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Quantum Magnetism
May 2-4, 2008

Program

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Friday, May 2

8:15             REGISTRATION (Walter 401)

Morning Session   (Chair: Raymond Bishop)

8:55             Welcome and Opening Remarks by Raymond Bishop

9:00             Jürgen Schnack, University of Bielefeld
Frustration-induced exotic properties of magnetic molecules and low-dimensional antiferromagnets

9:40             Alex Kamenev , University of Minnesota
The dynamic structure factor of the one-dimensional XXZ chain

10:20            COFFEE BREAK

10:50            Seung-Hun Lee, University of Virginia
“Neutron scattering studies of kagomes and spinels”

11:30            Leon Balents, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Fluctuations and frustration in some antiferromagnetic spinels

12:10            LUNCH

Afternoon Session   (Chair: Oleg Starykh)

1:40             Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University
Magnetic monopoles and spin ice

2:20             Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieur de Lyon
Topological phases and the Kasteleyn transition in frustrated magnets

3:00             COFFEE BREAK

3:30             Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California and LBNL
Magnetic phenomena in a spin-1 quantum gas

4:10             Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California-Berkeley
“Novel orders in frustrated spin and orbital systems”

RECEPTION AND CONFERENCE BANQUET


Saturday, May 3

Morning Session   (Chair: Philippe Sindzingre)

9:00             Stephen Nagler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Neutron scattering studies of excitations in low dimensional quantum magnets

9:40             Michael Hermele, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Critical spin liquids in two dimensions”

10:20            COFFEE BREAK

10:50            Senthil Todadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Critical Fermi surfaces and non-Fermi liquid metals”

11:30            Matthew Fisher, Microsoft Corporation, Station Q
Spin-liquids in ladders and in two dimensions

12:10            LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session   (Chair: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak)

1:40             Steven White, University of California, Irvine
Spectral functions from time-dependent DMRG

2:20             Sergei Isakov , ETH-Zurich
“Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of quantum magnets”

3:00             Radu Coldea, University of Bristol
“Bound states in an Ising magnet in an applied field”

3:40             COFFEE BREAK

4:10             Karlo Penc, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics
Quadrupolar ordering in spin-1 Heisenberg models

4:50             Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Nodal quasiparticles and the onset of spin density wave order in the cuprates


Sunday, May 4

Morning Session   (Chair: Gerardo Ortiz)

9:00             Ian Affleck, University of British Columbia
Non-magnetic impurities in quasi-one-dimensional spin-half antiferromagnets

9:40             Paul Crowell , University of Minnesota
Electrical spin detection and hyperfine interactions in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures

10:20            COFFEE BREAK

10:50           David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University
“Scaling of conductance in a Kondo quantum dot”

11:30            Natan Andrei, Rutgers University
“Quantum impurities out of equilibrium”

12:10            Workshop Closes

 

 
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