Time schedule

Linnaeus Summer School on Nanophysics

              August 19 – 24, 2007, Örestrand, Strandbaden

 

Sunday, August 19

17-19                            Registration

19.00                            Dinner

 

Monday, August 20

07.30-08.30                   Breakfast

Topic: Macroscopic Quantum Tunnelling and Macroscopic Quantum Coherence

Lecturer: Joachim Ankerhold, Ulm

Chairman: Floriana Lombardi, Göteborg

8.30-8.45                      Introduction by Chairman

8.45-9.30                      Lecture 1

9.30-9.35                      Break

9.35-10.20                     Lecture 2

10.20-10.50                   Coffee

10.50-11.35                   Lecture 3

11.45-12.45                   Group work

12.45-13.30                   Lunch

13.30-15.30                   Time for disposal

15.30                            Coffee

15.30-16.30                   Group work

16.30-17.30                   Presentations

Shiro Kawabata: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Small

High-Tc Josephson Junctions

Thilo Bauch: MQT in a d-wave Josephson junction

17.30-19.00                   Summary of group work and the day

19.00                            Barbeque at the beach

 

Tuesday, August 21

07.30-08.30                   Breakfast

Topic: Material Science and Processing of Devices at the nm-Scale

Lecturer: Philippe Vereecken, Leuven

Chairman: Erik Lind, Lund

8.30-8.45                      Introduction by Chairman

8.45-9.30                      Lecture 1

9.30-9.35                      Break

9.35-10.20                     Lecture 2

10.20-10.50                   Coffee

10.50-11.35                   Lecture 3

11.45-12.45                   Group work

12.45-13.30                   Lunch

13.30-15.30                   Time for disposal

15.30                            Coffee

15.30-16.30                   Group work

16.30-17.30                   Presentations:

                                    Emelie Hilner: Microscopic studies on surfaces for nanowire growth

Gvidas Astromskas: Selective area epitaxy for creation of nanostructures

and devices

Jie Sun: Selective area epitaxy for creation of nanostructures and devices

17.30-19.00                   Summary of group work and the day

19.00                            Dinner

 


Wednesday, August 22

07.30-08.30                   Breakfast

Topic: Quantization of Mechanical Motion

Lecturer: Robert Shekhter, Göteborg

Chairman: Lars Montelius, Lund

8.30-8.45                      Introduction by Chairman

8.45-9.30                      Lecture 1

9.30-9.35                      Break

9.35-10.20                     Lecture 2

10.20-10.50                   Coffee

10.50-11.35                   Lecture 3

11.45-12.45                   Group work

13.00                            Bus departs for excursion to Ladonia and the sculptures Nimis and Arx.

                                    Package lunch provided.

                                    The artist and former professor in art theori, Lars Vilks presents his creations.

18.00                            Back from excursion

18.00-19.00                   Summary of group work and the day

19.00                            School Dinner

 

Thursday, August 23

07.30-08.30                   Breakfast

Topic: Quantum Optics on Engineered Solid-State Atoms or Few-Level Systems

Lecturer: Jens Koch, Yale

Chairman: Chris Wilson; Göteborg

8.30-8.45                      Introduction by Chairman

8.45-9.30                      Lecture 1

9.30-9.35                      Break

9.35-10.20                     Lecture 2

10.20-10.50                   Coffee

10.50-11.35                   Lecture 3

11.45-12.45                   Group work

12.45-13.30                   Lunch

13.30-15.30                   Time for disposal

15.30                            Coffee

15.30-16.30                   Group work

16.30-17.30                   Presentations

                                    Fredrik Person: Dressed states of a superconducting qubit

                                    Martin Sandberg: Tunable superconducting resonator for

quantum computation

Lars Tornberg: Quantum limited read-out of a charge qubit

using its quantum capacitance

17.30-19.00                 Summary of group work and the day

19.00                            Dinner

 


Friday, August 24

07.30-08.30                   Breakfast

Topic: Interfacing Nanophysics with Biology

Lecturer: Uri Sivan, Jerusalem

Chairman: Fredrik Höök, Lund

8.30-8.45                      Introduction by Chairman

8.45-9.30                      Lecture 1

9.30-9.35                      Break

9.35-10.20                     Lecture 2

10.20-10.50                   Coffee

10.50-11.35                   Lecture 3

11.45-12.45                   Group work

12.45-13.30                   Lunch

13.30-14.30                   Time for disposal

14.30                            Coffee

14.30-15.30                   Group work

15.30-16.10                   Presentations

                                    Anders Gunnarsson: Single molecule detection of unlabelled

DNA targets using TIRS

                                    Magnus Jonsson: Supported lipid bilayer formation studies

with a new plasmonic sensor

16.10-17.40                   Summary of group work and the day

17.40-18.00                   End of School

18.00                            Dinner and departure