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Program Schedule.

In New Jersey tradition, and remembering Elihu Abrahams, this physics workshop will be conducted with a maximum amount of lively discussion, encouraging questions from experts and students alike. Speakers are allocated a total of 40 minutes. We request they take no more than 30 minutes for their presentation, allowing for at least 5 minutes questions during the talk, and leaving time for 10 minutes discussion after their presentation. 

Friday, 11th October.  Room 330 Serin Laboratory.

9am  Conference Opening.

Session 1. 
Session Chair: Piers Coleman
9.10-  9.50   Peter Wölfle (KIT).    Quasiparticles in Fermi systems at criticality
9.50-10.30   Kristjan Haule (Rutgers) Electronic Structure Calculations in Correlated Materials with Chemical Accuracy

10.30-11.00  Tea and Coffee

Session Chair: Doug Scalapino
11.00-11.40  Zachary Fisk (UC Irvine) The Chemistry of Superconducting Materials
11.40-12.20  Silke Buehler Paschen (TU. Vienna)  New directions in heavy fermion quantum criticality.
12.20-13.00  Chandra Varma(UC Riverside) Linear in T and linear in H resistivity and other mysteries in cuprates, Heavy Fermions and Fe-based compounds

13.00-14.30  Lunch

Session 2
Session Chair: Sasha Balatsky
14.30-15.10  Frank Steglich (MPI, Dresden) Unconventional superconductivity and quantum criticality in rare-earth-based heavy fermions
15.10-15.50  Laura Greene (NHMFL, FSU) Exotic Pairing in the Heavy-fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5

15.50-16.20  Tea and Coffee

Session Chair: Premi Chandra
16.20-17.00  Lev Ioffe (U Wisconsin Madison) TBA. 
17.00-17.40  Myriam Sarachik (CUNY) SURPRISE: Just because you think you’re heading toward a quantum phase transition does not mean you will get there

Evening:   Informal dinner arrangements.

Saturday, 12th October.  Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center

8.50 am  Day 2 Opening.

Session 2. 
Session Chair: Gabi Kotliar
9.00-  9.40   Steven Kivelson (Stanford U.) Anomalous metals - failed superconductors
9.40-10.20   Vladimir Dobrosavljevic (NHMFL, FSU) Landau Theory for Disorder-Driven Metal-Insulator Transitions in Deformable “Media”

10.20-10.50  Conference Photo. Tea and Coffee

Session Chair: Natan Andrei
10.50-11.30  Srinivas Raghu (Stanford U/SLAC) Fermion zero-modes and the half-filled Landau level
11.30-12.10  Sergey Savrasov(UC Davis) Topological Phase Transitions in UNiSn
12.10-12.50  Duncan Haldane(Princeton U) Quantum geometry and topology 

12.50-14.10  Lunch

Session 4
Session Chair: Andrei Ruckenstein
14.10-14.40  Gabriel Aeppli(ETH/PSI) More and less localization
14.40-15.20  Peter Littlewood(U. Chicago) Elastic control of the Mott transition

15.20-16.00  Tea and Coffee

Session Chair: Qimiao Si
16.00-16.40  Ming Yi (Rice U.) Orbital physics in iron chalcogenide superconductors
16.40-17.20  Stuart Brown (UCLA) A new look at unconventional superconductivity in Sr2RuO4
17.20-18.00  Patrick Lee (MIT) Pseudo-gap as fluctuating pair density wave in under-doped Cuprates

18.30-19.00  Drinks and Reception
19.00-           Banquet in honor of Elihu Abrahams