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Europe/Rome 2018-05-03 11:00:00 2018-05-03 12:00:00 ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: Entanglement Beyond Two Qubits Entanglement is at heart of many interesting phenomena in quantum physics. From determining important properties in many-body physics to practical communication using quantum light, understanding and proving entanglement is a paradigmatic task across many subdisciplines. It is relatively well understood for small Hilbert space dimensions, however it becomes intractably complex for large dimensions and particle numbers. In this talk I would like to give an introductory overview about state-of-the-art methods in entanglement theory for nonetheless navigating high-dimensional Hilbert spaces and reliably certifying entanglement within. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 3 May 2018

Europe/Rome 2018-05-08 11:00:00 2018-05-08 12:00:00 Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it 8 May 2018

Europe/Rome 2018-05-15 11:00:00 2018-05-15 12:00:00 Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it 15 May 2018

Europe/Rome 2018-05-22 11:00:00 2018-05-22 12:00:00 Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 22 May 2018

Europe/Rome 2018-05-07 08:00:00 2018-05-18 22:00:00 School on Synchrotron and Free-Electron-Laser Methods for Multidisciplinary Applications | (smr 3202) The School will introduce young scientists to synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) based research with a glance to the future. The School’s interdisciplinary character will provide a stimulating environment for discussions with leaders in the field. DESCRIPTION   X-ray based analytical methods play an increasingly important role in many domains of fundamental research and applied science. The international cast of lecturers will introduce the basic principles of advanced X-ray spectroscopy and scattering techniques. Emphasis will be given on how these techniques allow accessing the complexity of matter by monitoring the atomic arrangement, electronic, magnetic and chemical properties of individual building blocks and their response to external stimuli like temperature, pressure, electric or magnetic fields and light pulses. The program will be complemented by lectures on recent advances in synchrotron and XFEL sources enabling novel experimental methodologies. Demonstration sessions will be organized at Elettra’s synchrotron and XFEL facilities. TOPICS   • Fundamentals of synchrotron and FEL radiation and production. • Beamlines: photon transport and handling • X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy • X-ray Crystallography and Powder Diffraction • Inelastic and Elastic Scattering (SAXS, WAXS and RIXS) • Photoelectron spectroscopy • Imaging techniques using X-rays and advantages using coherent X-rays • Spectromicroscopy and imaging using X-rays and IR • Time-resolved approaches using FELs and synchrotrons Grants: a limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to those from developing countries. Support for attending the School will also be provided by the H2020 funded European Cluster of Advanced Laser Light Sources (EUCALL) and the French research network XFEL-Science: - EUCALL will provide a limited number of travel bursaries for young scientists from European Laboratories. For more details and to apply, see the following web page: https://www.eucall.eu/bursaries/spring_school - The XFEL-Science network will provide a limited number of travel bursaries for students from French Laboratories. Please contact Jan Luning for more information when applying to the School. There is no registration fee.   ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 7 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

