Roster of Participants

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Tomoya Asaba
tasaba@umich.edu

I am interested in superconductors and spin liquid in low dimensional system. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Univ. of Michigan
Advisor: Lu Li

Zhen Bi
zbi@physics.ucsb.edu

I am interested in the topological phenomena and the interplay between symmetry and topology in condensed matter system. (Theorist)


Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Prof. Cenke Xu

Tomas Bzdusek
tbzduek@phys.ethz.ch

Search for novel topological phases, particularly interaction driven topological phases in pyrochlore iridates. (Theorist)


Institution: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Sigrist

Po-Yao Chang
prayser@gmail.com

I am interested in topological nodal superconductors, entanglement properties of topological states and holographic approaches to condensed matter systems. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Shinsei Ryu

Xiaoye Chen
chenxy88@gmail.com

Fermi surface measurement of correlated electron systems. Experimentalist.


Institution: University of Cambridge
Advisor: Dr Michael Sutherland

Peayush Choubey
peayush@ufl.edu

Unconventional superconductivity (Theorist)


Institution: University of Florida
Advisor: Peter Hirschfeld

Debanjan Chowdhury
debanjanchowdhury@gmail.com

I am a theorist interested in unconventional superconductivity, quantum criticality and quantum magnetism.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Subir Sachdev
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Jonathan D'Emidio
jonathan.demidio@uky.edu

My current research focuses on novel phases and critical properties of quantum spins.  More broadly, I am interested in numerical approaches to quantum many-body systems. (theorist)


Institution: University of Kentucky
Advisor: Ribhu K. Kaul

Eugene Dumitrescu
edumitr@g.clemson.edu

I am interested in non-Abelian topologically ordered states, many of which are predicted to exist in heterostructures involving superconductors or topological insulators. (Theorist)


Institution: Clemson University
Advisor: Sumanta Tewari

Stephen Edkins
sde@st-andrews.ac.uk

Scanning tunneling microscopy of unconventional superconductors and heavy fermion compounds. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Cornell University / University of St. Andrews
Advisor: J.C. Séamus Davis and Andy Mackenzie

Laura Fanfarillo
laura.fanfarillo@gmail.com

I’m a theorist interested in: Superconducting fluctuations in High-Tc Superconductors, Transport properties of High-Tc Superconductors, Modeling of Multiband Systems, Magnetism and Nematicity in Pnictides. 


Institution: Department of Theory and Simulation of Materials of the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM)
Advisor: Prof. Elena Bascones
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Wenbo Fu
wenbofu@physics.harvard.edu

I am a theorist interested in unconventional superconductivity.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Prof. Subir Sachdev

Alexey Galda
alex.galda@gmail.com

Fluctuations in high-Tc superconductors, theory of fluctuations in critical superconductors, interplay of superconductivity and magnetic order. (Theorist)


Institution: Argonne National Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Valerii Vinokur

Jim Garrison
garrison@physics.ucsb.edu

I am interested in strongly-correlated systems, including non-Fermi liquid metals and spin liquids, with particular emphasis on connections between condensed matter physics and quantum information. (Theorist)


Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Matthew Fisher
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Lauren E. Hayward
l3hayward@uwaterloo.ca

I am interested in developing computational methods to study emergent phenomena in many-body systems. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Waterloo
Advisor: Prof. Roger Melko

Jun He
jheaa@ust.hk

My current research focus on topological phases of materials, especially topological superconductors. (Theorist)


Institution: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Kam Tuen LAW

Suraj Shankaranarayan Hegde
shegde2@illinois.edu

Current interests are in Majorana fermions in topological superconductors.Broadly interested in topological phases of matter and strongly correlated systems . (Theorist)


Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Smitha Vishveshwara

Ciarán Hickey
hickeyc@physics.utoronto.ca

I am interested in strongly correlated systems, topological phases of matter and ultracold atomic gases. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Toronto
Advisor: Arun Paramekanti

Alberto Hinojosa Alvarado
hinojosaalva@wisc.edu

I am interested in superconductivity in the iron pnictides, especially in the gap structure in the coexistance phase. Theorist.


Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Yichen Hu
huyichen@sas.upenn.edu

My current research interests are topological phases of matter, quantum hall effect, luttinger liquids and hamiltonian complexity. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Advisor: Prof. Charles Kane
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Wen Huang
huangw26@mcmaster.ca

I am interested in unconventional superconductivity, as well as its interplay with other novel forms of order emerging from electron correlations. Current research is on the putative chiral p-wave superconductor Sr2RuO4. (Theorist)


Institution: McMaster University
Advisor: Catherine Kallin

Katharine Hyatt
kshyatt@physics.ucsb.edu

My areas of interest are high-Tc superconductivity, numerical methods for strongly correlated electron systems (DMRG and various QMC flavours), Bose metals, non-Fermi liquids, and many body localization. (Theorist)


Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Prof. Matthew P. A. Fisher

Jason Iaconis
jason.iaconis@gmail.com

I am a theorist interested in studying strongly correlated systems which can be related to realistic materials. Some of my research interests at the moment include quantum magnetism, topological phenomena including topological insulators and the Kondo effect/heavy fermion systems.


Institution: University of California - Santa Barbara
Advisor: Leon Balents

Olena Iadlovska
oiadlovs@kent.edu

I am interested in superconductors in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. (Theorist)


Institution: Kent State University
Advisor: Maxim Dzero

Jian Kang
jkang@umn.edu

I am a theorist in correlated electron system and unconventional superconductivity, particularly the iron based high temperature superconductors. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Minnesota
Advisor: Prof. Rafael Fernandes

Itzik Kapon
itzikapon@gmail.com

I’m interested in superconductivity in cuprates and single crystals growth. (Experimentalist) 


Institution: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Advisor: Prof. Amit Keren

Lukas Kimme
lukas.kimme@uni-leipzig.de

I am interested in topological insulators and superconductors, in particular impurities therein. (Theorist)


Institution: Universität Leipzig
Advisor: Bernd Rosenow

Vladyslav Kozii
koziiva@mit.edu

I am interested in strongly correlated electron systems, superconductors and disordered systems. I am theorist.


Institution: MIT
Advisor: Liang Fu

James LeBlanc
jpfleblanc@gmail.com

I am particularly interested in the pseudogap problem in the underdoped cuprates, from a phenomenological perspective, as well as how such an effect emerges from the 2D Hubbard model. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: Emanuel Gull

Samuel S. Lederer
slederer@stanford.edu

Theory of strongly correlated systems, particularly the enhancement of superconductivity in the vicinity of quantum critical points, with applications to the cuprate and iron-based high-Tc materials.


Institution: Stanford University
Advisor: Steven Kivelson, Srinivas Raghu

Junhyun Lee
junhyunlee@fas.harvard.edu

I am a theorist interested in quantum criticality in magnetism and unconventional superconductivity, as well as topological phases of matter.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Subir Sachdev

Kyungmin Lee
kl567@cornell.edu

I interested in the physics of unconventional superconductivity and topological phases of matter. (Theorist)


Institution: Cornell University
Advisor: Eun-Ah Kim.

Zala Lenarcic
zala.lenarcic@gmail.com

My interests lie in the theoretical understanding of Mott insulators driven out of equilibrium. (Theorist)


Institution: Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Prelovsek

Peter Lunts
pluntsy@gmail.com

I am interested in strongly correlated systems, quantum criticality, and holographic approaches to condensed matter. (Theorist)


Institution: Perimeter Institute / McMaster University
Advisor: Sung-Sik Lee

Weicheng Lv
weicheng83@gmail.com

I am interested in strongly correlated electron systems, high-temperature superconductivity, orbital physics, quantum magnetism, and topological phenomena. Recent research mostly focuses on various aspects of Fe-based superconductors. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Advisor: Elbio Dagotto
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Eun-Gook Moon
egmoon@physics.ucsb.edu

I am interested in correlated electron systems including unconventional superconductivity, topological phases and exotic phases (theorist). 


Institution: University of California at Santa Barbara
Advisor: Cenke Xu, and Leon Balents

James Murray
murray@pha.jhu.edu

I am interested in unconventional superconductivity and correlated electron systems more generally, and have recently been studying the role of electron interactions in topological phases, as well as competing orders in bilayer graphene. (Theorist)


Institution: National High Magnetic Field Lab
Advisor: Oskar Vafek
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Laimei Nie
nlm@stanford.edu

Theorist, interested in unconventional orders in novel superconductors. 


Institution: Stanford University
Advisor: Steven Kivelson

Junichi Okamoto
okamoto@phys.columbia.edu

My research interests are (1) charge-density waves in transition metal compounds, (2) low-dimensinal systems, and (3) strongly correlated cold atomic gases.  (Theorist)


Institution: Columbia University
Advisor: Andrew J. Millis

Se Young Park
sypark@phys.columbia.edu

Strongly-correlated electron systems, transition metal oxide heterostructures. (Theorist)


Institution: Columbia University
Advisor: Andrew J. Millis

Kelly A. Pawlak
kap09c@gmail.com

I am interested in a wide range of phenomena in condensed matter physics. I am currently working to understand competing electronic order in superconducting materials. (Theorist)


Institution: National High Magnetic Field Lab/University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Oskar Vafek

Francesco Peronaci
fperonaci@sissa.it

Unconventional superconductors, oxide heterostructures (theorist).


