Program
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Opening remarks by
Dimitra Karabali, CUNY Lehman College and
Joe Birman, CUNY City College
Friday morning session, chair Myriam Sarachik, CUNY City
College
9:00 – 9:25 a.m. Andrew Kent, New York University
Recent research involving molecular magnets
9:25 – 9:50 a.m. Kyungwha Park, Virginia Tech
First-Principles Study of Electron Transport Through the
Single-Molecule Magnet Mn12
9:50 – 10:15 a.m. Jonathan Friedman, Amherst College
Some new geometric-phase effects in Mn12 variants
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Coffee break
10:30 – 10:55 a.m. Enrique del Barco, University of
Central Florida
The role of antisymmetric exchange in quantum interference
of different spin states in a dimeric molecular magnet
10:55 – 11:20 a.m. Mark Pederson, Naval Research
Laboratory & DOE
Applications of DFT to Molecular Magnets
11:20 – 11:45 a.m. Stephen Hill, Florida State University –
Tallahassee
Molecular nanomagnets: the view from EPR
11:45 – 12:10 p.m. Richard Klemm, University of Central
Florida
Single-ion
and
exchange
anisotropy
and
multiferroic
behavior
in high-symmetry
single
molecule
magnets
12:10 – 12:35 p.m. Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, C.N.R.S. –
Grenoble, France
Quantum dynamics in molecular nanomagnets –
Towards molecular spintronics
12:35 – 1:35 p.m. Lunch break
Friday afternoon session, chair Andrew Kent, NYU
1:35 - 2:00 p.m. Myriam Sarachik, CUNY City College
The Chudnovsky Impact Factor
2:00 – 2:25 p.m. Amnon Aharony, Ben Gurion University
Writing and reading spin information on moving electronic qubits
2:25 – 2:50 p.m. David Awschalom, University of California
– Santa Barbara
Manipulating single spins and coherence in semiconductors
2:50 – 3:15 p.m. Christopher Henley, Cornell University
Ordering due to disorder and gaugelike degeneracy in the large-S
antiferromagnet on the highly frustrated pyrochlore lattice
3:15 – 3:40 p.m. Valery Pokrovsky, Texas A&M University
Weakly-interacting Bose-gas in disordered environment
3:40 – 3:55 p.m. Coffee break
3:55 – 4:20 p.m. Joseph Birman, CUNY City College
"Contraction" of Dynamical Symmetry
And Quantum Phase Transitions
4:20 – 4:45 p.m. Ora Entin-Wohlman, Tel Aviv University
Equilibrium persistent currents in normal metal rings: a
solution to
a puzzle?
4:45 – 5:10 p.m. Armen Khachaturyan, Rutgers University
Giant extrinsic magnetostriction and confined martensitic
transformation in nano-particles in Fe-Ga
5:10 – 5:35 p.m. Lia Krusin-Elbaum, IBM – Yorktown Heights
Field-induced Quantum Critical Route To a Fermi Liquid in
High-Temperature Superconductors
5:35 – 6:00 p.m. Leo Van Hemmen, Technical University of
Munich, Germany
Indeterminacy and Image Improvement in Snake Infrared "Vision"
Saturday,
March 14
Saturday morning session, chair Wayne Saslow, Texas A & M
University
10:00 – 10:25 a.m. Lev Bulaevskii, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Dissipation in thin broad superconducting films due to vortices
and dark counts in superconducting photon detectors
10:25 – 10:50 a.m. Dino Fiorani, Material Structure
Institute – Rome, Italy
Exchange bias in nanogranular films
10:50 – 11:15 a.m. Valery Vinokur, Argonne National
Laboratory
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and
Superconductor-to-Insulator Transition
11:15 – 11:40 a.m. Eric Vincent, C.E.A. – Saclay, France
Dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles at very low temperature
11:40 – 12:05 p.m. Javier Tejada, University of Barcelona,
Spain
Collaboration of Chudnovsky with Barcelona group
12:05 – 12:30 p.m. Vladimir Privman, Clarkson University
Coherence, Entanglement, Induced Exchange Interaction
and Quantum Noise in Qubit Dynamics
12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch break
Saturday afternoon session, chair Vadimir Privman,
Clarkson University
1:45 – 2:10 p.m. Wayne Saslow, Texas A&M University
Spintronics in non-uniform magnetic conductors:
Dynamics with a bend or a twist
2:10 – 2:35 p.m. Anatoly Kuklov, CUNY College of Staten
Island
Mechanical and superfluid properties of dislocations in solid
He-4
2:35 – 3:00 p.m. Gwang-Hee Kim, Sejong University – Seoul,
Korea
Macroscopic quantum effects generated by the acoustic wave
in a molecular magnet
3:00 – 3:25 p.m. Sergey Vitkalov, CUNY City College
Warming in systems with discrete spectrum
3:25 – 3:50 p.m. Xixiang Zhang, Technical University of
Hong Kong, China
Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic bilayers
3:50 – 4:00 p.m. Concluding remarks