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  • Monday, 18 August 2008
    • 08:30 - 09:45 Registration and administrative formalities at Adriatico Guest House, outside Kastler Lecture Hall Lecture Hall (Lower level 1)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration and administrative formalities at Adriatico Guest House, outside Kastler Lecture Hall Lecture Hall (Lower level 1) 1h15'
    • 09:45 - 10:00 Welcome address
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Welcome address 15'
        Speaker: K.R. Sreenivasan (Director, ICTP)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Non-classical response of solid helium confined in porous media
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Non-classical response of solid helium confined in porous media 1h0'
        Speaker: E. Kim (KAIST)
        Material: Slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Observation of mass flux through solid helium
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Observation of mass flux through solid helium 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Hallock (UMass)
        Material: Slides
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Brief introduction to the field
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Brief introduction to the field 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Chan (Penn State University)
        Material: Slides
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Probing DC flow and the upper limit of nonclassical rotational inertia in solid Helium-4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Probing DC flow and the upper limit of nonclassical rotational inertia in solid Helium-4 1h0'
        Speaker: A.S.C. Rittner (Cornell)
        Material: Slides
    • 16:00 - 17:00 Supersolid phases of hard core bosons in optical lattices
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Supersolid phases of hard core bosons in optical lattices 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Boninsegni (University of Alberta)
        Material: Slides
    • 17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 17:30 - 18:30 Supersolids, vortices, and glasses
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:30 Supersolids, vortices, and glasses 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Thompson (University of British Columbia)
        Material: Slides
    • 19:00 - 21:00 RECEPTION at Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 19:00 RECEPTION at Adriatico Guest House (Terrace) 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 19 August 2008
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Optical investigations of disorder in solid Helium-4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Optical investigations of disorder in solid Helium-4 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Caupin (ENS Paris)
        Material: Slides
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Effects of crystal structure and statistics on defects and the elastic properties of solid helium
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Effects of crystal structure and statistics on defects and the elastic properties of solid helium 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Beamish (University of Alberta)
        Material: Slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Supersolidity or quantum metallurgy?
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Supersolidity or quantum metallurgy? 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Dorsey (University of Florida)
        Material: Slides
    • 12:30 - 15:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 2h30'
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Dislocations and Supersolidity in solid He-4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Dislocations and Supersolidity in solid He-4 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Kuklov (CUNY)
        Material: Slides
    • 16:00 - 17:00 Experiments in search of a two dimensional supersolid
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Experiments in search of a two dimensional supersolid 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Saunders (Royal Halloway University of London)
    • 17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 17:30 - 18:30 Search for supersolid behaviors in 2-D Solid He-4 and He-4 in nanoporous media
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:30 Search for supersolid behaviors in 2-D Solid He-4 and He-4 in nanoporous media 1h0'
        Speaker: K. Shirahama (Keio University)
        Material: Slides
  • Wednesday, 20 August 2008
    • 09:00 - 10:00 On the scenarios for superfluid transition in the dislocation network in solid He-4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 On the scenarios for superfluid transition in the dislocation network in solid He-4 1h0'
        Speaker: S.I. Shevchenko (ILTP)
        Material: Slides
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Observations on supersolid phenomena using compound torsional oscillator
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Observations on supersolid phenomena using compound torsional oscillator 1h0'
        Speaker: H. Kojima (Rutgers)
        Material: Slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 The effects of order and disorder on the supersolid phenomenon in He-4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 The effects of order and disorder on the supersolid phenomenon in He-4 1h0'
        Speaker: J. West (Penn State University)
        Material: Slides
    • 12:30 - 15:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 2h30'
    • 15:00 - 16:30 Poster session: short oral presentations by participants
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Poster session: short oral presentations by participants 1h30'
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Poster session & discussion
      Free discussion - round table in Ludqvist lecture hall; posters outside Lundqvist lecture hall
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Poster session & discussion 1h30'
  • Thursday, 21 August 2008
    • 09:00 - 10:00 The solid state of Helium-4: to flow or not to flow
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 The solid state of Helium-4: to flow or not to flow 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Pollet (ETH Zürich)
        Material: Slides
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Supersolidity and disorder: quantum dislocations and superglass phase
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Supersolidity and disorder: quantum dislocations and superglass phase 1h0'
        Speaker: G. Biroli (CEA Saclay)
        Material: Slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Pressure relaxation on annealing in solid helium
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Pressure relaxation on annealing in solid helium 1h0'
        Speaker: N. Mulders (University of Delaware)
        Material: Slides
    • 12:30 - 15:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 2h30'
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Microsocopic studies of He-4 solid systems via Path Integral projection methods
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Microsocopic studies of He-4 solid systems via Path Integral projection methods 1h0'
        Speaker: D.E. Galli (University of Milano)
        Material: Slides
    • 16:00 - 17:00 Supersolids bosons on frustrated lattices
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Supersolids bosons on frustrated lattices 1h0'
        Speaker: S. Wessel (University of Stuttgart)
        Material: Slides
    • 17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 17:30 - 18:30 Detailed torsional oscillator study on vortex fluid state and its transition into 3D supersolid state and observation of quantized vortices
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:30 Detailed torsional oscillator study on vortex fluid state and its transition into 3D supersolid state and observation of quantized vortices 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Kubota (Tokyo University)
        Material: Slides
  • Friday, 22 August 2008
    • 09:00 - 10:00 The structure and dynamics of hcp He-4 below 1 K
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 The structure and dynamics of hcp He-4 below 1 K 1h0'
        Speaker: E. Blackburn (UCSD & University of Birmingham)
        Material: Slides
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Exchange and vibrational modes in bosonic quantum solids
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Exchange and vibrational modes in bosonic quantum solids 1h0'
        Speaker: J.O. Sofo (Penn State University)
        Material: Slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Closing remarks
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Closing remarks 1h0'