Schedule

=Preliminary Schedule:=

Week 1:
//Leader:// Patrick Lee Akira Furusaki: //Anderson (de)localization in Z_2 topological insulators// Yuval Oreg: //Kondo effect in Helical edge states// Carlo Beenakker: //Splitting of a Cooper pair by a pair of Majorana fermions// Congjun Wu: The Helical Liquid and the Edge of Quantum Spin Hall Systems || (CNSI) || **Physics Colloquium** Yong-Baek Kim || //From Frustration to Correlation via Fluctuation // || talk by Kathyrn Moler -- //RSVP to charmien@kitp.ucsb.edu// || (Bring Lunch) || //Fractionalization phenomena// //Leader:// Leon Balents Xiaoliang Qi: Fractional charge and spin-charge separation in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators Ashvin Vishwanath: //Dislocations in a Topological Band Insulator// Catherine Kallin: //A Quantum Spinon Hall Effect// Yasuhiro Hatsugai: //Bulk-Edge correspondence and fractionalization// Yuval Oreg: Fractional charge on an IQH edge || //Leader:// Shoucheng Zhang Joel Moore: Topological magnetoelectric polarizability in 3D insulators, and experiments Shinsei Ryu: Classification of topological insulators and superconductors Xialiang Qi: A unified theory of topological phenomena in band insulators Alexei Kitaev Rahul Roy: Z2 invariant : A generalization of the Dirac monopole Sung-Sik Lee : Many-body generalization of the Z2 invariant for the quantum spin hall effect Yong-Shi Wu: Topological Discrete Algebra and Fractionalization || Sankar Das Sarma || Quantum Hall Topological Qubit: Status Report 2008 || Shoucheng Zhang || Topological insulators and Superconductors ||
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 * Mon, Dec 8 || 10:00 || Main || **Program Organizers** || //Organizational Meeting with all Participants// ||
 * || 12:15 || Aud || Charles Kane || Blackboard lunch: //Topological band theory and the quantum spin Hall effect// ||
 * || 14:00 || Aud || Shoucheng Zhang || Introductory Talk: //Topological field theory of time reversal invariant insulators// ||
 * Tue, Dec 9 || 10:00 || Aud || Laurens Molenkamp || Experimental Talk: //Experiments on the quantum spin Hall effects in HgTe quantum wells// ||
 * || 13:00 || Main || **Discussion** || Transport and noise
 * || 16:00 || Elings 1601
 * || 16:00 || Aud || **Special Event** || Announcement of Rice Family Fund and
 * Wed, Dec 10 || 12:00 || Aud || **Discussion**
 * || 14:00 || Aud || **KITP Colloquium** ||  ||
 * || 15:00 || Main || **KITP Holiday party** ||  ||
 * Thu, Dec 11 || 10:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || //Mathematical classification//
 * || 12:30 || Aud || **Journalist Talk** || Jacob Berkowitz ||
 * || 14:00 || Main || **Discussion** || continue morning session ||
 * Fri, Dec 12 || 10:00 || Main || **Q conference**
 * || 11:30 || Main || **Q conference**
 * || 12:30- ||  || **Free time** ||   ||

Week 2:
//Direct determination of Topological Order :Topological quantum numbers and Berry's phase from spin-texture maps of spin-orbit insulators including BiSb.// || //Leader:// Goldhaber-Gordon Markus Koenig: //Scanning Gate Microscopy of the QSH edge states// Naoto Nagaosa: //Proposals on quantum spin Hall system: New materials and new experiments// N. P. Ong: //The Dirac states in bulk Bi, BiSb and in graphene// || //Leader:// Charles Kane Liang Fu Majorana: //Fermions on Topological Insulators// Taylor Hughes: //Topological Superconductors and Proximity Effects// Alexei Kitaev //Unpaired Majorana Fermions at the Edge// Rahul Roy: //Z_2 superconductors and superfluids// || //Leader:// Andre Bernevig Shuichi Murakami: //Quantum spin Hall effect and bismuth ultrathin films// Zhong Fang: //First Principles Calculations of topological insulat////ors// Congjun Wu: //Orbital analogue of quantum anomalous Hall effect in p-band systems// || Qian Niu: //Polarization as a Chern Simons field// Ying Ran://A continuous phase transition between antiferromagnet// //and superconductivity: application of QSH physics in strongly correlated system// || //Leader:// Eun-Ah Kim David Awschalom: //Imaging electrical spin generation and spin Hall dynamics in semiconductors// Laurens Molenkamp: //QSH effect and ballistic Spin Hall effect in HgTe quantum wells// Jairo Sinova: //Spin-injection Hall effect: a new member of the spintronic family// || Ewelina Hankiewicz: //Ballistic Spin Hall effect// Charlie Kane //: Conference Summary// ||
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||
 * Mon, Dec 15 || 10:00 || Aud || M. Zahid Hasan || Experimental Talk:
 * || 14:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || //Next generation experiments//
 * Tue, Dec 16 || 10:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || //Superconducting proximity effects//
 * || 14:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || continue morning session ||
 * Wed, Dec 17 || 10:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || //New materials//
 * || 14:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || //Related Topics//
 * Thu Dec 18 || 10:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || //Related subjects//
 * || 14:00 || Aud || **Discussion** || Ivar Martin: //Quantum Valley vs. Quantum Spin Hall effect; Spontaneous Quantum Charge Hall effect in itinerant chiral 2D magnets//