Europe/Rome 2018-05-14 08:00:00 2018-05-18 22:00:00 International Conference on Multi-Condensate Superconductivity and Superfluidity in Solids and Ultra-cold Gases | (smr 3204) NEW DEADLINE to request participation without financial support:   22 APRIL 2018   PLEASE NOTE The organizers will select some of the received abstracts for oral presentations. Best Poster Awards are foreseen. No registration fee is required. The organizers will offer welcome reception, coffee breaks, and conference dinner to all participants, without additional costs. Participants wishing to present a poster during the Conference should kindly indicate this on the application by uploading a short abstract with their surname/name/institute address/ title and brief - max one page - description MAIN TOPICS: Novel quantum phenomena in multicomponent superconductors and superfluids Competing orders in multicomponent quantum systems Multicomponent superconductivity and superfluidity in 2D materials and heterostructures Topological effects in multicomponent quantum systems Vortical and skyrmionic states in multicomponent quantum fluids   The standard picture of superconductors and superfluids is based on the existence of a single quantum condensate, but recent advances in material science and ultracold atoms opened a paradigm of multicomponent quantum fluids. New directions in this multifacetted and booming field are opened by emergent 2D materials, heterostructures, multiorbital materials, and ultracold atomic mixtures, in which superconductivity and superfluidity are readily realized, and where links between observed quantum effects can be made and knowledge can be cross-fertilized. This MultiSuper conference is aimed to help understand, quantify, and manipulate the effects of hybridization between multiple condensates in a single system, as a pathway to yet unseen quantum phenomena. The key experts will be assembled to present and interpret state-of-the-art experiments and theory, and advance fundamental physics and material science in this field. Confirmed speakers: Saeed Abedinpour (IASBS, Zanjan) Vanderlei S. Bagnato (University of Sao Paulo)  Antun Balaz (Institute of Physics, Belgrade) Antonio Bianconi (RICMASS, Rome) Lara Benfatto (CNR and Rome “Sapienza”) Mauro M. Doria (IF - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro) Francois Dubin (INSP, Paris) Stephen D. Edkins (Cornell University, New York) Leonardo Fallani (LENS and University of Florence) Laura Fanfarillo (SISSA, Trieste) Stefano Giorgini (University of Trento) Walter Hofstetter (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)  Allan MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin) David Neilson (University of Camerino & University of Antwerp) Muneto Nitta (Keio University, Tokyo) Sebastiano Peotta (Aalto University, Finland) Nick Proukakis (University of Newcastle, UK) Dimitri Roditchev (INSP, Paris) Carlos Sa de Melo (Georgia Tech, Atlanta) Daniela Stornaiuolo (University of Naples Federico II) Jacques Tempère (University of Antwerp) Alexei Vagov (Bayreuth University) Andrey Varlamov (CNR-Spin, Rome) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 14 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

Europe/Rome 2018-06-11 08:00:00 2018-06-15 22:00:00 Conference on Quantum Dynamics of Disordered Interacting Systems | (smr 3212) The Conference will address the physics of disordered quantum many-body systems, with an emphasis on quantum dynamics of systems that are under active experimental investigation. The focus will be on the fundamental physics exhibited by novel systems and on emerging phenomena. Description Quantum dynamics of disordered many-body systems remains a vibrant research area. In particular, recent years have witnessed an outstanding interest in Anderson localization, one of most fundamental and ubiquitous phenomena in modern condensed matter physics in the many-body setting. Experimentally, it has become possible to explore the remarkably rich interplay of interaction and localization phenomena in a variety of quantum many-body systems. Concepts of quantum information theory, such as entanglement entropy and spectra, play a prominent role in the characterization of phases of strongly interacting disordered matter. The interplay of disorder and interaction effects becomes particularly intricate in systems with non-trivial topology, such as surfaces and edges of topological insulators. The Conference will bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss recent progress and future perspectives. Topics Disordered quantum many-body systems, including cold atoms in magneto-optical traps, disordered semiconductors, electron glasses in amorphous systems, graphene, topological insulators, disordered superconducting lms and wires, and various implementations of quantum circuits; Many-body localization; Periodically driven systems, time crystals; Quantum information and entanglement; Topological phases; Transport in disordered interacting systems; Superconductor-insulator transitions; Disordered bosons, super uid-Bose glass transitions; Quantum quenches, far-from-equilibrium phenomena. List of Speakers   John Bollinger (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Piet Brouwer (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Eugene Demler (Harvard University, USA) Jens Eisert Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Rosario Fazio (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Leonid Glazman (Yale University, USA) Igor Gornyi (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany) Moty Heiblum (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Vedika Khemani (Harvard University, USA) Curt von Keyserlingk (Univ. Birmingham, UK) Nicolas Laflorencie (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) Leonid Levitov (MIT, USA) Netanel Lindner (Technion, Israel) Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University, USA) Giovanni Modugno (UniFI, Florence, Italy) Laurens Molenkamp (University of Würzburg, Germany)  Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley, USA)  Markus Müller  (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Guido Pagano (Univ. of Maryland, USA) Frederic Pierre (CNRS / Université Paris-Sud, France) Frank Pollmann (Technische Universität München, Germany) Ivan Protopopov (Geneva, Switzerland) Gil Refael (Caltech, USA) Jörg Schmiedmayer (Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria) Dan Shahar (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Lieven Vandersypen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Ali Yazdani (Princeton University, USA) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 11 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2018

