Program
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Quantum Dynamics of Nano-Structured Systems (QDNS '12)
April 13-14, 2012; Conference Center St. Ulrich, Augsburg, Germany
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? Thursday, 12 April 2012 ? |
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| Early Evening | Arrival |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration, Welcome Reception |
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? Friday, 13 April 2012 ? |
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| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:05 |
Axel Tuma, Vice President, University of Augsburg: Opening |
| ? | Chairperson: Peter Schwab (Augsburg) |
| 09:05 - 09:50 | Roberto Raimondi (Rome): SU(2) description of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas |
| 09:50 - 10:35 | Stellan ?stlund (Gothenburg): Discretized thermal Green’s functions |
| 10:35 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| ? | Chairperson: Alejandro Muramatsu (Stuttgart) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Luigi Amico (Catania): Entanglement transitions in quantum magnets |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Raymond Frésard (Caen): The Hubbard model in the singlet subspace: a symmetry-entangled mean-field approach |
| 12:45 - 14:00 |
Conference Picture / Lunch |
| ? | Chairperson: Elzbieta Zipper (Katowice) |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Poster-Micro-Seminars (2 min per poster) |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Michael V. Berry (Bristol): Variations on a theme of Aharonov and Bohm |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Felix v. Oppen (Berlin): Mesoscopic persistent currents |
| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Coffee Break |
| ? | Chairperson: Gerd Sch?n (Karlsruhe) |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | John Clarke (Berkeley): Josephson tunnelling at 50: from SLUGs to axions |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Michael Schreiber (Chemnitz): The modified sharpened index hms and other variants in the Hirsch index zoo |
| 19:00 |
Dinner (at free disposal; e.g., K?nig von Flandern) |
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? Saturday, 14 April 2012 ? |
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| ? | Chairperson: Werner Weber (Dortmund) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Ferdinand Evers (Karlsruhe): Progress in simulations of scaling behavior near the Anderson transition |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | You-Quan Li (Hangzhou): Multiferroics, and theory for exotic spin orders |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| ? | Chairperson: Ulrich Weiss (Stuttgart) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Rahul Pandit (Bangalore): Bose-Hubbard models: phases, transitions, and patterns |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Anthony J. Leggett (Illinois): Quantum dissipation: what can and can't be done with oscillator baths |
| 12:45 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | Guided City Tour: Augsburg - 2000 years of history |
| 19:00 |
Festive Conference Dinner (at St. Ulrich) |
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? Sunday, 15 April 2012 ? |
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| 11 - 15 | Excursion (to TIM, Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg) |