Programme

IAS Frontiers Workshop on Quantum Geometric Advantage

All talks will be held in SPMS-LT1 (21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371), including the Nobel Public Lecture.

Monday 14 July 2025
08: 00Bus pick-up for speakers from Orchard Rendezvous Hotel
08: 45 Registration
09: 00 Welcome Message
 Session Chair: Justin Song (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
09: 15 F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, USA) 
Quantum geometry of incompressible quantum hall states  Talk slides
09: 45 M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University, USA)
New frontiers in topological quantum matter
10: 15 Group Photo
10: 30 Coffee & Tea Break
 Session Chair: Qiong Ma (Boston College, USA)
11: 00 Ritesh Agrawal (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Exploring the role of quantum geometry in materials via wave vector-engineered photogalvanic spectroscopy         
11: 30 Hsin Lin (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Feature spectrum topology
12: 00 Keneth Burch (Boston College, USA)
The hidden ferro-rotational density wave and axial Higgs from RTe3’s quantum geometry
12: 30 Lunch
 Session Chair: Hsin Lin (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
14: 00 Justin Song (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
A tale of two geometries: Cooper and Wannier
14: 30 Ajit Srivastava (Emory University, USA; University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Momentum-space gravity from quantum geometry and entropy of bloch electrons
15: 00 Anders Sandvik (Boston University, USA)
Topological defects in quantum annealing of the 2D Ising model
15: 30 Coffee & Tea Break
 Session Chair: Su Ying Quek (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
16: 00 Hans Hilgenkamp (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Exploring devices based on quantum materials in unconventional geometries
16: 30 Michael Fuhrer (Monash University, Australia)
Revealing the excitonic condensate order parameter in topological exciton insulator WTe2
17: 00 Poster Session & Buffet Dinner
18: 30 End of Day 1 / Bus back to Orchard Rendezvous Hotel

 

Tuesday 15 July 2025
08: 00Bus pick-up for speakers from Orchard Rendezvous Hotel
 Session Chair: Junichiro Kono (Rice University, USA)
09: 00 Yoshinori Tokura (Riken, Japan)
Emergent electric field generation by spin dynamics in topological magnets
09: 30 Gerrit Bauer (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China; Tohoku University, Japan)

On magnons and ferrons
10: 00 Mathias Kläui (University of Mainz, Germany)
Topological spin structures - from topological phase transitions to unconventional computing
10: 30 Coffee & Tea Break
 Session Chair: Timothy Liew (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
11: 00 Hyunsoo Yang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Nonlinear spintronics
11: 30 Pinaki Sengupta (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Time crystal of topological magnons
12: 00 Su Ying Quek (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Quantum geometric features of excitons in nonlinear optics
12: 30 Lunch
 Session Chair: Rui Su (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
14: 00 Junichiro Kono (Rice University, USA)
Quantum materials in chiral cavities with broken time reversal symmetry
14: 30 Guillaume Malpuech (CNRS, France)
Microcavities as universal simulators of 2D two bands systems
15: 00 Netanel Lindner (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Modulated Floquet parametric driving of plasmons and magnons
15: 30 Coffee & Tea Break
 Session Chair: Hyunsoo Yang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
16: 00 Alexander Poddubny (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Disorder-robust synchronization of laser lattices with dirac dispersion
16: 30 Pavlos Lagoudakis (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia)
Computing with quantum fluids of light
17: 00 Sanghoon Chae (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Electrically tunable ferroelectric NbOBr2-integrated nonlinear photonics
18: 00 End of Day 2 / Buffet Dinner
Bus to Banquet (for speakers)

 

Wednesday 16 July 2025
08: 00Bus pick-up for speakers from Orchard Rendezvous Hotel
 Session Chair: Sanghoon Chae  (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
09: 00 Qiong Ma (Boston College, USA)
A new topological monolayer
09: 30 Yoshihiro Iwasa (RIKEN, Japan)
Unidirectional surface transport
10: 00 Nanlin Wang (Peking University, China)
Nonequilibrium and nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy study on superconducting collective
modes in YBa2Cu3O6+x and MgB2
10: 30 Coffee & Tea Break
 Session Chair: Ajit Srivastava (Emory University, USA; University of Geneva, Switzerland)
11: 00 Trithep Devaul (Stanford University, USA)
The origin of correlated Chern insulators in rhombohedral graphene
11: 30 Renshaw, Xiao Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Electrical control of nonreciprocal transport in low dimensional systems
12: 00 Antonio Helio Castro Neto (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
From 2D to 3D: from semiconductors to cement
12: 30 Lunch
14: 00 Bo Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Geometric excitations of topological quantum fluids in partially filled Chern bands
14: 30 Panel Discussion (Moderator: Bo Yang)
F. Duncan M. HaldaneAntonio Helio Castro Neto, Michael Fuhrer, Hans Hilgenkamp, Qiong Ma
15: 45 Poster Award Ceremony
16: 00Fruit Fiesta
17: 00 Nobel Public Lecture
F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, USA)

Modern quantum mechanics is 100 years old this year: why is there so much excitement?
18:30 Buffet Dinner
19:30 End of Workshop / Bus back to Orchard Rendezvous Hotel