Highlights in the quantum
theory of condensed matter
A symposium to honour
Mario Tosi
on his
72nd birthday
NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore
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September 10-11, 2004
Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa
Friday 10th, 2004
Saturday 11th, 2004
OPENING SESSION
09:30
Fabio Beltram, NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Salvatore Settis, Director, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Fulvio Ricci, Dean, Classe di Scienze, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
PHASE TRANSITIONS
09:30
Chair - Attilio Rigamonti, Dipartimento di Fisica A. Volta, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
09:40
Nonadiabatic superconductivity
Luciano Pietronero, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza e CNR, Istituto dei
Sistemi Complessi, Roma, Italy
Nonequilibrium Transitions and Dynamics
Robin Stinchcombe, The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics,
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Order-disorder transitions in quantum magnets
Alberto Parola, Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
Some outstanding issues in the metal-insulator transition phenomena in disordered twodimensional electron systems
David Neilson, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, Camerino, Italy
LIQUIDS
09:50
Chair - Zehra Akdeniz, University of Istanbul, Science Faculty, Physics Department, Istanbul, Turkey
10:00
Diamond-like liquid carbon
Annalisa Fasolino, Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Melting and related precursor cooperative phenomena in chemically bonded assemblies
Norman March
Gaussian density fluctuations and mode-coupling theory for supercooled liquids
Piero Tartaglia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
10:20
10:40
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Chair - Emanuele Rimini, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
11:40
Towards the design of novel materials from ab initio calculations
Wanda Andreoni, Computational Biochemistry and Materials Science, IBM Research, Zurich,
Switzerland
Modeling intrinsically fluorescent proteins
Valentina Tozzini, NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
On the bathochromic shift in chromophore-protein interaction
Franco Buda, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
10:00
10:20
10:40
11:00
ELECTRONIC STATES IN COMPLEX STRUCTURES
12:00
12:20
12:40
Coffee break
MANY BODY PHYSICS
11:30
Chair - Bilal Tanatar, Department of Physics, Bilkent UniversityAnkara, Turkey
11:40
Frustration in optical lattices
Rosario Fazio, NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron fluids
Saverio Moroni, INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
Quasiparticle self-energy and many-body effective mass enhancement in a twodimensional electron liquid
Marco Polini, NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
12:00
12:20
Lunch at SNS cafeteria
12:40
Lunch at SNS cafeteria
LIQUIDS
15:00
Chair - John E. Enderby H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol and The Royal Society, UK
15:10
Phase diagram of fluids confined in disordered porous materials
Mauro Rovere, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma 3, Roma, Italy
Entropy revisited: The interplay between ordering and correlations
Paolo V. Giaquinta, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy
Pseudofermions, stochastic quantization and linear scaling
Michele Parrinello, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, USI Campus,
Lugano, Switzerland
15:30
15:50
16:10
Coffee break
16:40
Chair - Sandro Stringari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento e Centro Ricerca e Sviluppo BECINFM, Trento, Italy
QUANTUM DEGENERATE GASES
16:50
17:10
17:30
17:50
Atomic quantum gases: Experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensates and ultracold Fermions
Massimo Inguscio, LENS and Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Adaptive Monte Carlo for the numerical simulation of ultracold fermions
Federico Toschi, Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo, CNR-IAC, Roma, Italy
Solid State Methods applied to confined quantum gases
Patrizia Vignolo, NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Dynamics in ultracold trapped boson-fermion mixtures
Pablo Capuzzi NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
MANY BODY PHYSICS
15:00
Chair - Giuseppe Grosso, NEST-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
15:10
Electron liquid in the presence of Rashba spin orbit
Gabriele Giuliani, Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Spin susceptibility of the 2D electron gas: effect of thickness and disorder
Gaetano Senatore, DEMOCRITOS and Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste,
Trieste, Italy
Many-body effects in spin-polarized transport
Giovanni Vignale, Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA
15:30
15:50
16:10
Coffee break
ELECTRONIC STATES
16:40
Chair - Alfonso Baldereschi, Institute of Theoretical Physics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and
Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
16:50
A short-range-only local density functional for new “mixed” schemes
Giovanni Bachelet, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
Magnetoexciton condensation in ferromagnetic quantum Hall bilayers
Vittorio Pellegrini, NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
17:10
17:30
CLOSING SESSION