Seminar Program





Monday, March 13

08:00 - 16:30 Registration
17:00 Informal discussion
18:30 Welcome banquet at the Cafeteria




Tuesday, March 14

  GLASS TRANSITION
08:50 - 09:00 Opening
  organizer
09:00 - 10:00 Ulrich Buchenau
  On the interpretation of dynamic data at the glass transition
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Andreas Reiser
  Glass transition under pressure - off-road into the glassy state
11:30 - 12:30 Ernst Rössler
  The relaxation processes in molecular glasses below the glass transition temperature
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Annette Zippelius
  Dynamics of gelation
15:00 - 16:00 Michael A. Moore
  The glass transition in finite dimensions
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
18:30 Dinner




Wednesday, March 15

  PROTEINS
09:00 - 10:00 Josef Friedrich
  Some aspects of the glass-like features of the protein folding transition
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Andrei Naumov
  Detection of boson peak in amorphous solids on microscopic level via single molecule spectroscopy
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 16:00 Discussion
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 Jeremy C. Smith
  Protein physics
18:30 Dinner




Thursday, March 16

  GLASSES AT LOW TEMPERATURES
09:00 - 10:00 Peter Strehlow
  Nuclear cooling of metallic glasses
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Andreas Heuer
  Properties of tunnelling systems in silica and Lennard-Jones systems as revealed by computer simulations
11:30 - 12:30 Miguel A. Ramos
  Low-temperature properties and phase diagram of polymorphic ethanol
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Michael Meißner
  Low-temperature specific heat of superionic conducting AgI-Ag$_2$S-AgPO$_3$ glasses
15:00 - 16:00 Discussion
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
18:30 Dinner




Friday, March 17

  BOSON PEAK
09:00 - 10:00 Herbert Schober
  Vibrations, hopping and tunnelling in glasses
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Walter Schirmacher
  Thermal conductivity of disordered solids and the boson peak
11:30 - 12:30 Dmitri Parshin
  Vibrational instability, two-level systems and boson peak in glasses
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Discussion
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
18:30 Dinner


Workshop Program





Sunday, March 19

18:00 - 21:00 Registration
19:00 Welcome banquet at the Cafeteria




Monday, March 20

  GLASSES AT LOW TEMPERATURES
08:50 - 09:00 Opening
  Peter Fulde
09:00 - 10:00 Clare Yu
  Noise and decoherence in Josephson qubits due to two-level systems
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Ilya Polishchuk
  Features of relaxation in glasses at low temperature
11:30 - 12:30 Misha Turlakov
  Collective properties and dipolar interactions between two-level systems
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Andrew Feffermann
  Ultra-low temperature acoustic properties of glass
15:00 - 16:00 Peter Nalbach
  Hints on the microscopic structure of tunnelling systems out of
  non-equilibrium dielectric constant data?
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 qds-06 - Colloquium:
  Alois Würger
  Magnetic-field dependence of the dielectric function of glasses
18:30 Dinner




Tuesday, March 21

  GLASSES AND NUCLEI
09:00 - 10:00 Andreas Fleischmann
  Can nuclear spins reveal the nature of tunneling systems in glasses?
10:00 - 10:10 Group photo!
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Doru-Beniamin Bodea
  Magnetic-field effects in insulating glasses at low temperatures
11:30 - 12:30 Francois Ladieu
  Radiofrequency field effects on the low frequency dielectric constant of glasses below 100 mK
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Alexander L. Burin
  Low temperature breakdown of coherent tunnelling in amorphous solids by the nuclear quadrupole interaction
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Poster session
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion
18:30 Dinner




Wednesday, March 22

  SPIN GLASSES
09:00 - 10:00 David Sherrington
  Towards exact results? RG in RSB space
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Peter Young
  Is there a spin glass transition (AT-line) in a magnetic field?
11:30 - 12:30 Stefan Böttcher
  Simulations of dilute lattice spin glasses in Dimensions d = 2,..,7
12:30 Lunch break
15:20 Excursion to Rammenau Baroque Palace
14:00 - 15:00 Timo Aspelmeier
  Interface energies, fluctuations and saddle points in mean-field Ising spin glasses
18:30 Conference Dinner




Thursday, March 23

  SPIN GLASSES
09:00 - 10:00 Per Nordblad
  Experiments on non-equilibrium phenomena in spin glasses
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Eric Vincent
  Aging, rejuvenation and memory phenomena in glassy magnetic systems
11:30 - 12:30 Heiko Rieger
  Dissipation in disordered quantum spin systems
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Jort M. van Mourik
  Glass models with finite connectivity
15:00 - 16:00 Heinz Horner
  Dynamics of the Bethe lattice spin glass
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00 Discussion
18:30 Dinner




Friday, March 24

  MISCELLANEOUS
09:00 - 10:00 Hermann Grabert
  Tunneling into disordered metallic quantum wires
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Georg Weiss
  Conductance fluctuations and noise in nano-wires
11:30 - 12:30 Christiane Laermans
  Ultrasonic velocity in neutron irradiated quartz at intermediate temperatures: Thermal activation or harmonic oscillators?
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Mikhail Parchine
  Some aspects of the microscopic origin of the boson peak in neutron-irradiated quartz and
a-SiO$_2$ obtained from the Raman scattering study
15:00 - 16:00 Clare Yu
  Why two level systems may not have a low temperature phase transition: Absence of a dipole glass phase transition in randomly dilute dipolar systems


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