Preliminary Program
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Sunday, October 12
Monday, October 13
Tuesday, October 14
Wednesday, October 15
Thursday, October 16
Friday, October 17
| Sunday, October 12 | |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, October 13 | |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Roderich Moessner (Director MPIPKS) & Scientific Organizers |
| Opening | |
| Session: Magnetism and Superconductivity | |
| Chairman: Victor Fleurov | |
| 08:45 - 09:15 | John Mydosh (University of Cologne) |
| Why we need high magnetic fields in strongly correated electron physics: The case of Uru2Si2 | |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Michel Kenzelmann (ETH Zürich & PSI) |
| Coupled superconducting and magetic order in CeCoIn5 | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Vladimir Mineev (CEA-DRFMC Grenoble) |
| Pressure-temperature phase diagram of ferromagnetic superconductors | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| Session: Quantum Phase Transition I | |
| Chairman: Boris Spivak | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Marcelo Jaime (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
| Exotic phases flourish in frustrated quantum magnets | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Sergey Kravchenko (Northeastern University Boston) |
| Interplay of disorder and interactions in two-dimensional semiconductors | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Michael Lang (J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt) |
| Field-induced quantum phase transitions in molecule-based magnets | |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Nic Shannon (University of Bristol) |
| Novel quantum phases in high magnetic field | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session: Spintronics & Superconductors | |
| Chairman: Michael Lang | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Alexander Chudnovskiy (Hamburg University) |
| Spin-torque shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Vladimir Privman (Clarkson University) |
| Coherence and entanglement in two-qubit dynamics: Interplayof the induced exchange interaction and quantum noise due to thermal Bosonic environment | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tsofar Maniv (Technion) |
| Unusual superconducting phase transitions in the Pauli-paramagnetic limit of clean type-II superconductors | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Amalia Coldea (University of Bristol) |
| Quantum oscillations in an iron-based superconductor | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CORMAG08 Colloquium |
| Nigel Hussey (University of Bristol) | |
| Anisotropic scattering and anomalous criticality in high temperature superconductors | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday, October 14 | |
| Session: Quantum Dots I | |
| Chairman: François Peeters | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute) |
| Weak measurements on electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Alessandro Romito (Karlsruhe University) |
| Weak values of electron spin in a double quantum dot | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Dmitry Kovrizhin (Oxford University) |
| Mach-Zender interferometer in the nonlinear regime | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Session: Quantum Dots II | |
| Chairman: Yuval Gefen | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | François Peeters (Universiteit Antwerpen) |
| Magnetic quantum dots | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Konstantin Kikoin (Tel Aviv University) |
| Interplay between Kondo effect and Rashba precession in magnetic field | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Arturo Tagliacozzo (Universitá di Napoli) |
| Rashba control for the spin excitation of a fully spin-polarized vertical quantum dot | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session: Low-Dimensinonal Spin Structures | |
| Chairman: Claude Berthier | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Sergei Zvyagin (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) |
| Magnetic excitations in the BEC candidate DTN: High-field ESR studies | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Mladen Horvatic (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory) |
| New NMR insights into plateaus, BEC and other "exotic" phases in quantum spin systems | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Frédéric Mila (EPFL Lausanne) |
| Magnetization plateaux: The intriguing case of SrCu2(BO3)2 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Andreas Honecker (Göttingen University) |
| Highly frustrated quantum antiferromagnets in strong magnetic fields | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Session: Quantum Dots III & Nanomagnets | |
| Chairman: Konstantin Kikoin | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Gloria Platero (ICMM Madrid) |
| Spin transport in quantum dots | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Timothy Ziman (Institut Laue Langevin) |
| Dissipation and relaxation in a molecular nanomagnet | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Peter Christianen (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| Photoluminescence of a 2D electron gas in high magnetic fields: the role of the photo-excited hole | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| 20:00 | Poster session |
| Wednesday, October 15 | |
| Session: Graphene | |
| Chairman: Frédéric Mila | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Marek Potemski (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory) |
| Landau level spectroscopy of Dirac Fermions in multilayer graphene and graphite | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Efrat Shimshoni (University of Haifa) |
