Workshop "Supersolid 2008" | (smr 1959) (18-22 August 2008)

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Workshop "Supersolid 2008" | (smr 1959)

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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
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Free discussion - round table in Ludqvist lecture hall; posters outside Lundqvist lecture hall
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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'