School and Workshop on Highly Frustrated Magnets and Strongly Correlated Systems: From Non-Perturbative Approaches to Experiments | (smr 1855) (30 July 2007

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School and Workshop on Highly Frustrated Magnets and Strongly Correlated Systems: From Non-Perturbative Approaches to Experiments | (smr 1855)

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Monday, 30 July 2007

08:30 - 10:30 Registration and Administrative formalities

Location: Main Building, Lobby
- 08:30 Registration and Administrative formalities 2h0'
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Introduction
- 10:30 Welcome and Introduction 30'
  
  Speaker: K.R. Sreenivasan-ICTP Director (F. Mila and P. Mendels - School Organizers)

11:00 - 11:45 Atomic magnetism and exchange

11:00 Atomic magnetism and exchange 45'

Speaker:	Claudine Lacroix (Laboratoire Louis Neel, France)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Atomic magnetism and exchange
- 11:45 Atomic magnetism and exchange 45'
  
  Speaker: Claudine Lacroix (Laboratoire Louis Neel, France)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Synthesis, crystal growth and structural determination

14:30 Synthesis, crystal growth and structural determination 45'

Speaker:	John E. Greedan (Dept. of Chemistry McMaster University, Canada)
Material:	lecture notes

15:15 - 16:00 Synthesis, crystal growth and structural determination

15:15 Synthesis, crystal growth and structural determination 45'

Speaker:	John E. Greedan (Dept. of Chemistry McMaster University, Canada)
Material:	lecture notes

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:00 Coffee break 30'

16:30 - 17:15 Tutorial

16:30 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Claudine Lacroix (Laboratoire Louis Neel, France)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

17:15 - 18:00 Tutorial
- 17:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Claudine Lacroix (Laboratoire Louis Neel, France)

18:00 - 18:45 Tutorial

18:00 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	John E. Greedan (Dept. of Chemistry McMaster University, Canada)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

18:45 - 19:30 Tutorial
- 18:45 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: John E. Greedan (Dept. of Chemistry McMaster University, Canada)

Tuesday, 31 July 2007

09:00 - 09:45 Thermodynamic measurements
- 09:00 Thermodynamic measurements 45'
  
  Speaker: Reinhard Kremer (MPI fuer Festkoerperforschung Stuttgart)
09:45 - 10:30 Thermodynamic measurements
- 09:45 Thermodynamic measurements 45'
  
  Speaker: Reinhard Kremer (MPI fuer Festkoerperforschung Stuttgart)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Spin-waves and thermal fluctuations

11:00 Spin-waves and thermal fluctuations 45'

Speaker:	John T. Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Spin-waves and thermal fluctuations
- 11:45 Spin-waves and thermal fluctuations 45'
  
  Speaker: John T. Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford)
12:30 - 15:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 3h0'
15:30 - 16:15 Tutorial
- 15:30 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Reinhard Kremer (MPI fuer Festkoerperforschung Stuttgart)
16:15 - 17:00 Tutorial
- 16:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Reinhard Kremer (MPI fuer Festkoerperforschung Stuttgart)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
- 17:00 Coffee break 30'

17:30 - 18:15 Tutorial

17:30 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	John T. Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

18:15 - 19:00 Tutorial
- 18:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: John T. Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford)

Wednesday, 1 August 2007

09:00 - 09:45 Field-theory approaches to magnetic systems
- 09:00 Field-theory approaches to magnetic systems 45'
  
  Speaker: Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
09:45 - 10:30 Field-theory approaches to magnetic systems
- 09:45 Field-theory approaches to magnetic systems 45'
  
  Speaker: Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Linear response theory and dynamical correlations

11:00 Linear response theory and dynamical correlations 45'

Speaker:	Wolfram Brenig (Technical University Braunschweig)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Linear response theory and dynamical correlations
- 11:45 Linear response theory and dynamical correlations 45'
  
  Speaker: Wolfram Brenig (Technical University Braunschweig)
12:30 - 15:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 3h0'
15:30 - 16:15 Tutorial
- 15:30 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
16:15 - 17:00 Tutorial
- 16:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
- 17:00 Coffee break 30'

17:30 - 18:15 Tutorial

17:30 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Wolfram Brenig (Technical University Braunschweig)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

18:15 - 19:00 Tutorial
- 18:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Wolfram Brenig (Technical University Braunschweig)

Thursday, 2 August 2007

09:00 - 09:45 Neutron scattering
- 09:00 Neutron scattering 45'
  
