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We are  proud to announce the  upcoming Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop, to be held here on April 18-19, 2025. 

Traditionally, topology and strong correlations lived in different universes.   The former is a function of band structure whereas the latter stems from a breakdown of perturbation theory.  These universes now collide with the advent of 2-dimensional moir\'{e} van der Waals materials. In such materials, strong correlations and topology both conspire to yield new phases of matter.  The recent effort is on explaining analogues of the fractional Hall effect in the absence of a magnetic field, dubbed fractional Chern Insulators.  This workshop will focus on recent experiments and theoretical attempts to describe such fractionally quantized transport in the absence of a magnetic field.

The Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory will host a joint symposium on theoretical physics involving participants from University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This gathering will bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, visitors, and faculty from these institutions in a relaxed atmosphere for talks and informal discussions on exciting topics at the frontiers of theoretic physics and related areas.  The organizers ask that those who wish to attend please register here. Please visit https://publish.illinois.edu/urbanafest-2024  for more information.