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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

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