Conference Organisers
▪ Zhong Fang [email protected]
▪ Claudia Felser [email protected]
▪ Thomas Frauenheim [email protected]
▪ Werner Hanke [email protected]
▪ Binghai Yan [email protected]
http://www.bccms.uni-bremen.de/veranstaltun-gen/2012/cecam_tm//
Topological Materials2 0 1 2 BCCMS Bremen
Center for Computational Materials Science
Tuesday, August 14th 2012 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)
08:00 - 08:50 Registration
08:50 - 09:00 Opening and welcome - Thomas Frauen-heim
Session: ARPES and Growth (I)
09:00 - 09:40 Yoichi Ando, Osaka University (Japan)
Probing the exotic surface states in topologi-cal insulators and superconductors
09:40 - 10:20 Ke He, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Magnetic topological insulators
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 Yulin Chen, Oxford University (UK)
Visualization and manipulation of novel elec-tronic structures in topological insulators
11:40 - 12:20 Philip Hofmann, Aarhus University (Denmark)Electronic structure of clean and adsorbate-covered topological insulator surfaces
12:20 - 14:30 Lunch Break
Session: Theory(I)
14:30 - 15:10 Xiaoliang Qi, Stanford University (US)
Axion topological field theory of topological superconductors
15:10 - 15:50 Vladimir Juricic, Leiden University (The Netherlands)The space group classification of topological band insulators
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00 Mikhail I. Ketsnelson, University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)Semiclassical theory for massless Dirac fermions
17:00 - 17:40 Zhong Wang, Tsinghua University (China)
Simplified topological invariants for interac-ting topological insulators
19:00 - 21:30 Welcome Reception (Bremen Town Hall)
Wednesday, August 15th 2012 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)
Session: Transport experiments (I)
09:00 - 09:40 Christoph Bruene, University of Wuerzburg (Germany)Dirac fermions in HgTe
09:40 - 10:20 Haim Beidenkopf, Princeton University (US)
Visualising the response of topological states to disorder
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 Alberto Morpurgo, University of Geneva (Switzerland)Normal and superconducting transport through gate Bi2Se3
11:30 - 12:10 Alexander Brinkman, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Josephson supercurrent through topological insulator surface states
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session: ARPES and Growth (II)
14:00 - 15:00 Leo Kouwenhoven, Delft University of Tech-nology (The Netherlands)Majorana fermions in semiconductor nano-wires
15:00 - 15:40 Hailin Peng, Peking University (China)
Controlled synthesis of topological insula-tor nanostructures and their application in optoelectronic devices
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:50 Christian Ast, Max Planck Institute Stuttgart (Germany)Reactive chemical doping of the Bi2Se3 topo-logical insulators
16:50 - 17:30 Hugo Dil, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Direct spectroscopic evidence of self-protec-ting topological states
19:00 - 23:00 Conference Dinner (Juergenshof - Bremen)
Thursday, August 16th 2012 (BCCMS - University Campus, TAB-Building)
Session: Theory (II)
09:00 - 09:40 Tim Wehling, University of Bremen (Germa-ny)
Realistic theory of magnetic impurities in dirac materials
09:40 - 10:20 Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia (Canada)Majorana fermions in proximity-coupled topological insulator nanowires
10:20 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50 Oliver Rader, Helmholtz Center (Germany)Influence of magnetic moments on the topo-logical surface state of Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 by photoelectron spectroscopy
11:50 - 12:30 Xi Dai, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Interaction induced topological insulators
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break and Coffee
14:30 - 15:10 Bjoern Trauzettel, University of Wuerzburg (Germany)Transport properties of helical Tomonage Luttinger liquids
15:10 - 15:50 Chaoxing Liu, Pennsylvania State University (US)Chiral gauge field and axial anomaly in a Weyl semi-metal
Session: Transport experiments (II)
15:50 - 16:30 Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva (Switzerland)Far infrared magneto-optical properties of topological insulators
16:30 - 17:10 Li Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Characterization of proximity-effect-induced superconductivity in single crystals of Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3
Session: First-principles calculations
17:10 - 17:50 Gustav Bihlmayer, Juelich Research Center (Germany)
Edge states of 2D topological insulators explored by density-functional theory
18:00 - 21:30 Poster Session & Buffet (Catering Service)
Friday, August 17th 2012 (BCCMS - University Campus, TAB-Building)
Session: First-principles calculations
09:00 - 09:40 Zhong Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)Topological insulators and topological semi-metals
09:40 - 10:20 Yugui Yao, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
The theoretical design of two-dimensional topological insulators
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 Haijun Zhang, Stanford University (US)Actinide topological insulator materials with strong interaction
11:30 - 12:10 Oleg Yazyev, Swiss Federal Institutes of Tech-nology (Switzerland)First-principles calculations of bismuth chalcogenide topological insulators: DFT and beyond
12:10 - 12:50 Stanislav Chadov, University of Mainz (Germany)
Disorder-tuned transport properties in topo-logical insulators: First-principle study
12:50 - 13:00 Closing words
13:00 Departure
