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Physics at the Frontier

Workshop | Monday, August 14, 2023 - Monday, September 18, 2023

Directors: Alvaro Ferraz, Dmitry Melnikov, Rodrigo Pereira, Paul Wiegmann
Date Time Speakers Name Talk Title

Monday

August 14, 2023

04:00 pm - 05:00 pm

Itamar Procaccia
Invited Lecturers

Weizmann institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (Israel)

Anomalous elasticity and emergent dipole screening in amorphous solids

05:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Pedro Vieira
Invited Lecturers

Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada (Canada)

Following Black Hole States

Tuesday

August 15, 2023

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

David Gross
Invited Lecturers

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (United States of America)

Fifty years of QCD

04:30 pm - 05:30 pm

Eduardo Marino
Invited Lecturers

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

A Successful Theory for High-Tc Superconductivity in Cuprates

Wednesday

August 16, 2023

09:00 am - 09:50 am

Amir Caldeira
Invited Lecturers

State University of Campinas (Brazil)

Effective momentum-momentum coupling in a correlated electronic system: the diamagnetism of benzene

09:50 am - 10:40 am

Alfredo Ozório de Almeida
Invited Lecturers

Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brazil)

Energy transitions mediated by closed compound orbits

11:10 am - 12:10 pm

Rita Anjos
Invited Lecturers

(Brazil)

Powerful Sources: The nature of high-energy multi-messenger sources

02:00 pm - 02:50 pm

Karen Hallberg
Invited Lecturers

Bariloche Atomic Center, Bariloche, Argentina (Argentina)

Quantum Condensed Matter: A Playground for Emergent Phenomena and Complexity

03:30 pm - 04:20 pm

Mucio Continentino
Invited Lecturers

Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (Brazil)

Topological phase transitions

Thursday

August 17, 2023

09:00 am - 09:50 am

Thereza Paiva
Invited Lecturers

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices: Quantum matter at the frontier

09:50 am - 10:40 am

Giuseppe Mussardo
Invited Lecturers

Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche, SISSA, Trieste, Italy (Italy)

Random walks, Bethe ansatz and Riemann’s zeros

11:10 am - 12:10 pm

Michael Berry
Invited Lecturers

University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (United Kingdom)

Geometric phases old and new

02:00 pm - 02:50 pm

Francisco Alcaraz
Invited Lecturers

USP-Sao Carlos (Brazil)

General free particle quantum chains: para-fermionis Z(N) and fermionic quantum chains

03:30 pm - 04:20 pm

Reinhold Egger
Invited Lecturers

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Dusseldorf, Germany (Germany)

Superconducting diodes