Fourth Stig Lundqvist Conference on Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics

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Fourth Stig Lundqvist Conference on Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics | (smr 1759)

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Monday, 3 July 2006

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 COFFEE BREAK 30'
11:00 - 11:30 OPENING SESSION
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Professor Erio TOSATTI
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Professor Aron PINCZUK
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- 11:00 OPENING SESSION 30'
  
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11:30 - 12:15 Fluctuations and transport in nanoscale structures

11:30 Fluctuations and transport in nanoscale structures 45'

Speaker:	E. WILLIAMS (University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

12:15 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 12:15 LUNCH BREAK 2h15'

14:30 - 15:15 STM beyond imaging: Probing the quantum world of nanostructures

14:30 STM beyond imaging: Probing the quantum world of nanostructures 45'

Speaker:	K. KERN (MPI, Stuttgart, Germany)
Material:	abstract recording

15:15 - 16:00 Clusters on surfaces: Matter in the non-scalable size-regime

15:15 Clusters on surfaces: Matter in the non-scalable size-regime 45'

Speaker:	U. HEIZ (Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 15'

16:15 - 17:00 Scanning tunneling microscopy of adsorbates on insulating films: Charge-scale control, molecular-orbital imaging and organometallic synthesis

16:15 Scanning tunneling microscopy of adsorbates on insulating films: Charge-scale control, molecular-orbital imaging and organometallic synthesis 45'

Speaker:	J. REPP (IBM, Ruschilikon, Switzerland)
Material:	abstract recording

17:00 - 17:20 Surprises in the friction between crystals

17:00 Surprises in the friction between crystals 20'

Speaker:	E. TOSATTI (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	abstract recording

17:20 - 17:40 Extreme ultrafast dynamics of quasiparticles excited in surface electronic bands

17:20 Extreme ultrafast dynamics of quasiparticles excited in surface electronic bands 20'

Speaker:	B. GUMHALTER (Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia)
Material:	lecture notes recording

18:30 - 20:00 RECEPTION - outside on the Terrace
- 18:30 RECEPTION - outside on the Terrace 1h30'

Tuesday, 4 July 2006

09:00 - 09:45 Artificial gene transfer and the dynamics of gene expression

09:00 Artificial gene transfer and the dynamics of gene expression 45'

Speaker:	J. RAEDLER (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Material:	abstract recording

09:45 - 10:30 Computer simulation of rare events in material science and biophysics

09:45 Computer simulation of rare events in material science and biophysics 45'

Speaker:	A. LAIO (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	abstract recording

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 COFFEE BREAK 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Flexibility and rigidity in biomolecules

11:00 Flexibility and rigidity in biomolecules 45'

Speaker:	M. THORPE (Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

11:45 - 12:30 Spatio-temporal chaotic dynamics in the flow of soft matter

11:45 Spatio-temporal chaotic dynamics in the flow of soft matter 45'

Speaker:	A. SOOD (IIS, Bangalore, India)
Material:	abstract recording

12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Observation of a supersolid helium phase

14:30 Observation of a supersolid helium phase 45'

Speaker:	E. KIM (KAIST, Taejon, Seoul)
Material:	lecture notes recording

15:15 - 16:00 Superfluid disorder in quantum solids

15:15 Superfluid disorder in quantum solids 45'

Speaker:	N. PROKOFIEV (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. / BEC-INFM, Trento, Italy)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 15'

16:15 - 17:00 Ground state of bulk solid helium four: Commensurate or incommensurate, supersolid or normal?

16:15 Ground state of bulk solid helium four: Commensurate or incommensurate, supersolid or normal? 45'

Speaker:	L. REATTO (Universita)
Material:	recording

17:00 - 17:20 Bose-Einstein condensation with entangled order parameter

17:00 Bose-Einstein condensation with entangled order parameter 20'

Speaker:	SHI Yu (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

17:20 - 17:40 Optimization using quantum mechanics: Quantum annealing through adiabatic evolution

17:20 Optimization using quantum mechanics: Quantum annealing through adiabatic evolution 20'

Speaker:	G. SANTORO (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

Wednesday, 5 July 2006

09:00 - 09:45 Metallic hydrogen and its quantum orderings

09:00 Metallic hydrogen and its quantum orderings 45'

Speaker:	N.W. ASHCROFT (Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract recording

09:45 - 10:30 Low lying excitations in Quantum Hall Fluids

09:45 Low lying excitations in Quantum Hall Fluids 45'

Speaker:	A. PINCZUK (Columbia University, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract recording

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 COFFEE BREAK 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of dense hydrogen

11:00 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of dense hydrogen 45'

Speaker:	D.M. CEPERLEY (University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

11:45 - 12:30 Ab-initio simulations of compressed hydrogen

11:45 Ab-initio simulations of compressed hydrogen 45'

