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Cosponsor(s):

SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies

Start Time:

3 July 2006 at 09:00

Ends On:

7 July 2006

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

AGH (Kastler LH)

Organizer(s):

Directors: A. Pinczuk, S. Scandolo, G. Scoles; E. Tosatti (ICTP Local Organizer)

Material:

MONDAY, 3 JULY 2006

Description:
REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

3 July 2006
10:30
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
Morning / Afternoon Sessions: SURFACES

Chairperson: Giacinto SCOLES (SISSA, Princeton, Elettra)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

3 July 2006
11:00
11:30
OPENING SESSION
30'

Professor Erio TOSATTI
and
Professor Aron PINCZUK
11:30
12:15
Fluctuations and transport in nanoscale structures
45'
E. WILLIAMS
University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
12:15
14:30
LUNCH BREAK
02h15'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
14:30
15:15
STM beyond imaging: Probing the quantum world of nanostructures
45'
K. KERN
MPI, Stuttgart, Germany
15:15
16:00
Clusters on surfaces: Matter in the non-scalable size-regime
45'
U. HEIZ
Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
16:00
16:15
COFFEE BREAK
15'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:15
17:00
Scanning tunneling microscopy of adsorbates on insulating films: Charge-scale control, molecular-orbital imaging and organometallic synthesis
45'
J. REPP
IBM, Ruschilikon, Switzerland
17:00
17:20
Surprises in the friction between crystals
20'
E. TOSATTI
SISSA, Trieste, Italy
17:20
17:40
Extreme ultrafast dynamics of quasiparticles excited in surface electronic bands
20'
B. GUMHALTER
Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia
18:30
20:00
RECEPTION - outside on the Terrace
01h30'
TUESDAY, 4 JULY 2006 - Morning Session: SOFT MATTER (I)

Chairperson: Cristian MICHELETTI (SISSA, Trieste)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

4 July 2006
09:00
09:45
Artificial gene transfer and the dynamics of gene expression
45'
J. RAEDLER
LMU, Munich, Germany
09:45
10:30
Computer simulation of rare events in material science and biophysics
45'
A. LAIO
SISSA, Trieste, Italy
10:30
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:00
11:45
Flexibility and rigidity in biomolecules
45'
M. THORPE
Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A.
11:45
12:30
Spatio-temporal chaotic dynamics in the flow of soft matter
45'
A. SOOD
IIS, Bangalore, India
12:30
14:30
LUNCH BREAK
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
Afternoon Session: SUPERSOLIDS

Chairperson: Aron PINCZUK (Columbia)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

4 July 2006
14:30
15:15
Observation of a supersolid helium phase
45'
E. KIM
KAIST, Taejon, Seoul
15:15
16:00
Superfluid disorder in quantum solids
45'
N. PROKOFIEV
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. / BEC-INFM, Trento, Italy
16:00
16:15
COFFEE BREAK
15'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:15
17:00
Ground state of bulk solid helium four: Commensurate or incommensurate, supersolid or normal?
45'
L. REATTO
Universita
17:00
17:20
Bose-Einstein condensation with entangled order parameter
20'
SHI Yu
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
17:20
17:40
Optimization using quantum mechanics: Quantum annealing through adiabatic evolution
20'
G. SANTORO
SISSA, Trieste, Italy
WEDNESDAY, 5 JULY 2006 - Morning Session: HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN

Chairperson: Sandro SCANDOLO (ICTP)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

5 July 2006
09:00
09:45
Metallic hydrogen and its quantum orderings
45'
N.W. ASHCROFT
Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
09:45
10:30
Low lying excitations in Quantum Hall Fluids
45'
A. PINCZUK
Columbia University, U.S.A.
10:30
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:00
11:45
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of dense hydrogen
45'
D.M. CEPERLEY
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
11:45
12:30
Ab-initio simulations of compressed hydrogen
45'
G. GALLI
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.A.
12:30
14:30
LUNCH BREAK
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
Afternoon Session: SOFT MATTER (II)

Chairperson: Erio TOSATTI (SISSA & ICTP, Trieste)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

5 July 2006
14:30
15:15
Wigner emulsions and crystals: Electrostatics of oil/water/solid mixtures
45'
P. CHAIKIN
Princeton University, U.S.A.
15:15
16:00
Supramolecular assemblies on curved surfaces: the case of nanoparticles
45'
F. STELLACCI
MIT, Cambridge, U.S.A.
16:00
16:15
COFFEE BREAK
15'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:15
17:00
On the solid/liquid contact
45'
D. QUERE
ESPCI, Paris, France
17:00
17:20
Side-by-side comparison of the properties of organic monolayers by AFM-based techniques
20'
L. CASALIS
Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy
17:30
19:00
POSTER SESSION
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
THURSDAY, 6 JULY 2006 - Morning Session: QUANTUM BITS / DOTS AND CONDENSATES

Chairperson: Raffaele RESTA (Univ. Trieste)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

6 July 2006
09:00
09:45
Elastic and magnetic dynamics of nano-magnet ordered arrays impulsively excited by sub-ps laser pulses
45'
F. PARMIGIANI
Universita' degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
09:45
10:30
High resolution photoelectron spectroscopy of metal clusters
45'
B. von ISSENDORF
University of Freiburg, Germany
10:30
10:50
Quantum dynamical phase transition in a pair of interacting spins, double quantum dots and two level systems
20'
H. PASTAWSKI
Universidade Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
10:50
11:05
COFFEE BREAK
15'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:05
11:50
Transport in quantum Hall superfluids
45'
A. MacDONALD
University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
11:50
12:35
The evolution from BCS to Bose-Einstein Condensation: Superfluidity in metals, neutron stars, nuclei and ultra-cold atoms
45'
C. SA de MELO
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.
12:35
12:55
Chern-number spin Hamiltonians for magnetic clusters by ab-initio methods
20'
C. CANALI
University of Kalmar, Sweden
12:55
14:30
LUNCH BREAK
01h35'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
Afternoon Session: NANOBIO

Chairperson: Giacinto SCOLES (SISSA, Princeton, Elettra)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

6 July 2006
14:30
15:15
Protein and polymer folding on a chip
45'
P. CREMER
Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A.
15:15
16:00
Detecting multiple substates and pathways in proteins: The case of the GFP
45'
G. BALDINI
Universita
16:00
16:15
COFFEE BREAK
15'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:15
17:00
Polymer physics versus DNA topology
45'
G. DIETLER
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
17:00
17:45
Dynamics of molecules at confined interfaces: viscous water and nano tumbleweed
45'
X.Y. ZHU
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
FRIDAY, 7 JULY 2006 - Morning Session: NEW TRENDS IN TRANSPORT

Chairperson: to be confirmed

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

7 July 2006
09:00
09:45
Many Body Localization
45'
B. ALTSHULER
NEC Princeton / Columbia University, U.S.A.
09:45
10:30
Supercurrent flow in semiconductor quantum dots
45'
S. De FRANCESCHI
CNR-INFM, TASC, Trieste, Italy
10:30
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:00
11:20
Mesoscopic anisotropic magnetoconductance fluctuations in ferromagnets
20'
S. ADAM
Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
11:20
12:05
Electrical transport in molecules, nanotubes and graphene
45'
P. KIM
Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
12:05
12:30
CLOSING SESSION
25'
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