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THE SECOND STIG LUNDQVIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON THE ADVANCING FRONTIERS OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: "NON-CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS AND NEW DIRECTIONS" | (smr 1318)
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  • Monday, 2 July 2001
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Registration
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 09:00 Registration 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 12:00 Time open for administrative matters
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 10:30 Time open for administrative matters 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:15 Welcome
      • 14:00 Welcome 15'
        Speaker: M. Virasoro & Yu Lu (Director of the Abdus Salam I.C.T.P. (Trieste) & Abdus Salam I.C.T.P. (Trieste))
    • 14:15 - 14:45 Introductory Remarks
      • 14:15 Introductory Remarks 30'
        Speaker: D. Awschalom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • 14:45 - 15:45 Molecular organic crystals: A new playground for many-body physics
      • 14:45 Molecular organic crystals: A new playground for many-body physics 1h0'
        Speaker: B. Batlogg (ETH Zürich)
    • 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
      • 15:45 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:15 - 17:15 Novel light phenomena in photonic crystals
      • 16:15 Novel light phenomena in photonic crystals 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Joannopoulos (MIT, Cambridge)
    • 17:15 - 18:15 Conductance of nano-scale quantum point contact
      • 17:15 Conductance of nano-scale quantum point contact 1h0'
        Speaker: K. Takayanagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Tuesday, 3 July 2001
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Electron spins in quantum dots for quantum computing
      • 09:00 Electron spins in quantum dots for quantum computing 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Loss (University of Basel)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic III-V semiconductor structures
      • 10:00 Ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic III-V semiconductor structures 1h0'
        Speaker: H. Ohno (Tohoku University, Sendai)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Kondo physics in carbon nanotube quantum dots
      • 11:30 Kondo physics in carbon nanotube quantum dots 1h0'
        Speaker: D. H. Cobden (University of Warwick)
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Optical properties of single semiconductor quantum dots
      • 14:30 Optical properties of single semiconductor quantum dots 1h0'
        Speaker: G. Abstreiter (TU München)
    • 15:30 - 16:10 All optical NMR in nanostructures
      • 15:30 All optical NMR in nanostructures 40'
        Speaker: G. Salis (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:20 Lasing in molecular organic single crystals
      • 16:40 Lasing in molecular organic single crystals 40'
        Speaker: H. Schön (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
    • 17:20 - 18:00 Entropic forces and self-assembly of microstructures in suspensions
      • 17:20 Entropic forces and self-assembly of microstructures in suspensions 40'
        Speaker: A. Yodh (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
    • 18:00 - 18:50 Coulombic effects in soft condensed matter
      • 18:00 Coulombic effects in soft condensed matter 50'
        Speaker: P. Pincus (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Wednesday, 4 July 2001
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Physics and chemistry with single atoms and molecules using the STM
      • 09:00 Physics and chemistry with single atoms and molecules using the STM 1h0'
        Speaker: K. H. Rieder (Freie Universität Berlin)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Spectroscopy and chemical manipulation a the spatial limit
      • 10:00 Spectroscopy and chemical manipulation a the spatial limit 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Persson (Chalmers University, Göteborg)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 On the microscopic mechanism of friction
      • 11:30 On the microscopic mechanism of friction 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Salmeron (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Sliding friction
      • 14:30 Sliding friction 50'
        Speaker: B. Persson (IFF, FZ Juelich)
    • 15:20 - 16:10 Molecular manipulation on surfaces
      • 15:20 Molecular manipulation on surfaces 50'
        Speaker: G.-Y. Liu (Wayne State University, Detroit)
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:30 Diffraction by molecular helices: from DNA to carbon nanotubes
      • 16:40 Diffraction by molecular helices: from DNA to carbon nanotubes 50'
        Speaker: A. Lucas (University of Namur)
    • 17:30 - 18:20 Quantum geometric phases in molecular nanotubes
      • 17:30 Quantum geometric phases in molecular nanotubes 50'
        Speaker: E. Mele (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
    • 20:00 - 22:30 Poster Session
      • 20:00 Poster Session 2h30'
  • Thursday, 5 July 2001
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Role of compositional order and disorder in complex perovskites
      • 09:00 Role of compositional order and disorder in complex perovskites 1h0'
        Speaker: D.H. Vanderbilt (Rutgers University, Piscataway)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Self-organization of nanocrystal superlattices: building with artificial atoms
      • 10:00 Self-organization of nanocrystal superlattices: building with artificial atoms 1h0'
        Speaker: C.B. Murray (IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Designing enzyme mimics: electron transfer in oxomanganese porphyrins
      • 11:30 Designing enzyme mimics: electron transfer in oxomanganese porphyrins 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Car (Princeton University)
    • 14:30 - 15:10 High piezoelectric response in complex ferroelectric oxides
      • 14:30 High piezoelectric response in complex ferroelectric oxides 40'
        Speaker: B. Noheda (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton)
    • 15:10 - 16:00 Evolving biomolecular control of semiconductor and magnetic nanostructures
      • 15:10 Evolving biomolecular control of semiconductor and magnetic nanostructures 50'
        Speaker: A.M. Belcher (University of Texas, Austin)
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:20 Nanoelectromechanical systems
      • 16:30 Nanoelectromechanical systems 50'
        Speaker: J. Hone (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
    • 17:20 - 18:20 Milli-Kelvin spectroscopy of electron quantum liquids in semiconductors
      • 17:20 Milli-Kelvin spectroscopy of electron quantum liquids in semiconductors 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Pinczuk (Columbia University, New York)
  • Friday, 6 July 2001
    • 09:00 - 10:00 String tension, structure and stability of tip-suspended gold, silver and platinum nanowiresE. Tosatti
      • 09:00 String tension, structure and stability of tip-suspended gold, silver and platinum nanowiresE. Tosatti 1h0'
        Speaker: E. Tosatti (S.I.S.S.A. & The Abdus Salam I.C.T.P.)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Ab-initio simulation of chemical processes in realistic environments
      • 10:30 Ab-initio simulation of chemical processes in realistic environments 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Parrinello (Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Unusual physical and chemical processes in superfluid helium nanodroplets
      • 11:30 Unusual physical and chemical processes in superfluid helium nanodroplets 1h0'
        Speaker: G. Scoles (Princeton University)
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