ICAM Global Summit 2022 Program - ICAM Week of Science 2023

Arrival at UC Davis

SSC Meetings

Time	Event
9.00am	ICAM General Meeting
10-10.30am	Coffee
10.30-11.30am	Future Directions for the Institute
11.30am-12.30pm	SSC Workshop Decisions
12.30-2.00pm	Lunch

Frontiers of Soft and Active Matter

2.00-2.45 pm	Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State): “Control of active matter by liquid crystals”
2.45-3.15pm	Coffee
3.15-4.00pm	Evelyn Tang (Rice University): “Predicting robust emergent function in living and active systems”
4.00-4.45pm	Round Table: “What are the common Interdisciplinary frontiers of Quantum, Soft, Biological and Energy Physics?” Session Leaders: Jose Onuchic and Daniel Cox
4.45-5.15pm	Coffee
5.15-6.00pm	Nikta Fakhri (MIT): “Broken symmetries in living matter”
7.00pm	*David Pines Outreach Lecture* (Inna Vishik)

Frontiers of Biological Matter

Time	Event
9.00-10.00 am	Aleksandra Walczak (Ecole Normale Superieure): “Prediction in immune repertoires”
10.00-10.30am	Coffee
10.30-11.30am	Josh Shaevitz (Princeton): “Self-driven active phase transitions in bacterial populations”
11.30-12.30pm	Randy Oreilly (UC Davis): “Emergent dynamics and learning in the neocortex”
12.30-2.00pm	Lunch

Frontiers of Energy and Neuroscience

2.00-3.00pm	Eli Yablonovich (UC Berkeley): “Physics Does Digital Optimization —called “Onsager Computing”— for Machine Learning, Control Theory, Backpropagation, etc“
3.00-3.30pm	Coffee
3.30-4.30pm	Round Table: “What key roles can ICAM scientists play in the era of Climate Emergency?” Session Leader: Gergely Zimanyi (UC Davis)
4.30pm-6.00pm	ICAM Junior Scientist Presentations/Short Talks Mojtaba Rajabi (5min poster presentation) Guoxin Zheng (Michigan): “Spin-Zero Effect and Large Landé G-Factor in CsV3Sb5” Yuanyuan Xu (JHU): “Raman Spectroscopy Study of Pr3+ Crystal Field Excitations in Pr2Zr2O7” Han Yan (Rice): “Low Energy Structure of Spiral Spin Liquid” Sanjoy Paul (Kent): “Electrically Controlled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Coatings” Parameshwar Pasnoori (Rutgers): “Topological Phases in Strongly Correlated One Dimensional Systems” Matthew Staab (UCD): “Probing Fermi Surface Degeneracies in LaNiGa2 With Photoemission”

Arrival for participants of ICAM Frontiers of Quantum Matter

6.00pm	Drinks
7.30pm	Banquet

ICAM Global Summit and Frontiers of Quantum Matter
“New Topological Perspectives on Superconductors and Quantum Magnets”

9.00-10.00am	Nick Butch (University of Maryland): “Superconductivity and a Neighborhood of Ordered Phases in Uranium Ditelluride”
10.00-10.30am	Coffee
10.30-11.30am	Round Table: “What steps need to be taken to accelerate our successful exploration of the periodic table?” Session Leaders: Nick Curro and Piers Coleman
11.30-12.15pm	Roser Valenti (U. Frankfurt): “Exotic phases in honeycomb and kagome lattices: the power of material design”
12.15-2.00pm	Lunch