PROGRAM
ICTS CONDENSED MATTER PROGRAMME 2009
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Sunday 06 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:45 AM
H. R. Krishnamurthy
Welcoming Remarks
10:00 AM
Subroto Mukerjee
Thermal Transport (School)
[Documents]
11:00 AM
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TEA BREAK
11:15 AM
Anders Sandvik
Computational Methods (School)
[Documents]
12:15 PM
David Logan
Kondo Physics in Multilevel Quantum Dots
13:15 PM
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LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Philippe Mendels
Kagome Spin Liquids: The Case of Herbertsmithite
[Slides]
18:00 PM
Anders Sandvik
Computational Methods (School)
[Documents]
19:00 PM
Subroto Mukerjee
Thermal transport (School)
[Documents]
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Monday 07 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Subroto Mukerjee
Thermal Transport (School)
[Slides]
10:00 AM
Anders Sandvik
Computational Methods (School)
[Documents]
11:00 AM
-
TEA BREAK
11:15 AM
Leon Balents
Frustrated Magnets and Multiferroics (School)
[Documents]
12:15 PM
M. Mambrini
From Frustrated Heisenberg Quantum Antiferromagnets to Quantitative Generalized Quantum Dimer Models
[Documents]
13:15 PM
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LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Leon Balents
Frustrated Magnets and Multiferroics (School)
[Documents]
18:00 PM
Subroto Mukerjee
Thermal Transport (School)
[Slides]
19:00 PM
E. Altman and A. Polkovnikov
Cold Atoms (School)
[Documents]
20:00 PM
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DINNER
Tuesday 08 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Anders Sandvik
Computational Methods (School)
[Documents]
10:00 AM
E. Altman and A. Polkovnikov
Cold Atoms (School)
[Documents]
11:00 AM
-
TEA BREAK
11:15 AM
Leon Balents
Frustrated Magnets and Multiferroics (School)
[Documents]
12:15 PM
E. Altman and A. Polkovnikov
Cold Atoms (School)
[Documents]
13:15 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Leon Balents
Frustrated Magnets and Multiferroics (School)
[Documents]
18:00 PM
Sylvain Capponi
Entanglement and Fidelity of Quantum Spin Systems: A Valence Bond Approach
[Slides]
19:00 PM
Ribhu Kaul
Interplay of Geometric Frustration and Criticality in Columbite
[Documents]
20:00 PM
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DINNER
Wednesday 09 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Anders Sandvik
Computational Methods (School)
10:00 AM
E. Altman and A. Polkovnikov
Cold Atoms (School)
[Documents]
11:00 AM
-
TEA BREAK
11:15 AM
Leon Balents
Frustrated Magnets and Multiferroics (School)
[Documents]
12:15 PM
Subroto Mukerjee
Thermal Transport (School)
[Slides]
13:15 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
E. Altman and A. Polkovnikov
Cold Atoms (School)
18:00 PM
Amit Dutta
Quantum Quench Dynamics
[Documents]
19:00 PM
Andreas Lauchli
Entanglement Spectra of Fractional Quantum Hall States
[Slides]
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Thursday 10 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
11:30 AM
Computational methods
ASK ANDERS SESSION
12:30 PM
-
LUNCH
14:00 PM
Thermal Transport
ASK SUBROTO SESSION
14:45 PM
Frustrated Magnets and Multiferroics
ASK LEON SESSION
15:30 PM
Cold atoms
ASK EHUD and ANATOLY SESSION
16:15 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
A.M.M. Pruisken
Macroscopic Charge Quantization in Single Electron Devices
[Documents]
18:00 PM
Medhi Amal
Superconductivity in Bilayer t-J Model: A VMC Study
[Documents]
19:00 PM
Zakir Hossain
Interplay between Superconductivity and Magnetism
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Saturday 12 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Amnon Aharony
Writing and Reading Information on Mobile Qubits
[Documents]
09:55 AM
Kalobaran Maiti
-
10:45 AM
-
TEA BREAK
11:00 AM
Ora Entin-Wohlman
-
11:50 AM
C. V. Tomy
-
12:20 PM
Sankalpa Ghosh
-
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Kliment Kugel
17:50 PM
Boris Aronzon
18:40 PM
Indra Dasgupta
19:10 PM
Chiranjib Mitra
-
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Sunday 13 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Utpal Chatterjee
Universal d-Wave Gap in the Entire Doping Range of Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
09:55 AM
T. Saha-Dasgupta
First Principles Study of Double Perovskites
10:45 AM
-
TEA BREAK
11:00 AM
Sudhakar Yarlaggada
Ordering in Undoped Manganites via a Generalised Peierls Instability
11:50 AM
P. Paulose
Magnetism and Superconductivity in FeT(1-x)Se(x)
12:20 PM
Mukul Laad
Superconductivity in the Iron Age: The Curious Iron Pnictides
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
18:00 PM
B. Sriram Shastry
Extremely Correlated Quantum Liquids – I
18:50 PM
Subhasis Sinha
Ultracold Dipolar Atoms in an Optical Lattice
19:20 PM
Vijayaraghavan Rajamani
Dispersive SQUID Magnetometry for Molecular Magnets
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Monday 14 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
B Sriram Shastry
Extremely Correlated Quantum Liquids – II
09:55 AM
E. V. Sampathkumaran
Novel Magnetic, Transport and Field-Induced Features in Some Local Moment Systems
