Week 1 - August 5 - 10
Sunday, August 5
| 19:00 - | WELCOME: REGISTRATION WITH BUFFET AND DRINKS |
Monday, August 6
| 09:20 - 09:30 | P. Fulde |
| Opening Address | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | T. Ando |
| Electronic states & transport in carbon nanotubes | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | B. Halperin |
| Spins & spin-orbit effects in metal nanoparticles & | |
| GaAs quantum dots | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | G. Austing |
| Addition energy spectra of practical artificial atom & artifical | |
| molecule vertical QD structure | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | P. Maksym |
| Moving QDs: a quantum standard of electric current? |
Tuesday, August 7
| 09:30 - 10:30 | D. Mowbray |
| Optical spectroscopy of self-assembled semiconductor QDs | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE & GROUP PHOTO |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | A. Zrenner |
| Optical spectroscopy on single QDs: neutral & charged excitations | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | M. Rontani |
| Quantum phases in double QDs | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | V. Gudmundsson |
| From single dots to arrays | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| Evening | WORKSHOP DINNER AT SCHLOSSHOTEL DRESDEN-PILLNITZ |
Wednesday, August 8
| 09:30 - 10:30 | J. Calleja |
| Optical properties of one-dimensional electron systems in | |
| cleaved-edge-overgrown quantum wires | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | D. Heitmann |
| FIR- and Raman spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| Afternoon | EXCURSION |
Thursday, August 9
| 09:30 - 10:30 | M. Grundmann |
| Optical properties & optoelectronic devices based on QDs | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | A. Shields |
| Single photon technology based on semiconductor QDs | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | A. Kent |
| Phonon spectroscopy of electronic nanostructures | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | B. Partoens |
| Excitons in type-II QDs | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:00 | Poster Session |
Friday, August 10
| 09:30 - 10:30 | L. Eaves |
| Tunnel spectroscopy of self-assembled quantum dots: | |
| wavefunction mapping and addressing the dots with electrostatic gates | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | S. Ulloa |
| Electronic interactions & the B effect of dissipation in the | |
| tunneling between QDs | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
Week 2 - August 13 - 17
Monday, August 13
| 09:30 - 10:30 | F. Troiani |
| All-optical quantum information processing in quantum dots | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | H.-A.Engel |
| Spintronics and quantum computing in nanostructures | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Poster session |
| 15:45 | TEA/COFFEE |
Tuesday, August 14
| 09:30 - 10:30 | L. Eaves |
| Breakdown of the QHE | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | P. Koenraad |
| X-STM on quantum dots | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Poster session |
| 15:45 | TEA/COFFEE |
Wednesday, August 15
| 09:30 - 10:30 | A. Matulis |
| QDs in a strong magnetic field: quasi-classical consideration | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | W. Xu |
| Magnetophoton-phonon scattering in a two-dimensional electron gas in | |
| the presence of quantising magnetic fields and intense terahertz | |
| laser fields in the Faraday geometry | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Discussion - Work meetings |
Thursday, August 16
| 09:30 - 10:30 | M. Hayne |
| Charge confinement in stacked InP quantum dots: experiment & design | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | to be announced |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Discussion - Work meetings |
Friday, August 17
| 09:30 - 10:30 | J. Faist |
| Bound-to-continuum, Terahertz & SiGe quantum cascade devices | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | E. Gornik |
| THz emission from intersubband and plasmon decay | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | T. Chakraborty |
| Physics of the QD cascade laser | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Discussion - Work meetings |
Week 3 - August 20 - 24
Sunday, August 19
| 19:00 - | WELCOME: WITH BUFFET AND DRINKS |
Monday, August 20
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | C. Dekker |
| Molecular electronics with single DNA and carbon nanotube molecules | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | H. Bouchiat |
| Proximity induced superconductivity in DNA | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | N. Seeman |
| DNA nanotechnology | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | E. Molinari |
| Guanine aggregates as semiconductors: electronic properties, | |
| conduction, nanodevices | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Seminar Colloquium: |
| S. Marom | |
| Learning in large random networks of real neurons: lessons | |
| beyond anatomy |
Tuesday, August 21
| 09:00 - 10:00 | J. Reif |
| Computations & patterned structures via DNA self-assembly | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | E. Winfree |
| Nucleation and specificity in the algorithmic self-assembly of DNA | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | M. Amos |
| DNA-based logic: cellular computing | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Phil Kuekes |
| Defect tolerant molecular electronics: reinventing the integrated circuit | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | E. Braun |
| Biology-based nanoelectronics: self-assembly of devices & networks | |
| by recombinant DNA | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | H. Lipson |
| Fully automated design & manufacture of robotic life forms | |
| Evening | WORKSHOP DINNER AT LUISENHOF |
Wednesday, August 22
| 09:00 - 10:00 | A. Turberfield |
| Self-assembly and molecular machines from DNA | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | V. Croquette |
| Single enzyme activity observed on a stretched DNA molecule | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | P. Facci |
| Single metalloproteins at work: towards a single-protein transistor | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| Afternoon | Excursion |
Thursday, August 23
| 09:00 - 10:00 | A. Lorke |
| Biochips: on the prospects of electrically monitoring neural networks | |
| with high spatial resolution | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Sivan - discussion |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - | Poster Session |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
Friday, August 24
| 09:30 - 10:30 | J. Weis |
| Kondo physics on single & electrostatically coupled QDs | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | C. Tejedor |
| Kondo effect in QDs at high magnetic fields | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | M. Eto |
| Kondo effects in QDs with even number of electrons | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
Week 4 - August 27 - 31
Monday, August 27
| 09:30 - 10:30 | M. Hettler |
| Transport and many-body-effects in nanoscale molecules | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | W. Wenzel |
| Stochastic optimization methods for biomolecular structure optimization | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Poster Session |
| 15:45 | TEA/COFFEE |
Tuesday, August 28
| 09:30 - 10:30 | G. Schön |
| Reading-out the state of a qubit:an analysis of the quantum measurement | |
| process | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | K. Richter |
| Charge transport in nanotube-molecular wire hybrids | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Discussion - work meetings |
| 15:45 | TEA/COFFEE |
Wednesday, August 29
| 09:30 - 10:30 | D. Weiss |
| Micro-Hall-Magnetometry | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | M. Porto |
| Motors on the mesoscopic to molecular scale | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Poster Session |
| 15:45 | TEA/COFFEE |
Thursday, August 30
| 09:30 - 10:30 | A. Lorke |
| Growth, morphology and electronic structure of nanorings |