  Speaker: Steven T. Bramwell (University College London)
09:45 - 10:30 Neutron scattering
- 09:45 Neutron scattering 45'
  
  Speaker: Steven T. Bramwell (University College London)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

11:00 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 45'

Speaker:	Pietro Carretta (Dipartimento di Fisica "A. Volta", Pavia)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

11:45 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 45'

Speaker:	Pietro Carretta (Dipartimento di Fisica "A. Volta", Pavia)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 15:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 3h0'
15:30 - 16:15 Tutorial
- 15:30 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Steven T. Bramwell (University College London)
16:15 - 17:00 Tutorial
- 16:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Steven T. Bramwell (University College London)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
- 17:00 Coffee break 30'

17:30 - 18:15 Tutorial

17:30 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Pietro Carretta (Dipartimento di Fisica "A. Volta", Pavia)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

18:15 - 19:00 Tutorial
- 18:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Pietro Carretta (Dipartimento di Fisica "A. Volta", Pavia)

Friday, 3 August 2007

09:00 - 09:45 2D quantum magnetism

09:00 2D quantum magnetism 45'

Speaker:	Gregoire Misguich (Service de Physique Theorique CEA Saclay)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 2D quantum magnetism
- 09:45 2D quantum magnetism 45'
  
  Speaker: Gregoire Misguich (Service de Physique Theorique CEA Saclay)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Large-N and Schwinger bosons

11:00 Large-N and Schwinger bosons 45'

Speaker:	Assa Auerbach (Physics Department, Technion, Haifa)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 mu-SR

11:45 mu-SR 45'

Speaker:	Amit Keren (Physics Department, Technion, Haifa)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 15:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 3h0'

15:30 - 16:15 Tutorial

15:30 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Gregoire Misguich (Service de Physique Theorique CEA Saclay)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

16:15 - 17:00 Tutorial
- 16:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Gregoire Misguich (Service de Physique Theorique CEA Saclay)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
- 17:00 Coffee break 30'
17:30 - 18:15 Tutorial
- 17:30 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Assa Auerbach (Physics Department, Technion, Haifa)
18:15 - 19:00 Tutorial
- 18:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Amit Keren (Physics Department, Technion, Haifa)
19:00 - 20:00 Poster Session and get-together drink
- 19:00 Poster Session and get-together drink 1h0'

Saturday, 4 August 2007

09:00 - 09:45 Light scattering: infra-red and Raman

09:00 Light scattering: infra-red and Raman 45'

Speaker:	Joachim Deisenhofer (University of Geneva)
Material:	abstract

09:45 - 10:30 Ab-initio calculations

09:45 Ab-initio calculations 45'

Speaker:	Roser Valenti (Institut fur Theoretische Physik, University Frankfurt)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Strong-coupling expansions

11:00 Strong-coupling expansions 45'

Speaker:	Frederic Mila (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Spin ice
- 11:45 Spin ice 45'
  
  Speaker: Michel Gingras (University of Waterloo, Canada)
12:30 - 15:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 3h0'

15:30 - 16:15 Numerical simulations

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

15:30 Numerical simulations 45'

Speaker:	Andreas Laeuchli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Material:	lecture notes

16:15 - 17:00 Numerical simulations

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 16:15 Numerical simulations 45'
  
  Speaker: Andreas Laeuchli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 17:00 Coffee break 30'

17:30 - 18:15 Tutorial

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

17:30 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Andreas Laeuchli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

18:15 - 19:00 Tutorial

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 18:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Andreas Laeuchli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

Monday, 6 August 2007

09:00 - 09:45 Kagome: experimental aspects

09:00 Kagome: experimental aspects 45'

Speaker:	Philippe Mendels (University Paris-Sud Orsay)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Orbital degeneracy in spinels
- 09:45 Orbital degeneracy in spinels 45'
  
  Speaker: Jeroen van der Brink (Institute-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, University Leiden)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Quadrupolar and nematic order

11:00 Quadrupolar and nematic order 45'

Speaker:	Karlo Penc (MTA SzFKI, Hungary)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Magnetization plateaux

11:45 Magnetization plateaux 45'

Speaker:	Masashi Takigawa (University of Tokyo)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
14:30 - 15:15 Tutorial
- 14:30 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Joachim Deisenhofer (University of Geneva)
15:15 - 16:00 Tutorial
- 15:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Roser Valenti (Institut fur Theoretische Physik, University Frankfurt)

