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Program

The SCES'07 program consists of a series of invited talks, contributed talks, and poster sessions.  The list of invited and contributing speakers appears below Ample time will be devoted to poster sessions.

An electronic version of the conference program book is available for download:
Short Program Book  or Entire document.

A web version of the scientific program with clickable links to abstracts is available here.

List of Topics

  • Quantum phase transitions
  • Heavy fermion systems
  • Quantum magnetism and frustrated magnets
  • High temperature superconductivity
  • Organic conductors and magnets
  • Low dimensional systems
  • Non-Fermi liquids and exotic quantum phases
  • Unconventional and novel superconductors
  • Kondo impurity and Kondo lattice systems
  • Mott-Hubbard systems
  • Interplay between spin-, charge- and orbital degrees of freedom
  • Correlated electrons in nanostructures
  • Quantum Hall liquids
  • Mathematical models and computational studies
  • Correlated atoms in optical lattices
  • New developments

List of Confirmed Invited Speakers

J. W. Allen (Ann Arbor)
P. W. Anderson (Princeton)
N. Andrei (Piscataway)
J. Chakhalian (Fayetteville)
C. W. Chu (Houston)
M. R. Eskildsen (Notre Dame)
Z. Fisk (Irvine)
P. Gegenwart (Dresden)
L. I. Glazman (Minneapolis)
D. Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford)      
L. H. Greene (Urbana)
N. Harrison (Los Alamos)
M. Z. Hasan (Princeton)
K. Haule (Piscataway) 
N. E. Hussey (Bristol)      
S. R. Julian (Toronto)
K. Kanoda (Tokyo)
A. Kapitulnik (Stanford)
K. H. Kim (Seoul)
S. Kirchner (Houston)
G. Knebel (Grenoble) 
B. Lake (Berlin)
G. Lander (Grenoble)
E. Lebanon (Jerusalem) 

M. Lee (Princeton)
S.-S. Lee (Santa Barbara)
Y. S. Lee (Cambridge, MA)
B. Lorenz (Houston)
M. Loewenhaupt (Dresden)
V. Mitrovic (Providence)
S. Nakatsuji (Tokyo)
M. R. Norman (Argonne)
Y. Onuki (Osaka)
T. Sakakibara (Tokyo)
J. Saunders (London)
A. J. Schofield (Birmingham)
T. Senthil (Bangalore)
B. S. Shastry (Santa Cruz)
F. Steglich (Dresden)
H. Takagi (Tokyo)
L. Taillefer (Sherbrooke)
H. Tsunetsugu (Tokyo)
Y. J. Uemura (New York)
I. Vekhter (Baton Rouge)
A.Vishwanath (Berkeley)
N. L. Wang (Beijing)
Z. Wang (Boston)
T. Yanagisawa (La Jolla)

List of Confirmed Contributing Speakers

P. A. Alekseev (Moscow)
M. C. O. Aguiar (Belo Horizonte)
R. N. Bhatt (Princeton)
C. J. Bolech (Houston)
C. L. Broholm (Baltimore)
P. C. Canfield (Ames)
Y. Chen (Houston)
M. A. Continentino (Rio de Janeiro)
B. Coqblin (Orsay)
N. J. Curro (Los Alamos)
A. Fedorov (Berkeley)
G. Finkelstein (Durham)
B. Freelon (Berkeley)
N. T. Huy (Amsterdam)
Y. Ihara (Kyoto)
K. Ingersent (Gainesville)
C. Krellner (Dresden)
H. v. Lohneysen (Karlsruhe)
S. K. McCall (Livermore)

T. Muramatsu (Osaka)
D. Natelson (Houston)
H. Okamura (Kobe)
T. Park (Los Alamos)
S. Paschen (Vienna)
A. Pasupathy (Princeton)
R. G. Pereira (Vancouver)
S. Ramos (Birmingham)
S. E. Sebastian (Cambridge)
N. Shah (Urbana)
J. Singleton (Los Alamos)
R. P. Smith (Cambridge)
D. A. Sokolov (Upton)
O. P. Sushkov (Sydney)
A. C. Walters (London)
S. J. Yamamoto (Houston)
H. Q. Yuan (Urbana)
G.-q. Zheng (Okayama)
J.-X. Zhu (Los Alamos)



Schedule

 
Sunday, May 13
Monday, May 14
Tuesday, May 15
Wednesday, May 16
Thursday, May 17
Friday, May 18
morning
 
QPT I
8:30–10 a.m.

Break
10–10:30 a.m.

High Tc I
10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
Quantum Magnetism I
8:30–10 a.m.

Break
10–10:30 a.m.

Mesoscopics I
10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
de Haas-van Alphen
8:30–10 a.m.

Break
10–10:30 a.m.

Quantum Magnetism II
10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
Heavy Fermions III
8:30–10 a.m.

Break
10–10:30 a.m. 

Unconv. Supercond. 
10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
Trans. Metal/M-H Systems
8:30–10 a.m.

Break
10–10:30 a.m.

Kondo Lattice
10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
early afternoon
 
Lunch 
12 noon – 1 p.m.

Poster Session I
1–3 p.m.
Lunch
12 noon – 1 p.m.

Poster Session II
1–3 p.m.
Free Time/Optional Tours
12 noon – 6 p.m.

Organized Tours: Space Center Houston, Houston Museums, Galveston Historical District, Houston City Tour
Lunch
12 noon – 1 p.m.

Poster Session III
1–3 p.m.
Lunch
12 noon – 1 p.m.

Poster Session IV
1–3 p.m.
late afternoon
 

Heavy Fermions I
3–4:30 p.m.

Cobaltates I
3–4:30 p.m.

Break
4:30–5 p.m.

QPT II
5–6:30 p.m

. Actinides
5–6:30 p.m

Heavy Fermions II
3–4:30 p.m.

High Tc II
3–4:30 p.m.

Break
4:30–5 p.m

QPT III
5–6:00 p.m


Free Time

Mag. and Sc.
3–4:30 p.m.

Mesoscopics II.
3–4:30 p.m

Break
4:30–5 p.m.

Cobaltates II 5–6:30 p.m

Novel Orders
5–6:30 p.m.
1-D Dynamics
3–4:30 p.m

Closing Session
5–6 p.m.
evening
"Welcome to Houston" Reception
Hilton: Ballroom of the Americas
6–8 p.m.
 
BCS@50 Symposium
8–10 p.m.
Houston Museum of Natural Science Banquet: "Cool Science"
7–10 p.m.
Optional Events
 


 
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