Schedule of  the Symposium. 

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Scientific Programme

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Invited speakers and titles of their talks
 
Andre Geim
Professor and Chair in Condensed Matter Physics
Director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology
Theme: Carbon-nanostructures
Title of talk: Physics of Grafene
 
Bart Verberck
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen)
Theme: Carbon-nanostructures
Title of talk: Fullerene-cubane: X-ray scattering experiments and Monte-Carlo simulations
 
Dirk Manske
'Private Dozent'
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
Theme: High Tc superconductors
Title of talk: Spin fluctuation theory for high-Tc cuprates: a status report
 
Emmanuelle Lacaze
INSP, Paris, France
Theme: Self-assembly in 2D and 3D
Title of talk: Ordering on a crystalline substrate: from the monolayer to the liquid crystal bulk

Niels Christensen
Doctoral Researcher at Risø National Laboratory Denmark and Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETH Zurich and PSI, Stationed at PSI in Switzerland.
Theme: Orbital and charge order.
Title of talk: Quantum dynamics of spins on a square lattice.
 
James Scott
Professor of Ferroics, Cambridge University , UK
Head of Centre for Ferroics, Cambridge , UK
Theme: Nano-ferroics
Title of talk: Dynamics of Ferroelectric Nanostructures
 
Jan Petzelt
Head of the Department of Dielectrics,
Institut of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Theme: Ferroelectric relaxors
Title of talk: Dielectric response and polar phonon dynamics in relaxor ferroelectrics
 
Javier Junquera
Ramón y Cajal Fellow ,
Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada
Universidad de Cantábria
Theme: Ab-initio calculations
Title of talk: From 180 degree stripe domains to more exotic patterns of polarization in ferroelectric nanostructures. A first principle view
 
Jiri Kulda
Head of TAS Instrument Group
Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble , France
Theme: Advances in experimental techniques
Title of talk: Neutron three-axis spectrometry beyond its conventional limits
 
Junji Haruyama
Associate Professor, Dept.Electrical Engineering and Electronics ( Solid State Physics)
Aoyama Gakuin University , Kanagawa , Japan
Theme: Carbon-nanostructures
Title of talk: High-Tc superconductivity and one-dimensional electron correlation in carbon nanotubes
 
Kurt Binder
Professor of the Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Germany
Theme: Monte-Carlo simulations
Title of talk: Monte-Carlo simulations of phase transitions in nanosystems
 
Luis Brey
Research Professor at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
Theme: Orbital and charge order
Title of talk: Charge, orbital and spin order in manganites and their interfaces
 
Martin Dove
Professor of computational mineral physics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge
Director of the National Institute for Environmental eScience (NERC/Cambridge)
Theme: Theory, and phenomenological models
Title of talk: Dynamics of framework structures
 
Michel Kenzelmann
SNF Professor (Swiss National Science Foundation)
ETH Zürich & Paul Scherrer Institute
Theme: Multiferroics
Title of talk: Ferroelectricity in magnetic insulators with competing interactions
 
Mikhail Katsnelson
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Nijmegen , The Netherlands
Theme: Carbon-nanostructures
Title of talk: Graphene: new bridge between condensed matter physics and quantum electrodynamics
 
Ming Shi
Beamline Scientist
Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen , Switzerland
Theme: High Tc superconductors. Boride, Cuprates
Title of talk: ARPES on High Tc superconductors
 
Peter Gehring
Staff Physicist: NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg , Maryland , USA
Fellow, American Physical Society
Theme: Ferroelectric relaxors
Title of talk: Structure and Dynamics of Lead-based Relaxor Ferroelectrics
 
Philippe Ghosez
Professor, Member of the advisory board of ABINIT
Coordinator for Belgium of FAME
Département de Physique, Université de Liège, Belgium
Theme: Size and dimensional effects
Title of talk: Unexpected coupling between ferroelectric and antiferrodistortive instabilities in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 multilayers
 
Wilfrid Prellier
Laboratoire CRISMAT, Caen , France
Coordinator of the European STREP
Theme: Multiferroics
Title of talk: Magnetic oxides superlattices: a step towards artificially grown multiferroics
 
Xavier Gonze
Professor at the ‘Université Catholique de Louvain', Belgium
Coordinator of the ABINIT Software Project
Theme: Ab-initio calculations
Title of talk: First-principles dynamical properties of solids and nanostructures with ABINIT
 
Yvan Sidis
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-CNRS, CE-Saclay, France
Scientific Researcher
Theme: High Tc superconductors
Title of talk: Magnetic properties of unconventional superconductors and parent materials