It is our great honour to welcome you to the international workshop on “New Paradigms in Quantum Matter 2018" in Beijing from June 25th to July 6th 2018, organized by the International Collaboration Center at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss new phenomena in quantum matter beyond the conventional paradigms of condensed matter physics, such as the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the paradigm of classifying phases by their symmetries, and the paradigm of Fermi liquid for metals, etc. The scientific topics hence include: topological orders such as quantum spin liquids, symmetry protected topological states with and without interaction, new quantum phases such as fractons and higher-rank gauge theories, deconfined and/or itinerant quantum critical points, non-fermi liquids and SYK physics, various dualities in field theories and recent developments in numeric simulations of quantum many-body systems.