PLENARY SPEAKERS AND TITLES of CMD-22

Andre Geim (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
"New Graphene-Based Physical Systems and Materials"

Nobel Laureate Albert Fert (University of Paris-Sud 11 and CNRS/Thales, France)
"From the Fundamentals of Spin Transport to Spintronic-based Technology"

Rafal Dunin-Borkowski (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
"Magnetic nano-particles in bacteria"

Antoine Georges (CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
"Condensed Matter with light and atoms: Cold Fermions in Optical Lattices"

Annabella Selloni (University of Princeton, NJ, USA)
"Organic molecules on surfaces"

Helmut Dosch (Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany))
"2011 – A Nanospace Odyssey"

INVITED SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Semiconductor Physics

Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands),
“Graphene: New bridge between condensed matter physics and quantum electrodynamics”
Carlo Sirtori, University of Paris VII (France),
“THz transfer onto telecom carriers”
Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University (USA),
“Optical spectroscopy of correlated 2D electrons at high magnetic fields”
Massimo Rontani, S3 INFM-CNR and University of Modena (Italy),
“Correlated electron states in quantum dots”
Thomas Ihn, ETH, Zurich (Switzerland),
“Semiconductor nanowires and quantum dots”
Andrew J. Shields, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, Cambridge (UK),
“Single-photon generation/detection”

Surface, Interface and low-dimensional Physics

Werner A. Hofer, The University of Liverpool (U.K.),
“Dynamic processes observed by tunneling microscopes: conformation changes, diffusion and vibrations”
Trolle Rene Linderodt, University of Aarhus (Denmark),
“Molecular organization on surfaces studied by UHV-STM. Reactions, chirality and dynamics”
Daniel Malterre, Université Henri Pointcaré, NANCY I (France),
“Surface states in self-organized nanostructured surfaces”
Elias Vlieg, University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands),
“Chiral purification using Ostwald ripening”
Jose Ignacio Pascual, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany),
“Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of molecular donor-acceptor assemblies”
Stefano Fabris, CNR-INFM DEMOCRITOS, Trieste (Italy),
“Understanding the structure and function of self-assembled organometallic nanomaterials by computer modeling”
Erminald Bertel, University of Innsbruck (Austria),
“One-Dimensional Physics on Surface: Charge Density Waves, Fluctuations and Phase Transitions”

Magnetism

Matthias Klaui, University of Konstanz (Germany),
“Current-induced domain wall dynamics”
Paulo Freitas, INESC, Lisbon (Portugal),
“Magnetic tunnel junctions”
Gerardo Goya, Institute of Nanoscience of Aragón (Spain),
“Magnetic hyperthermia for biomedical applications”
Antoine Maignan, CRISMAT, Caen (France),
“Magnetoresistive oxides”
Tolek Tyliszczak, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA),
"Characterization of magnetic dynamics by Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope"
Andreas Wieck, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)
"Ferromagnetic GaN by rare earth implantation".

Superconductivity and highly-correlated systems

Ming Shi, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, (Switzerland),
"Electronic and Magnetic Excitations of High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors Probed by ARPES and Neutron Scattering"
Olle Gunnarsson, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart (Germany),
“Interplay between electron-phonon and Coulomb interactions in Cuprates”
Erio Tosatti, SISSA, Trieste (Italy),
“Strong correlation in Fullerides”
H. Rönnow, IPMC-EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland),
“Neutron experiments in quantum spin systems”
G. Ghiringhelli, Politecnico di Milano (Italy),
“Inelastic x-ray scattering in strongly correlated oxides”

Liquids, disordered and off equilibrium systems

Francesco Sette, ESRF, Genoble (France),
“Inelastic X-Ray Scattering investigations” (to be confirmed)
Riccardo Zecchina, Politecnico di Torino, (Italy),
“Statistical physics algorithms for finding minimum Steiner trees”
Jeppe Dyre, Roskilde University, (Denmark),
"Viscous liquid dynamics"
Jorge Kurchan, Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, CNRS, Paris (France),
"Jamming versus Glass transition"
Silvio Franz, LPTMS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay (France)
"Interfaces in Hierarchical and Finite-dimensional Spin Glasses"

Polymer Physics

Ludwik Leibler , ESPCI, Paris (France),
"Self-mending supramolecular rubbers"
Jörg Baschnagel, ICS, Strasbourg (France),
“Slow dynamics and glass transition in simulated polymer films”
Dimitris Vlassopoulos, University of Crete, Heraklion (Greece),
“Dynamics of cyclic polymers”
Gert Strobl, University of Freiburg (Germany),
“Preliminary title: Polymer crystallisation”
Juan Colmenero, The University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian (Spain),
“Dynamics of asymmetric polymer blends”
Roland Winkler, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany),
“Mesoscale simulations of polymers in external fields”
Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA),
“Preliminary title: Hierarchical structure formation processes in polymer systems”

Biological physics /Life Sciences

G.U. Nienhaus, University of Ulm (Germany),
“Protein -ligand interaction”
Michael Pusch, Istituto di Biofisica del CNR, Genova (Italy),
“Single Channels”
Anna Niedzwieck, Institute of Physics of Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw (Poland),
“Molecular recognition of the mRNA 5'- and 3'-end structures by proteins”
Simon Scheuring, Institute Curie – Research UMR-CNRS, Paris (France),
“AFM with sub-micron resolution”
Chris Dobson, University of Cambridge (U.K.),
“Protein aggregation and amyloid”
Martin Weik, ESRF (CEA-IBS), Grenoble, France
"The coupling between hydration-water and protein dynamics"

Methods for cultural heritage and vacuum science

Mark Dowsett, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK),
“The use of infrastructural facilities for cultural heritage research”
Prof Piero Baglioni, University of Florence (Italy),
“Nanoscience for Cultural Heritage Conservation”

Physics of socio-economic and complex systems

Janos Kertesz, University of Technics, Budapest (Hungary),
“Complexity in social networks and finance”
Jorg Reichardt, University of Wurzburg (Germany),
“Complexity of world trade network”
Stefano Ciliberti, Cap. Fund Management, Paris (France),
"The stock option market as a tool to measure investor's risk."
Irene Giardina, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy),
“Empirical laws in bird behavior”
Andrea Baronchelli, Technical University of Catalonia Barcelona,(Spain),
“Semiotic and language evolution”