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Conference on Superconductor-Insulator Transitions | (smr 2035)
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  • Monday, 18 May 2009
    • 08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Administrative Formalities
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative Formalities 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 09:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
      • 09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 15'
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Critical behavior near the superconductor-insulator transitions in two-dimensions
      • 09:45 Critical behavior near the superconductor-insulator transitions in two-dimensions 45'
        Speaker: A. Kapitulnik (Stanford University, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 From classsical to quantum: Broadband microwave studies of superconducting fluctuations in 2D InO thin Films
      • 11:00 From classsical to quantum: Broadband microwave studies of superconducting fluctuations in 2D InO thin Films 45'
        Speaker: N. P. Armitage (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
    • 11:45 - 12:30 Comparsion of superconductor-insulator transitions in different materials
      • 11:45 Comparsion of superconductor-insulator transitions in different materials 45'
        Speaker: V. Gantmakher (Inst. of Solid State Physics, Moscow, Russian Federation)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:15 The insulator in the superconductor-insulator transition
      • 14:30 The insulator in the superconductor-insulator transition 45'
        Speaker: D. Shahar (The weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:15 - 16:00 Inhomogeneous conduction near the quantum critical point in InO films
      • 15:15 Inhomogeneous conduction near the quantum critical point in InO films 45'
        Speaker: S. Ganapathy (University of Buffalo, USA)
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:15 The Superconductor-Insulator transition in thin TiN films
      • 16:30 The Superconductor-Insulator transition in thin TiN films 45'
        Speaker: C. Strunk (Universitaet Regensburg, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 19:00 - 21:00 RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 19:00 RECEPTION 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 19 May 2009
    • 08:45 - 09:30 Fluctuations in thin superconducting TiN films
      • 08:45 Fluctuations in thin superconducting TiN films 45'
        Speaker: C. Chapelier (C.E.A. Grenoble, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Tunneling spectroscopy on amorphous indium oxide: spectral signature of incoherent Cooper-pairs
      • 09:30 Tunneling spectroscopy on amorphous indium oxide: spectral signature of incoherent Cooper-pairs 45'
        Speaker: B. Sacepe (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Tunneling studies in a disordered s-wave superconductor close to the Fermi glass regime
      • 10:45 Tunneling studies in a disordered s-wave superconductor close to the Fermi glass regime 45'
        Speaker: P. Raychaudhuri (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Res. Mumbai, India)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 11:30 Lunch Break 2h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Spin effects near the superconductor-insulator transition in ultra-thin Al and Be films
      • 14:00 Spin effects near the superconductor-insulator transition in ultra-thin Al and Be films 45'
        Speaker: P. Adams (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Inverse proximity effect in thin superconducting and ferromagnetic layers
      • 14:45 Inverse proximity effect in thin superconducting and ferromagnetic layers 45'
        Speaker: A. Frydman (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 Towards Realization of Topological Order in Josephson Arrays
      • 16:00 Towards Realization of Topological Order in Josephson Arrays 45'
        Speaker: M. Gershenson (Rutgers State University, Piscataway, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 18:00 - 19:30 Round Table 1: News and views, and open questions on the Sl-transition
      • 18:00 Round Table 1: News and views, and open questions on the Sl-transition 1h30'
  • Wednesday, 20 May 2009
    • 08:45 - 09:30 Superconductor-Insulstor Transition in High-Tc and Conventional Superconducting Films
      • 08:45 Superconductor-Insulstor Transition in High-Tc and Conventional Superconducting Films 45'
        Speaker: M. Cieplak (Inst. of Physics, PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Nodal Quasi-Particles & the Suppression of Superconductivity with Doping & Temperature in Cuprates
      • 09:30 Nodal Quasi-Particles & the Suppression of Superconductivity with Doping & Temperature in Cuprates 45'
        Speaker: A. Yazdani (Princeton University, USA)
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Nature of Superconducting and Insulating States in a Disordered System
      • 10:45 Nature of Superconducting and Insulating States in a Disordered System 45'
        Speaker: N. Trivedi (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Compensation driven superconductor-insulator transition
      • 11:30 Compensation driven superconductor-insulator transition 45'
        Speaker: M. Mueller (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Electric Field Tuning of Superconductivity at the LaAIO3/SrTiO3 Interface