Speaker:	G. GALLI (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes recording

12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Wigner emulsions and crystals: Electrostatics of oil/water/solid mixtures

14:30 Wigner emulsions and crystals: Electrostatics of oil/water/solid mixtures 45'

Speaker:	P. CHAIKIN (Princeton University, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract recording

15:15 - 16:00 Supramolecular assemblies on curved surfaces: the case of nanoparticles

15:15 Supramolecular assemblies on curved surfaces: the case of nanoparticles 45'

Speaker:	F. STELLACCI (MIT, Cambridge, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 15'

16:15 - 17:00 On the solid/liquid contact

16:15 On the solid/liquid contact 45'

Speaker:	D. QUERE (ESPCI, Paris, France)
Material:	abstract recording

17:00 - 17:20 Side-by-side comparison of the properties of organic monolayers by AFM-based techniques

17:00 Side-by-side comparison of the properties of organic monolayers by AFM-based techniques 20'

Speaker:	L. CASALIS (Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	recording

17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 17:30 POSTER SESSION 1h30'

Thursday, 6 July 2006

09:00 - 09:45 Elastic and magnetic dynamics of nano-magnet ordered arrays impulsively excited by sub-ps laser pulses

09:00 Elastic and magnetic dynamics of nano-magnet ordered arrays impulsively excited by sub-ps laser pulses 45'

Speaker:	F. PARMIGIANI (Universita' degli Studi di Trieste, Italy)
Material:	abstract recording

09:45 - 10:30 High resolution photoelectron spectroscopy of metal clusters

09:45 High resolution photoelectron spectroscopy of metal clusters 45'

Speaker:	B. von ISSENDORF (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Material:	lecture notes recording

10:30 - 10:50 Quantum dynamical phase transition in a pair of interacting spins, double quantum dots and two level systems

10:30 Quantum dynamical phase transition in a pair of interacting spins, double quantum dots and two level systems 20'

Speaker:	H. PASTAWSKI (Universidade Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

10:50 - 11:05 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 10:50 COFFEE BREAK 15'

11:05 - 11:50 Transport in quantum Hall superfluids

11:05 Transport in quantum Hall superfluids 45'

Speaker:	A. MacDONALD (University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.)
Material:	recording

11:50 - 12:35 The evolution from BCS to Bose-Einstein Condensation: Superfluidity in metals, neutron stars, nuclei and ultra-cold atoms

11:50 The evolution from BCS to Bose-Einstein Condensation: Superfluidity in metals, neutron stars, nuclei and ultra-cold atoms 45'

Speaker:	C. SA de MELO (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract recording

12:35 - 12:55 Chern-number spin Hamiltonians for magnetic clusters by ab-initio methods

12:35 Chern-number spin Hamiltonians for magnetic clusters by ab-initio methods 20'

Speaker:	C. CANALI (University of Kalmar, Sweden)
Material:	abstract recording

12:55 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 12:55 LUNCH BREAK 1h35'

14:30 - 15:15 Protein and polymer folding on a chip

14:30 Protein and polymer folding on a chip 45'

Speaker:	P. CREMER (Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract recording

15:15 - 16:00 Detecting multiple substates and pathways in proteins: The case of the GFP

15:15 Detecting multiple substates and pathways in proteins: The case of the GFP 45'

Speaker:	G. BALDINI (Universita)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 15'

16:15 - 17:00 Polymer physics versus DNA topology

16:15 Polymer physics versus DNA topology 45'

Speaker:	G. DIETLER (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

17:00 - 17:45 Dynamics of molecules at confined interfaces: viscous water and nano tumbleweed

17:00 Dynamics of molecules at confined interfaces: viscous water and nano tumbleweed 45'

Speaker:	X.Y. ZHU (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

Friday, 7 July 2006

09:00 - 09:45 Many Body Localization

09:00 Many Body Localization 45'

Speaker:	B. ALTSHULER (NEC Princeton / Columbia University, U.S.A.)
Material:	recording

09:45 - 10:30 Supercurrent flow in semiconductor quantum dots

09:45 Supercurrent flow in semiconductor quantum dots 45'

Speaker:	S. De FRANCESCHI (CNR-INFM, TASC, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	abstract recording

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 COFFEE BREAK 30'

11:00 - 11:20 Mesoscopic anisotropic magnetoconductance fluctuations in ferromagnets

11:00 Mesoscopic anisotropic magnetoconductance fluctuations in ferromagnets 20'

Speaker:	S. ADAM (Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

11:20 - 12:05 Electrical transport in molecules, nanotubes and graphene

11:20 Electrical transport in molecules, nanotubes and graphene 45'

Speaker:	P. KIM (Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.)
Material:	abstract lecture notes recording

12:05 - 12:30 CLOSING SESSION
- 12:05 CLOSING SESSION 25'
  
  Material: recording