Program
SEMINAR WEEK 1 (5 - 9 July)
WORKSHOP WEEK (12 - 16 July)
SEMINAR WEEK 2 (19 - 23 July)
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| Monday, July 5 | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Erez Berg (Harvard University) |
| Properties of a diagonal 2-orbital ladder model of the Fe-pnictide superconductors | |
| 15:00 | Coffee |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | MPIPKS Colloquium: (Chairperson: Frank Jülicher) |
| Luca Peliti (Università di Napoli) | |
| Fluctuation relations in physical biology | |
| Tuesday, July 6 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Fabian Hassler (Leiden University) |
| From Fermi's golden rule to Rabi oscillations: Dynamical unbinding transition in a Mott insulator | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Sebastian Huber (The Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Universal dephasing of many-body Rabi oscillations of atoms in one-dimensional traps | |
| Wednesday, July 7 | |
| 15:30 | Group photo |
| (meeting in the hall, to be published on the website) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Gleb Finkelstein (Duke University) |
| Resonant tunneling in a dissipative environment | |
| Thursday, July 8 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Mireille Lavagna (CEA Grenoble) |
| Anderson model out of equilibrium: Decoherence effects in quantum transport | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | So Takei (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research) |
| Nonequilibrium quantum criticality in bilayer itinerant ferromagnets | |
| Friday, July 9 | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Coffee |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Andreas Schnyder |
| (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research) | |
| Topological singlet superconductors with time-reversal symmetry | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Felix von Oppen (Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Energy relaxation and thermalization of hot electrons in quantum wires | |
| Sunday, July 11 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, July 12 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Roderich Moessner (Director MPIPKS) & Scientific Coordinators |
| Welcoming remarks | |
| Graphene | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Jens Martin (Harvard University) |
| Broken symmetries in bilayer graphene | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Jeanie Lau (University of California, Riverside) |
| Quantum transport in suspended graphene structures | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Daniel Sheehy (Louisiana State University) |
| The Coulomb interaction in graphene | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University) |
| Zero-energy states and the general structure of the vortex core in graphene | |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 1D electronic systems I | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Bernd Rosenow (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research) |
| Nonequilibrium electron spectroscopy of Luttinger liquids | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Marc Bockrath (University of California, Riverside) |
| Correlated electron behavior in carbon nanotubes | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | LODI10 Colloquium: (Chairperson: Roderich Moessner) |
| Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University) | |
| Majorana fermions in topological insulators | |
| 19:00 | Supper |
| Tuesday, July 13 | |
| Phase transitions & cold atoms | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Walter Hofstetter (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| Atomic color superfluids and trionic phases | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Michael Köhl (University of Cambridge) |
| Impurities in ultracold Bose gases | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Karyn Le Hur (Yale University) |
| Superfluid-Mott insulator transition of light and condensed matter with photons | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Victor Gurarie (University of Colorado) |
| Chiral spin liquids with the alkaline earth atoms | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Phase transitions & topology | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Austen Lamacraft (University of Virginia) |
| The phase diagram of a polar (antiferromagnetic) condensates | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | David Pekker (Harvard University) |
| Finding the elusive sliding phase in the superfluid-normal phase transition smeared by correlated disorder | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Cristian Batista (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
| Spontaneous quantum Hall effect in frustrated magnets | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Yong-Baek Kim (University of Toronto) |
| Topological insulators and topological Mott insulators in weak Mott regime | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Teimuraz Vekua (Leibnbiz University of Hannover) |
| Curvature effects on commensurate- incommensurate phase transition in 1D electron systems | |
| 17:30 | Poster session |
| (including drinks and snacks) | |
| 19:00 | Supper |
| Wednesday, July 14 | |
| Superconductivity | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Ophir Auslaender (Technion) |
| Magnetic force microscopy of superconductors: from vortex manipulation to measuring the magnetic penetration depth | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Piet Brouwer (Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Superconductor proximity effect in half metals | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Group photo & Coffee break |
| (photo to be published on the website) | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Alexey Bezryadin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Detecting single quantum phase slip events in nanowires at high bias currents | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Dan Shahar (The Weizmann Institute) |
| Superconductors, insulators and what's in between | |
| 12:30 - 14:15 | Lunch break |
| Cold atoms- superfluidity | |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Eugene Demler (Harvard University) |
| Competing orders in ultracold atoms | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Michael Wimmer (Leiden University) |
| Majorana bound states without vortices in topological superconductors with electrostatic defects | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Arun Paramekanti (University of Toronto) |
| Superflow instabilities of fermionic superfluids in an optical lattice | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Daniel Podolsky (Technion) |
| Mott transition between a spin-liquid insulator and a metal in three dimensions | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Corinna Kollath (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau) |
| Quantum dynamics in strongly correlated atomic gases | |
| 19:00 | Supper |
| Thursday, July 15 | |
|
Quantum magnetism I |
|
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Ribhu Kaul (Microsoft) |
| Status of deconfined quantum criticality | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Oleg Starykh (University of Utah) |
| Frustrated quasi-one-dimensional quantum magnet in magnetic field | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Olexei Motrunich (California Institute of Technology) |
| Realization of exciton Bose liquid in a hard-core boson model | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Claudio Castelnovo (University of Oxford) |
| Effects of quenched random perturbations on topologically order systems | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
|
Quantum magnetism II |
|
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Alexander Mirlin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |
| Non-equilibrium bosonization of Luttinger liquids: Tunneling spectroscopy and full counting statistics | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Edouard Sonin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Dissipationless spin currents: conductors, insulators, topological insulators | |
| 15:30 |
Excursion to "Königstein Fortress" |
| 18:00 |
Workshop Dinner at "Königstein" |
| Friday, July 16 | |
|
Dynamics |
|
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University) |
| Universal dynamics near quantum phase transitions | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | B. Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University) |
| Particle and orbital entanglement spectrum | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Fractionalization in mesoscopic rings | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Israel Klich (University of Virginia) |
| Bound states in superconductors and the Birman-Schwinger principle | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (LMU Munich) |
| Real-time simulations of nonequilibrium transport in the single-impurity Anderson model | |
|
1D electron systems II |
|
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Konstantin Matveev (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Conductance of fully equilibrated quantum wires | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Anton Andreev (University of Washington) |
| Hydrodynamic description of resistivity of an electron liquid in a smooth disorder potential | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Michael Pustilnik (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Relaxation of high-energy quasiparticles in a one-dimensional Bose liquid | |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Thomas Vojta (Missouri University of Science and Technology) |
| Superconductor-metal quantum phase transition in disordered nanowires | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Closing remarks |
| 18:00 | MPIPKS Summer BBQ Party |
| Monday, July 19 | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Dirk Morr (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Non-equilibrium transport in dissipative nanostructures | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Roderich Moessner (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Fractional spin textures in the frustrated magnet SrCr9pGa12-9pO19 | |
| 16:00 | Coffee |
| Tuesday, July 20 | |
| 15:30 |
Group photo |
| (meeting in the hall, to be published on the website) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Masud Haque (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Hierarchy of edge-locking effects in 1D lattice models | |
| 19:00 | Dinner at the restaurant Villandry (Jordanstrasse 8) |
| Wednesday, July 21 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Lukasz Fidkowski (California Institute of Technology) |
| Entanglement spectrum of topological insulators and superconductors | |
| Thursday, July 22 | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Coffee |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Doron Bergman (California Institute of Technology) |
| The topological insulator and a parasitic metal - Friends or foes? | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Ken-Ichiro Imura (Hiroshima University) |
| Z2 topological insulator - bulk and edge properties | |
Last update: 20/07/2010
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