ForróFest 70

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Trends and Friends in Complex Quantum Matter: Celebrating László Forró at 70

Budapest, June 22-25, 2026.

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Confirmed speakers (so far):

Henri Alloul (U. Paris-Saclay)

What do we learn from impurities and disorder in high-Tc cuprates?

Neven Barišić (TU-Wien)

Unconventional Superconductivity: The Case of the Cuprates

Szabolcs Csonka (BME)

Pressure induced Monumental Magnetoresistance in CrSBr

Jaroslav Fabian (U. Regensburg)

Engineering Electron Spins in Graphene via Proximity Effects
Slaven Garaj (NUS)  

Rudi Hackl (U. Munich)

Spin-flip Raman scattering in the Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2
Klára Hernádi (U. Miskolc) Construction and destruction of carbon structures – physics or chemistry?

Károly Holczer (UCLA)

Can I build a useful NV-ODMR quantum sensor platform?

Katalin Kamarás (Wigner)

Nanostructures seen on the nanoscale

Chris Kendziora (Naval Research Lab)

A physicist’s journey through fundamental and applied spectroscopy: 30 years in 30 minutes

András Kis (EPFL)

Electrically tunable excitonic devices in two-dimensional van der Waals materials

Kin Fai Mak (Max Planck Institute - Hamburg)

Electronic liquid crystals and superconductivity in moiré semiconductors

David Mandrus (U. Tennessee and ORNL)

Gifts from the Superconducting Curiosity Shop

Mike Martin (ALS Berkeley)

Quantum Materials at a Synchrotron Light Source

Davor Pavuna (EPFL)

Laszlo Forro: Brilliant Scientist and True Friend  
Sándor Pekker (Wigner) Cycloaddition polymerization of fullerides

Henrik Rønnow (EPFL)

Resistivity - first to be measured, last to be explained

László Rosta (Budapest Neutron Centre)

Hot/Forró Neutrons for Materials Science

Peter Stephens (Stony Brook University)

Education of a crystallographer, from fullerides to manganese cyanide tinkertoys

Eduard Tutiš (IFS Zagreb)

Electrons in the NC phase of 1T-TaS2
Radomir Žikić (U. Belgrade) Single molecule probing by e-transport


Confirmed attendees (so far):

 

  • András Jánossy (BME)
  • György Mihály (BME)

Organizers:

 

Program committee:

  • Gergely Zimányi (UC Davis)
  • Boldizsár Jankó (University of Notre Dame)
  • László Mihály (Stony Brook University)

 

Local organizer:

  • Ferenc Simon (BME)

 

Website: Bence G Márkus (University of Notre Dame)

 

Contact: simon.ferenc@ttk.bme.hugtzimanyi@ucdavis.edu; bjanko@nd.edulaszlo.mihaly@stonybrook.edubmarkus@nd.edu