Strongly coupled electronic systems are often found at the brink of quantum phase transition, a regime where conventional mechanisms no longer apply. In some situations one observes Strange Metal features, which include linear-T resistivity and other violations of Fermi Liquid Theory, even for reasonably good conductors. In other cases, similarly puzzling yet somewhat different behavior is found in the Bad Metal regime in poor conductors and at high- temperatures, where metallic-like behavior persists even well above the Mott-Ioffe-Regel limit. Despite years of effort, many fundamental questions remain: Are Strange Metals and Bad Metals only two sides of the same paradigm, or are they complete different and unrelated phenomena? Are these phenomena a result of strong electronic correlations, or the effects of disorder and inhomogeneity must be considered as well?

Organizing Committee

Vladimir Dobrosavljevic (Florida State University, USA)
Wei Ku (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, China)
Philip Phillips (University of Illinois, USA)
Jan Zaanen (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Invited Speakers  

Gabriel Aeppli (PSI/ETH, Switzerland)
Milan Allan (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Matteo Baggioli (IFT-UAM Madrid, Spain)
Erez Berg (University of Chicago, USA)
Chung-Hou Chung (National Chiao-Tung University)
Marcello Civelli (Paris-Sud University, France)
Thomas Devereaux (Stanford University)
Simone Fratini (Grenoble)
Nigel Hussey (University of Bristol)
Fumitaka Kagawa (the University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kazushi Kanoda (the University of Tokyo, Japan)
Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford University, USA)
Jure Kokalj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Li Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Yan Liu (Beihang University)
Abhay Pasupathy (Columbia University)
Aaviskar Patel (Harvard University)
Dragana Popovic (FSU/MagLab, USA)
Andrej Pustogow (UCLA, USA)
Louk Rademaker (Geneva)
Koenraad Schalm (Leiden University)
Joerg Schmalian (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Yawen Sun (The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, China)
Erik van Heumen (University of Amsterdam)
Zhengyu Weng (Tsinghua University)
Matthias Wuttig (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)