Topological States in Condensed Matter Physics
The Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposium
With the support of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
at the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus
General Director: David Gross, University of California at Santa Barbara
Co-directors:
Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science
Shou Cheng Zhang, Stanford University
The school will focus on the following topics:
Topological insulators, Quantum Hall effect, Topological quantum computation, Graphene, Topological aspects of
spin-orbit coupling, Non-abelian lattice models
Speakers:
Vladimir Falko, The University of Manchester
Moty Heiblum, Weizmann Institute of Science
Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Levin, The University of Chicago
Andreas Ludwig, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chetan Nayak, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yuval Oreg, Weizmann Institute of Science
Kareljan Schoutens, University of Amsterdam
Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science
Shou Cheng Zhang, Stanford University
Seminar speakers:
Assa Auerbach, Technion
Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
Joseph E. Avron, Technion
David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University