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Conference on Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics | (smr 2498)
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  • Monday, 11 November 2013
    • 08:30 - 10:00 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES (for those staying at ICTP)
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES (for those staying at ICTP) 1h30'
    • 10:00 - 10:00 BUS for SISSA (venue of the Conference for Monday Sessions)
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      • 10:00 BUS for SISSA (venue of the Conference for Monday Sessions)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Opening
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      • 10:30 Opening 15'
        Speaker: G. Dal Maso (Deputy Director, SISSA)
    • 10:45 - 11:00 Opening
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      • 10:45 Opening 15'
        Speaker: D. Amati (SISSA)
    • 11:00 - 11:40 A new metrics for the economic complexity of countries and products
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      • 11:00 A new metrics for the economic complexity of countries and products 40'
        Speaker: L. Pietronero (Roma, La Sapienza)
    • 11:40 - 12:20 Symmetry breaking thresholds in manybody eigenvalue spectra and dynamical transition
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      • 11:40 Symmetry breaking thresholds in manybody eigenvalue spectra and dynamical transition 40'
        Speaker: M. Fabrizio (SISSA)
    • 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
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      • 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 Correlated electron calculations with Hartree Fock scaling
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      • 14:00 Correlated electron calculations with Hartree Fock scaling 40'
        Speaker: R. Car (Princeton)
    • 14:40 - 15:20 -
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      • 14:40 - 40'
        Speaker: G. Scoles (Princeton)
    • 15:20 - 15:40 Coffee break
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      • 15:20 Coffee break 20'
    • 15:40 - 16:20 Oxygen adsorption and incorporation at reduced anatase (101)
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      • 15:40 Oxygen adsorption and incorporation at reduced anatase (101) 40'
        Speaker: A. Selloni (Princeton)
    • 16:20 - 17:00 Modeling Friction: from the Nano- to Macro-Scales
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      • 16:20 Modeling Friction: from the Nano- to Macro-Scales 40'
        Speaker: M. Urbakh (Tel Aviv)
    • 17:00 - 17:00 Bus to ICTP
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      • 17:00 Bus to ICTP
  • Tuesday, 12 November 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:15 Opening
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Opening 15'
        Speaker: F. Quevedo (Director, ICTP)
    • 09:15 - 09:30 Opening
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:15 Opening 15'
        Speaker: V. Kravtsov (ICTP)
    • 09:30 - 09:40 Opening
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Opening 10'
        Speaker: G.C. Ghirardi (U. Trieste)
    • 09:40 - 10:20 The Chinese Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics -- A personal journey
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:40 The Chinese Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics -- A personal journey 40'
        Speaker: Yu Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • 10:20 - 11:00 Crystal Nucleation and Growth
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:20 Crystal Nucleation and Growth 40'
        Speaker: M. Parrinello (Lugano)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:10 Superradiant Superconductivity
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Superradiant Superconductivity 40'
        Speaker: G. Baskaran (INS Chennai)
    • 12:10 - 12:50 The graphene lattice: thermal effects
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 The graphene lattice: thermal effects 40'
        Speaker: A. Fasolino (Nijmegen)
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:10 Multiscale contact mechanics
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Multiscale contact mechanics 40'
        Speaker: B. Persson (Juelich)
    • 15:10 - 15:50 Stochastic Self-Consistent Harmonic Approximation: Inverse Isotope Effect in Palladium Hydrid superconductors
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 Stochastic Self-Consistent Harmonic Approximation: Inverse Isotope Effect in Palladium Hydrid superconductors 40'
        Speaker: F. Mauri (Paris VI)
    • 15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:20 - 17:00 -
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:20 - 40'
        Speaker: F. Guinea (Madrid)
  • Wednesday, 13 November 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Clustering by fast search-and-find of density peaks
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Clustering by fast search-and-find of density peaks 40'
        Speaker: A. Laio (SISSA)
    • 09:40 - 10:20 -
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:40 - 40'
        Speaker: P. Littlewood (Argonne, USA)
    • 10:20 - 11:00 Understanding enigmatic materials
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:20 Understanding enigmatic materials 40'
        Speaker: G. Galli (U.C. Davis)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:10 Teaching Silicon New Possibilities
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Teaching Silicon New Possibilities 40'
        Speaker: S. Ossicini (U. di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
    • 12:10 - 12:50 Superconductor to insulator transition: a short overview on recent ideas
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Superconductor to insulator transition: a short overview on recent ideas 40'
        Speaker: C. Castellani (Roma, La Sapienza)
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:10 Structural transformations in solids - simulations and experiment
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Structural transformations in solids - simulations and experiment 40'
        Speaker: R. Martonak (Bratislava)
    • 15:10 - 15:50 On floating nano bodies
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 On floating nano bodies 40'
        Speaker: A. Parola (Insubria, Como)
    • 15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:20 - 17:00 Gutzwiller Density Functional Theory for Correlated Electron Calculations
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:20 Gutzwiller Density Functional Theory for Correlated Electron Calculations 40'
        Speaker: C.Z. Wang (Ames, Iowa)
    • 17:00 - 17:40 Are Polarization and Magnetization Really Bulk Properties?
