Program


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Week 1 (24 - 30 July)
Week 2 (31 July - 06 August)
Week 3 (07 - 13 August)
Week 4 (14 - 20 August)
Week 5 (21 - 27 August)
Week 6 (28 August - 03 September)
Week 7 (04 - 10 September)
Week 8 (11 - 17 September)
Week 9 (18 - 24 September)
Week 10 - GRAPHENE CONFERENCE (25 September - 01 October)
Week 11 (02 - 06 October)


Week 1 Program (24 - 30 July)

Tuesday, July 25  
   
09:30 Frank Jülicher
  Opening
   
09:45 Konstantin Efetov
  Non-Fermi liquid behavior of a Fermi gas with a repulsion
   
10:45 Coffee break
   
11:15 - 12:15 Rosario Fazio
  NonDecoherence due to controlled baths
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
Wednesday, July 26  
   
09:30 Baruch Horovitz
  Interference in presence of dissipation
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Andrei Varlamov
  2D fluctuations: Pictures from the exhibition
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
19:00 Welcome Buffet
  (at MPIPKS cafeteria)
   
Thursday, July 27  
   
09:30 Giuseppe Mussardo
  Non-integrable quantum field theories
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Boris Narozhny
  Fermionic ladders in magnetic field
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
11:30 - 12:00 Alessandro Silva
  Multiphoton processes in driven mesoscopic systems
   

Week 2 Program (31 July - 06 August)

Tuesday, August 01  
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Dima Feldman
  Nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in itinerant electron systems
   
14:00 Short talks about posters
   
15:40 Coffee break
   
16:00 Poster presentations
   
Wednesday, August 02  
   
09:30 Yuval Gefen
  Decoherence and phase smearing in electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Björn Kubala
  Electron transport in metallic multi-island geometries: Coulomb blockade and quantum fluctuations
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
11:30 - 12:00 Manabu Machida
  Fluctuation of conductances in quantum hall effect
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
14:30 Michael Pustilnik
  Dynamic correlations in a one-dimensional fermionic liquid
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
15:30 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 16:30 Zoltan Adam Nemeth
  Persistent currents in two dimension: New regimes induced by the interplay between electronic correlations and disorder
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
19:00 Social Dinner at the restaurant Marcolini
   
Thursday, August 03  
   
09:30 Pierre Le Doussal
  How to test the field theory of pinning and applications: Chaos, random fields and fermions
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Alan Middleton
  Testing theories for disordered classical systems
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
Friday, August 04  
   
09:30 Valery Pokrovsky
  Landau-Zener transitions in the noisy environment and many-body systems
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Henning Schomerus
  Entanglement between static and flying qubits in an Aharonov-Bohm double electrometer
   

Week 3 Program (07 - 13 August)

Monday, August 07  
   
09:30 Piet Brouwer
  Ehrenfest-time dependence of quantum transport in ballistic quantum dots
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Maxim Vavilov
  Transport through quantum dots coupled to quantized electro-magnetic fields
   
12:00 - 12:30 Vadim Khrapay
  Double-dot quantum ratchet driven by an independent quantum point contact
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
Tuesday, August 08  
   
09:30 Carlo Beenakker
  Mesoscopic superconductivity in graphene
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Vadim Cheianov
  Friedel oscillations and impurity scattering in graphene
   
14:30 Jan von Delft
  Using quantum information concepts to modernize the numerical renormalization group
   
15:30 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 17:00 Julia Meyer
  Spontaneous spin polarization in quantum wires
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
Wednesday, August 09  
   
  Workshop excursion to Pillnitz Castle
   
Thursday, August 10  
   
09:30 Miguel Ortuño
  Slow relaxation in electron glasses
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Anton Andreev
  Superconductivity suppression in disordered wires due to nonperturbative saddle points in the sigma-model
   
14:30 Matthew Foster
  Disorder-driven metal-insulator transition in Hubbard-like models with random hopping
   
