WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (FINAL VERSION, 17 JUL)

Abstract book (final version, 17 Jul)

Sunday 30 July 2006

Afternoon Arrival, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

19:30 Welcome reception at Gonville Court (out door, weather permitting) OR Colyton Hall (accessed by Gonville Court D Staircase)

Monday 31 July 2006

Breakfast in Fellows' Dining Room

All sessions in Bateman Auditorium, accessed by Caius Court I Staircase

09:00 Welcome

Yao Liang (President, Gonville and Caius College)

09:10 Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Patrick Bressler (Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences)

09:25 Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996) — reminiscences
Ted Davis (University of Leicester)

09:50 Introduction by scientific convenor
Sasha Alexandrov (Loughborough University)

Panel 1: Low-dimensional and nano structures

Chair: Kurt Ziebeck (Loughborough University)

10:00 Disorder and interaction effects in one dimension
Mike Pepper (University of Cambridge)

10:25 Coffee break (Bateman Room)

10:55 A glimpse into subnano structures
Arndt Simon (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart)

11:20 Nano-structuring cuprate superconductors
Ivan Bozovic (Brookhaven)

11:45 Is there ballistic transport in metallic nanoobjects? Ballistic versus diffusive transport
Nicolás García (CSIS, Madrid)

12:10 Discussion

12:40 Lunch (Senior Parlour, accessed by Gonville Court D Staircase)

Panel 2: Polarons on nanoscale

Chair: Peter Littlewood (University of Cambridge)

14:00 Trapping and self-trapping: polaronic defects in the bulk and at interfaces
Marshall Stoneham (UCL, London)

14:25 Fröhlich polarons from 0D to 3D: concepts and recent developments
Jozef Devreese (Antwerp University)

14:50 Quantum statistics for a finite number of polarons in a quantum dot
Fons Brosens (Antwerp University)

15:15 Current-controlled polaronic switching of molecular quantum dots
Sasha Alexandrov (Loughborough University)

15:40 Tea break (Bateman Room)

Panel 3: Polarons and bipolarons

Chair: Marshall Stoneham (UCL, London)

16:10 Ultrafast polaron transport in biosystems
Serge Aubry (CNRS, Saclay)

16:35 Magnetic polarons and phase separation in the Kondo model
Wolfgang von der Linden (University of Graz)

17:00 Monte-Carlo simulations of lattice polarons and bipolarons
Pavel Kornilovitch (HP Company, Corvallis)

17:25 Carrier-density effects in many-polaron systems
Martin Hohenadler (University of Graz)

19:30 Dinner (Fellows' Dining Room, accessed by Gonville Court D Staircase)

21:00 Summary of day and after-dinner discussion

Tuesday 01 August 2006

Panel 4: Quantum wires and dots

Chair: Mike Pepper (University of Cambridge)

08:30 Ferromagnetic nanorings
Tony Bland (University of Cambridge)

08:55 Functional properties of molecular MoSI_x nanowires: from structure to magnetism
Dragan Mihailovic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

09:20 Fabrication and electronic properties of perfect quantum wires and dots with subnanometre dimensions
Klaus Ploog (Paul-Drude-Institut, Berlin)

09:45 Liquid-liquid phase separation in metal-ammonia solutions: was Ogg or Mott right?
Peter Edwards (University of Oxford)

10:10 Coffee break (Bateman Room)

10:40 Localisation vs delocalisation in correlated nanosystems within exact diagonalisation — ab initio approach
Jozef Spalek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

11:05 Magnetic quantum oscillations in nanowires
Viktor Kabanov (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

11:30: The Single-Atom Transistor: an approach towards quantum electronics at room temperature
Thomas Schimmel (Karlsruhe University)

11:55 Electronic transport in nanostructures, including molecular quantum dots
Alex Bratkovsky (HP Labs, Palo Alto)

12:20 Lunch (Senior Parlour)

Panel 5: Correlated electrons on nanoscale

Chair: Konstantin Efetov (Bochum University)

14:00 Manifestation of additional dimensions of space-time in semiconductor quantum dots
Alexander Andreev (Kapitza Institute, Moscow)

14:25 Spin-charge separation in quantum nanowires: theory and experiment
Yurii Firsov (Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg)

14:50 Luttinger liquid, Peierls or Mott insulator: quantum phase transitions in one-dimensional electron-phonon systems
Holger Fehske (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald)

15:15 Tea break (Bateman Room)

15:45 Conductance through coupled quantum dots
Janez Bonca (Ljubljana University)

16:10 Correlated electrons and transport in nanostructures
Bogdan Bulka (Institute of Molecular Physics, Poznan)

16:35 Summary of day, discussions and excursion

19:30 Conference Dinner (Fellows' Dining Room)

Wednesday 02 August 2006

Panel 6: Strongly-correlated electrons in bulk materials

Chair: Jozef Devreese (Antwerp University)

09:00 Condensation of exciton polaritons
Peter Littlewood (University of Cambridge)

09:20 The interplay between superconductivity and magnetism
Herbert Capellmann (RWTH, Aachen)

09:50 Coffee break (Bateman Room)

10:20 Non-Fermi liquid behaviour of a Fermi gas with a repulsion
Konstantin Efetov (Bochum University)

10:45 Non-Fermi liquid behaviour and pseudogap opening in the 2D Hubbard model within COM
Ferdinando Mancini (University of Salerno)

11:10 Organic semiconductors for spintronics
Carlo Taliani (ISM-CNR, Bologna)

11:35 Discussion of future collaborative research activities and closing remarks

13:00 Lunch (Senior Parlour)

14:00 Workshop ends