Quantum materials have unusual thermal, magnetic, and electrical properties. The ability to understand and engineer these materials and control their properties could virtually revolutionize every aspect of society and economy. It will enable new sustainable quantum technologies ranging from quantum information processing, quantum sensors to novel approaches for resolving healthcare needs.

Welcome to an exciting symposium!

Speakers

Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University, United States: "In Search for the Next Magic Stone" - Abstract and speaker bio

Irfan Siddiqi, UC Berkeley, United States: "Computing with Entanglement: A New Chapter in Quantum Materials" - Abstract and speaker bio

Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute, Germany: "Chirality and Topology" - Abstract and speaker bio

Subir Sachdev, Harvard University, United States: "When nature entangles millions of particles: from quantum materials to black holes" - Abstract and speaker bio

Katarina J. Franke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany: "Is there a superconducting one-way road? - Directing the current through superconducting junctions with single magnetic atoms" - Abstract and speaker bio

Jens K. Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark: "New catalytic materials are key to the green transition" (presentation online) - Abstract and speaker bio

Susanne Stemmer, UC Santa Barbara, United States: "Thin Film Topological Matter" - Abstract and speaker bio

Ulf Gran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden: "The destruction of particles: when interactions become too strong for particles to exist" - Abstract and speaker bio

Odile Stéphan, Paris-Saclay University, France: "Seeing the invisible: exploring the quantum nature of the nanoworld with electron (and photon) beams" - Abstract and speaker bio

Thors Hans Hansson, Stockholm University: Title TBA

Moderator

Emma Frans, Karolinska Institutet

Emma Frans has a PhD in epidemiology and is a researcher at Karolinska Institutet. As a science communicator, she has received the Swedish grand prize for journalism and Public educator of the year, and she is often heard and seen on TV and radio - not least during the Covid19 pandemic. Emma writes columns for one of Sweden’s largest newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet, and she has published four books.

Registration

Registration for researchers and the general public is now closed.

Preliminary program (subject to change)

28 November​

09.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.10 Introduction
10.10 - 10.40 Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute, Germany: "Chirality and Topology"
10:40 - 11.10 Jens K. Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark: "New catalytic materials are key to the green transition​" (presentation online)
11.10 - 11.30 Thors Hans Hansson, Stockholm University: Title TBA 11.30 - 12.00 Q&A with Professors Felser and Nørskov
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch served in Volvofoajén
13.00 - 13.30 Susanne Stemmer, UC Santa Barbara, United States: "Thin Film Topological Matter"
13.30 - 14.00 Q&A with Professor Stemmer
14.00 - 14.30 Ulf Gran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden: Title TBA
14.30 - 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 - 15.30 Subir Sachdev, Harvard University, United States: "When nature entangles millions of particles: from quantum materials to black holes"​
15.30 - 16.00 Q&A with Professors Gran and Sachdev
16.00 - 16.15 Announcement of 2022 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize
16.15 - 19.00 Chalmers presentation and dinner for high school students 

29 November

08.30 - 09.15 Lab tours, Clean room 
09.00 - 09.30 Registration      
09.30 - 10.00 Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University, United States: "In Search for the Next Magic Stone"
10.00 - 10.30 Katarina J. Franke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany: "Is there a superconducting one-way road? - Directing the current through superconducting junctions with single magnetic atoms"
​10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 Q&A with Professors Shen and Franke
11.30 - 12.00 Irfan Siddiqi, UC Berkeley, United States: "Computing with Entanglement: A New Chapter in Quantum Materials"
12.00 - 13.00 Q&A with Professor Siddiqi
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch and poster session
14.00 - 14.30 Odile Stéphan, Paris-Saclay University, France: "Seeing the invisible: exploring the quantum nature of the nanoworld with electron (and photon) beams"
14.30 - 15.00 Speaker TBA
15.00 - 15.30 Q&A with Professor Stéphan and TBA
15.30 - 16.00 Concluding remarks