16:00 - 16:45 Tutorial

16:00 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Frederic Mila (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

16:45 - 17:15 Coffee break
- 16:45 Coffee break 30'
17:15 - 18:00 Tutorial
- 17:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Michel Gingras (University of Waterloo, Canada)

18:00 - 18:45 Tutorial

18:00 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Philippe Mendels (University Paris-Sud Orsay)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

18:45 - 19:30 Tutorial
- 18:45 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Jeroen van der Brink (Institute-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, University Leiden)

Tuesday, 7 August 2007

09:00 - 09:45 Spin-lattice coupling in antiferromagnetic spinels

09:00 Spin-lattice coupling in antiferromagnetic spinels 45'

Speaker:	Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins University)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 J1-J2 and variational Monte Carlo
- 09:45 J1-J2 and variational Monte Carlo 45'
  
  Speaker: Sandro Sorella (SISSA, Trieste)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Doped frustrated magnets

11:00 Doped frustrated magnets 45'

Speaker:	Didier Poilblanc (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Quantum Dimer Models

11:45 Quantum Dimer Models 45'

Speaker:	Roderich Moessner (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
- 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
14:30 - 15:15 Tutorial
- 14:30 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Karlo Penc (MTA SzFKI, Hungary)

15:15 - 16:00 Tutorial

15:15 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Masashi Takigawa (University of Tokyo)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

16:00 - 16:45 Tutorial
- 16:00 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins University)
16:45 - 17:15 Coffee break
- 16:45 Coffee break 30'
17:15 - 18:00 Tutorial
- 17:15 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Sandro Sorella (SISSA, Trieste)

18:00 - 18:45 Tutorial

18:00 Tutorial 45'

Speaker:	Didier Poilblanc (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Material:	Tutorial Questions

18:45 - 19:30 Tutorial
- 18:45 Tutorial 45'
  
  Speaker: Roderich Moessner (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford)

Wednesday, 8 August 2007
- 08:30 - 09:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES (ONLY FOR NEWLY ARRIVED)
  
  Location: Main Building, Lobby
  - 08:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES (ONLY FOR NEWLY ARRIVED) 1h0'
- 09:45 - 10:00 Welcome and Introduction
  - 09:45 Welcome and Introduction 15'
    
    Speaker: F. Becca, F. Essler, F. Mila, A. Tsvelik
- 10:00 - 10:40 Magnetic excitation spectrum of doped and undoped spin ladders
  - 10:00 Magnetic excitation spectrum of doped and undoped spin ladders 40'
    
    Speaker: Bella Lake (Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin)
- 10:40 - 11:20 The dynamics of Heisenberg spin chains
  - 10:40 The dynamics of Heisenberg spin chains 40'
    
    Speaker: Jean-Sebastien Caux (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- 11:20 - 12:00 Bound states in an Ising magnet in applied field
  - 11:20 Bound states in an Ising magnet in applied field 40'
    
    Speaker: Radu Coldea (University of Bristol)
- 12:00 - 12:20 1D fermions beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm
  - 12:00 1D fermions beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm 20'
    
    Speaker: Michael Pustilnik (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- 12:20 - 16:00 Lunch
  - 12:20 Lunch 3h40'
- 16:00 - 16:40 Strongly correlated electrons on triangular lattice in organics
  - 16:00 Strongly correlated electrons on triangular lattice in organics 40'
    
    Speaker: Kazushi Kanoda (The University of Tokyo)
- 16:40 - 17:20 Unusual dynamics of noncollinear quantum antiferromagnets
  - 16:40 Unusual dynamics of noncollinear quantum antiferromagnets 40'
    
    Speaker: Michael Zhitomirsky (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble)
- 17:20 - 17:40 Geometrically frustrated charges on the anisotropic triangular lattices
  - 17:20 Geometrically frustrated charges on the anisotropic triangular lattices 20'
    
    Speaker: Chisa Hotta (Aoyama Gakuin University)
- 17:40 - 18:00 Competing orders in a quasi one-dimensional two-band conductor
  - 17:40 Competing orders in a quasi one-dimensional two-band conductor 20'
    
    Speaker: Ana Akrap (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Thursday, 9 August 2007
- 10:00 - 10:40 Path Integral Approach to Frustrated Antiferromagnets
  - 10:00 Path Integral Approach to Frustrated Antiferromagnets 40'
    
