Schedule for: 17w5144 - Photonic Topological Insulators

Beginning on Sunday, September 10 and ending Friday September 15, 2017

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, September 10
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, September 11
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:30 Iacopo Carusotto: Pumping and dissipation as an asset for topological photonics (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Miguel Bandres: Topological Lasers (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Hannah Price: Measuring the Berry curvature from geometrical pumping (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Tomoki Ozawa: Synthetic dimensions and four-dimensional quantum Hall effect in photonics (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Oded Zilberberg: Topological 2D pumps: a dynamical realization of the four-dimensional quantum Hall effect (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 16:30 Wladimir Benalcazar: Topological Corner and Hinge Modes in Crystalline Insulators (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Yidong Chong: Effects of Nonlinearity and Disorder in Topological Photonics (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Philippe St-Jean: Lasing in topological edge states of a 1D lattice (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, September 12
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Charles Fefferman: Schroedinger Operators with Honeycomb Potentials (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Michael Weinstein: Edge states in honeycomb structures (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Mark Ablowitz: Tight-binding models for longitudinally driven linear/nonlinear photonic lattices (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Yi Zhu: Electromagnetic waves in honeycomb structures (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Alexander Watson: Wave-packet dynamics in periodic media: Berry curvature induced anomalous velocity and Landau-Zener inter-band transitions (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Vincenzo Vitelli: Topological Active Metamaterials (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Andrea Alu: Topological and non-reciprocal photonics and phononics (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Sebastian Huber: A phononic quantized quadrupole insulator (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:45 - 16:15 Zheng Wang: Topologically-protected optical forces (TCPL 201)
16:15 - 16:45 William Irvine: Spinning top-ology: Order, disorder and topology in mechanical gyro-materials and fluids (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, September 13
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Terry Loring: Local indices and quantified topological protection (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Emil Prodan: The K-theoretic Bulk-Boundary Principle for Patterned Resonators (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Max Lein: Symmetry Classification of Topological Photonic Crystals (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Eli Levy: Probing Topological Properties of Quasicrystals with Waves (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Justin Cole (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Gaurav Bahl: Chirality and non-reciprocity in optomechanical resonator systems (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Florian Marquardt: Engineering topological transport of phonons at the nanoscale (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Alexander Khanikaev: All-Dielectric Photonic Topological Metamaterials and Metasurfaces (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Steven Anlage: Exciting Reflectionless Unidirectional Edge Modes in a Reciprocal Photonic Topological Insulator Medium (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Ling Lu: After a Weyl (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Zubin Jacob: Dirac–Maxwell correspondence: Spin–1 bosonic topological insulator (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, September 14
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Nate Lindner: Controlling electrons in Floquet Topological Insulators (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Gil Refael: Topological frequency conversion in strongly driven quantum systems (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Hrvoje Buljan: Engineering synthetic gauge fields, Weyl semimetals, and anyons (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Xiao Hu: Topological Phenomena Emerging from Honeycomb Structure (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Fabrice MORTESSAGNE: Dirac matter and topology with microwaves (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Patrick Ohberg: Driven lattices and non-local effects in photonic lattices (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Alexander Cerjan: Exceptional contours formed in non-Hermitian topological photonic systems (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Mohammad Hafezi: Quantum transport in topological photonics (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Bo Zhen (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, September 15
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 No talks this morning... (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)