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Scientific Program

Saturday, December 13, 2008

08:30 - 09:00    Registration
09:00 - 09:05    Welcome Speech, by Fuchun Zhang

Morning session 1: High Tc Cuprates

Chaired by Yan Chen (Fudan University)

09:05 - 09:35 T. Maurice Rice (ETH-Zurich)
The Breakdown of the Landau Fermi Liquid in Overdoped Cuprates
09:35 - 09:55

Yuhki Kohsaka (Riken, Japan)
Evolution from momentum-space Cooper pairing to real-space pseudogap state in cuprate superconductors

09:55 - 10:15 Kai-yu Yang (ETH-Zurich)
Quasiparticles in the Pseudogap Phase of Underdoped Cuprates
10:15 - 10:35 Qiang-Hua Wang (Nanjing University)
Theory of quasiparticle excitations in cuprates: universal Fermi velocity and high energy anomaly
   
10:35 - 11:00 Tea Break

Morning session 2: Graphene, Fullerene and Carbon Nanotubes

Chaired by Biao Wu (IOP, Beijing)

11:00 - 11:30 Steve Louie (UC Berkeley)
Graphene and graphene-based nanostructures: Pseudospins, supercollimation, and new massless Dirac fermions
11:30 - 11:50 Ya-yu Wang (Tsinghua, Beijing)
Jahn-Teller Distortion, Electron Correlation, and Orientational Ordering in KxC60 Fullerides
11:50 - 12:10 Xiaodong Cui (HKU)
Electric and Optical properties of individual single walled Carbon Nanotubes
12:10 - 12:30 Wang Yao (HKU)
Valley Dependent Physics in Graphene
    
12:30 - 14:15 Lunch

Afternoon session 1: Ceremony of Daniel Tsui Fellowship Award

Chaired by Zidan Wang (HKU)

14:20 - 14:30 Presentation of Daniel Tsui Fellowship Award, Center of Theoretical and Computational Physics, by T. Maurice Rice
14:30 - 15:00 Daw-Wei Wang (Tsinghua, Hsinchu)
Exotic quantum many-body physics of dipolar quantum gases
15:00 - 15:30 Shi-liang Zhu (South China Normal University)
Geometric phases: from quantum computation to artificial gauge field in cold atoms
   
15:30 - 15:50 Tea Break

Afternoon session 2: Iron Pnictides Superconductivity I

Chaired by Zhong-Xian Zhao (IOP Beijing)

15:50 - 16:10 Xian-Hui Chen (Chinese University of Science and Technology)
Isotope effect and phase diagram in high-Tc pnictide superconductors
16:10 - 16:30 Hai-Hu Wen (IOP, Beijing)
Recent progress in the study of pnictide superconductors
16:30 - 16:50 Zhong-Yi Lu (Renmin University)
Collinear (Bi-collinear) antiferromagnetic order in iron-pnictides (chalcogenides)
16:50 - 17:10 Nan Lin Wang (IOP, Beijing)
Correlated metal and high energy pseudogap of the FeAs based materials
17:10 - 17:30 Zhian Ren (IOP, Beijing)
New progresses in iron-based high-Tc superconductors
   
18:00 - 22:00 Banquet

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Morning session 3: Quantum Simulations

Chaired by Xin Wan (APCTP)

09:00 - 09:30 Yia Chung Chang (Academic Sinica, Taipei)
Theory of electron tunneling through an STM-tip/quantum dot junction with multiple levels
09:30 - 10:00 Matthias Troyer (ETH-Zurich)
Validation of a quantum emulator
10:00 - 10:20 Tao Xiang (IOP Beijing)
Accurate determination of tensor network state of quantum lattice models in two dimensions
   
10:20 - 10:40 Tea Break

Morning session 4: Iron Pnictides Superconductivity II

Chaired by Tao Xiang (IOP Beijing)

