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           ITP Conference on
         Quantum Magnetism
        August 16-20, 1999
               Organizers:  W. Pickett, D. Scalapino and R. Singh

        SCHEDULE

            All sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.
 
 
Monday, August 16, 1999:
Time:
Speaker: Title:
8:00 am
Registration  ITP Lobby
9:00
David Gross Welcome to the ITP
  Doug Scalapino Welcome to the Conference
Quantum Phases and 
 Critical Phenomena
9:20 
Subir Sachdev
(Yale Univ)
Towards a Global Phase Diagram of Doped Antiferromagnets[Audio]
10:05
Oleg Starykh
(Yale Univ)
Logarithmic Corrections to Quantum-Critical Scaling in the S=1/2 Heisenberg Chain[Audio]
10:25
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:00
Gabe Aeppli
(NEC Res. Inst.-Princeton)
Does More Than the Obvious Happen Near Quantum Critical Points?[Audio]
11:45
Takashi Imai
(MIT)
Cu NQR Studies of Ladders and Stripes[Audio]
12:40 pm
Lunch Break ITP Front Patio
Many Facets of Frustrated 
 Magnetism
2:00
A. P. Ramirez
(Bell Labs, Lucent Tech) 
Geometrical Frustration - Spin Liquid, Spin Ice and Soft Modes[Audio]
2:40
Claire L'Huillier
(Univ P & M Curie)
RVB States and Spin Liquids in 2D[Audio]
3:20
Roderich Moessner
(Princeton Univ)
Frustrated Ising Magnets in a Transverse Field[Audio]
3:40
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
4:10
Andrey Chubukov
(Univ Wisconsin)
Order From Disorder Phenomenon in the Double Exchange Model[Audio]
4:50
Frederick Mila
(Univ Paul Sabatier)
Low Energy Singlets in Frustrated Magnets and Related Systems[Audio]
5:30
End of Session
Tuesday, August 17, 1999
Spin-Gap Phenomena in 
 Low Dimensional Magnets
9:00 am
Daniel Khomskii
(Univ. of Groningen)
Different Routes to Spin Gaps in Low Dimensional Magnets[Audio]
9:40

 

Hiroya Kodama
(Univ of Tokyo)
Studies on Quasi-Two-Dimensional Spin-Gap Systems CaV4O9 and SrCu2(BO3)2: Neutron Scattering and NMR
10:20

 

Valeri Kotov
(Univ of Florida)
Spectrum of Single-Particle and Collective Low-Energy Excitations and Spontaneous Dimer Order in the J1-J2 Model
10:40
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:10
Daniel Reich
(Johns Hopkins Univ)
Strongly Dimerized Low Dimensional Antiferromagnets[Audio]
11:50
Didier Poilblanc
(Univ Paul Sabatier)
Soliton Bound States in Pure and Doped Spin-Peierls Systems[Audio]
12:30 pm
Lunch Break ITP Front Patio
Spin-Chains 
 and Ladders
2:00
Jeno Solyom
(Research Inst-Hungary)
Critical and Massive Phases in Spin-Chains and Spin-Ladders[Audio]
2:40

 

Anders Sandvik
(LANL)
Multi-Chain Mean-Field Theory and Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Quasi-1D Heisenberg Model[Audio]
3:20
Daniel Cabra
(Univ Nac'l de la Plata)
Magnetization Plateaux in Quasi-One-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Electron Systems[Audio]
3:40
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
4:10
German Sierra
(CSIC, Madrid)
Recurrence Variational Approach to Ladders[Audio]
4:50

 

David Johnston
(Iowa State Univ)
Magnetic Susceptibility of Spin-1/2 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains and Ladders[Audio]
5:30
Special Event: 
ITP Front Patio
5:30 Munchies
6:00 Buffet Dinner
1999
 