15:00 Corinna Kollath
  Ultracold atoms: Physics far from equilibrium
   
15:30 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 17:00 Akira Furusaki
  Asymmetric tunneling density of states for strongly interacting electrons in one dimension
   
19:00 Welcome Buffet
  (at MPIPKS cafeteria)
   

Week 4 Program (14 - 20 August)

Monday, August 14  
   
15:00 Bernhard Kramer
  Dynamics of magnetic domain walls in nano wires in the presence of a mesoscopic electric current
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30 COQUSY06 Colloquium: Leonid Glazman
  Inelastic electron scattering off magnetic impurities
   
Tuesday, August 15  
   
09:30 Alexander Altland
  Low energy theory of disordered graphene
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Frank Hekking
  Scattering theory of frequency-dependent current correlation functions
   
15:30 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 17:00 Igor Aleiner
  Finite temperature metal-insulator transition in an interacting many-electron system
   
   
Wednesday, August 16  
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Mikhail Titov
  Interaction-induced renormalization of Andreev reflection
   
14:30 Igor Lerner
  Random walks in local dynamics of network losses
   
15:30 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 17:00 Yuli Nazarov
  How to deal with many-electron scattering
   

Week 5 Program (21 - 27 August)

Wednesday, August 23  
   
09:30 Gianluigi Catelani
  Transport in disordered metals and open quantum dots: Interaction corrections in the quantum kinetic equation approach
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Valeri Shikin
  Free electrons in inert gases
   
Thursday, August 24  
09:30 Yuri Galperine
  1/f noise in hopping conduction: Role of multi-site aggregates
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Valeri Vinokur
  Hopping transport in granular metals and superconductors
   

Week 6 Program (28 August - 03 September)

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Week 7 Program (04 - 10 September)

Thursday, September 07  
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Nick d'Ambrumenil
  A model for the dissipative conductance in quantum hall states
   
14:30 Christoph Bruder
  Current cross-correlations in mesoscopic devices
   
15:30 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 17:00 Igor Smolyarenko
  Parametric random matrix theory
   
Friday, September 08  
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Naoto Nagaosa
  Localization in a quantum spin Hall system
   
12:00 - 13:00 Thierry Martin
  Superconducting transport through a vibrating molecule
   
14:30 Sergej Flach
  Q-breathers: Solving the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem and going beyond
   
15:30 Coffee break
   

Week 8 Program (11 - 17 September)

Tuesday, September 12  
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Ady Stern
  Transport of quasi-particles in non-abelian quantum Hall states
   

Week 9 Program (18 - 24 September)

   
Monday, September 18  
   
15:00 Arturo Tagliacozzo
  Spin excitations in a quantum dot with magnetic field and spin orbit coupling
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30 COQUSY06 Colloquium
  Vladimir I. Falko
  Introduction to the two-dimensional electron physics of graphene (monolayers and bilayers of graphite)
   
   
Wednesday, September 20  
   
14:00 Alexander Tartakovskii
  Nuclear spin switch in semiconductor quantum dots
   
15:00 Richard Berkovits
  Conductance through double dot molecule
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
   
Thursday, September 21  
   
14:00 Denis Basko
  Many-body localization
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
15:00 Thomas Nattermann
  Coulomb blockade and transport in a chain of one-dimensional quantum dots
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
   
Friday, September 22  
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Elisabetta Paladino
  Decoherence in superconducting nanocircuits: Classical vs Quantum noise sources
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
14:00 Leon Balents
  Z2 structure of the quantum spin hall effect
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
15:00 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
  Boundary conditions for semiclassical spin-hall effects
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
   
Sunday, September 24  
   
  Excursion to Meissen (see Social events for details)
   
   

GRAPHENE CONFERENCE Preliminary Program (18 - 24 September)

   
Monday, September 25  
   
09:30 Vladimir I. Falko (Lancaster Uniersity)
  Opening session
   
  Frank Jülicher (MPI PKS Dresden)
  Welcome from MPI PKS
   
09:40 Francisco Guinea (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid)
  Interaction and disorder effects in graphene
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
10:40 Coffee break
   
