2012 KENTUCKY CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM: THE IRIDATES

Scientific Program

Saturday's program will be held at the William T. Young Library.
Sunday's program will be held at a conference room at the Hyatt Regency's "Jessamine Franklin" room.
Both locations can be found on the map at this link: travel.

Session I, Saturday, April 28 (Chair: Ambrose Seo, University of Kentucky)

9:00-9:40am Leon Balents (KITP/University of California Santa Barbara)
"Iridates: perspectives and speculations"
9:40-10:20am Gang Cao (University of Kentucky)
"Overview of Iridates: Synthesis, and structural, transport and thermodynamic properties"

--Coffee break--

Session II, Saturday, April 28 (Chair: Satoshi Okamoto, Oak Ridge National Lab)

10:40-11:20am Feng Ye (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"Direct evidence of a zigzag spin chain structure in the honeycomb lattice: A neutron and x-ray diffraction investigation on single crystal Na2IrO3"
11:20-12:00pm B. J. Kim (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Enhanced Bond-Directional Interactions in Bilayer Sr3Ir2O7: Toward Realizing the Kitaev Model in Iridates"
12:00-12:40pm Young-June Kim (University of Toronto)
"Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of Na2IrO3 and pyrochlore iridates"

--Lunch Break--

Session III, Saturday, April 28 (Chair: Babak Seradjeh, Indiana University)

2:30-3:10pm Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California, Berkeley)
"Correlations and Topology in 5d Transition Metal Oxide Systems"
3:10-3:50pm Sergey Savrasov (University of California, Davis)
"Weyl Metal States and Surface Fermi Arcs in Iridates "

--Coffee Break--

4:10-4:50pm Dan Dessau (University of Colorado, Boulder)
"Experimental electronic structure of single crystalline iridates"
4:50-5:30pm Greg Fiete (University of Texas, Austin)
"Interacting topological phases in the Iridates"

--Dinner--


Session IV, Sunday, April 29 (Chair:)

9:00-9:40am Xuerong Liu (Brookhaven National Lab)
"Octahedral Iridates: Are They Really in the Strong Spin-Orbit-Coupling Limit?"
9:40-10:20am T. Senthil (MIT)
"Remarks on Sr2IrO4 and Pr2Ir2O7"

--Coffee break--

10:40-11:20am Daniel Haskel (Argonne National Lab)
"Electronic ground state properties of Iridate oxides from x-ray absorption spectroscopy"
11:20-12:00pm David Hsieh (MIT)
"Evidence for a Slater-type metal-to-insulator transition in Sr2IrO4 from time-resolved photo-carrier dynamics"