    Speaker: M. Joseph Bhaseen (University of Oxford)
- 10:40 - 11:00 Spin Freezing in Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnets with Weak Bond Disorder
  - 10:40 Spin Freezing in Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnets with Weak Bond Disorder 20'
    
    Speaker: Timothy Saunders (University of Oxford)
- 12:20 - 12:40 Finite-size scaling of the Neel order parameter
  - 12:20 Finite-size scaling of the Neel order parameter 20'
    
    Speaker: Alexander Chernyshev (University of California, Irvine)
- 12:40 - 13:00 Unconventional dynamics in a canonical triangular antiferromagnet
  - 12:40 Unconventional dynamics in a canonical triangular antiferromagnet 20'
    
    Speaker: Areta Olariu (University Paris-Sud Orsay)
- 13:00 - 16:00 Lunch
  - 13:00 Lunch 3h0'
- 16:00 - 16:40 Freezing in Spin Ice: Stuffed, Diluted, and Artificial
  - 16:00 Freezing in Spin Ice: Stuffed, Diluted, and Artificial 40'
    
    Speaker: Peter Schiffer (Pennsylvania State University)
- 16:40 - 17:00 A three dimensional Kasteleyn transition; spin ice in a [100] field
  - 16:40 A three dimensional Kasteleyn transition; spin ice in a [100] field 20'
    
    Speaker: Ludovic Jaubert (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
- 17:00 - 17:20 Valence Bond Entanglement Entropy
  - 17:00 Valence Bond Entanglement Entropy 20'
    
    Speaker: Fabien Alet (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
- 17:20 - 17:40 Spin ice beyond the ice rules
  - 17:20 Spin ice beyond the ice rules 20'
    
    Speaker: Claudio Castelnovo (University of Oxford)
- 17:40 - 18:00 Frustration-driven QPT in the ferromagnetic 1D extended anisotropic Heisenberg model
  - 17:40 Frustration-driven QPT in the ferromagnetic 1D extended anisotropic Heisenberg model 20'
    
    Speaker: Adolfo Avella (University of Salerno)
- 18:00 - 18:20 Non-abelian statistics in a quantum antiferromagnet
  - 18:00 Non-abelian statistics in a quantum antiferromagnet 20'
    
    Speaker: Martin Greiter (University of Karlsruhe)
- 18:30 - 20:30 Reception
  - 18:30 Reception 2h0'

Friday, 10 August 2007

09:00 - 09:40 Classical and non-classical behaviour in real kagome antiferromagnets
- 09:00 Classical and non-classical behaviour in real kagome antiferromagnets 40'
  
  Speaker: Andrew Harrison (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble)
09:40 - 10:20 Neutron scattering studies of frustrated kagome antiferromagnets
- 09:40 Neutron scattering studies of frustrated kagome antiferromagnets 40'
  
  Speaker: Young Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:40 - 11:00 Frustrated magnetism in the S=1/2 kagome ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 compound
- 10:40 Frustrated magnetism in the S=1/2 kagome ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 compound 20'
  
  Speaker: Fabrice Bert (University Paris-Sud Orsay)
11:00 - 11:20 Ground State and excitation properties of the hebertsmithite studied by local probs
- 11:00 Ground State and excitation properties of the hebertsmithite studied by local probs 20'
  
  Speaker: Oren Ofer (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa)
11:20 - 11:40 Highly Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg polytopes
- 11:20 Highly Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg polytopes 20'
  
  Speaker: Ioannis Rousochatzakis (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
11:40 - 15:00 Lunch
- 11:40 Lunch 3h20'
15:00 - 15:40 New and old spinel oxides with geometrical frustration
- 15:00 New and old spinel oxides with geometrical frustration 40'
  
  Speaker: Hidenori Takagi (University of Tokyo)
15:40 - 16:20 Frustration and fluctuations in various spinel antiferromagnets
- 15:40 Frustration and fluctuations in various spinel antiferromagnets 40'
  
  Speaker: Leon Balents (University of California, Santa Barbara)

16:40 - 17:20 Mott transition and magnetic properties on frustrated lattices

16:40 Mott transition and magnetic properties on frustrated lattices 40'

Speaker:	Hirokazu Tsunetsugu (University of Tokyo)
Material:	lecture notes

17:20 - 18:00 Neutron scattering from frustrated magnets
- 17:20 Neutron scattering from frustrated magnets 40'
  
  Speaker: Collin L. Broholm (Johns Hopkins University)