Europe/Rome 2018-07-09 08:00:00 2018-07-13 22:00:00 Conference on Physics of Defects in Solids: Quantum Mechanics Meets Topology | (smr 3221) Goals and brief description of the conference Defects in crystalline solids are ubiquitous. It is the second law of thermodynamics that gives rise to the appearance of a certain amount of disorder in crystalline materials at finite temperatures. Moreover, defects can be present in synthetic materials well above the equilibrium concentration due to the imperfections of material production processes or due to the exposure of the system to irradiation with energetic particles. Such lattice imperfections have a strong influence on the electronic, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties of the solids, normally deteriorating their characteristics. However, defects not always have detrimental effects on material properties, with the most prominent example being the doping of semiconductors by controllable introduction of impurities using ion implantation. In general, treatments of solids with beams of energetic ions and electrons have been shown to be a very powerful tool for the post-synthesis tailoring of material characteristics. The goal of the conference is to bring together active researchers in the field, as well as several experts in the related areas, to discuss "state of the art" in theory and experiment dealing with the physics of defects in solids. The effects of impurities and point/line defects on various properties of solids will be addressed, and the attendees will be able to learn not only the experimental facts, but also understand how the defects are treated within the framework of computational and analytical methods in theoretical physics. Particular attention is going to be paid to defects in nanomaterials, as the reduced dimensionality strongly affects their behavior. The Program will include about 20 oral presentations given by invited speakers, a poster session, and a limited number of short talks selected from contributed abstracts. Topics to be addressed Modern techniques (Raman spectroscopy, STM, XPS, TEM, etc.) used to assess concentration of defect in solids and identify their types First-principles modeling of native defects and impurities Ion and electron irradiation-induced defects Simulations of ion impacts onto solids Defects in superconductors Defects in low-dimensional materials (graphene, inorganic 2D materials, nanotubes etc.) Topological defects Defects for quantum computing Tutorial The conference will be preceded by a half-day tutorial where an introduction to the techniques used to characterize the defects will be given, along with the modern computational techniques used to get theoretical insights into defect behavior. List of invited speakers and lecturers at the tutorial:   D. D. AWSCHALOM, University of Chicago, USA U. BANGERT, University of Limerick, Ireland P. BØGGILD, DTU Nanotech, Denmark D. EFREMOV, IFW, Dresden, Germany D. GOLBERG, Queensland University of Technology, Australia A. JORIO, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil K. KAASBJERG, Danish Technical University, Denmark H. KOMSA, Aalto University, Finland J. KOTAKOSKI, University of Vienna, Austria G. LEE, Seoul National University, South Korea V. MEUNIER, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA T. MICHELY, University of Köln, Germany M. NASTASI, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA J. NEUGEBAUER, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany L. PIZZAGALLI, CNRS, France K. SUENAGA, AIST, Japan M. SCARDAMAGLIA, University of Mons, Belgium M. SCHLEBERGER, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany T. SUSI, University of Vienna, Austria A. VANTOMME, KU Leuven, Belgium A. WEE, University of Singapore B. YAKOBSON, Rice University, USA     Several additional invited speakers will be selected from the submitted abstracts. If the applicant wants his/her abstract to be included in the Conference book of abstracts, it should also be submitted as a Word file using a template posted at https://defectsinsolids.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/abstract_template2.docx Grants A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. Deadlines 31 March 2018 for those who need visa 15 April 2018 otherwise --- Please visit also https://defectsinsolids.wordpress.com/ ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 9 Jul 2018 - 13 Jul 2018