      • 14:00 Electric Field Tuning of Superconductivity at the LaAIO3/SrTiO3 Interface 45'
        Speaker: S. Gariglio (Universite de Geneve, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Finite size effects in 2D superconductors
      • 14:45 Finite size effects in 2D superconductors 45'
        Speaker: T. Schneider (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 Tunable Superconducting Transition in Doped Graphene Sheets
      • 16:00 Tunable Superconducting Transition in Doped Graphene Sheets 45'
        Speaker: B. Kessler (Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 17:00 Poster Session 2h0'
  • Thursday, 21 May 2009
    • 08:45 - 09:30 Glassiness in insulating granular aluminum thin films
      • 08:45 Glassiness in insulating granular aluminum thin films 45'
        Speaker: T. Grenet (LEPES - CNR, Grenoble, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:30 - 10:15 The conductance of superconducting-normal hybrid structures
      • 09:30 The conductance of superconducting-normal hybrid structures 45'
        Speaker: O. Entin-Wohlman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Coulomb effects in a mixed granular system near the percolation threshold
      • 10:45 Coulomb effects in a mixed granular system near the percolation threshold 45'
        Speaker: A. Ioselevich (Landau Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russian Federation)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Giant jumps in nonlinear resistance: bistability caused by overheating of an electron system
      • 11:30 Giant jumps in nonlinear resistance: bistability caused by overheating of an electron system 45'
        Speaker: V. Kravtsov (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Pseudogaped superconductivity of localized electrons
      • 14:00 Pseudogaped superconductivity of localized electrons 45'
        Speaker: M. Feigelman (L.D. Landau Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russian Federation)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Phase transitions in strongly disordered magnets and superconductors on Bethe lattice
      • 14:45 Phase transitions in strongly disordered magnets and superconductors on Bethe lattice 45'
        Speaker: L. Ioffe (Rutgers, the State Univ. of New Jersey, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 Transport in a network of Josephson junctions in the insulating state
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:00 Transport in a network of Josephson junctions in the insulating state 45'
        Speaker: K. Efetov (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany)
    • 16:45 - 17:30 Many-Body Localization and Transport Properties of Insulation Josephson Arrays
      • 16:45 Many-Body Localization and Transport Properties of Insulation Josephson Arrays 45'
        Speaker: B. Altshuler (Columbia University, New York, USA)
    • 18:00 - 19:30 Round Table 2: 2d superconductivity:Superconducting films, high Tc's, interfacial superconductivity - Similarities and differences
      • 18:00 Round Table 2: 2d superconductivity:Superconducting films, high Tc's, interfacial superconductivity - Similarities and differences 1h30'
  • Friday, 22 May 2009
    • 08:45 - 09:30 Fulleride superconductivity at hyperexpanded separations
      • 08:45 Fulleride superconductivity at hyperexpanded separations 45'
        Speaker: K. Prassides (University of Durham, UK)
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Strongly Correlated Superconductor-Mott insulator Transition in Fullerides
      • 09:30 Strongly Correlated Superconductor-Mott insulator Transition in Fullerides 45'
        Speaker: E. Tosatti (S.I.S.S.A., Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:45 - 11:30 s-Wave superconductivity near a Mott transition: the puzzling case of fullerenes
      • 10:45 s-Wave superconductivity near a Mott transition: the puzzling case of fullerenes 45'
        Speaker: M. Fabrizio (S.I.S.S.A., Trieste, Italy)
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Fluctuating and unconventional superconductivity in organic molecular metals
      • 11:30 Fluctuating and unconventional superconductivity in organic molecular metals 45'
        Speaker: A. Ardavan (University of Oxford, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Nernst effect and superconducting glasses
      • 14:00 Nernst effect and superconducting glasses 45'
        Speaker: H. Aubin (Ecole Sup. de Physique et Chimie Industrielle, Paris, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Giant Nernst Effect due to Fluctuating Cooper Pairs in Superconductors
      • 14:45 Giant Nernst Effect due to Fluctuating Cooper Pairs in Superconductors 45'
        Speaker: M. Skvortsov (L.D. Landau Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russian Federation)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 Fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter as an origin of the Nernst effect
      • 16:00 Fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter as an origin of the Nernst effect 45'
        Speaker: K. Michaeli (The Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 17:00 Poster Session 2h0'
  • Saturday, 23 May 2009
    • 09:00 - 11:45 Informal Discussions
      • 09:00 Informal Discussions 2h45'
    • 11:45 - 12:00 Concluding Remarks
      • 11:45 Concluding Remarks 15'
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