November, 20, 2017

09:00 - 10:00 Reception and coffee
10:00 - 10:40 Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO)
Synthetic dimensions: introduction to a review (Slides)
10:40 - 11:20 Gediminas Juzeliunas (Vilnius)
Novel topological optical lattices (Slides)
11:20 - 12:00 Hrvoje Buljan (Zagreb)
Engineering Synthetic Gauge Fields, Weyl Semimetals, and Anyons (Slides)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40 Leonardo Fallani (Florence)
Experiments with synthetic dimensions in ultracold two-electron fermions
14:40 - 15:20 Leonardo Mazza (ENS)
Synthetic dimensions and interactions: from Laughlin-like states to topological fractional pumping (Slides)
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40 Bryce Gadway (Illinois)
Exploring topology, disorder, and interactions in synthetic momentum-space lattices (Slides)
16:40 - 17:20 Pietro Massignan (ICFO)
Detection of bulk topological features in real time (Slides)

November, 21, 2017

09:00 - 09:40 Zhengwei Zhou (UST)
Manipulating photons in the synthetic dimension based on optical orbital angular momentum (Slides)
09:40 - 10:20 Arghavan Safavi-Naini (JILA)
Dynamics of interacting fermions under spin-orbit coupling in an optical lattice clock
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20 Mikhail Baranov (Innsbruck)
Subwavelength dark-state optical potentials and their applications
11:20 - 12:00 Jan C. Budich (Göteborg)
Coupled atomic wires in a synthetic magnetic field
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40 Alejandro Bermudez (Swansea)
Interacting topological insulators with ultra-cold atoms in synthetic dimensions
14:40 - 15:20 Alessio Celi (ICFO)
Topology and manybody physics with synthetic lattices (Slides)
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40 Nigel R. Cooper (Cambridge)
Synthetic dimensions in the strong coupling limit and pair-superfluids
16:40 - 17:20 Andreas Nunnenkamp (Cambridge)
Non-reciprocity in electromechanics with synthetic gauge field and bath engineering
17:20 - 19:00 Poster session

November, 22, 2017

09:00 - 09:40 Alberto Amo (CNRS)
Orbital edge states in photonic lattices (Slides)
09:40 - 10:20 Mohammad Hafezi (JQI)
Light-induced fractional quantum Hall physics in 2D materials (Slides)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20 Tomoki Ozawa (Trento)
Synthetic dimensions with multi-mode ring resonators (Slides)
11:20 - 12:00 Michael Lohse (Munich)
Exploring 4D Quantum Hall Physics with a 2D Topological Charge Pump
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40 Rosario Fazio (ICTP)
Topological Fractional Pumping with Alkaline-Earth-Like Atoms in Synthetic Lattices (Slides)
14:40 - 15:20 Ulrich Schneider (Cambridge)
Quasi-crystalline lattices as probes for higher-dimensional physics
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40 Zhong Wang (Tsinghua)
Static and Floquet topological defects: Topological modes and higher-dimensional topological invariants (Slides)
16:40 - 17:20 Hannah M. Price (Trento)
Mapping the Berry Curvature from geometrical pumping
18:30 - : Conference dinner at Kreis 6

November, 23, 2017

The schedule for the last two talks is shared with the ITS seminar course:
Topology and interactions in solids

09:00 - 09:40 Rémi Desbuquois (ETH Zurich)
Controlling magnetic correlations in a driven quantum many-body system
10:00 - 11:30 Nigel R. Cooper (Cambridge)
de Haas - van Alphen oscillations in topological insulators
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30 Joerg Schmalian (KIT)
Out of bounds hydrodynamics in anisotropic Dirac systems