Institution: International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (Italy)
Advisor: prof. M. Capone

Aline Ramires
alineramires@gmail.com

My interests are on strongly correlated systems, focusing on heavy fermion systems and quantum criticality (Theorist).


Institution: Rutgers University
Advisor: Piers Coleman

Jeffrey G. Rau
jrau@physics.utoronto.ca

I am a theorist interested broadly in strongly correlated systems and frustrated magnetism.


Institution: University of Toronto
Advisor: Hae-Young Kee

Connor Roncaioli
conroncaioli@gmail.com

I am interested in superconductivity in the 122 FeAs compounds and how it connects to structural transitions in the ThCr2Si2 structure of 122 and related compounds. (Experimentalist)


Institution: University of Maryland - College Park, Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials
Advisor: Johnpierre Paglione

James Rowland, IV
rowland.208@gmail.com

My research interests are condensed matter theory, specifically magnetism, superconductivity, and topological phases. (Theorist)


Institution: The Ohio State University
Advisor: Dr. Mohit Randeria

Hyejin Ryu
hryu@bnl.gov

I am interested in magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Stony Brook University
Advisor: Cedomir Petrovic

Yoni Schattner
yonisch@gmail.com

I’m mostly interested in quantum criticality in metals (theorist).


Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Advisor: Erez Berg

Lars Schonenberg
lms84@cam.ac.uk

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo methods in strongly correlated systems. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Advisor: Dr. Gunnar Moller

Pengtao Shen

I am a theorist in correlated electron and cold fermion systems


Institution: Kent State University
Advisor: Khankar Quader

Yuriy Sizyuk
sizyuk@wisc.edu

My main research interests are in iridate compounds, in which the interplay of strong spin-orbit coupling with correlations gives rise to interesting magnetic properties. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Advisor: Natalia Perkins

Yu Song
Yu.Song@rice.edu

I am an experimentalist using neutron scattering to study magnetic excitations in unconventional superconductors. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Rice University
Advisor: Pengcheng Dai
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Evelyn Tang
evelynt@mit.edu

. I am interested in superconducting and topological phases, especially their realization in strongly correlated or narrow-band systems. I’m a theorist.


Institution: MIT
Advisor: Xiao-Gang Wen

Min-Feng Tu
minfengtu@gmail.com

I am interested in engineering topological insulator and heavy fermion system.  My recent projects involve the topological Kondo insulator and graphene with electron correlation.  (Theorist)


Institution: Caltech
Advisor: Jason Alicea

Abolhassan Vaezi
vaezi@cornell.edu

My current areas of research are topological insulators and superconductors, and fractional quantum Hall effect. (Theorist)


Institution: Cornell University
Advisor: Xiao-Gang Wen

John S. Van Dyke
jsvandyke86@gmail.com

I am interested in heavy fermion superconductivity and nonequilibrium transport. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
Advisor: Dirk Morr

Chong Wang
phchongwang@gmail.com

I am a theorist interested in exotic phases of correlated systems, including interacting topological states and exotic gapless spin liquids.


Institution: MIT
Advisor: T. Senthil

Renxiong Wang
wang0402@umd.edu

My research is about unconventional superconductivity and topological insulator and any interesting things in the momentum space! (Experimentalist)


Institution: University of Maryland College Park
Advisor: Johnpierre Paglione
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Xiaoyu Wang
xiaoyu@physics.umn.edu

I am interested in the theories of correlated electron systems and their collective behavior, particularly high temperature superconductivity and magnetism. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Minnesota
Advisor: Rafael M. Fernandes
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Yuxuan Wang
wang238@wisc.edu

My main interest is high-T_c superconductivity. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Wisconsin
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Christopher Watson
christopher.watson@gmail.com

I am a condensed matter experimentalist pursuing mesoscopic magnetic imaging of unconventional superconductivity with scanning superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) at Stanford University under the direction of Professor Kathryn Moler. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Stanford University
Advisor: Kathryn Moler
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Xueda Wen
wenxueda@gmail.com

I am theorist focusing on topological superconductors and insulators.


Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Shinsei Ryu
Yochai Werman
yochai.werman@weizmann.ac.il

I am interested in bad metals - highly correlated materials whose resistivity is larger than the Joffe-Regel limit. I am a theorist.


Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Advisor: Dr. Erez Berg

Mengxing Ye
ymuriel@umich.edu

I’m a theorist interested in topological phases of matter. I’m currently working on topological Kondo insulator and Majorana fermion living on curved surface.


Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: Kai Sun

Noah F. Yuan
fyuanaa@ust.hk

My current research interests are the topological aspects of superconductors, such as topological phases and topological defects in superconductors. (Theorist)
 


Institution: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof Kam Tuen LAW

Junhua Zhang
11jhzhang@gmail.com

I am a theorist interested in correlated electron systems, topological phases of condensed matter, and novel electronic states in heterostructures.


Institution: College of William and Mary
Advisor: Enrico Rossi

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Gregory S Boebinger
gsb@magnet.fsu.edu

Utilizing magneto-transport and specific heat in high magnetic fields to access unique regions in the high temperature superconducting phase diagram. (Experimentalist)


Institution: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
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Piers Coleman
coleman@physics.rutgers.edu

I’m interested in correlated electron physics, particularly heavy fermions but also iron-based and copper-based high temperature superconductors. I am also interested in strange metals, quantum critical points and topological states of matter. I believe that true understanding of physical phenomena occurs when one can reduce the theory to simple, back-of-the envelope calculations. (Theorist)


Institution: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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Liang Fu
liangfu@mit.edu
Institution: MIT
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Jenny Hoffman
jhoffman@physics.harvard.edu

The Hoffman lab uses high resolution scanning probe techniques to understand and control the electronic and magnetic properties of exotic materials. We are particularly interested in superconductors, topological materials, and strongly correlated electrons. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Harvard University
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Bernhard Keimer
b.keimer@fkf.mpg.de

My group uses spectroscopic methods to elucidate the structure and dynamics of correlated-electron materials, with particular focus on unconventional superconductivity and competing order, and on metal-oxide interfaces and heterostructures. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
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Steven Kivelson
kivelson@stanford.edu
Institution: Stanford University
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John Martinis
martinis@physics.ucsb.edu

Experimental quantum computation with superconducting qubits. (Experimentalist)


Institution: UC Santa Barbara
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Yuji Matsuda
matsuda@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp

I am interested in strongly correlated systems, including unconventional superconductivity, magnetism and quantum spin systems. (Experimentalist)


Institution: Kyoto University
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Andrew J Millis
millis@phys.columbia.edu

Theoretical condensed matter physics with focus on properties of strongly correlated electrons in solids. (Theorist)


Institution: Columbia University
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Joseph Orenstein
jworenstein@lbl.gov
Institution: University of California at Berkeley
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Arun Paramekanti
arunp@physics.utoronto.ca

I study phenomena such as superconductivity and magnetism in strongly correlated quantum matter which includes transition metal oxides and ultracold atomic gases. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Toronto
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Mohit Randeria
randeria@mps.ohio-state.edu

I work on strong correlations, superconductivity and magnetism in quantum materials and cold atoms. (Theorist)


Institution: The Ohio State University
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Subir Sachdev
sachdev@g.harvard.edu

Quantum many body theory, quantum phase transitions, magnetism and superconductivity. (Theorist)


Institution: Harvard University
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Manfred Sigrist
sigrist@itp.phys.ethz.ch

My research field covers mainly materials with strong electron correlation effects, with a strong emphasis to unconventional superconductivity. (Theorist)


Institution: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Andrey V Chubukov
chubukov@physics.wisc.edu

Superconductivity, quantum magnetism, strongly correlated electron systems. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Wisconsin
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Dan Dessau
Dessau@Colorado.edu

ARPES measurements of correlated electron systems, including superconductors, magnetic materials, topological insulators, and strong spin-orbit coupled materials. (Experimentalist)


Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Leo Radzihovsky
radzihov@colorado.edu

I am interested in states of condensed matter and phase transitions between them, particularly when fluctuations and correlations are qualitatively important. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Colorado at Boulder
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Senthil Todadri
senthil@mit.edu

I am interested in novel quantum phases and phase transitions of correlated electron systems. Specific examples include quantum spin liquid phases of frustrated magnets, non-fermi liquid metallic phases of electronic systems, and related phase transitions. (Theorist)


Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Oskar Vafek
vafek@magnet.fsu.edu

I am interested in all aspects of condensed matter theory. My recent projects involved understanding high temperature cuprate superconductors in magnetic field, building low energy effective description of iron-based superconductors, and investigating electronic multicriticality of 2-dimensional systems with parabolic band touching, such as bilayer graphene. (Theorist)


Institution: National High Magnetic Field Lab and Florida State University
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