Organized by Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Dates:June 23-July 18, 2014

Organizers:Liang Fu (MIT), Xiao-Liang Qi (Stanford), Zheng-Yu Weng (IASTU), Cenke Xu (UCSB), Hong Yao (IASTU), Hui Zhai (IASTU)

Recent developments in topological states of matter and strongly correlated systems have made condensed matter physics a field of both conceptual deepness and application potential. In the last few years, it has been understood that strong interaction and topology together significantly enrich the states of matter and phenomena in condensed matter systems. Theoretically, new states of matter such as symmetry protected/enriched topological phases were proposed and are currently under active study; experimentally, new materials and structures were synthesized, and these systems demonstrate remarkable properties such as high temperature superconductivity, non-fermi liquid behavior, spin liquid behaviors, Majorana fermion zero mode, etc. Motivated by all these exciting accomplishments in this field, we organize this small scale summer program to communicate about recent progresses, and envision future directions.

Invited speakers:

B Andrei Bernevig

Xianhui Chen

Eduardo Fradkin

Jinfeng Jia

Hong-Chen Jiang

Yong-Baek Kim

Dung-Hai Lee

Sung-Sik Lee

Ying Liu

Naoto Nagaosa

Kai Sun

More information on this forum will be updated on the website of IASTU:http://www.castu.tsinghua.edu.cn and the program website: http://iastuvisitor.wikispaces.com/