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The Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory will host  the  upcoming New Directions in Condensed Matter Physics Conference on December 5-7 2025.

Many of the significant advances in condensed matter physics over the past decades have been enabled by employing the conceptual framework of quantum field theory  in areas of Condensed Matter Physics of high experimental relevance, such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, unconventional superconductivity, electronic liquid crystals, topological phases of matter and gauge theory, quantum criticality, and quantum spin liquids.

As a celebration of Eduardo Fradkin’s 75th birthday, who pioneered many of these ideas, the 2.5-day conference "New Directions in Condensed Matter Physics" will bring together renowned experts on these topics to discuss the recent advances and the new directions in this vibrant and ever expanding field.

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.