Program

NQMP 2014 Program (PDF)

NQMP 2014 Poster Program (PDF)

*SH = Seaside House
*B250 = Seminar Room B250, Level B, Center Building, Main Campus

Tuesday, 13th May 2014
19:30 Welcome Reception   (food and drink will be provided) SH
Wednesday, 14th May 2014
08:50

Welcome
(10)

G. Iwama
(OIST)
  B250
New directions in materials  (Chair: Zenji Hiroi)
09:00 Overview Talk
(50+10)
R. J. Cava
(Princeton)
Searching for new geometrically frustrated magnets and materials with Dirac electrons B250
10:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
C. Tassel
(Kyoto)
Designing novel perovskites with mixed anions B250
10:30 Coffee      
11:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
M. Hayward
(Oxford)
Topochemical Reduction as a Route to New Quantum Materials B250
11:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
K. Matsuhira
(K.I.T.)
Metal-Insulator Transitions in Pyrochlore Iridates B250
12:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
M. Udagawa
(Tokyo)
Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors B250
12:30 Lunch & Discussions   (optional campus tour 13:30)  
Low-dimensional and topological systems  (Chair: Hikaru Kawamura)
15:30 Overview Talk
(50+10)
Y. Ando
(Osaka)
Topological Insulators and Superconductors B250
16:30 Contributed Talk
(25+5)
B. J. Yang
(RIKEN)
Quantum criticality of topological phase transition in 3D interacting electronic systems B250
17:00 Coffee      
17:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
J. Moore
(UC Berkeley)
The quantum spin Hall edge as a tool for nonequilibrium correlated physics B250
18:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
K. Dani
(OIST)
Emergent Opto-electronic Phenomena in Artificial Van Der Waals Heterostructures B250
18:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
D. Konstantinov
(OIST)
Novel state of a nondegenerate two-dimensional electron system induced by a resonant microwave excitation B250
19:30 Dinner     SH
20:30 1st Poster Session     SH
Thursday, 15th May 2014
Quantum spin systems and frustrated magnetism  (Chair: Bruce Gaulin)
09:00 Overview Talk
(50+10)
L. Balents
(UCSB)
Quantum phenomena in frustrated magnets B250
10:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
G. W. Chern
(Los Alamos)
Spin and orbital order in frustrated vanadium spinels B250
10:30 Coffee      
11:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
K. Ross
(Johns Hopkins)
Magnetic Correlations in a Frustrated Ni3+ - Based Spin 1/2 Honeycomb Lattice B250
11:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
L. Jaubert
(OIST)
Spin liquids and exotic phases in rare earth pyrochlore oxides B250
12:00 Contributed Talk
(25+5)
M. Takigawa
(Tokyo)
Search for a nematic phase and bound magnon pairs in LiCuVO4 B250
12:30 Lunch & Discussions   (optional campus tour 13:30)  
Quantum spin systems and frustrated magnetism  (Chair: Jason Gardner)
15:30 Overview Talk
(50+10)
Y. Tokura
(RIKEN)
Emergent phenomena from topological spin textures B250
16:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
G. Jackeli
(MPI-FKF)
Magnetic order and excitations in insulating iridates B250
17:00 Coffee      
17:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
S. Nakatsuji
(Tokyo)
Topological excitations and anomalous semi-metallic phase in Pr based pyrochlore oxides B250
18:00 Contributed Talk
(25+5)
Y. Wan
(Johns Hopkins)

Z2 spin liquid in the S=1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet

B250
18:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
Y. Okamoto
(Nagoya)
Geometrical Frustration and Bond Alternation on the Breathing Pyrochlore Lattice B250
19:30 Dinner     SH
20:30 2nd Poster Session     SH
Friday, 16th May 2014
Unconventional superconductivity  (Chair: Yukitoshi Motome)
08:30 Overview Talk
(50+10)
H. H. Wen
(Nanjing)
Superconductivity mechanism in iron based superconductors: a view from transport, tunneling and thermodynamics B250
09:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
J. Yamaura
(T.I.T.)
Bipartite magnetic parent phases in the iron oxypnictide superconductor B250
10:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
M. Nohara
(Okayama)
Development of high-Tc superconductors using the chemistry of arsenic B250
10:30 Coffee      
11:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
Y. Yanase
(Niigata)
Exotic superconductivity in spin-orbit coupled systems B250
11:30 Contributed Talk
(25+5)
D. Efremov
(IFW Dresden)
Electronic correlations stabilizing time-reversal broken, chiral superconductivity in single-trilayer TiSe2 B250
12:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
Y. Onuki
(Ryukyus)
Split Fermi Surface Properties in the Rashba-type and Chiral Structure  Compounds B250
12:30 Excursion    (lunch box will be provided)  
20:00 Banquet     SH
Saturday, 17th May 2014
Applications of novel materials  (Chair: Takahisa Arima)
09:00 Overview Talk
(50+10)
P. Littlewood
(ANL)
Engineering quantum materials for energy technologies B250
10:00 Contributed Talk
(25+5)
D. Hirai
(Tokyo)
Exotic phases induced by spin-orbit coupling in Ir oxides B250
10:30 Coffee      
11:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
Y. Qi
(OIST)
Air Exposure Effects on a Hole Transport Material for Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells B250
11:30 Invited Talk
(25+5)
Y. Onose
(Tokyo)
Topological effects on magnetic excitations in magnetic materials B250
12:00 Invited Talk
(25+5)
S. Ishiwata
(Tokyo)
Semimetallic transition-metal chalcogenides as low-temperature thermoelectrics B250
12:30 Lunch & Discussions      
Summary and Closing (Chair: Nic Shannon)
15:30 Summary Talk
(25+5)
H. Kageyama
(Kyoto)
New Materials B250
16:00 Summary Talk
(25+5)
N. Hussey
(HMFL, Nijmegen)
New Phases B250
16:30 Closing
(30)
N. Shannon
(OIST)
  B250
17:00 Coffee      
19:00 BBQ Dinner     SH