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  • Sunday, 24 July 2011
    • 09:45 - 11:00 Introduction to quantum field theories for spin systems
      • 09:45 Introduction to quantum field theories for spin systems 1h15'
        Speaker: M. Vojta (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany)
    • 11:15 - 12:30 Introduction to quantum Monte Carlo studies of spin systems
      • 11:15 Introduction to quantum Monte Carlo studies of spin systems 1h15'
        Speaker: A. Sandvik (Boston University, U.S.A.)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:15 Universal low-energy phenomena in quantum magnets
      • 14:00 Universal low-energy phenomena in quantum magnets 1h15'
        Speaker: M. Vojta (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany)
    • 15:30 - 16:45 Quantum Monte Carlo studies of quantum-critical phenomena
      • 15:30 Quantum Monte Carlo studies of quantum-critical phenomena 1h15'
        Speaker: A. Sandvik (Boston University, U.S.A.)
  • Monday, 25 July 2011
    • 08:30 - 09:30 Registration
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 Registration 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Overview of Landau and non-Landau quantum critical points; field theories and microscopic quantum models
      • 09:30 Overview of Landau and non-Landau quantum critical points; field theories and microscopic quantum models 50'
        Speaker: T. Senthil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.)
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:40 Excitations in Spin Ladders – from Low Energies to the Complete Spectrum
      • 10:50 Excitations in Spin Ladders – from Low Energies to the Complete Spectrum 50'
        Speaker: C. Ruegg (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Quantum Monte Carlo simulation on Deconfined Critical Phenomena
      • 11:40 Quantum Monte Carlo simulation on Deconfined Critical Phenomena 50'
        Speaker: N. Kawashima (Institute for Solid State Physics, Japan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and Discussions
      • 12:30 Lunch and Discussions 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Confinement, duality, and topology of gauge fields in CP^{N-1} and QED models in 2+1 dimensions
      • 14:30 Confinement, duality, and topology of gauge fields in CP^{N-1} and QED models in 2+1 dimensions 50'
        Speaker: F. Nogueira (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:20 - 16:10 The Spinon Gas Model and its Numerical Tests
      • 15:20 The Spinon Gas Model and its Numerical Tests 50'
        Speaker: V. Kotov (University of Vermont, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:30 Impurity spin textures at critical points in antiferromagnets
      • 16:40 Impurity spin textures at critical points in antiferromagnets 50'
        Speaker: K.S. Damle (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
    • 18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception -- Dinner
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 18:00 Welcome Reception -- Dinner 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 26 July 2011
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Field theories of pure and doped 2D quantum antiferromagnets and high-precision tests based on quantum Monte Carlo
      • 09:30 Field theories of pure and doped 2D quantum antiferromagnets and high-precision tests based on quantum Monte Carlo 50'
        Speaker: U. Wiese (University of Bern, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:40 Anomalous High-Energy Spin Excitations in La2CuO4
      • 10:50 Anomalous High-Energy Spin Excitations in La2CuO4 50'
        Speaker: S. Hayden (University of Bristol, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Cubic Interactions and Quantum Criticality in Dimerized Antiferromagnets
      • 11:40 Cubic Interactions and Quantum Criticality in Dimerized Antiferromagnets 50'
        Speaker: S. Wessel (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and Discussions
      • 12:30 Lunch and Discussions 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Anomalous elasticity in disordered superfluids, superconductors and magnets: Optimal fluctuations, renormalization group, and simulations
      • 14:30 Anomalous elasticity in disordered superfluids, superconductors and magnets: Optimal fluctuations, renormalization group, and simulations 50'
        Speaker: T. Vojta (Missouri University of Science and Technology, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:20 - 16:10 Random-singlet phases beyond one spatial dimension
      • 15:20 Random-singlet phases beyond one spatial dimension 50'
        Speaker: K. Beach (University of Alberta, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:30 Impurity entanglement in spin chains
      • 16:40 Impurity entanglement in spin chains 50'
        Speaker: E. Sorensen (McMaster University, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 18:00 - 19:30 Poster Session I
      • 18:00 Poster Session I 1h30'
  • Wednesday, 27 July 2011
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Generic, realistic, and interesting models of correlated quantum systems
      • 09:30 Generic, realistic, and interesting models of correlated quantum systems 50'
        Speaker: L. Balents (University of California, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:40 Quantum criticality and confinement effects in the Ising spin chain CoNb2O6
      • 10:50 Quantum criticality and confinement effects in the Ising spin chain CoNb2O6 50'
        Speaker: R. Coldea (University of Oxford, U.K.)