Special Session:  Overview 
 of Magnetism
9:00 am
Michael E. Fisher
(Univ. of Maryland)
Multicriticality, Multiphases and the ANNNI Model[Audio]
9:55
Robert Birgeneau
(MIT)
Effects of Frustration in Lower Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems[Audio]
10:50
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:20
Ian Affleck 
(Univ British Columbia)
Log Boom: Some Marginally Irrelevant Remarks on Quantum Magnetism[Audio]
12:15
George Sawatzky
(Univ Groningen)
New Directions in Quantum Magnets: Convergence of Theory and Experiment?[Audio]
1:10 pm
SPECIAL EVENT: 
Beach Barbeque
Goleta Beach, Area "D"     1:15-Munchies
                                      1:30-BBQ
No Afternoon Session
Thursday, August 19, 1999
  Novel Magnetic Materials 
9:00 am
Bernhard Keimer
(M.-P.-I.- Stuttgart.)
Magnetism in Some Titanates and Manganates[Audio]
9:40

 

Christopher Landee
(Clark Univ)
S=1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Chains, Ladders, Rectangular and Square Lattices through Molecular Based Magnetism[Audio]
10:20

 

Sumitendra Mazumdar
(Univ of Arizona)
Coexisting Charge and Spin Density Waves and Implications for Superconductivity in Organic Charge Transfer Solids[Audio]
10:40
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:10
Helmut Eschrig
(IFW-Dresden)
Exchange Coupling in Spin Ladder Compounds[Audio]
11:50
Peter Lemmens
(RWTH Aachen)
Magnetic Light Scattering in Low-Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems[Audio]
12:30 
Lunch Break ITP Front Patio
 
Ferromagnetic Metals and 
Half-Metallic Systems
2:00
Werner Hanke
(Univ. Wurzburg)
Interrelation of Superconducting and Antiferromagnetic Gaps in High-Tc Compounds: a Test Case for a Microscopic Theory[Audio]
2:40
Reinhard Noack
(Univ de Fribourg) 
Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems[Audio]
3:20
Krastan Blagoev
(Univ of Cambridge)
Instabilities in Weak Ferromagnetic Metals[Audio]
3:40
Refreshment Break  ITP Center Patio
4:10
J.H. Park
(Brookhaven)
Spectroscopic Studies of Half-Metallic Systems[Audio]
 4:50

 

David Singh
(NRL)
Interplay of Magnetic and Lattice Degrees of Freedom in Hybridized Oxides: Manganites & Ruthenates[Audio]
5:30
End of Session
Friday, August 20, 1999
  Double Exchange and CMR
9:00 am
S.-W. Cheong
(Bell Labs, Lucent Tech)
Two-Phase Coexistence, Transport Properties, and Effective Medium Theories of Manganites[Audio]
9:45
Nobuo Furukawa
(Aoyama Gakuin Univ)
Double Exchange in Manganites[Audio]
10:30
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:00
Sadamichi Maekawa
(Tohoku Univ)
Orbital Ordering and Flux States in Double Exchange Systems[Audio]
11:45
Yuli Lyanda-Geller
(Univ of Illinois-Urbana)
Hall Effect and Quantal Phases in Manganites: Theory and Experiment[Audio]
12:30 pm
Lunch Break ITP Front Patio
Spin Coherence, Spin 
 Electronics and Quantum Tunneling 
2:00
David Awschalom
(Univ. of Calif, Santa Barbara)
Spin Coherence and Memory in Semiconductors[Audio]
2:45
Mark Johnson
(NRL) 
Spin Electronics [Audio]
3:30
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
4:00
Jonathan Friedman
(SUNY-Stonybrook))
Resonant Magnetization Tunneling in Molecular Magnets: A Review[Audio]
4:45
Stewart Barnes
(Univ of Miami)
Quantum Coherence and Tunneling in Nanomagnets[Audio]
5:30
Dan Mattis
(Univ of Utah)
Concluding Remarks[Audio]
6:00
End of Conference


Poster Sasha Chernyshev & Antonio Castro Neto (UC Riverside) Stripe as a topological object: holon and spin-bag united
Poster Alessio Filippetti & Warren E. Pickett (UC Davis) Magnetic Reconstruction at (100) CaMnO3 Surface
Poster Daniel C. Mattis & Prabasaj Paul (Univ of Utah) Statistical Transfer-Matrix of a Spin-Glass Ladder
Poster Matthias Vojta & Subir Sachdev (Yale Univ) Charge order and Superconductivity in an extended t-J model

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