International Conference 2026
Table of contents
The fifth international conference of SFB 1143 on "Correlated Magnetism: From Frustration To Topology" will take place in Grimma from Nov 23-25, 2026.
Conference location
Registration
Please find the registrationform here.
Travel
You can reach Hotel Kloster Nimbschen from Dresden in approximately 45 to 60 minutes by car. Take the A14 motorway in the direction of Leipzig and exit at Grimma (Exit 31). Continue on the B107 (Wurzener Straße) toward Grimma. From there, follow the signs to Nimbschen. The hotel is located in a quiet area just outside the town, at Nimbschener Landstraße 1. Free parking is available on site.
From Leipzig/Halle Airport, you can reach Hotel Kloster Nimbschen in approximately 1.5 to 2 hours by public transport.
Take the S-Bahn line S5 to Leipzig Central Station. From there, continue with the regional train (RB110) to Grimma ob Bf. Finally, take bus line 619 to the stop "Kloster Nimbschen", which is just a short walk from the hotel.
For participants from Dresden a bus transportation from and to Dresden will be provided.
- Dresden - Nimbschen: Mon Nov 23, 2026 departing at 8 am from Lukasplatz.
- Nimbschen - Dresden: Wed Nov 25, 2026 departing at 3:30 pm at Nimbschen.
Invited speakers
Preliminary schedule
| Sun Nov 22 | ||
| 18:30 | Welcome Dinner (invitation only) | |
| Mon Nov 23 | ||
| 09:40 | M. Vojta | Conference opening |
| 09:50 | B. Gaulin |
Experimental progress understanding ground-state selection in Ce-based dipole-octupole pyrochlores |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Y. B. Kim |
Quantum Fisher information and magnetostriction as probes of emergent excitations in quantum spin ice |
| 11:40 | S. Ishiwata | Double CDW on pyrochlore lattices (tba) |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |
| 13:45 | Guided tour Kloster Nimbschen | |
| 15:00 | E. Lenander | Temperature effects in classical frustrated magnets |
| 15:40 | Coffee | |
| 16:10 | U. Seifert | Non-equilibrium dynamics of fractionalized magnets |
| 16:50 | P. Ghosh |
Beyond square grids: Capturing the physics of six-fold symmetric systems within iPEPS |
| 17:45 | Poster Ia | |
| 19:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 | Poster Ib | |
| Tue Nov 24 | ||
| 09:00 | B. A. Bernevig | Exact solutions of rhombohedral graphene: The interacting Berry trashcan model |
| 09:40 | M. Vergniory | A single-particle diagnosis of interacting topology from the 1RDM |
| 10:20 | Coffee | |
| 10:50 | C. Pfleiderer | Topological nodal planes |
| 11:30 | J. Knolle | Dynamics of triangular lattice spin liquids and magnetic field effects |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:50 | A. Hallas | Topological Hall effect mimicry in the Ising antiferromagnet NdRh2Ge2 |
| 14:30 | K. Behnia | The thermal Hall resistivity of the phonon gas |
| 15:10 | Coffee | |
| 15:40 | E. Kermarrec | Emergence of a fluctuating ground state in the anisotropic kagome antiferromagnet Y-Kapellasite under pressure |
| 16:20 | P. Gegenwart | Kagome spin ice HoAgGe |
| 17:00 | C. Castelnovo | Kinetic kagome magnetism: from self-trapping RVB polarons to semiclassical correlations |
| 18:00 | Poster IIa | |
| 19:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 | Poster IIb | |
| Wed Nov 25 | ||
| 9:00 | Y. Iqbal | Reflection symmetry as a topological obstruction to Kalmeyer–Laughlin chiral spin liquids |
| 9:40 | A. Tsirlin | Kitaev candidate materials: News from the 3d and 4d families |
| 10:20 | Coffee | |
| 10:50 | A. Boothroyd | Magnetic interactions in Nd2PdSi3 and the formation of skyrmions in centrosymmetric metals |
| 11:30 | M. Garst |
Magnetic skyrmions in the quantum limit |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 | E. Fogh | Randomness and frustration in mixed antiferromagnets |
| 14:20 | J. Reuther | Fractional vortices in a Heisenberg spiral spin liquid |
| 15:00 | M. Vojta | Conference closing |
| 15:30 | Bus departure |