CinciNNI

CinciNNI is a quantum condensed matter theory forum structured around one-day events typically held few times a year, involving researchers as well their graduate students and postdocs from the tri-state (OH, KY, IN) area. Each CinciNNI event has a specific theme that we collectively delve deep into. The most common pattern is that one of the talks is given by an external speaker from outside the tri-state area and one talk is given by a tri-state speaker. Co-founders | Co-organizers | Co-facilitators: Carlos Bolech and Nayana Shah Participating Universities: Indiana University, Indiana­-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Ohio State University, Ohio University, Purdue University, University of Cincinnati, University of Kentucky Occasional: Berea College, Northern Kentucky University, University of Tennessee Hoping to welcome: Kent State University and Case Western Reserve University Example Rough Schedule: 9:30­-10 arrival/refreshments 10­-12 morning talk 12­-2 lunch break 2-­4 afternoon talk 4-­5 discussion (talk times often extend to 2.5 hours) The schedule may also include a poster session. Some of the themes explored in the past: Ultra­cold unitary Fermi gases, Topological insulators and topological order, Hard­core bosons, Graphene, Fractional quantum Hall states and topological superconductors: Non-abelian statistics and all that, AdS/CFT correspondence and its connections to condensed matter physics, 2D dirty superconductors and the superconductor­insulator transition, High temperature cuprate superconductors, Emerging phenomena in quantum Hall systems. External Speakers have included: Assa Auerbach, Eduardo Fradkin, Lev Ioffe, Rahul Roy, Subir Sachdev, Alexander Seidel, Efrat Shimshoni, Bruno Uchoa Origin of the name CinciNNI: It is an acronym of Cincinnati Near Neigbor Interactions Other inspirations: Cincinnus [plural Cincinni]: see Wiktionary entry; Cincinnatus: see Wikipedia entry