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Entanglement spectrum and boundary theories with projected entangled-pair states
      • 11:40 Entanglement spectrum and boundary theories with projected entangled-pair states 50'
        Speaker: D. Poilblanc (Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and Discussions
      • 12:30 Lunch and Discussions 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Discussion
      • 14:30 Discussion 50'
    • 15:20 - 16:10 Spin liquids and topological insulators emerging from Dirac fermions
      • 15:20 Spin liquids and topological insulators emerging from Dirac fermions 50'
        Speaker: F. Assaad (Universitat Wurzburg, Germany)
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:30 A second look at short-range valence bond physics
      • 16:40 A second look at short-range valence bond physics 50'
        Speaker: F. Alet (Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
    • 18:00 - 19:30 Poster Session II
      • 18:00 Poster Session II 1h30'
    • 20:00 - 22:00 Dinner at Hotel Greif
      • 20:00 Dinner at Hotel Greif 2h0'
  • Thursday, 28 July 2011
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Search for Bose-metal type phases in models with ring exchanges
      • 09:30 Search for Bose-metal type phases in models with ring exchanges 50'
        Speaker: O.I. Motrunich (California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:40 DMRG study of the novel quantum phases for frustrated spin and boson systems
      • 10:50 DMRG study of the novel quantum phases for frustrated spin and boson systems 50'
        Speaker: D. Sheng (California State University, U.S.A.)
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Non-Fermi liquid phases for itinerant electrons
      • 11:40 Non-Fermi liquid phases for itinerant electrons 50'
        Speaker: M. Fisher (University of California At Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and Discussions
      • 12:30 Lunch and Discussions 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Critical scaling in a trap
      • 14:30 Critical scaling in a trap 50'
        Speaker: E. Vicari (University of Pisa, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:20 - 16:10 Exotic critical phenomena in classical systems
      • 15:20 Exotic critical phenomena in classical systems 50'
        Speaker: J. Chalker (University of Oxford, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:30 Toward a unified description of spin incoherent behavior at zero and finite temperatures
      • 16:40 Toward a unified description of spin incoherent behavior at zero and finite temperatures 50'
        Speaker: A.E. Feiguin (University of Wyoming, U.S.A.)
  • Friday, 29 July 2011
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Effective models for spin liquid phases in Hubbard models
      • 09:30 Effective models for spin liquid phases in Hubbard models 50'
        Speaker: K.P. Schmidt (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany)
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:40 Measuring Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Monte Carlo
      • 10:50 Measuring Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Monte Carlo 50'
        Speaker: R. Melko (Univerity of Waterloo, Canada)
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Series Expansion Studies of Quantum Antiferromagnets
      • 11:40 Series Expansion Studies of Quantum Antiferromagnets 50'
        Speaker: R. Singh (University of California at Davis, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and Discussions
      • 12:30 Lunch and Discussions 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Nonmagnetic states in frustrated quantum magnets: From Rokhsar Kivelson models to spin liquids in weak Mott insulators
      • 14:30 Nonmagnetic states in frustrated quantum magnets: From Rokhsar Kivelson models to spin liquids in weak Mott insulators 50'
        Speaker: A. Laeuchli (Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria)
    • 15:20 - 16:10 Exotic phases and emergent gauge fields through frustration
      • 15:20 Exotic phases and emergent gauge fields through frustration 50'
        Speaker: R. Moessner (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik Komplexer Systeme, Germany)
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:30 Future visions; synergies between quantum field theories and numerical calculations with microscopic hamiltonians
      • 16:40 Future visions; synergies between quantum field theories and numerical calculations with microscopic hamiltonians 50'
        Speaker: S. Sachdev (Harvard University, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes