CDSAGENDA V.5 THE SECOND STIG LUNDQVIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON THE ADVANCING FRONTIERS OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: "NON-CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS AND NEW DIRECTIONS"

THE SECOND STIG LUNDQVIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON THE ADVANCING FRONTIERS OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: "NON-CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS AND NEW DIRECTIONS"

Cosponsor(s):

The Office of Naval Research (ONR), USA, The National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Start Time:

2 July 2001 at 09:00

Ends On:

6 July 2001

Location:

ICTP

Venue:

A (Kastler LH )

Organizer(s):

D. Awschalom, E. Burstein and G. Scoles

Local Organizer(s):

E. Tosatti

Material:

no notes available

Administrative formalities

2 July 2001

09:00
10:30

Registration

01h30'

Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)

10:30
12:00

Time open for administrative matters

01h30'

Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)

Opening session

Chairperson: E. Burstein

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

2 July 2001

14:00
14:15

Welcome

15'

M. Virasoro & Yu Lu
Director of the Abdus Salam I.C.T.P. (Trieste) & Abdus Salam I.C.T.P. (Trieste)

14:15
14:45

Introductory Remarks

30'

D. Awschalom
University of California, Santa Barbara

14:45
15:45

Molecular organic crystals: A new playground for many-body physics

01h00'

B. Batlogg
ETH Zürich

15:45
16:15

Coffee Break

30'

16:15
17:15

Novel light phenomena in photonic crystals

01h00'

J. Joannopoulos
MIT, Cambridge

17:15
18:15

Conductance of nano-scale quantum point contact

01h00'

K. Takayanagi
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Morning Session

Chairperson: D. Awschalom

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

3 July 2001

09:00
10:00

Electron spins in quantum dots for quantum computing

01h00'

D. Loss
University of Basel

10:00
11:00

Ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic III-V semiconductor structures

01h00'

H. Ohno
Tohoku University, Sendai

11:00
11:30

Coffee Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Kondo physics in carbon nanotube quantum dots

01h00'

D. H. Cobden
University of Warwick

Afternoon Session

Chairperson: J. Joannopoulos

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

3 July 2001

14:30
15:30

Optical properties of single semiconductor quantum dots

01h00'

G. Abstreiter
TU München

15:30
16:10

All optical NMR in nanostructures

40'

G. Salis
University of California, Santa Barbara

16:10
16:40

Coffee Break

30'

16:40
17:20

Lasing in molecular organic single crystals

40'

H. Schön
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

17:20
18:00

Entropic forces and self-assembly of microstructures in suspensions

40'

A. Yodh
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

18:00
18:50

Coulombic effects in soft condensed matter

50'

P. Pincus
University of California, Santa Barbara

Morning Session

Chairperson: M. Cardona

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

4 July 2001

09:00
10:00

Physics and chemistry with single atoms and molecules using the STM

01h00'

K. H. Rieder
Freie Universität Berlin

10:00
11:00

Spectroscopy and chemical manipulation a the spatial limit

01h00'

M. Persson
Chalmers University, Göteborg

11:00
11:30

Coffee Break

30'

11:30
12:30

On the microscopic mechanism of friction

01h00'

M. Salmeron
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Afternoon Session

Chairperson: G. Scoles

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

4 July 2001

14:30
15:20

Sliding friction

50'

B. Persson
IFF, FZ Juelich

15:20
16:10

Molecular manipulation on surfaces

50'

G.-Y. Liu
Wayne State University, Detroit

16:10
16:40

Coffee Break

30'

Wednesday, 4 July 2001

Chairperson: P.Fazekas

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

16:40
17:30

Diffraction by molecular helices: from DNA to carbon nanotubes

50'

A. Lucas
University of Namur

17:30
18:20

Quantum geometric phases in molecular nanotubes

50'

E. Mele
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

20:00
22:30

Poster Session

02h30'

Morning Session

Chairperson: E. Burstein

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

5 July 2001

09:00
10:00

Role of compositional order and disorder in complex perovskites

01h00'

D.H. Vanderbilt
Rutgers University, Piscataway

10:00
11:00

Self-organization of nanocrystal superlattices: building with artificial atoms

01h00'

C.B. Murray
IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center

11:00
11:30

Coffee Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Designing enzyme mimics: electron transfer in oxomanganese porphyrins

01h00'

R. Car
Princeton University

Afternoon Session

Chairperson: D. Vanderbilt

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

5 July 2001

14:30
15:10

High piezoelectric response in complex ferroelectric oxides

40'

B. Noheda
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton

15:10
16:00

Evolving biomolecular control of semiconductor and magnetic nanostructures

50'

A.M. Belcher
University of Texas, Austin

16:00
16:30

Coffee Break

30'

Thursday, 5 July 2001

Chairperson: G.P. Brivio

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

16:30
17:20

Nanoelectromechanical systems

50'

J. Hone
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

17:20
18:20

Milli-Kelvin spectroscopy of electron quantum liquids in semiconductors

01h00'

A. Pinczuk
Columbia University, New York

Closing Session

Chairperson: Yu Lu

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

6 July 2001

09:00
10:00

String tension, structure and stability of tip-suspended gold, silver and platinum nanowiresE. Tosatti

01h00'

E. Tosatti
S.I.S.S.A. & The Abdus Salam I.C.T.P.

10:00
10:30

Coffee Break

30'

10:30
11:30

Ab-initio simulation of chemical processes in realistic environments

01h00'

M. Parrinello
Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart

11:30
12:30

Unusual physical and chemical processes in superfluid helium nanodroplets

01h00'

G. Scoles
Princeton University