List of invited and contributed talks
Monday, November 10
8:20 - 8:50 Registration
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and some words on Kazumi Maki by Dionys Baeriswyl
9:00 - 9:45 Invited talk: J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos
“Graphene in a magnetic field and a superlattice potential”
9:45 - 10:30 Invited talk: N. M. R. Peres
“On the electronic properties of graphene and its bilayer: gaps, edge states and optical conductivity”
10:30 - 10:50 Contributed talk: V.M. Pereira
“Coulomb impurities in graphene”
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 12:05 Invited talk: A. H. Castro Neto
“Graphene deconstructed”
12:05 - 12:50 Invited talk: M. Vozmediano
“General relativity and graphene”
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45 Invited talk: G. Mussardo
“Spectrum of the two-dimensional O(3) non-linear sigma model with topological coupling”
15:45 - 16:05 Contributed talk: R. Roldan
“Strong magnetic field collective modes in graphene and in a standard 2D electron gas”
16:05 - 16:25 Contributed talk: S. V. Kusminskiy
“Electron-electron interactions and Dirac liquid behavior in graphene bilayers”
16:25 - 16:55 Coffee break
16:55 - 17:40 Invited talk: J. I. Latorre
“Exact quantum circuits for strongly correlated systems”
17:40 - 18:00 Contributed talk: F. Heidrich-Meisner
“The expansion of strongly interacting fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices”
18:00 - Poster session I
Tuesday, November 11
9:00 - 9:45 Invited talk: D. Arovas
“New directions in valence bond solid antiferromagnets”
9:45 - 10:30 Invited talk: L. Balents
“Spin liquid states in frustrated antiferromagnets”
10:30 - 10:50 Contributed talk: C. Karrasch
“Josephson current and singlet-doublet phase transitions of a quantum dot Josephson junction”
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 12:05 Invited talk: N. Andrei
“Quantum impurities out of equilibrium”
12:05 - 12:50 Invited talk: M. Cazalilla
“Quantum wires coupled to dissipative environments”
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45 Invited talk: G.I. Japaridze
“Metal-insulator transitions in one-dimensional electron system with next-nearest-neighbor hopping”
15:45 - 16:05 Contributed talk: M. Goldstein
“Interacting resonant level coupled to a Luttinger liquid”
16:05 - 16:25 Contributed talk: A. Imambekov
“Universal theory of nonlinear Luttinger liquids”
16:25 - 16:55 Coffee break
16:55 - 17:40 Invited talk: M. Zvonarev
“Spin dynamics in a one-dimensional Bose ferromagnet”
17:40 - 18:00 Contributed talk: A. Tokuno
“Transport phenomena for bosons in Y-junction and its related systems”
18:30 - Reception at the City Hall
Wednesday, November 12
9:00 - 9:45 Invited talk: F. Verstraete
“Aspects of real-space renormalization group methods”
9:45 - 10:05 Contributed talk: D. L. Kovrizhin
“Multiparticle inerference in electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers”
10:05 - 10:25 Contributed talk: H. S. Sim
“Electron coherence in a finite-length Luttinger liquid and in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer”
10:25 - 10:45 Contributed talk: D. Urban
“Interaction-induced beats of Friedel oscillations in quantum wires”
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 Invited talk: S. J. Gu
“Fidelity susceptibility and quantum phase transitions”
12:00 - 12:20 Contributed talk: A. Crépieux
“The AC conductance and non-symmetrized noise at finite frequency in quantum wires and carbon nanotubes”
12:20 - 12:40 Contributed talk: M. Kollar
“Relaxation dynamics of isolated many-body systems”
12:40 - Lunch
14:00 – 20:00 Social Program
20:00 - Banquet
Thursday, November 13
9:00 - 9:45 Invited talk: G.V. Shlyapnikov
“Gapped 1D systems in an external harmonic potential”
9:45 - 10:30 Invited talk: I. Bouchoule
“Transition towards quasi-BEC in a weakly interacting elongated Bose gas”
10:30 - 10:50 Discussion by G.V. Shlyapnikov
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 12:05 Invited talk: J. T. Mendonça
“Collective processes in the ultra-cold gas”
12:05 - 12:50 Invited talk: J. Eschner
“Single cold atoms for quantum optics and quantum information processing”
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:20 Contributed talk: M. Sato
“Spontaneous rotation in trapped one-dimensional Bose gases”
15:20 - 15:40 Contributed talk: S. D. Huber
“Dynamically generated double occupancy as a probe of cold atom systems”
15:40 - 16:25 Invited talk: J.-S. Caux
“Correlations and quenches in integrable systems”
16:25 - 16:55 Coffee break
16:55 - 17:15 Contributed talk: P. Barmettler
“Quantum spin systems far from equilibrium”
17:15 - 17:35 Contributed talk: M. Moeckel
“Interaction quench in the Hubbard model”
17:40 - Poster session II
Friday, November 14
9:00 - 9:45 Invited talk: S. Viefers
“Quantum Hall hierarchy wave functions from conformal field theory”
10:15 - 10:35 Contributed talk: H. Hansson
“Conformal field theory approach to Abelian and non-Abelian quantum Hall quasielectrons”
10:35 - 10:55 Collective discussion
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 12:05 Invited talk: E. Ardonne
“Interferometry in the quantum Hall effect”
12:05 - 12:50 Invited talk: V. Ponomarenko
“Splitting electrons into quasiparticles with fractional edge-state interferometers”
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:45 Invited talk: G. Sierra
“An exactly solvable pairing model with p + ip wave symmetry”
15:45 - 16:00 Summary and concluding remarks
Poster sessions
Session I - 10/11/2008
| Name | Title | |
| 1 | A. Cortijo | Competition between instabilities in doped graphene |
| 2 | F. de Juan | Electronic properties of strongly disordered graphene |
| 3 | R. M. Ribeiro | Inducing energy gaps in graphene monolayer and bilayer |
| 4 | M. Mucha-Kruczynski | Characterization of graphene through anisotropy of constant-energy maps in angle-resolved photoemission |
| 5 | T. Stauber | Optical conductivity of graphene beyond the Dirac cone approximation: Making the fine-structure visible |
| 6 | A. I. Tóth | Dynamical correlations in the spin-half two-channel Kondo model |
| 7 | V. R. Vieira | Application of the stereographic projection for the simulation of macrospin dynamics |
| 8 | P. Waechter | The conductance through Luttinger liquids: towards experimental setups |
| 9 | D. Bercioux | Electron tunneling into a quantum wire in the Fabry-Pérot regime |
| 10 | C. Neuenhahn | Dephasing by electron-electron interactions in a ballistic Mach-Zehnder interferometer |
| 11 | Y. Arredondo-Léon | Study of the charge correlation function in one-dimensional Hubbard heterostructures |
| 12 | F. Franchini | Hydrodynamic description of the spin Calogero-Sutherland model |
Session II - 13/11/2008
| Name | Title | |
| 1 | P. V. Buividovich | Entanglement entropy in gauge theories and the holographic principle for electric strings |
| 2 | L. Fidkowski | Topological quantum computation with anyonic excitations |
| 3 | J. M. Vilaplana | Extraction of entangled states in a 1D XY ring by local projective measurements |
| 4 | J. Sabio | Interaction quench in the sine-Gordon model |
| 5 | M. Eckstein | Adiabatic ramping of correlated fermions |
| 6 | J. Carlos Gomes | Towards the establishment of two cold atom experiments in Portugal |
| 7 | O. Poplavskyy | Local density of states of electron-solid phases in the quantum Hall regime |