Monday, 13 August 2007
- 09:00 - 09:40 Magnetization process of two-dimensional highly frustrated spin-1/2 quantum antiferromagnets
  - 09:00 Magnetization process of two-dimensional highly frustrated spin-1/2 quantum antiferromagnets 40'
    
    Speaker: J. Andreas Honecker (University of Gottingen)
- 09:40 - 10:20 Magnetization plateaux of triangular molecular magnets in and out of equilibrium
  - 09:40 Magnetization plateaux of triangular molecular magnets in and out of equilibrium 40'
    
    Speaker: Timothy Ziman (Institut Laue Langevin and CNRS)
- 10:20 - 10:40 Magnetization plateaux in frustrated two-dimensional systems
  - 10:20 Magnetization plateaux in frustrated two-dimensional systems 20'
    
    Speaker: Shin Miyahara (University of Tokyo)
- 10:40 - 16:00 Lunch
  - 10:40 Lunch 5h20'
- 16:00 - 16:40 Variational wavefunction study of triangular lattice supersolid at half-filling
  - 16:00 Variational wavefunction study of triangular lattice supersolid at half-filling 40'
    
    Speaker: Kedar Suresh Damle (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
- 16:40 - 17:00 Looking for Supersolids in Frustrated Quantum Magnets
  - 16:40 Looking for Supersolids in Frustrated Quantum Magnets 20'
    
    Speaker: Kai Phillip Schmidt (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
- 17:00 - 17:20 Phase separation and flux quantization in the doped quantum dimer model
  - 17:00 Phase separation and flux quantization in the doped quantum dimer model 20'
    
    Speaker: Arnaud Ralko (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
- 17:20 - 17:40 Strongly correlated fermions on frustrated lattices
  - 17:20 Strongly correlated fermions on frustrated lattices 20'
    
    Speaker: Frank Pollman (Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
- 17:40 - 18:00 Characterizing singlet states with SU(2) dimers
  - 17:40 Characterizing singlet states with SU(2) dimers 20'
    
    Speaker: Matthieu Mambrini (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
- 10:00 - 10:40 Competing orders in two-leg spin ladder with four-spin exchange interactions
  - 10:00 Competing orders in two-leg spin ladder with four-spin exchange interactions 40'
    
    Speaker: Philippe Lecheminant (University of Cergy-Pontoise, CNRS)
- 10:40 - 11:20 Confinement and Superfluidity in 1D Fermionic Cold Atoms
  - 10:40 Confinement and Superfluidity in 1D Fermionic Cold Atoms 40'
    
    Speaker: Patrick Azaria (University Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS)
- 11:20 - 12:00 Spinons in strongly correlated chain cuprates
  - 11:20 Spinons in strongly correlated chain cuprates 40'
    
    Speaker: Igor Zaliznyak (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- 12:00 - 12:20 The Spin Peierls transition beyond the adiabatic approximation
  - 12:00 The Spin Peierls transition beyond the adiabatic approximation 20'
    
    Speaker: Ariel O. Dobry (Universidad Nacional de Rosario)
- 12:20 - 16:00 Lunch
  - 12:20 Lunch 3h40'
- 16:00 - 16:20 Isolated tetrahedra system Cu4OCl6daca4: the magnetic exchange picture
  - 16:00 Isolated tetrahedra system Cu4OCl6daca4: the magnetic exchange picture 20'
    
    Speaker: Oksana Zaharko (ETH Zurich & Paul Scherrer Institute)
- 16:20 - 16:40 Probing the spin-gap in the HFM systems by thermal conductivity
  - 16:20 Probing the spin-gap in the HFM systems by thermal conductivity 20'
    
    Speaker: Ana Smontara (Institute of Physics, Zagreb)
- 16:40 - 17:00 Are frustrated antiferromagnets with Gd on corner-shared triangles and tetrahedra complex or not?
  - 16:40 Are frustrated antiferromagnets with Gd on corner-shared triangles and tetrahedra complex or not? 20'
    
    Speaker: Michel Gingras (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- 17:20 - 17:40 Magnetic properties of La2CuO4. The Hubbard model and the dilution problem
  - 17:20 Magnetic properties of La2CuO4. The Hubbard model and the dilution problem 20'
    
    Speaker: Peter C.W. Holdsworth (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
- 17:40 - 18:00 Variational description of Mott insulators with charge fluctuations
  - 17:40 Variational description of Mott insulators with charge fluctuations 20'
    