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Are Polarization and Magnetization Really Bulk Properties? 40'
        Speaker: R. Resta (U. Trieste)
    • 18:45 - 18:45 BUS to Social Dinner Venue
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 18:45 BUS to Social Dinner Venue
  • Thursday, 14 November 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:40 One dimensional physics with multispin fermonic atoms
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 One dimensional physics with multispin fermonic atoms 40'
        Speaker: M. Inguscio (Lens, Florence)
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Pseudogap in cuprates
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:40 Pseudogap in cuprates 40'
        Speaker: O. Gunnarson (MPI Stuttgart)
    • 10:20 - 11:00 Majorana Fermions in high Tc superconductiving devices
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:20 Majorana Fermions in high Tc superconductiving devices 40'
        Speaker: P. Lucignano (CNR, Rome)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:10 Easy experiments and difficult calculations on "simple" surfaces
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Easy experiments and difficult calculations on "simple" surfaces 40'
        Speaker: S. Modesti (U. Trieste)
    • 12:10 - 12:50 Anderson Localization at the 1D Edge of a 2D Topological Insulator
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Anderson Localization at the 1D Edge of a 2D Topological Insulator 40'
        Speaker: B. Altshuler (Columbia)
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:10 Novel magnetic phases for two-component Bose-Hubbard model with a synthetic spin-orbit coupling in one dimension
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Novel magnetic phases for two-component Bose-Hubbard model with a synthetic spin-orbit coupling in one dimension 40'
        Speaker: X.Q. Wang (Renmin)
    • 15:10 - 15:50 -
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 - 40'
        Speaker: A. Tagliacozzo (Napoli, Federico II)
    • 15:50 - 16:10 Phonon softening and structural transitions in TiSe2
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:50 Phonon softening and structural transitions in TiSe2 20'
        Speaker: G. Onida (University of Milan)
    • 16:10 - 16:30 -
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:10 - 20'
        Speaker: A. Smogunov (CEA Sclay)
    • 16:30 - 16:50 -
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 - 20'
        Speaker: R. Zecchina (Polythecnical University Turin)
    • 16:50 - 19:20 Poster session & Get-together
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 16:50 Poster session & Get-together 2h30'
  • Friday, 15 November 2013
    • 09:15 - 09:55 sp chains and sp2 carbon: spectroscopy and dynamics properties
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:15 sp chains and sp2 carbon: spectroscopy and dynamics properties 40'
        Speaker: N. Manini (Milan)
    • 09:55 - 10:35 Towards reliable design of energy materials: structure, stability, and defects
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:55 Towards reliable design of energy materials: structure, stability, and defects 40'
        Speaker: X.G. Gong (Fudan)
    • 10:35 - 11:15 Spin dynamic simulations
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:35 Spin dynamic simulations 40'
        Speaker: A. Delin (KTH Stockholm)
    • 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:15 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:45 - 12:25 Atomistic simulations of phase change materials for data storage
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:45 Atomistic simulations of phase change materials for data storage 40'
        Speaker: M. Bernasconi (Milano Bicocca)
    • 12:25 - 12:45 When Mott meets BCS: correlated superconductivity mediated by phonons in alkali fullerides
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:25 When Mott meets BCS: correlated superconductivity mediated by phonons in alkali fullerides 20'
        Speaker: M. Capone (CNR, Trieste)
    • 12:45 - 13:00 Closing remarks
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 Closing remarks 15'
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