All times are US Eastern Daylight Time11:00 am – 11:15 am
Opening Remarks from the Organizers
Opening Remarks from the Kavli Foundation and MRS
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Opening Keynote Talk: Emily Carter, UCLA (30 mins)
Talk Theme: Excited-states from a chemistry perspective
Q&A and open discussion after the talk (15 mins)
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Keynote Talk: Angel Rubio, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (30 mins)
Talk Theme: Nonequilibrium dynamics from a condensed matter perspective
Q&A and open discussion after the talk (15 mins)
12:45 pm – 1:15 pm
Panel Discussion: Emily Carter, Angel Rubio, and Tom Deveareux (30 mins)
Moderator: Prineha Narang
Theme: Bridging across theoretical and computational materials physics, condensed matter and quantum chemistry approaches to excited-states and non-equilibrium dynamics.
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm Break (15 minutes)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Keynote Talks “Pairing” Experiment and Theory: Regimes of non-equilibrium dynamics
Driving out-of-equilibrium presents unique opportunities for both fundamental exploration of materials, understanding dynamics, and technological applications. Understanding and controlling the dynamics of many-body states that are driven by external stimuli, such as electromagnetic or heat pulses, have been widely recognized as grand challenges. Using electromagnetic fields, the behavior of materials can be tuned and probed on ultrashort-timescales which provides an entirely new avenue for understanding the microscopic mechanisms underlying their behavior, and intriguingly, creates novel states that are inaccessible in equilibrium. Capturing these dynamics poses unique computational and theoretical challenges. In fact, the simultaneous contribution of processes that occur on many time and length-scales have eluded state-of-the-art computational and model Hamiltonian approaches alike for decades, necessitating a new computational and theoretical lens that will form the focus of the session this afternoon. Our session will feature a strategic pairing of experimental and theory talks by leaders in the field who will highlight open questions and give their views on the road ahead.
Experimental statement of the “problem”, talks by A. Cavalleri and D. Basov
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Talk Theme: Experimental directions in photo-induced superconductivity and open questions
Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (30 mins)
Q&A and open discussion after the talk (15 mins)
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Talk Theme: Experimental probes of dynamics in quantum matter
Dmitri Basov, Columbia University (30 mins)
Q&A and open discussion after the talk (15 mins)
Computational materials science approaches to dynamics in quantum matter
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Talk Theme: Non-perturbative and non-equilibrium dynamics
Eugene Demler, Harvard University (30 mins)
Q&A and open discussion after the talk (15 mins)
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
Talk Theme: Non-equilibrium dynamics from an atomistic perspective
James Rondinelli, Northwestern University (30 mins)
Q&A and open discussion after the talk (15 mins)
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm
“Short” Talks:
Vedika Khemani, Stanford University (15 mins)
Kenneth Burch, Boston College (15 mins)
Martin Claassen, University of Pennsylvania (15 mins)
5:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Lightning Talks:
Jon Curtis
Johannes Flick
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panel Discussion (30 mins)
Theme: Incorporating ab initio and model Hamiltonian approaches to non-equilibrium dynamics that access experimentally realizable regimes.
Moderator: Tom Deveareux
Panelists: Eugene Demler, James Rondinelli, Vedika Khemani, Dmitri Basov, and Kenneth Burch
Open Discussion Time
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