Monday, December 18, 2006 |
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Registration |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Opening Session (Video) |
| Opening speech | Lap-Chee Tsui, Vice Chancellor, HKU (Video) |
| Welcome speech | Tai Kai Ng , HKUST, Organization Committee (Video) |
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| Morning session: High Tc and beyond |
| 1st session | Chaired by Hideotoshi Fukuyama (Tokyo) |
| 9:15 am - 9:55 am | From high Tc to spin liquid (Download, Video)
Patrick A. Lee (MIT) |
| 9:55 am - 10:35 am | Encounters with oxides - wins and losses (Download, Video)
Maurice Rice (ETH-Zürich and HKU) |
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| 10:35 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
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| 2nd session | Chaired by Maurice Rice (ETH-Zürich and HKU) |
| 10:55 am - 11:35 pm | The prospect of room temperature superconductivity (Video)
Paul Chu (HKUST) |
| 11:35 am - 12:15 pm | Vorticity and phase coherence in high Tc (Download, Video)
N. Phuan Ong (Princeton) |
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| 12:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Lunch and poster session |
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| Afternoon session: Complexity and beauty in condensed matter |
| 1st session | Chaired by Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) |
| 2:30 pm - 3:10 pm | Electronic properties of molecular solids (Download, Video)
Hidetoshi Fukuyama (Tokyo) |
| 3:10 am - 3:50 pm | Quantum spin Hall effect (Video)
Shou-Cheng Zhang (Stanford) |
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| 3:50 am - 4:20 pm | Coffee Break
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| 2nd session | Chaired by Ting-Kuo Lee (Institute of Physics, Taipei) |
| 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm | Spin, charge, and orbital in transition metal oxides (Download, Video)
Sadamichi Maekawa (Tohoku) |
| 5:00 pm - 5:40 pm | Nonequilibrium quantum criticality in open electronic systems (Download, Video)
Yong Baek Kim (Toronto) |
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| Evening | Banquet |
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Tuedsay, December 19, 2006 |
| Morning session: New sates of quantum matter |
| 1st session | Chaired by Naoto Nagaosa (Tokyo) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | From Maxwell equation to gauge theory, and to new quantum matter (Download, Video)
Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Quantum gases: past, present, and future (Download, Video)
Jason Tin-Lun Ho (Ohio State) |
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| 10:20 am - 10:40 am | Coffee break |
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| 2nd session | Chaired by Hai-Qing Lin (CUHK) |
| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Fractionalization of charge (Download, Video)
Dung-Hai Lee (UC Berkeley) |
| 11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Helium: The once and future supersolid (Download, Video)
Michael Ma (Cincinnati) |
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| 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Lunch and poster session |
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| Afternoon session: Strongly correlated systems: theory and simulations |
| 1st session | Chaired by Bruce Normand (Fribourg) |
| 2:30 pm - 3:10 pm | Resonating-valence-bond physics and topological order in two dimensions: from dimer models to high-temperature superconductivity (Download, Video)
Dmitri Ivanov (Lausanne) |
| 3:10 pm - 3:50 pm | Fermi liquid description of spin-charge separation and application to underdoped cuprates (Download, Video)
Tai Kai Ng (HKUST) |
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| 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm | Coffee Break |
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| 2nd session | Chaired by Bob Joynt (Wisconsin, Madison) |
| 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm | Simulating high Tc cuprates (Download, Video)
Ting-Kuo Lee (Institute of Physics,Taipei) |
| 5:00 pm - 5:40 pm | Computer simulations of strongly correlated quantum systems: past successes, current topics, and future challenges (Download, Video)
Matthias Troyer (ETH-Zürich) |
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| Morning session: Future directions of condensed matter theories |
| 1st session | Chaired by Zheng-Yu Weng (Tsinghua, Beijing) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Spin current in solid (Download, Video)
Naoto Nagaosa (Tokyo) |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Topological and duality characterization of quantum phase transition in spin-1/2 model (Download, Video)
Tao Xiang (Institute of Physics, Beijing) |
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| 10:20 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
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| 2nd session | Chaired by Tai Kai Ng (HKUST) |
| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Quantum dots: open questions and directions (Download, Video)
Yigal Meir (Ben Gurion) |
| 11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Dirac quasiparticles in condensed matter physics (Download, Video)
Adam Durst (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| 12:00 am - 12:40 pm | Recent progress in the theory of Anderson localization (Download, Video)
Akira Furusaki (RIKEN, Japan) |
| 12:40 pm - 12:50 pm | Concluding remarks by Patrick Lee (Video) |
| Acknowledgement by Fu Chun Zhang (Video) |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Lunch |
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| 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Tour to HKUST |
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| 6:00 pm | Dinner at Sai Kung |
