Due to increased demand and pricing associated with the FIFA World Cup 2026 in the Boston area, GRC strongly encourages attendees
to make travel arrangements early to help minimize associated travel costs. We anticipate limited availability of hotel rooms,
rental cars, and transportation options departing from Boston, so please plan accordingly.
As a cost-effective transportation option, we encourage attendees to consider the GRC bus service, which can be reserved directly
through your myGRC account. Space is limited.
If you require an extended stay, please contact your COA, as GRC has secured a limited number of discounted rooms at the Embassy Suites
Boston Logan Airport.
The Correlated Electron Systems GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes an array of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
Strong electron correlations lead to a variety of quantum phases from unconventional superconductors, complex magnets, strange metals, and topological phases that go beyond the single-particle intuition. This conference will survey the latest advances in the field - from materials discovery and characterization to theory and modeling as well as the harnessing of such collective phenomena.
In addition to bulk quantum materials, twisted van der Waals heterostructures have now emerged as a single, gate-tunable playground in which insulating, magnetic, superconducting, and topological regimes can be dialed on demand and which furthermore can exhibit entirely new correlation regimes. Driven systems are another promising frontier; ultrafast pulses and Floquet protocols raise the question of when long-range coherence and entanglement can persist far from equilibrium. Complementary insights come from cold-atom simulators and other quantum platforms that realize paradigmatic models with pristine control. The toolbox of experimental probes is evolving just as rapidly, they now can resolve spatial, temporal and even some non-local correlations with unprecedented fidelity. In parallel, theory is being transformed by new conceptual advances as well as numerical methods and machine-learning tools that optimize wave-functions, mine materials databases, and extract information from complex data sets. In addition to these surveying these advances, the meeting will spotlight topological phases that host fractionalized excitations and non-Abelian anyons, and their promise for intrinsically protected quantum computation.
By bringing together experimentalists, theorists, and numericists, the conference will explore the frontiers of entanglement, topology, and collective order in correlated quantum matter.