| Diversity of transport phenomena at the zero-plateau quantum Hall state in graphene | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Uli Zeitler (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| High field electronic propertes of graphene | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Session: Graphene & Others | |
| Chairman: Marek Potemski | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Yshai Avishai (Ben Gurion University) |
| Electron states on a sphere: Effects of magnetic charge and spin-orbit interaction | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Igor Gornyi (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) |
| Theory of anomalous quantum Hall effects in graphene | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Dmitri Khveshchenko (University of North Carolina) |
| Magnetic field-induced gap in graphene | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Dmitry Khokhlov (Moscow State University) |
| Correlation effects in the doped lead telluride-based alloys | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Gerber (Tel Aviv University) |
| Linear positive magnetoresistance and quantum interference in magnetic metals | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 16:00 |
Excursion to Bautzen and Conference Dinner |
| Thursday, October 16 | |
| Session: Quantum Phase Transitions II | |
| Chairman: Jochen Wosnitza | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Christian Rüegg (University College London) |
| Quantum phase transitions in one-dimensional magnets | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Jan Zaanen (Leiden University) |
| Fermionic quantum criticality and the fractal nodal surface | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Nicolas Laflorencie (Universié Paris Sud) |
| Field induced BEC and supersolids in spin 1/2 bilayer systems | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Session: Luttinger Liquids | |
| Chairman: Bernard Barbara | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Claude Berthier (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory) |
| From Luttinger liquids to Bose-Einstein condensation in coupled spin ladders | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Igor Yurkevich (University of Birmingham) |
| An impurity hybridized with Luttinger liquid | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Thierry Giamarchi (University of Geneva) |
| Spin ladders, BEC, Luttinger liquids and beyond | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Liviu Hozoi (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Fermiology of cuprates from first principles: From small pockets to the Luttinger Fermi surface | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Session: Low-Dimensional Systems | |
| Chairman: Victor Kagalovsky | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Mikhail Kiselev (ICTP Trieste) |
| Phonon-assisted magnetic field induced Kondo tunnelling in metal-organic complexes | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Boris Aronzon (RRC ``Kurchatov Institute'' Moscow) |
| Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of 2D GaAs/InGaAs/GaAs structures with Mn delta layer | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Sergey Dickmann (RAS Institute for Solid State Physics Chernogolovka) |
| Excitonic representation as a bosoninization approach to a correlated 2DEG | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Session: Magnetism & Others | |
| Chairman: Thierry Giamarchi | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Sergey Gredeskul (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) |
| Anderson localization in disordered metamaterials | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Cristiane de Morais Smith (University of Utrecht) |
| Cold atoms as cond-mat simulators | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Mike Zhitomirsky (CEA-INAC-SPSMS Grenoble) |
| Field induced instability of spin waves in quantum antiferromagnets | |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Andreas Läuchli (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| The square lattice Heisenberg AFM in a magnetic field: Dynamical properties | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| Friday, October 17 | |
| Session: Fermi-Surface Topology | |
| Chairman: John Mydosh | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Kamran Behnia (CNRS-ESPCI-LPQ Paris) |
| Electrons and holes in bismuth-antimony alloys beyond the quantum limit | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Cyril Proust (CNRS-LNCMP Toulouse) |
| Quantum oscillations in cuprates | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Philip Stamp (University of British Columbia) |
| Quantum oscillations in 2d - interaction effects (dHvA to FQHE) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Session: Super-Materials | |
| Chairman: Yshai Avishai | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Theory of a superinsulator | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Tatyana Baturina (RAS Institute of Semiconductor Physics Novosibirsk) |
| The opposite of superconductivity: Superinsulating state in TiN films | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Igor Burmistrov (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics) |
| Coulomb blockade and superuniversality of the theta angle | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Viktor Kabanov (Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana) |
| Magnetic quantum oscillations in doped antiferromagnetic semiconductors and high-Tc superconductors | |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Closing |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
Last updated: October 10, 2008
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