Joint+Pitt-GMU+team+meeting+for+quantum+gas+projects

//Review Meeting for Cold Atom Research Programs funded by// //Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and // //Army Research Office (ARO)// //Feb 27-28, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA// =Saturday, 27 Feb 2016=

Bose-fermi mixture in a shaken lattice
 * 8:00 am (pitt time>>>** 9:00 pm Sat. 27 Feb **Beiing time) Dr. Max Arzamasovs**

Itinerant chiral ferromagnetism in a trapped Rashba spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas
 * 9:00 am Mr. Shang-shun Zhang**

Roton-Type Mode Softening in a Quantum Gas with Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interactions
 * 10:00 am Dr. Xuguang Yue**


 * 11:00 am--1:00 pm Lunch Break**


 * 2:00 pm--5:00 pm** **Free discussion**


 * 5:00 pm--6:30 pm Dinner**

A continuum compass model on the honeycomb lattice
 * 7:00 pm (pitt time>>> ** 8:00 am Sun. 28 Feb ** Beiing time) Dr. Hai-yuan zou **

The steady state of integrablemodel after quenching
 * 8:00 pm Dr. Yang Yang**

Exotic phases of ultracold atoms in non-standard optical lattices: from topological orbital superfluidity to chiral orbital magnetism
 * 9:00 pm Dr. Bo Liu**

=Sunday, 28 Feb 2016=

Competing many-body instabilities in two-dimensional dipolar Fermi gases
 * 8:00 am** **(pitt time>>>** 9 :00 pm Sun. 28 Feb **Beiing time)** ** Dr. Ahmet Keles **

Emergent edge modes in periodically driven quantum Hall insulators and p-wave superconductors
 * 9:00 am** ** Prof. Erhai Zhao **

Dirac bosons and topological elementary excitations, Goldstone bosons by symmetry transformation, etc
 * 10:00 am** **Prof. W. Vincent Liu &** **Mr. Zehan Li**


 * 12:00 am--1:00 pm Lunch Break**


 * 2:00 pm--5:00 pm** **Free discussion**


 * 5:00 pm--6:30 pm Dinner** **Workshop Ends**

Acknowledge support by
 **Thursday, 5 November 2015 – University Club Ballroom B (second floor)** 8:00 Breakfast at the University Club (Ballroom B, second floor) 8:50 am Welcome //Morning Session Chair//: //Nadya Mason, University of Illinois// 9:00 Majorana zero mode under a microscope 9:45 Majorana and Shiba states probed by a superconducting lead 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Topological Superconductivity Along a Chain of Magnetic Atoms 11:45 Multichannel Majorana wires: Effects of disorder and interactions 12:30 Lunch Break (on your own) //Afternoon Session Chair//: //Andrei Bernevig, Princeton// 2:00 Fractional Josephson Effect in Number-Conserving Systems 2:45 S-TI-S Josephson junction networks: a platform for exploring and exploiting topological states and Majorana fermions 3:30 Coffee Break 4:00 From Majorana- to Para-Fermions in Nanowires and Atomic Chains 5:00 pm Lab Tour PQI 6:30 pm Shuttle bus to the restaurant 7:00 pm Conference Dinner at The Grandview Saloon (by invitation)
 * Sergey Frolov, University of Pittsburgh**
 * Jeremy Levy, Pittsburgh Quantum Institute**
 * Jian Li, Princeton University**
 * Falko Pientka, Harvard University**
 * Leonid Glazman, Yale University**
 * Piet Brouwer, FU Berlin**
 * Roman Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q**
 * Dale Van Harlingen, University of Illinois**
 * Daniel Loss, Basel University**

 **Friday, 6 November 2015 – University Club Ballroom B (second floor)** 8:00 Breakfast at the University Club (Ballroom B, second floor) //Morning Session Chair//: //Ali Yazdani, Princeton University// 9:00 Coupling effects in metal-semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures 9:45 Experimental progress on Majoranas in InSb nanowires 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00
 * Tudor Stanescu, West Virginia University**
 * Attila Geresdi, TU Delft**
 * Charles Marcus, Niels Bohr Institute**

11:45 Majorana zero modes in normal-superconductor junctions without nontrivial topology 12:30 Lunch Break (on your own) //Afternoon Session Chair//: //Ken Shih, University of Texas at Austin// 2:00 InAs/GaSb edge states as a platform for Majorana States 2:45 The mean-field method in the theory of superconductivity: is it adequate for quantum-information purposes? 3:30 Coffee Break 4:00 Modest Majorana milestones on the path to braiding-based quantum computation
 * Ramon Aguado, CSIC Madrid**
 * Allan MacDonald, UT Austin**
 * Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois**
 * Jason Alicea, Caltech**

5:00 Poster Session (Hatridge lab, 100 Old Engineering Hall)

 **Saturday, November 7 2015** **– University Club Ballroom B (second floor)**

8:00 Breakfast at the University Club (Ballroom B, second floor) //Morning Session Chair: Erik Bakkers, Eindhoven University of Technology// 9:00 The half-filled Landau level: the case for Dirac composite fermions 9:45 Controlled Finite Momentum Pairing and Spatially Varying Order Parameter in Proximitized HgCdTe Quantum Wells 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Edge Transport in the Trivial Phase of InAs/GaSb 11:45 Electrostatic control of a quantum Hall ferromagnet, a new platform for non-Abelian excitations 12:30 Workshop Ends Exotic phases of ultracold atoms in non-standard optical lattices: from topological orbital superfluidity to chiral orbital magnetism
 * Roger Mong, University of Pittsburgh**
 * Amir Yacoby, Harvard University**
 * Fabrizio Nichele, Niels Bohr Institute**
 * Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University**