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KITP Conference: Quantum Phase Transitions (Jan 18 - 21, 2005)
Coordinators: A. Chubukov, P. Coleman, D. Morr, M. Norman, H. von Löhneysen

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair - Hilbert von Löhneysen

8:15am Martin Einhorn
(KITP)
Welcome [Aud][Cam]
8:40am Catherine Pépin*
(SPhT, CEA-Saclay)
Quantum Critically in Heavy Fermions compounds: the interpay of Kondo screening and magnetic fluctuations [Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:20am Philipp Gegenwart
(Univ. St. Andrews)
Magnetic properties of the Heavy Fermion state in YbRh2Si2 [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am MORNING BREAK
10:30am Paul Canfield
(Iowa State Univ.)
Field Induced Quantum Critical Point in YbAgGe [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:10am Subir Sachdev
(Yale Univ.)
Quantum phase transitions out of the heavy Fermi liquid [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:50am Kevin Ingersent
(Univ. Florida)
Quantum criticality in the Bose-Fermi Kondo model [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session

Session Chair - Piers Coleman

2:00pm Thomas Vojta*
(Univ. Missouri-Rolla)
Quantum phase transition and disorder: rare regions, Griffiths effects, and smearing [Slides][Aud][Cam]
2:40pm Vladimir Dobrosavljevic
(FSU)
Non-Ohmic dissipation in electronic Griffiths phases [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:20pm AFTERNOON BREAK
3:50pm Greg Stewart*
(Univ. Florida)
Experimental Status Report on Disordered QPTs: Still Challenging Theory [Slides][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm Tom Rosenbaum
(Univ. Chicago)
Probing Quantum Phase Transitions and Domain Dynamics with the Hall Effect [Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:10pm SESSION END
5:10pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm VAN TO BWSCI
8:05pm * Review talk: 30 min talk + 10 discussion
(All other talks: 15 min talk + 25 min discussion)


Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair - Brian Maple

8:40am Brad Marston*
(Brown Univ.)
High-Tc Superconductivity: Known Knowns and Unknowns [Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:20am Dirk van der Marel
(Univ. Geneva)
Quantum critical behavior in a high-Tc superconductor [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am MORNING BREAK
10:30am Christos Panagopoulos
(Cambridge)
Short range order and quantum glassiness in the high-Tc cuprates [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:10am Chandra Varma
(UC Riverside)
The critical fluctuations at the Quantum critical point in the Cuprates [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:50am Patrick Lee
(MIT)
Who and where is the QCP in cuprates? [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Free Afternoon

2:00pm VAN TO BWSCI


Thursday, January 20, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair - Andrey Chubukov

8:40am Andrew Schofield*
(Univ. Birmingham)
Ferromagnetic quantum criticality: an overview [Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:20am Meigan Aronson
(Univ. Michigan)
Quantum Critical Point in the Itinerant Ferromagnets Zr1-xNbxZn2 [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am MORNING BREAK
10:30am Christoph Bergemann
(Cambridge)
Quantum Critically and Fermi Surface Topology Transitions [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:10am Dietrich Belitz
(Univ. Oregon)
Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical: Breakdown of the Perturbative Renormalization Group [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:50am Dimitri Maslov
(Univ. Florida)
Singular corrections to the Fermi-liquid behavior: 1D physics in higher dimensions [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session

Session Chair - John Mydosh

2:00pm John Sarrao*
(LANL)
Tuning unconventional superconductivity in "115" materials [Slides][Aud][Cam]
2:40pm Christian Pfleiderer
(Univ. Karlsruhe)
Partial Order in the NFL Phase of MnSi [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:20pm AFTERNOON BREAK
3:50pm Nick Curro
(LANL)
The Discovery of Scaling in the Emergent Heavy Electron Component in a Kondo Lattice [Slides][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm Indranil Paul
(CEA Saclay)
Quantum Correction to Conductivity Close to Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in Two Dimensions: Ballistic Regime [Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:10pm SESSION END
5:10pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm VAN TO BWSCI


Friday, January 21, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair - Patrick Lee

8:50am Hans Peter Büchler
(Univ. Innsbruck)
Design and realization of exotic quantum phases in atomic gases [Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Sergey Kravchenko
(Northeastern Univ.)
Critical behavior of the Paul spin susceptibility near the 2D metal-insulator transition [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:10am MORNING BREAK

Session Chair - Subir Sachdev

10:40am Joe Polchinski*
(KITP)
Quantum Criticality in String/M Theory [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:20am Scott Thomas
(Stanford)
Emergent Supersymmetry [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Discussion

Session Chair - Piers Coleman

1:30pm DISCUSSION To Do or Not To Do - Integrating out the Fermions in Quantum Critical Models [Aud][Cam]
3:30pm SESSION END
3:45pm VAN TO BWSCI

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