10:45 AM
-
TEA BREAK
11:00 AM
Brijesh Kumar
Emergent Radiation in an Atom-Photon System
[Documents]
11:50 AM
Vidya Madhavan
STM Spectroscopy on Cuprates and Pnictides
[Documents]
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:30 PM
Raymond Bishop
Quantum Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated and Highly Frustrated Spin-Lattice Systems: An ab-initio Quantum Many Body Theory Formulation
[Documents]
18:20 PM
Didier Poilblanc
Generalised Quantum Dimer Model for Frustrated Magnets
19:10 PM
Fiona Burnell
Topological lattice models: surgical connections to the continuum
20:00 PM
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DINNER
Tuesday 15 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Yigal Meir
Theory of the Quantum Hall Insulator
09:55 AM
Yuval Oreg
Magnetic impurities on the edge of topological insulators
10:45 AM
-
TEA BREAK
11:00 AM
Ravindra Bhatt
Importance of Rare Fluctuations in Quantum Condensed Matter Systems
[Documents]
11:50 AM
Priya Mahadevan
Spin Reorientation Transitions in NiO: Role of Coulomb Interactions
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:30 PM
S. Bandyopadhyay
Entanglement Inequalities in Spin-1/2 Particles
18:20 PM
Sushanta Dattagupta
Dissipative Quantum Systems and the Heat Capacity Enigma
[Slides]
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Wednesday 16 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:30 PM
Nandini Trivedi
Bosons and Fermions in Optical Lattices
18:20 PM
S. Vidhyadhiraja
Interplay of Magnetic Field and Strong Correlations in Heavy Fermion Materials
19:10 PM
Krishnendu Sengupta
Junctions of Dirac Liquids
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Thursday 17 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Subir Sachdev
Quantum Phase Transitions (School)
[Documents]
10:00 AM
Mikhail Feigelman
Granular Metals and Superconductors (School)
[Documents]
11:00 AM
Leonid Levitov
Graphene (School)
12:00 PM
V. Shenoy/A. Paramekanti
Variational Monte Carlo (School)
[Documents]
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Subir Sachdev
Quantum Phase Transitions (School)
[Documents]
18:00 PM
Mikhail Feigelman
Granular Metals and Superconductors (School)
[Documents]
19:00 PM
Efrat Shimshoni
Large Thermomagnetic Effects in Quasi One-Dimensional Spin System
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Friday 18 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Subir Sachdev
Quantum Phase Transitions (School)
[Slides]
10:00 AM
Mikhail Feigelman
Granular Metals and Superconductors (School)
[Documents]
11:00 AM
Joel Moore
Topological Insulators and Superfluids
12:00 PM
Leonid Levitov
Graphene (School)
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
15:00 PM
Mikhail Feigelman
Granular Metals and Superconductors (School)
[Documents]
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Subir Sachdev
Quantum Phase Transitions (School)
[Documents]
18:00 PM
V. Shenoy/A. Paramekanti
Variational Monte Carlo (School)
[Documents]
19:00 PM
Peter Holdsworth
Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Saturday 19 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Subir Sachdev
Quantum Phase Transitions (School)
[Documents]
10:00 AM
Leonid Levitov
Graphene (School)
11:00 AM
V. Shenoy/A. Paramekanti
Variational Monte Carlo (School)
[Documents]
12:00 PM
Kirill Shtengel
Nonabelian Anyons and Quasiparticle Interferometry: An Introduction
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Leonid Levitov
Graphene (School)
18:00 PM
Roderich Moessner
Disorder in Kitaev's Honeycomb Model
19:00 PM
Fabrice Bert
Kagome Antiferromagnet with Easy Axis Anisotropy
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Sunday 20 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Leonid Levitov
Graphene (School)
10:00 AM
V. Shenoy/A. Paramekanti
Variational Monte Carlo (School)
[Documents]
11:00 AM
Shivaji Sondhi
Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice: The Fine Print!
12:00 PM
Arindam Ghosh
Some Recent Experiments on Spontaneous Spin Effects in Semiconductors
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
16:00 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
V. Shenoy/A. Paramekanti
Variational Monte Carlo (School)
[Documents]
18:00 PM
Satyajit Banerjee
Strange Magnetic Properties of Ferromagnetic Nanowires
[Documents]
19:00 PM
Gil Refael
Vortex Drag in Superconducting Thin-Film Bilayers
[Documents]
20:00 PM
-
DINNER
Monday 21 Dec
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00 AM
Kamran Behnia
Nernst Effect Across the Quantum Limit
10:00 AM
Shivaji Sondhi
Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Computation
11:00 AM
Ramesh Pai
Mott-Insulator and Superfluid Shells in the Bose-Hubbard Model
12:00 PM
Sudhanshu Mandal
Neutral Collective Excitations in Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
13:00 PM
-
LUNCH
14:30 PM
Pratap Raychaudhuri
Experimental Investigations of Disordered s-Wave Superconductors - NbN
15:30 PM
K.J. Thomas
Interaction Effects in Weakly Confined Quatum Wires
16:30 PM
-
TEA BREAK
17:00 PM
Saurabh Basu
Imbalanced Fermi Systems in a Harmonic Trap
18:00 PM
Sujit Sarkar
Superconducting Quantum Dots
20:00 PM
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DINNER