Seminar Program




Workshop Program

Workshop Schedule (pdf-file)
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Tuesday, June 03  
   
16:30 - 21:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome reception
   
   
Wednesday, June 04  
   
08:30 - 08:45 Opening
  Sergej Flach (MPIPKS) and Scientific Coordinators
   
  High-Tc I
   
08:45 - 09:15 T. Maurice Rice (ETH Zürich)
  Energetics of the stripe phase of the underdoped cuprates revisited
   
09:15 - 09:45 Martin Greven (Stanford University)
  Hidden magnetic order in the model high-Tc superconductor HgBa2CuO4+δ
   
09:45 - 10:15 Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
  Nodal quasiparticles and the onset of spin density wave order in the cuprates
   
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 11:00 Werner Hanke (University of Würzburg)
  From the microscopic cluster to the infinite lattice: Does the Hubbard model describe high-Tc superconductivity?
   
11:00 - 11:30 Ali Yazdani (Princeton University)
  Electronic origin of inhomogeneous pairing interaction in high-Tc superconductor BiSrCaCuO
   
11:30 - 12:00 Dirk van der Marel (University of Geneva)
  Optical mass enhancement in rare earth and actinide metals
   
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
   
  Frustrated Magnets
   
14:00 - 14:30 Kazushi Kanoda (University of Tokyo)
  Spin liquid and Mott transition
   
14:30 - 15:00 Yong Baek Kim (University of Toronto)
  Quantum order by disorder in frustrated magnets
   
15:00 - 15:30 Anders Sandvik (Boston University)
  Quantum fluctuations in near-critical valence-bond-solids
   
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
   
15:45 - 16:15 Senthil Todadri (MIT)
  Critical Fermi surfaces and non-fermi liquid metals
   
16:15 - 16:45 Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California Berkeley)
  Frustrated magnetism/unconventional quantum phase transitions
   
17:00 - 19:00 Poster session I
   
19:00 Dinner
   
   
Thursday, June 05  
   
  High-Tc II/Graphene
   
08:45 - 09:15 Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford University)
  Time reversal symmetry breaking in unconventional superconductors
   
09:15 - 09:45 Dieter Vollhardt (University of Augsburg)
  Multitude of ground states in simple systems: Exact results for triangle, diamond, and pentagon Hubbard chains
   
09:45 - 10:15 Bernhard Keimer (MPI for Solid State Research)
  Electronic liquid crystals and superconductivity in YBCO
   
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 11:00 Konstantin Efetov (Ruhr-University Bochum)
  Transport of Dirac fermions in graphene
   
11:00 - 11:30 Karyn Le Hur (Yale University)
  Unconventional phases on the Honeycomb lattice: From graphene to Bose-Fermi mixtures
   
11:30 - 12:00 Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  Phonons in graphene and carbon nanotubes
   
12:00 - 12:10 Group photo
   
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
   
  Heavy Fermions
   
14:00 - 14:30 Qimiao Si (Rice University)
  Fermi surface and magnetism of Kondo lattice systems
   
14:30 - 15:00 Hilbert von Löhneysen (University of Karlsruhe)
  Role of tuning parameter at the quantum phase transition of heavy-fermion-systems
   
15:00 - 15:30 Andrew Mackenzie (University of St. Andrews)
  Metamagnetism and low temperature phases of Sr3Ru2O7
   
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
   
15:45 - 16:15 Roman Movshovich (LANL)
  Interplay of Superconductivity and Magnetism in CeCoIn5
   
16:15 - 16:45 Philipp Gegenwart (University of Göttingen)
  Quantum criticality in heavy fermion systems
   
17:00 Workshop excursion (guided city tour, steam boat ride, dinner)
   
   
Friday, June 06  
   
  Disorder
   
08:45 - 09:15 Vladimir Dobrosavljevic (Florida State University)
  Coulomb Correlations and the Wigner-Mott Transition
   
09:15 - 09:45 John DiTusa (Louisiana State University)
  Griffiths phases in Co doped FeS2
   
09:45 - 10:15 Eduardo Miranda (Universidade de Campinas)
  Electronic Griffiths phase near a disordered Mott transition in d=2
   
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 11:00 Achim Rosch (University of Cologne)
  Inhomogeneous correlated systems: Heterostructures and trapped atoms
   
11:00 - 11:30 Stephan Haas (University of Southern California)
  Quantum percolation
   
11:30 - 12:00 Ferenc Igloi (SZFKI Budapest)
  Entanglement in random quantum systems
   
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
   
  NFL/QPT I
   
14:00 - 14:30 Stephen Julian (University of Toronto)
  Non-fermi-liquid and non-metallic states of strongly-correlated systems
   
