Conference: Quantum materials in the post Covid-19 era

该奖项旨在支持美国参加将于2022年7月10日至16日在越南奎农市的国际跨学科科学教育中心(ICISE)举行的“拓扑量子电子面对面相互作用”国际会议。这次会议将汇聚在量子材料电子性质领域工作的不同的国际理论家和实验学家团体。量子材料是指一类材料，其主要有趣的性质是由于电子物质的不寻常状态而需要量子力学描述。它们是许多电子共同作用的相关运动的结果。通常，相关的电子被限制在二维空间中。这次会议将重点介绍新型量子材料的性质研究的最新进展，包括物质的拓扑态、扭曲的双层系统、磁性材料、过渡金属二卤化物、超导体以及介观系统中的量子现象。会议还将包括这些主题的技术方面。由于疫情导致长期不允许面对面的互动，会议的议程将以面对面参与的方式准备，重点是突出初级参与者及其科学成就。会议将首先由量子材料理论和实验方面的专家进行一系列简短的教学讲座。教学讲座将针对初级研究人员，为他们提供必要的背景知识，以便欣赏来自世界各地的领先研究人员将进行的研究级别的演讲。举办这次会议是为了让初级和高级研究人员之间进行非正式的互动，并与代表全球研究界的与会者进行文化交流，特别是在美国和亚洲的研究人员之间，他们可能没有机会进行广泛的互动，甚至没有机会见面。美国的研究人员将有机会展示他们的研究成果，并与这一领域的世界领先专家进行互动，这一领域在美国很难汇集。NSF支持的参与者将从全国范围内的池中挑选，并由会议组织委员会决定。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides support for U.S. participation in the international conference “Topological Quantum Electrons Interacting In-person” to be held July 10 - 16, 2022, at the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in the city of Quy Nhon, Vietnam.This conference will bring together a diverse international group of theorists and experimentalists working in the field of electronic properties of quantum materials. Quantum materials refers to a class of materials for which their principal interesting properties result from unusual states of electronic matter that require quantum mechanical description. They are a consequence of the correlated motion of many electrons acting collectively. Often the relevant electrons are confined to two-dimensions. This conference will highlight recent developments in the study of the properties of novel quantum materials, including topological states of matter, twisted bilayer systems, magnetic materials, transition metal dichalcogenides, superconductors, and quantum phenomena in mesoscopic systems. Technological aspects of these subjects will be covered as well.Motivated by the long period in which in person interactions were disallowed due to the pandemic, the program of the conference will be prepared with in-person participation and an emphasis on highlighting junior participants and their scientific achievements. The conference will commence with a short series of pedagogical lectures by experts in theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum materials. The pedagogical lectures will be aimed at junior researchers to provide them with the necessary background to appreciate the research-level talks to come by leading researchers from across the world. The conference is organized to allow for informal interactions among junior and senior researchers, and cultural exchanges with the participants who will be representative of the global research community, particularly between US-based and Asian-based researchers who may not otherwise have the opportunity for extended interaction or even meet. US based researchers will have the opportunity to present their research and interact with a pool of world leading experts in the field that is difficult to assemble in the US. The NSF supported participants will be selected from a nationwide pool with selection determine by the organizing committee of the conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.