New Directions in Condensed Matter Physics 2025 - Program

Friday, December 5th, 2025 (TBD)

 

Opening Remarks (8.50am)

 

Chair: Rafael Fernandes

9:00 am - Steve Kivelson, Quantum Spin Liquid from Electron-Phonon Coupling.

9:40 am - Vidya Madhavan, Vector magnetic field studies of UTe2.

 

Coffee Break (10:20am)

 

Chair: Pouyan Ghaemi

10:50 am - Andrey Chubukov, Breakdown of the Migdal-Eliashberg theory.

11:30 am - Todadri Senthil, Superconductivity from the fractional quantum Hall effect.

 

LUNCH (12:10pm)

 

Chair: Ramanjit Sohal

1:30 pm - Duncan Haldane, Fluid dynamics of the Quantum Hall Effect.

2:10 pm - Charlie Kane, Topology of the Fermi Sea.

 

Coffee Break (2:50pm)

 

Chair: Laimei Nie

3:20 pm - Claudio Chamon, Combinatorial Gauge Symmetry: A framework for engineering static one- and two-body Hamiltonians to host topologically ordered quantum phases.

4:00 pm - Eun-Ah Kim, Learning Quantum Matter.

4:40 pm - Shivaji Sondhi, How might quantum platforms reshape many body physics?

 

End (5:20 pm)

Saturday, December 6th, 2025 (TBD)

 

Chair: Vadim Oganesyan

9:00 am - Subir Sachdev, Observation of the Yamaji effect, and fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) of the cuprate phase diagram. .

9:40 am - John Tranquada, Pair Density Waves as the Key to Understanding Cuprate Superconductivity.

 

Coffee Break (10:20am)

 

Chair: Yizhi You

10:50 am - Shinsei Ryu, Charge fluctuations in fermionic systems.

11:30 am - Peter Abbamonte, Critical CDW dynamics in ErTe3 studied with momentum-resolved EELS.

LUNCH (12:10pm)

 

Chair: Alan Dorsey

1:30 pm - Matthew Fisher, Quantum Dynamics in Open Systems with Symmetry.

2:10 pm - Nati Seiberg, Symmetry, gauging, proliferation, and condensation.

 

Coffee Break (2:50pm)

 

Chair: Taylor Hughes

3:20 PM - Xiao-Gang Wen, Non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states.

4:00 pm - Erez Berg, Extracting topological information from bulk multipartite entanglement.

4:40 pm - Paul Fendley, The Uses of Lattice Topological Defects.

 

End (5:20 pm)

 

BANQUET (7 pm) (by invitation only)

Sunday, December 7th, 2025

 

Chair: Kai Sun

9:00 am - Gabriela Pasquini, Exploring the interplay between nematic and superconducting order through transport experiments under strain.

9:40 am - Gustavo Lozano, Nematic–Superconducting Coupling and Vortex Dynamics in Ginzburg–Landau Theory.

 

Coffee Break (10:20am)

 

Chair: Smitha Vishveshwara

10:50 am - Hart Goldman, Thermodynamics of dilute anyon gases.

11:30 am - Mike Stone, Urbana with Eduardo: Early Years.

 

Closing Remarks (12:10 pm)