"Future of the Correlated Electron Problem" Workshop Registration Deadline Friday, Oct. 25

"The Future of the Correlated Electron Problem” Workshop is being held at Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 27, 28, and 29, 2020 will be held for early career researchers (postdocs, advanced graduate students, and assistant professors in particular). The organizers anticipate being able to be able to cover the costs of all registered attendees. The organizers anticipate being able to cover the costs of all registered attendees. Registration deadline is Friday, Oct. 25, 2019.

The goal of this workshop is to mix early career researchers and a number of distinguished senior scientists with the aim of making progress on the correlated electron problem. The model of non-interacting electrons is well established throughout many areas of solid-state physics. However there are material systems whose properties emerge from strong interactions. Despite many years of intensive work, the essential physics of many of these systems is still not understood, and we do not have a unified perspective on strong electron correlations.

The format of this unique workshop is as follows. On Day 1, six senior scientists with broad perspectives on the correlated electron physics will give a series of lectures to approximately 45 early career scientists. These senior scientists will present what they consider to be the important aspects of the correlated electron problem and what they consider to be possible ways forward. On the morning of Day 2, the senior people will depart. Then during the day of Day 2 the early career scientists will have a number of roundtable discussions, working groups, and brainstorming sessions on this physics and clarifying their thoughts on how to make progress. These thoughts will have been informed by the lectures of Day 1. On Day 3 the early career scientists will write up these thoughts. Then the goal will be to collate these thoughts in an organized fashion and publish them as an actual scientific manuscript entitled “The Future of the Correlated Electron Problem”. The paper will be coauthored by all attendees of the workshop.

Confirmed lecturers are Tony Leggett (Illinois), Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford), Brian Maple (UCSD), Michael Norman (Argonne), Peter Riseborough (Temple) and George Sawatsky (University of British Columbia). We anticipate being able to be able to cover the costs of all registered attendees.

Further details, the motivation for this format, and application procedure can be found here. https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/the-future-of-the-correlated-electron-problem-workshop/