Workshop on flat bands and room-temperature superconductivity: program

Friday May 30

09:30-12:30 Flat bands and graphite (chairman P. Törmä)

09:30-10:15 Grigori Volovik: Topological and non-topological flat bands

10:15-11:00 Tero Heikkilä: Model for flat-band superconductivity in graphite

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Pablo Esquinazi: Graphite and its hidden superconductivity

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-17:00 Flat bands in different materials (chairman G. Volovik)

13:45-14:15 Esa Räsänen: Artificial graphene (and graphite)

14:15-15:00 Tomi Paananen: Flat surface bands in three-dimensional topological insulators

15:00-15:45 Päivi Törmä: Superfluidity and flat bands in multiband ultracold Fermi gases

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:00 Victor Khodel: The structure of flat bands pinned to the Fermi surface

17:00-18:00 Discussion panel: numerical and quantum simulations Björkman, Heikkilä, Rubtsov,Törmä

Saturday May 31

09:00-12:00 Panel session: superconductivity in graphite (chairman D. Tayurskii)

09:00-10:00 Pablo Esquinazi: Graphite and its hidden superconductivity: open issues

10:00-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-11:00 Ville Kauppila: Flat-band superconductivity in graphite: fluctuations and Ginzburg-Landau theory

11:00-12:00 Discussion panel: superconductivity in graphite Heikkilä, Kauppila, Lysogorskii, Tayurskii

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Panel session: perspectives in other materials (chairman T. Heikkilä)

14:00-14:45 Teemu Ojanen: Topological Weyl materials

14:45-16:00 Discussion panel: Perspectives in other materials Heikkilä, Khodel, Lysogorskii, Paananen, Tayurskii, Törmä, Volovik

16:15 Coffee