February 20 (Thursday), 2014
Son, Young-Woo (손영우, KIAS)  Challenges in Dirac materials
After the first isolation of graphene, several types of Dirac material, an effective realization of the relativistic Dirac equation in low dimensions, have shown a cornucopia of interesting new physical phenomena, some of which may be useful also. In this talk, I will broadly review their recent progresses as well as major challenges in theoretical condensed matter physics.

Park, Kwon (박권, KIAS) Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Bound State of Matter and Phase

Kim, Jaewan (김재완, KIAS) Overview: Quantum Information

Lee, Soonchil (이순칠, KAIST) Bottleneck in the development of quantum computers

Ko, Pyungwon (고병원, KIAS) Particle Physics after Discovery of the Higgs boson
The long-sought-for Higgs boson has been finally discovered at the LHC. In this talk, I will describe its implications on particles physics and cosmology, and give my personal prospect on particle physics in the coming years.

Lee, Hyun Min (이현민, Chung-Ang U.) On the Validity of the Effective Field Theory for Cosmic Inflation in the Planck Era
Recent data from Planck mission confirms a relatively simple universe that can be accounted for by a simple form of inflation, driven by a single scalar field. Starobinsky and Higgs inflation models and their analogues have drawn attention as they fit into the Planck data extremely well. We discuss the validity of inflation models favored by Planck data from the point view of effective field theory, and present a class of single field inflation models that belong to Starobinsky-like models and preserve perturbative unitarity up to the Planck scale.

Chun, Eung Jin (전응진, KIAS) Quantum oscillation phenomena

February 21 (Friday), 2014
Jeong, Hyunseok (정현석, Seoul Nat'l U.) Macroscopic quantumness: Theoretical studies and applications

Kim, Sang Wook (김상욱, Pusan Nat'l U.) Quantum exorcist

Ahn, Jaewook (안재욱, KAIST) Neutral atom quantum computing
Quantum computation has developed in the past two decades from a visionary idea to one of the most fascinating areas of modern physics. Scientists around the world attempt to tackle unseed technological problems involved with the quantum nature of particles for a large-scale quantum computer. In that regards, there are certain advantages to use neutral atoms in quantum computing, not the least of which is that atoms are the best known quantum systems, but individual atoms are essentially immune from decoherence which is a major problem faced by other implementation of quantum computers. In this talk, after briefly reviewing the recent progress of neutral atom-based quantum computing, we introduce our experimental efforts towards an N-neutral atom quantum computer.

Park, Hyunggyu (박형규, KIAS) Thermodynamics in quantum systems

Yi, Piljin (이필진, KIAS)  Algebra, Geometry, and Schroedinger Atoms

Kim, Bumsig(김범식, KIAS) Algebraic Geometry Inspired by String Theory
Historically, physics has been to mathematics a never-ending source of challenging problems as well as stunning new visions. Currently we are witnessing such cases obtained by interactions between algebraic geometry and string theory. This talk will briefly elaborate the interactions centered at moduli theory, mirror symmetry, gauged linear sigma model and quasimap theory, from the view-point of a mathematician.

Lee, Kimyeong (이기명, KIAS) The Story of M-theory and Quantum Mechanics
Planck’s quantum proposal has resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe in the black body radiation. String/M theory has solved the similar UV problem in quantum gravity. Especially, M-theory is purely quantum in the sense that both electric and magnetic strength is of order one. I would like to illustrate some current issues and future challenges in this subject.