CRC 183
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2026
Entangled States
of Matter
26—29 May 2026
InnoDom Cologne
Weyertal 109 | 50931 Cologne
Tuesday, May 26
09:45am – 10:00am
welcome remarks
10:00am – 10:45am
moiré & flatband systems I
Shahal Ilani
The Interacting Energy Bands of Magic Angle Graphene Revealed by the Quantum Twisting Microscope
10:45am – 11:15am
coffee break
11:15am – 12:00pm
Eva Andrei
Flat bands and Multifractality in Moiré Crystals
12:00am – 12:30pm
Krystof Kolar
Electrostatically stabilized flat bands in rhombohedralgraphite at zero displacement field
12:30pm – 14:30pm
lunch / time for discussions
14:30pm – 15:15pm
topological matter I
Cristiane de Morais Smith
to be announced
15:15pm – 16:00pm
Leo Kouwenhoven
Majorana bound states in Kitaev chains
16:00pm – 16:30pm
coffee break
16:30pm – 17:15pm
Nurit Avraham
Strain-engineered giant pseudo-electric fields and correlated states in multilayer graphene
17:15pm – 19:00pm
poster session
19:00pm
conference dinner / BBQ
Wednesday, May 27
9:00am – 09:45am
measurement, feedback, and monitored systems I
Pasquale Calabrese
Probing entanglement and symmetries in random states: from theory to experiment
09:45am – 10:30am
Yuval Gefen
Effective linear response in non-equilibrium anyonic systems
10:30am – 11:00am
coffee break
11:00am – 11:45pm
Shivaji Sondhi
How might quantum platforms reshape many body physics?
11:45am – 12:15pm
Malte Pütz
Learning Transitions and Higher Nishimori Physics
12:15pm – 14:30pm
lunch / time for discussions
14:30pm – 15:15pm
quantum devices I
Christoph Stampfer
Gate-Defined Quantum Dots as Probes of Proximity Effects in Bilayer Graphene
15:15pm – 15:45pm
Lisa Andriyakhina
Nanosecond switching of triplet supercurrent in S-F-S Josephson junctions
15:45pm – 16:15pm
coffee break
16:15pm – 17:00pm
Silvano De Franceschi
Superconducting proximity effect in germanium-based heterostructures
17:00pm – 19:00pm
poster session
19:00pm
speakers‘ dinner
Thursday, May 28
9:30am – 10:15am
moiré & flatband systems II
Kin Fai Mak
Hubbard model, Mott transition and superconductivity in moiré semiconductors
10:15am – 10:45am
Rohan Mittal
Fermion criticality far from equilibrium
10:45am – 11:15am
coffee break
11:15am – 12:00pm
Julian Ingham
Unconventional superconductivity in MoTe2 revealed via high-precision measurements of superfluid stiffness
12:00pm – 14:00pm
lunch / time for discussions
14:00pm – 14:45pm
topological matter II
Joel Moore
Spin dynamics in one- and two-dimensional quantum magnets from experiment, numerics, and theory
14:45pm – 15:30pm
Annica Black-Schaffer
Quantum geometry as a probe of non-crystalline matter
15:30pm – 16:00pm
coffee break
16:00pm – 16:30pm
Oskar Schweizer
Step-Edge Anomaly in Topological Metals
Friday, May 29
9:00am – 09:45am
measurement, feedback and monitored systems II
Shreya Vardhan
Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs
09:45am – 10:30am
Nat Tantivasadakarn
Coupled-Layer Construction of Quantum Product Codes
10:30am – 13:00pm
lunch / time for discussions
13:00pm – 13:45pm
quantum devices II
Christiane Koch
What does it take to cool many-body quantum systems?
13:45pm – 14:30pm
Saulius Vaitiekenas
Intrinsic symmetries breaking in semiconductor ferromagnetic insulator superconductor hybrid materials
14:30pm
concluding remarks
