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Summer School on “Topology and Materials”

QLUSTER Summer School took place July 17-22 (2024) at the Villa Monastero in Varenna, Italy. It was attended by all 9 QLUSTER students and 39 other international students.

 

Lecturers

Igor Aronson - The Pennsylvania State University, University Park (USA)

Bogdan A. Bernevig - Princeton University (USA) and Donostia International Physics Center, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain)

Ralph Claessen - Universität Würzburg, Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence (Germany)

Laura Filion - Leonard S. Ornstein Laboratory, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Sophie Jackson - University of Cambridge (UK)

Cristian Micheletti - SISSA, Trieste (Italy)

Giorgio Sangiovanni - Universität Würzburg, Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence (Germany)

Michael Schüler - Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen and University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

Francesco Sciortino - Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)

Jan Smrek - University of Vienna (Austria)

Maia G. Vergniory - Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden (Germany) and Donostia International Physics Center, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain)

Dimitris Vlassopoulos - FORTH Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

 

It was organized by:

Directors

Christoph Dellago - Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna (Austria)

Cesare Franchini - Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna and Università di Bologna (Italy)

Sofia Kantorovich - Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna (Austria)

Christos Likos - Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna (Austria), QLUSTER's PI at UNIVIE

 

Scientific Secretary Domenico Di Sante - Università di Bologna (Italy)

 

Goal

The Summer School, which was open to the whole community and counted 48 participants in addition to the 12 lecturers and the 5 directors, covered the following topics:

Mathematical fundamentals and topological geometry

Topological polymers: classification, structure, dynamics and rheology

Knots and links in Physics and Biology

DNA topology and function

Topological defects in liquid crystals

Topological colloids

Topological quantum number

Topological insulators

Topological Quantum Chemistry

Topology in interacting systems 

 

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