04/17/2008
Events Archive
2007 Workshop on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Systems
The Second Workshop on NUCLEI and MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS, WNMP07, was held at NSCL October 20-22, 2007.
The main goal of this series is to bring together scientists studying the objects of mesoscopic nature and to open the way for exchange of ideas, practical tools and possible collaborations. NSCL, with its unique Coupled Cyclotron Facility used for engineering and studying exotic nuclear species, serves as a natural venue for such meetings.
Topics discussed at the 2007 workshop include:
- Many-body quantum theory
- Experiments with mesoscopic systems
10/20/2007 - 10/22/2007
Symmetry: A blueprint for nature
10/05/2007
A lecture presented by Joseph Paldus (University of Waterloo).
The many-body problem in high-Tc superconductivity
02/23/2007
A lecture presented by Dan Mattis (University of Utah).
Courses for the Horses: How to pin down a target electronic state
02/09/2007
A lecture presented by Debashis Mukherjee (Director, Indian Assoc. for the Cultivation of Science).
From Trapped Atoms to Liberated Quarks
12/15/2006
Presented by Thomas Schaefer (North Carolina State University).
Trapped fermionic atoms, dilute neutron matter, and the quark gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions at RHIC are strongly correlated quantum liquids that involve energy scales that differ by some 20 orders of magnitude. In this talk, we shall argue that there are some important commonalities between these systems. We consider, in particular, the equation of state, transport properties, and the critical temperature for pair condensation.
Emergent Phenomena in Mesoscopic Physics
11/17/2006
Presented by Stefan Frauendorf (University of Notre Dame).
Emergence is a central concept of complex systems, which denotes the appearance of simple patterns on a higher structural level than the interacting constituents. In Physics, mesoscopic systems allow us to study how such phenomena emerge with increasing particle number. Since emergent phenomena are not sensitive to the details of the interactions between the constituent particles, they may appear in non-nuclear mesoscopic systems quite analogous to nuclei.
Quantum Optics with Solid State Qubits
10/11/2006
A lecture presented by Leonid Levitov (MIT).
Science Vol. 314, 1589-1592, 8 December 2006
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/5805/1589
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150502 (2006)
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRL...
00097000015150502000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
Science Vol. 310, Issue 5754, pp. 1653-1657 (2005)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/310/5754/1653
2004 Workshop on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Systems
10/20/2004
A Workshop on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Physics, WNMP04, was held at NSCL October 2004. The workshop was a success and the energetics discussions from the three-day event in many ways laid the groundwork for the the formation of the Mesoscopic Theory Center. The proceedings from WNMP04 were published by the American Institute of Physics and are available here.