10:40 - 11:00 Hong Ding (IOP Beijing)
Pairing symmetry of iron-based superconductors revealed by ARPES
11:00 - 11:20 Dong-Lai Feng (Fudan University)
Band structure and electronic signature of the spin density waves in 122-iron-pnictides
11:20 - 11:40 Xing Jiang Zhou (IOP, Beijing)
ARPES on Electronic Structure and Superconducting Gap in FeAs-Based Compounds
11:40 - 12:00 Guo-qing Zheng (Okayama University)
Spin-singlet superconductivity with multiple gaps in ReFeAsO1-xFx (Re=La, Pr) as revealed by NMR
12:00 - 12:20 Zhu'an Xu (Zhejiang University)
Effect of Co and Ni doping in iron arsenide superconductors
   
12:25 - 14:15 Lunch

Afternoon session 3: Iron Pnictides Superconductivity III

Chaired by Fuchun Zhang/Weiqiang Chen (HKU)

14:20 - 14:40 Jian-Xin Li (Nanjing University)
Spin fluctuations, Fermi surface reconstruction and unconventional pairing in iron-based superconductors
14:40 - 15:00 Guang-Ming Zhang (Tsinghua, Beijing)
Universal linear-temperature dependence of static magnetic susceptibility in iron-pnictides
15:00 - 15:20 Xi Dai (IOP Beijing)
Electron correlation effect in Iron Pnictides
15:20 - 15:40 Jianhui Dai (Zhejiang University)
Iron pnictides as a model system for heavy fermion behavior
15:40 - 16:00 Zheng-yu Weng (Tsinghua, Beijing)
Local moments, itinerant electrons, and iron-based superconductors
   
16:00 - 16:20 Tea Break

Afternoon session 4: Dancing Electrons, Spins, and Fidelity

Chaired by Ke Xia (IOP, Beijing)

16:20 - 16:50 Yshai Avishai (HKUST/BGU)
Electron Dancing on the Sphere
16:50 - 17:10 Xin-Cheng Xie (Oklahoma State & IOP Beijing)
Dephasing in Quantum Spin Hall Effect
17:10 - 17:30 Shi-Jian Gu (CUHK)
Fidelity susceptibility and quantum phase transitions

Monday, December 15, 2008 

Morning session 5: Miscellaneous New Experiment and Theory

Chaired by Jun-Ren Shi (IOP, Beijing)

09:00 - 09:30 Ying Liu (Penn State University)
Ru islands embedded in Sr2RuO4: Unconventional mesoscopic superconductors
09:30 - 09:50 Shigeki Fujiyama (Riken, Japan)
Spin excitation spectra of Hyper-Kagome Na4Ir3O8
09:50 - 10:10 Jisoon Ihm (Seoul National University)
Hydrogen-transition metal interactions on carbon-based substrates
10:10 - 10:30 Qijin Chen (Zhejiang University)
Superfluidity in ultracold atomic Fermi gases
10:30 - 10:50 Tai-Kai Ng (HKUST)
New Physics in Multi-band superconductors - edge channels and broken time-reversal symmetry
   
10:50 - 11:10 Tea Break

Morning session 6: Phase Transition and Spin Systems

Chaired by Yue Yu (ITP)

11:10 - 11:30 Jung Hoon Han (SungKyunKwan University)
Aspects of vector spin chirality in multiferroic materials
11:30 - 11:50 Bruce Normand (ETH Zurich)
Dynamics and Thermodynamics of the Two-Chain Spin Ladder: Theory and Experiments in BPCB
11:50 - 12:10 Chung-Hou Chung (Chiao Tong University, Hsinchu)
Non-equilibrium transport at a dissipative quantum phase transition
12:10 - 12:30 Yi Zhou (CUHK)
Na4Ir3O8 as a 3D spin liquid with fermionic spinons and broken inversion symmetry
12:30 - 12:50 Wen-Min Huang (Tsinghua, Hsinchu)
Anomaly of the Local Density of state near the Defect of Graphene

Concluding Remarks

12:50 - 13:00    Fuchun Zhang (HKU)