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  • Monday, 11 August 2003
    • 08:30 - 10:30 COFFEE & REGISTRATION & ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 COFFEE & REGISTRATION & ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES 2h0'
    • 10:30 - 10:45 COMPUTER ASSISTANCE / EXPLANATIONS
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 COMPUTER ASSISTANCE / EXPLANATIONS 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:00 OPENING
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 OPENING 15'
        Speaker: Prof. K.R. SREENIVASAN
    • 11:00 - 11:15 OPENING and INTRODUCTION TO CONFERENCE
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 OPENING and INTRODUCTION TO CONFERENCE 15'
        Speaker: Prof. V. KRAVTSOV
    • 11:15 - 12:15 Theoretical studies of nanotubes, nanocrystals and some molecular systems
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:15 Theoretical studies of nanotubes, nanocrystals and some molecular systems 1h0'
        Speaker: Marvin L. COHEN (University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:15 LUNCH 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Gene sensors: Detection of specific targeted sequences on DNA
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Gene sensors: Detection of specific targeted sequences on DNA 45'
        Speaker: Alan HEEGER (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Trillions of quantum dots, fingerprints, nanolithography with diblock copolymers and the annealing of stripes
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:45 Trillions of quantum dots, fingerprints, nanolithography with diblock copolymers and the annealing of stripes 45'
        Speaker: Paul CHAIKIN (Princeton University, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:30 - 16:15 Electronic states in large-gap organic insulators: a first-principles study
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Electronic states in large-gap organic insulators: a first-principles study 45'
        Speaker: Sandro SCANDOLO (the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 16:15 - 16:45 TEA BREAK
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:15 TEA BREAK 30'
    • 16:45 - 17:30 Single molecule electronics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:45 Single molecule electronics 45'
        Speaker: Stuart LINDSAY (Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 17:30 - 18:15 Electron transport with dissipation in nanoscale systems
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:30 Electron transport with dissipation in nanoscale systems 45'
        Speaker: Ralph GEBAUER (the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: abstract
  • Tuesday, 12 August 2003
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Gas sensing with carbon nanotubes: Effects of contaminants and environmental monitoring
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Gas sensing with carbon nanotubes: Effects of contaminants and environmental monitoring 45'
        Speaker: Andrea GOLDONI (Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)
        Material: abstract
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Mesoscopic thermal measurements in nanoscale materials
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:45 Mesoscopic thermal measurements in nanoscale materials 45'
        Speaker: Philip KIM (Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:30 - 16:15 DNA directed assembly of a field effect transistor in a test-tube
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 DNA directed assembly of a field effect transistor in a test-tube 45'
        Speaker: Uri SIVAN (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
        Material: abstract
    • 16:15 - 16:45 TEA BREAK
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:15 TEA BREAK 30'
    • 16:45 - 17:30 Detection of quantum noise
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:45 Detection of quantum noise 45'
        Speaker: Joseph IMRY (the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 17:30 - 18:15 Spectroscopy of soft modes and quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional electron systems
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:30 Spectroscopy of soft modes and quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional electron systems 45'
        Speaker: Vittorio PELLEGRINI (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 13 August 2003
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Emergent materials phenomena in the non-scalable size regime
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Emergent materials phenomena in the non-scalable size regime 45'
        Speaker: Uzi LANDMAN (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Bridging the time scale and length gap: from QM/MM to history-dependent metadynamics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:45 Bridging the time scale and length gap: from QM/MM to history-dependent metadynamics 45'
        Speaker: Alessandro LAIO (Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, Manno, Switzerland)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:15 Structure, dynamics and superfluidity of small doped He clusters
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Structure, dynamics and superfluidity of small doped He clusters 45'
        Speaker: Stefano BARONI (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: abstract
    • 16:15 - 16:45 TEA BREAK
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:15 TEA BREAK 30'
    • 16:45 - 18:45 POSTER SESSION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:45 POSTER SESSION 2h0'
  • Thursday, 14 August 2003
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Where catalysis meets molecular electronics: Fundamental properties of physisorbed molecules
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Where catalysis meets molecular electronics: Fundamental properties of physisorbed molecules 45'
        Speaker: Christof WOELL (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany)
        Material: abstract
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Femtosecond decoherence of quasiparticles in the states of surface image potential: Beyond the lifetime effects given by Fermi's golden rule
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:45 Femtosecond decoherence of quasiparticles in the states of surface image potential: Beyond the lifetime effects given by Fermi's golden rule 45'
        Speaker: Branko GUMHALTER (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:15 Nanoelectromechanical resonators at VHF: towards weighing individual atoms
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Nanoelectromechanical resonators at VHF: towards weighing individual atoms 45'
        Speaker: Carlo CALLEGARI (Caltech, Pasadena, U.S.A. and Technische Universitat Graz, Austria)
        Material: abstract
    • 16:15 - 16:45 TEA BREAK
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:15 TEA BREAK 30'
    • 16:45 - 17:30 Overview of the electronic structure of polymer materials for polymer-based electronics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:45 Overview of the electronic structure of polymer materials for polymer-based electronics 45'
        Speaker: William R. SALANECK (Linkoping University, Sweden)
        Material: abstract
    • 17:30 - 18:15 Control of charge and coherent excitations of single dot photodiodes
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:30 Control of charge and coherent excitations of single dot photodiodes 45'
        Speaker: Gerherd ABSTREITER (Walter Schottky Institut, Munchen, Germany)
        Material: abstract