RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Particle-Swarm Optimization of Floquet Topological Invariants, , invited talk, 15th China-Singapore Joint Symposium on Research Frontiers in Physics, SYSU, Guangzhou, November 20-23, 2019, China.

On-Demand topological matter by periodic driving , invited talk, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS) Workshop on Quantum & Kinetic Problems: Modeling, Analysis, Numerics & Applications (Part I), Singapore, Oct 4-8, 2019.

Quantum Simulation of A New Class of Dynamical Phase Transitions , invited talk, PIERS 2019, Rome, June 17-20, 2019.

Quantum Computation via Floquet edge modes , invited talk, 14th China-Singapore Joint Symposium on Research Frontiers in Physics, Shanghai University, China, Sep. 23-25, 2018.

Simulation of Braiding in a Majorana Time Crystal , invited talk, : The 4th International Conference on Quantum Information, Spacetime, and Topological Order, Huangshan, China, July 2-6, 2018.

On the Design of Engine Cylces at Nanoscale , invited talk, APCTP-KIAS workshop on "Motors and Engines", Seoul, South Korea, June 25-27, 2018.

Non-Abelian Braiding in Majorana Time Crystals , invited talk, The 9th International Workshop on Solid State Quantum Computing, Hangzhou, May 25-28, 2018.

Aspects of work fluctuations: Why nonequilibrium statistics is a challenge? invited talk, From a single particle to many-body quantum physics and its application workshop, Singapore, Feb. 2017.

Quantum Coherence Effects in Thouless Adiabatic Pump and Their Possible Observations with one Qubit, invited talk, 8th International Workshop on Solid-state Quantum Computing, Taibei, Dec. 2016.

Coherence-induced correction to quantum adiabatic theorem: Influence of Interband coherence on adiabatic pumping in periodically driven systems, invited talk, UMI kick-off meeting, Singapore, January 2015.

Coherence-induced correction to quantum adiabatic theorem: Influence of Interband coherence on adiabatic pumping in periodically driven systems, invited talk, 9th International Conference on Computational Physics, Singapore, January 2015.

Exploring Topological States of Matter in Periodically Driven Systems, invited talk, OCPA8 International Conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics, Singapore, June 2014.

Controlling Work Fluctuations by Assisted Adiabatic Processes or by Optimal Control invited talk, OCPA8 International Conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics, Singapore, June 2014.

Speeding up classical and quantum adiabatic processes: Implications for work functions and heat engine designs , invited talk, International Workshop on Frontiers in Quantum Information Science (QIS-2013), Shanghai, June 2013.

How system-environment coupling affects the equilibrium statistics and the dynamics of open quantum systems , invited talk, March meeting of Institute of Physics, Singapore, March 2013

Equilibrium Statistics and Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems: Role of System-Bath Coupling , invited talk, The 8th China-Singapore Joint Symposium on Research Frontiers in Physics, Guangzhou, China, September 2012.

Pointer States of Decoherence and Non-canonical Equilibrium Statistics: Role of System-Bath Coupling , invited talk, The 3rd International Workshop on Entanglement, Decoherence and Quantum Control (EDC2012), Shanghai, June 2012.

Exploring Novel Quantum Transport Phenomena with Quantum Control Fields , invited talk, 60th anniversary Korean Physical Society Meeting (KPS2012-Spring), Daejeon, Korea, April 2012.

Wandering between Quantum Control and Nonlinear Dynamics, , invited talk, Institute of Physics Singapore meeting, Singapore, Feb 2012.

Active Protection of Quantum Entanglement , invited talk, Croucher ASI on Dynamical Control of Quantum Coherence for Current and Future Information Technologies, Hong Kong, December 2011.

Long-lasting Quantum Exponential Diffusion is Possible , invited talk, The 7th China-Singapore Joint Symposium on Research Frontiers in Physics, Wuhan, China, September 2011.

Is Long-lasting Quantum Exponential Diffusion Possible? invited talk, The 7th Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide (OCPA7), Taiwan, August 2011.

Exploring Quantum CriticaL Systems via Driven Cold-atom Systems, , invited talk, Workshop on Quantum Chaos and Quantum Information (Part of PNLD 2010), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, July 2010.

Preserving Known or Unknown Entangled States by Universal Dynamical Decoupling, invited talk, Workshop on Entanglement and Quantum Control, Qufu, China, June 2010.

Preserving Known or Unknown Entanled States by Universal Dynamical Decoupling, invited seminar, Centre of Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, June 2010.

Indistinguishability and Interference in the Coherent Control of Atomic and Molecular Processes, invited talk, "Coherence and Decoherence in Molecular Processes" Symposium, Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2010.

Studies of Quantum Critical Systems with Dressed Matter Waves, invited talk, the 5th CAS Cross-Strait and International Conference on Quantum Manipulation, Beijing, China, December 2009.

Exploring Quantum Critical Systems Via Dressed Matter Waves, NUS Physics Department Lunch-time Seminar, September 2009.

Fractal Spectrum and Dynamics in Driven Quantum Systems, , invited talk, 6th Joint meeting of Chinese Physicists worldwide (OCPA6), Lanzhou, China, August 2009.

Quantum Control: Examples, Trends, and Developments , invited seminar, SuZhou University, SuZhou, China, June 2009.

All-optical Imprinting of Geometric Phases onto Matter Waves , invited talk, 1st March Meeting of Institute of Physics, Singapore, March 2009.

Controlling Many-Body Systems by Periodic Driving Fields, , invited talk, 6th International Congress of Theoretical Chemical Physics, Symposium on Coherent Control and Ultracold Chemistry, Vancouver, Canada, July 2008.

Towards a Cold-Atom Realization of Quantum Maps with Hofstadter's Butterfly Spectrum , contributed talk, International Workshop on Bose-Einstein condensation and quantized vortices in superfluidity and superconductivity, IMS, NUS, November, 2007.

Quantum Control of Cold Atoms in Driven Optical Lattice, contributed talk, The 8th Frontier Science Symposium at Nanjing Univ. , Nanjing , China , October, 2007.

Quantum Control of Cold Atoms in Driven Optical Lattices , invited seminar, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Techonology of China, Hefei, China, October, 2007

Dynamics of Entanglement Generation and Intrinsic Decoherence , contributed talk, The 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August, 2007.

Dissipationless Directed Transport in Driven Single-Band Quantum Dynamics , invited talk, International Workshop on Physics of Fluctuations Far From Equilibrium, Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, July, 2007.

Quantum Ratchet Transport of Cold Atoms by Controlled Tilting of an Optical Lattice , invited talk, The First International Conference on Quantum Manipulation of Photons and Atoms, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June 2007.

Revisiting Quantum Diffusion Dynamics in Nonlinear Systems , contributed talk, The Third Singapore-China Joint Symposium on Research Frontiers in Physics, Xiamen University, China , May 2007.