November 2022: Our paper Mott insulators with boundary zeros, led by Niklas Wagner and Giorgio Sangiovanni, is published in Nature Communications. Thanks team for a great collaboration!

August 2023: Nicolás’s paper on fractional Chern insulators in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides and Valentin and Daniele’s paper on topological superconductivity in doped moiré heterostructures were selected as Editor’s Suggestions in PRR and PRL. Congrats Nicolás, Valentin, Daniele, and collaborators!

June 22, 2023: Introducing Dr. Fang! Congrats Yuan on your thesis defense!

May 17, 2023: Congrats Yuan on your Doctoral Hooding!

May 15, 2023: Sayed and Aaron’s paper “Topological and Stacked Flat Bands in Bilayer Graphene with a Superlattice Potential,” the outcome of an exciting collaboration with our experimental team of Jiacheng Sun and Xu Du at SBU, and Ahmed Abouelkomsan at Stockholm University, is published in PRL as an Editor’s Suggestion! Read it here.

May 2023: Congrats to Yuan Fang for winning the Max Dresden prize for the best thesis in theoretical physics!!

March-June 2023: Our KITP program “A Quantum Universe in a Crystal: Symmetry and Topology across the Correlation Spectrum” is happening! Co-organized by Jen, Taylor Hughes, Qimiao Si and Senthil Todadri.

March 2023: Conferences are back: Yuan and Aaron gave talks at their first APS March Meeting. Sayed and Jen went straight from APS to the Aspen Center for physics for the winter workshop “Novel Quantum States of Matter in Moire Materials,” co-organized by Jen, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Jie Shan, and Ali Yazdani.

Dec 2022: Congratulations Mat on your MA degree!

Sept 15, 2022: Our paper “Topological semimetal driven by strong correlations and crystalline symmetry” and accompanying Research Briefing are published in Nature Physics. Thanks to great collaborators Maia Vergniory, Silke Paschen, and Qimiao Si.

Aug 30, 2022: Jie’s last day at CCQ. Congrats on your new position at Harvard! We will miss you, please visit often!

Aug 24, 2022: Aaron’s paper on magic angle conditions for topological insulator surface states is selected as an Editor’s Suggestion in PRB. Congrats!

Summer 2022: Conferences are back. We visited the Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electron Systems; the Princeton Summer School on Condensed Matter Physics; the Novel Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials conference in San Sebastian; the Novel States of Matter and Topological Particles in Bulk Quantum Materials workshop at the Aspen Center for Physics; and the Quantum Science Summer School at UCSB.

May 2022: Congrats to Yuan Fang for winning the Peter B. Kahn prize for his research on classifying higher order Fermi arcs in Dirac semimetals!

March 2022: Cano group goes to March Meeting!! Aaron made an excellent presentation summarizing our paper on magic angle conditions for 3D twisted topological insulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuZehQ_JdNQ

Feb 15, 2022: Jen is awarded the Sloan Fellowship! SBU press release, Flatiron Institute press release

Dec 1, 2021: Yuan’s paper classifying Dirac points with higher order Fermi arcs is selected as an Editor’s Suggestion in PRB. Congrats!

Nov 15, 2021: Sayed and Jen visit the Rice Center for Quantum Materials for their first in-person conference in 1.5 years.

Aug 2021: Sayed Ghorashi moves to Stony Brook as a post doc. Welcome!

Aug 5, 2021: Congrats Dr. Sahal Kaushik on a great thesis defense!

July 2021: Our summer workshop “Electronic Topology Across the Correlation Spectrum” took place LIVE at the Aspen Center for Physics. Co-organized by Jen, Peter Armitage, Silke Buehler-Paschen, and Qimiao Si.

May 2021: Yuan Fang and Sahal Kaushik share the 2021 Gerald Brown Prize for their research on topological materials!

March 2020: Jennifer Cano receives NSF Career award!

September 2019: Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond was a great success!
Co-organized by Jen, Lukas Muechler and Liang Wu at the Flatiron Institute.