
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BREAK TIME
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Duncan Haldane - Emergent metric of flux attachment in the fractional quantum Hall effect
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Eva Andrei - Twist stretch and poke – transforming the band structure of 2D materials by non-chemical means
Frontiers in Quantum Matter (Plenary session for NCTS Frontiers meeting
(Plenary session for NCTS Frontiers meeting)
Chair: Silke Buehler-Paschen