Unconventional Critical Behaviour and Phase Transitions
18-21 September 2002
Prague,
Programme
Tuesday, 17 September 2002
18.00 - 21.00: Registration and welcome - lobby, hotel Vitkov
Wednesday, 18 September 2002
Location:
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Narodni 3, room 205
8.30 - 12.45: Registration - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
9.00 - 9.15: Opening - V. Janis
9.15 - 12.45: Morning session - chairperson: M. Mézard
9.15 - 10.00: C. Di Castro:
Critical Phenomena and Renormalization Group
10.00 - 10.30: D. Sherrington: Minority games: correlations,
phase transitions and ergodicity breaking in simple market models
10.30 - 11.00: R. Oppermann: The role of replica symmetry
breaking for fermionic spin glasses and metal-insulator transitions
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break 11.30 - 12.15: T. Giamarchi: Metal-insulator transition and
non-Fermi-liquid behavior
12.15 - 12.45: D. Popovic: Metal-insulator transition and
glassy behavior in 2D electron systems
13.00 - 14.30: Lunch
14.30 - 18.00: Afternoon session - chairperson: P. Young
14.30 - 15.15: D. Khmelnitskii: Localisation in classical and quantum systems
15.15 - 15.45: R. Raimondi: Nonlinear conductivity and
quantum interference in disordered systems
15.45 - 16.15: V. Janis: Diffusion, probability
conservation and Anderson localisation in disordered electron systems
16.15 - 16.45: Coffee break 16.45 - 17.30: Y. Imry: Mesoscopic systems, quantum coherence and dephasing
17.30 - 18.00: V. Dobrosavljevic: Dynamical mean-field
approaches to the glassy behavior of electrons
18.30: Dinner
Thursday, 19 September 2002
Location:
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Narodni 3, room 205 9.15 - 12.45: Morning session chairperson: Y. Imry
9.15 - 10.00: M. Mézard: Dealing with the proliferation
of metastable states in glasses and optimization problems
10.00 - 10.30: M. Moore: p-spin model in finite dimensions
and its relation to structural glasses
10.30 - 11.00: H. Horner: The p-spin interaction spin glass:
A prototype for glassy dynamics
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break 11.30 - 12.15: P. Young: Numerical methods in
the spin-glass problem
12.15 - 12.45: N. Sourlas: Scale
Invariance in disordered systems: the example of the Random
Field Ising Model
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.30 - 18.00: Guided tour through historical Prague
18.00: Dinner
Friday, 20 September 2002
Location:
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Narodni 3, room 205
9.15 - 12.45: Morning session chairperson: D. Khmelnitskii
9.15 - 10.00: A. Mackinnon: Numerical Renormalisation group
and the Metal-Insulator Transition in Disordered Systems
10.00 - 10.30: P. Markos: Numerical methods in Anderson localisation
10.30 - 11.00: A. Mirlin: Functional order parameter and
multifractalit
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00: R. Smith: Absence of Singular
Superconducting Fluctuation Corrections to Thermal Conductivity
12.00 - 12.30: Y. Gefen: The Anderson Orthogonality Catastrophe:
Disordered Electrons and Random Matrices
13.00 - 14.30: Lunch
14.30 - 18.00: Afternoon session chairperson: C. Di Castro
14.30 - 15.15: D. Belitz: Quantum Phase Transitions in
Interacting Disordered Electron Systems
15.15 - 15.45: G. Montambaux: Persistent currents and
electron-electron interactions in disordered systems
15.45 - 16.15: B. Nikolic: Is there a mean-field theory of
Anderson localisation?
16.15 - 16.45: Coffee break 16.45 - 17.30: L. Pichard: Two dimensional mesoscopic Wigner crystallization
17.30 - 18.00: F. Slanina: Spectra and localization in
pseudo-random networks
18.30: Conference Dinner
live music (guitar + vocal duo; jazz, folk, latin)
Saturday, 21 September 2002
Location:
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Narodni 3, room 205
9.15 - 12.30: Morning session chairperson: H. Horner
9.15 - 10.00: D. Sherrington: Glassy behaviour due to purely kinetic constraints
10.00 - 10.30: F. Ritort: The spectrum of excitations in
spin glasses
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break 11.00 - 11.45: T. Kirkpatrick: Phase transitions: classical
vs. quantum criticality
11.45 - 12.15: T. Vojta: Unconventional Scaling at Dirty
Superconducting Quantum Phase Transitions
12.15 Closing
12.30: Lunch