    Speaker: Federico Becca (SISSA, Trieste)
- 18:00 - 20:00 Poster Session and get-together drink
  - 18:00 Poster Session and get-together drink 2h0'
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
- 10:00 - 10:40 Magnetic ground state and spin excitations in Terbium pyrochlores
  - 10:00 Magnetic ground state and spin excitations in Terbium pyrochlores 40'
    
    Speaker: Isabelle Mirebeau (CNRS, Gif Sur Yvette)
- 10:40 - 11:20 Fluctuations and Order of the Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Tb2Ti2O7
  - 10:40 Fluctuations and Order of the Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Tb2Ti2O7 40'
    
    Speaker: Bruce D. Gaulin (McMaster University , Canada)
- 11:20 - 12:00 Frustrated Lattices in Spinel Compounds
  - 11:20 Frustrated Lattices in Spinel Compounds 40'
    
    Speaker: Alois Loidl (University Augsburg, Germany)
- 12:00 - 12:20 Dimer phases of orbitally degenerate quantum antiferromagnets
  - 12:00 Dimer phases of orbitally degenerate quantum antiferromagnets 20'
    
    Speaker: George Jackeli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
- 12:20 - 16:00 Lunch
  - 12:20 Lunch 3h40'
- 16:00 - 16:40 Charge ordering as an alternative to Jahn-Teller distortion: A novel feature close to Mott transition
  - 16:00 Charge ordering as an alternative to Jahn-Teller distortion: A novel feature close to Mott transition 40'
    
    Speaker: Daniil I. Khomskii (University of Cologne)
- 16:40 - 17:20 Frustration and entanglement in spin-orbital superexchange models
  - 16:40 Frustration and entanglement in spin-orbital superexchange models 40'
    
    Speaker: Andrzej M. Oles (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart)
- 17:20 - 17:40 Cu K-edge Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in edge-sharing cuprates
  - 17:20 Cu K-edge Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in edge-sharing cuprates 20'
    
    Speaker: Francois H. Vernay (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- 17:40 - 18:00 Unusual spin-Peierls physics of oxyhalides
  - 17:40 Unusual spin-Peierls physics of oxyhalides 20'
    
    Speaker: Michael Sing (University of Wurzburg, Germany)
- 18:00 - 18:20 Theoretical aspects of helimagnetism and related properties in frustrated edge-shared CuO2 chain compounds
  - 18:00 Theoretical aspects of helimagnetism and related properties in frustrated edge-shared CuO2 chain compounds 20'
    
    Speaker: Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler (IFW-Dresden)
Thursday, 16 August 2007
- 10:00 - 10:40 How to have fun with frustrated ferromagnets
  - 10:00 How to have fun with frustrated ferromagnets 40'
    
    Speaker: Nicholas S.P. Shannon (University of Bristol)
- 10:40 - 11:00 Octupolar order in the multiple spin exchange model on a triangular lattice
  - 10:40 Octupolar order in the multiple spin exchange model on a triangular lattice 20'
    
    Speaker: Tsutomu Momoi (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan)
- 11:00 - 11:20 Quadrupolar phases of S=1 models on the triangular lattice
  - 11:00 Quadrupolar phases of S=1 models on the triangular lattice 20'
    
    Speaker: Karlo Penc (MTA SzFKI, Hungary)
- 11:20 - 11:40 Spin nematic phases in an itinerant correlated electronic system
  - 11:20 Spin nematic phases in an itinerant correlated electronic system 20'
    
    Speaker: Sylvain Capponi (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
- 11:40 - 12:00 Spin nematic in a classical pyrochlore antiferromagnet
  - 11:40 Spin nematic in a classical pyrochlore antiferromagnet 20'
    
    Speaker: Gia-Wei Chern (Johns Hopkins University)
- 12:00 - 16:00 Lunch
  - 12:00 Lunch 4h0'
- 16:00 - 16:40 Temperature effects on spin correlations in integer spin Heisenberg chains
  - 16:00 Temperature effects on spin correlations in integer spin Heisenberg chains 40'
    
    Speaker: Fabian Essler (University of Oxford)
- 16:40 - 17:20 Numerical and DMRG for Coupled Continuum One Dimensional Systems
  - 16:40 Numerical and DMRG for Coupled Continuum One Dimensional Systems 40'
    
    Speaker: Robert Konik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- 17:20 - 18:00 1D models of non-Abelian excitations
  - 17:20 1D models of non-Abelian excitations 40'
    
    Speaker: Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)