11:00 Igor Aleiner (Columbia University, NY)
  Multiple impurity scattering in graphene
   
12:00 Lunch break
   
14:00 Edward McCann (Lancaster University)
  Weak localisation magnetoresistance in graphene (monolayer and bilayer)
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
15:00 Jiannis Pachos (University of Cambridge)
  An index theorem for graphene
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30 Anton Ramsak (University of Ljubljana)
  Kondo effect in multiple quantum dots and deformable molecules
   
18:30 Welcome buffet
  (at MPIPKS cafeteria)
   
19:00 Poster presentations
   
   
Tuesday, September 26  
   
09:30 Vadim Cheianov (Lancaster University)
  Temperature-dependent resistivity and Friedel oscillations in monolayer and bilayer graphene
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Luis Brey (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid)
  Edges states and quantum Hall effect in graphene
   
12:00 Lunch break
   
14:00 Jean-Noël Fuchs (Université Paris Sud)
  Spontaneous parity breaking of graphene in the quantum Hall regime
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
14:30 Shuyun Zhou (University of California at Berkeley)
  From single layer graphene to infinite layers graphite: The dynamics of Dirac quasiparticles and many body interactions
   
15:00 Eli Rotenberg (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory )
  Bandstructure and spectral function of single and bilayer graphene measured by ARPES
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
15:30 Mikhail Skvortsov (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  Time-dependent random-matrix Hamiltonians: Quantum interference effects
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30 Sergei Brazovski (Université Paris-Sud XI)
  New routes to dynamics of solitons in Quasi 1D Conductors
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
   
Wednesday, September 27  
   
09:30 Antonio Castro Neto (Boston University)
  Unusual electronic behavior in graphene multi-layers
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Herbert Fertig (Indiana University, Bloomington)
  Luttinger liquid at the edge of a graphene vacuum
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
12:00 Lunch break
   
14:00 Andre Geim (University of Manchester)
  QED in a pencil trace
   
15:00 Alberto Morpurgo (Delft University)
  Ambipolar supercurrent in graphene Josephson junctions
   
16:00 Coffee break
   
16:30 Andrea Ferrari (University of Cambridge)
  The Raman spectrum of graphene and graphene layers
   
17:00 John Jefferson (QinetiQ, Malvern, UK)
  Entanglement generation between static and flying spin-qubits
   
18:00 Refreshments - discussions
   
   
Thursday, September 28  
   
09:30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai (University of Tokyo)
  Topological aspects of graphene : Dirac fermions and the bulk-edge correspondence in a magnetic field
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Philip Kim (Columbia University, NY)
  Experimental observation of quantum Hall effect, Berry's phase and many-body effects in graphene
   
12:00 Lunch break
   
13:30 Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zürich)
  Spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy of single- and few-layer graphene
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
14:30 Dirk Obergfell (MPI FKF Stuttgart)
  Combined transport, TEM and Raman experiments on graphene and few-layer graphite
   
15:00 Coffee break
   
15:15 Visit of the Green Vault, city walk
   
19:00 Social dinner at the restaurant "Schmidt's"
   
   
Friday, September 29  
   
09:00 Walt de Heer (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Electronic confinement and coherence in patterned epitaxial graphene
   
10:00 Maria A.H. Vozmediano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  Electronic properties of curved graphene sheets
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
10:30 Coffee break
   
11:00 Daniel Huertas-Hernando (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  Spin-orbit coupling in curved graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, and nanotube caps
  SLIDES (pdf-file)
   
11:30 Igor Gornyi (Universität Karlsruhe)
  Electronic transport in graphene: Types of disorder and chiral symmetry
   
12:30 Closing Session/Refreshments
   
   

Week 11 Program (October 02 - 06)

Joint program with the international workshop on

"Interactions, excitations and broken symmetries in quantum Hall systems"

Scientific Coordinators:
Alexander Mirlin (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany)
Felix von Oppen (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Program and further information here



Last update: November 08, 2006