14:30 - 15:00 Walter Metzner (MPI for Solid State Research)
  Renormalization group for symmetry-broken phases near quantum critical points
   
15:00 - 15:30 Christian Pfleiderer (Technical University Munich)
  Experimental studies of chiral magnetism and non-Fermi liquid behavior in MnSi
   
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
   
15:45 - 16:15 Heiko Rieger (Saarland University)
  The phase transition in the sub-ohmic spin-boson model
   
16:15 - 16:45 Roderich Moessner (MPIPKS)
  Low-temperature properties of spin ice
   
17:00 - 19:00 Poster session II
   
19:00 Dinner
   
   
Saturday, June 07  
   
  High-Tc III
   
08:45 - 09:15 Philip Phillips (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Hidden charge 2e boson in doped Mott insulators: Experimental consequences for the normal state of the cuprates
   
09:15 - 09:45 Sergey Borisenko (IFW Dresden)
  A struggle for the Fermi surface: Density waves vs. superconductivity
   
09:45 - 10:15 Neil Harrison (LANL)
  Multiple carrier pockets from modulated magnetic order in an underdoped high Tc cuprate
   
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 11:00 Gergely Zarand (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  "Baryon formation" and charge ordering in optical lattices
   
11:00 - 11:30 Dirk Manske (MPI for Solid State Research)
  Self-induced magnetism, fractional flux quanta and spin currents: Adventures with triplet Josephson junctions
   
11:30 - 12:00 Hae-Young Kee (University of Toronto)
  Quantum oscillations in high-Tc cuprates
   
12:00 - 12:15 Closing
   
12:15 Lunch
   



Seminar Program



Seminar week I (June 09 - 13)
Seminar week II (June 16 - 20)
Seminar week III (June 23 - 27)



Seminar week I (June 09 - 13)

Monday, June 09  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Ilya Vekhter (Louisiana State University)
  Structure of the surface states in non-centrosymmetric superconductors
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 12:00 Indranil Paul (Institute Laue Langevin)
  Breakdown of Kondo effect at a quantum critical point
   
   
Tuesday, June 10  
   
10:00 - 12:00 Round table discussion
   
   
Wednesday, June 11  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Joseph Betouras (University of St. Andrews)
  On the physics of multiferroics
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 12:00 Mario Cuoco (INFM- Laboratory SuperMat)
  Interplay of (un)conventional superconductivity and Stoner- or kinetic- type ferromagnetism within homogeneous/artificial systems
   
   
Thursday, June 12  
   
10:00 - 12:00 Round table discussion
   
   
Friday, June 13  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Oleg Sushkov (University of New South Wales)
  Effective action, magnetic excitations and quantum fluctuations in lightly doped single layer cuprates
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 12:00 Revaz Ramazashvili (University of Paris)
  Electron magnetism of antiferromagnetic conductors: Giant Zeeman electric-dipole spin resonance and more



Seminar week II (June 16 - 20)


International workshop on
"Quantum Phases and Excitations in Quantum Hall Systems"
→ Program and more information on the workshop website
   
Wednesday, June 18  
   
14:00 - 14:55 Oleg Starykh (University of Utah)
  Spinons and triplons in a spatially anisotropic triangular lattice antiferromagnet
   
14:55 - 15:05 Coffee break
   
15:05 - 16:00 Rajiv Singh (University of California at Davis)
  Triplet and singlet excitations in Kagome lattice antiferromagnets


Seminar week III (June 23 - 27)

Monday, June 23  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Dietrich Belitz (University of Oregon)
  Unconventional phases and phase transitions in helimagnets
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 12:00 Dmitrii Maslov (University of Florida)
  Anomalous c-axis transport in layered materials
   
   
Tuesday, June 24  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Claudio Castellani (Universitá di Roma La Sapienza)
  Strongly correlated superconductivity arising in a pseudogap metal
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 12:00 Jörg Schmalian (Iowa State University)
  Dimensional reduction at a quantum critical point
   
   
17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session III
   
19:00 BBQ Party
   
   
Wednesday, June 25  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Anton Andreev (University of Washington)
  Twist instability in strongly correlated carbon nanotubes
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 13:00 Round table discussion
  Pseudogap: one gap vs. two gaps
   
15:00 Seminar excursion (guided museum visit, dinner)
   
   
Thursday, June 26  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Andrew Schofield (University of Birmingham)
  Thermopower in anisotropic materials
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 12:00 André-Marie Tremblay (Université de Sherbrooke)
  D-wave superconductivity: Insight from the organics
   
   
Friday, June 27  
   
10:00 - 10:55 Piers Coleman (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
  Composite pairing in the new "high Tc" heavy fermion superconductors
   
10:55 - 11:05 Coffee break
   
11:05 - 12:00 Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University)
  Cantor deconfinement



Last update: June 26, 2008