Workshop
on Nuclei and Mesoscopic
Physics
WNMP07
East Lansing, Michigan, October 20-22, 2007
WORKSHOP SUPPORTED by
• National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory,
Michigan State University
• Office of Vice Provost for Libraries, Computing, and
Technology, Michigan State University
• AT&T Lectureships in Information Technology
Endowment
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Saturday, October 20.
9:00 Konrad Gelbke, Opening Comments.
9:10 - 9:45 Edward Shuryak, Understanding the Strongly Coupled QuarkGluon Plasma.
9:50 - 10:25 Achim Richter, Superscars, Doorway States and Nodal Domains in a Barrier Billiard.
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:25 Daniel Kosov, Electron Transport Through Molecules.
11:30 - 12:05 John R. Barker, Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductor Devices: Vortices, Flows and Atomistic Effects.
12:10 - 12:45 Oleg Sushkov, Correlated Electron Current and Temperature
Dependence of the Conductance of a Quantum Point Contact.
12:50 - 2:30 Lunch break
2:30 - 3:05 Yoram Alhassid, The mesoscopic competition between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in small metallic grains.
3:10 - 3:45 Michael Harrison, Interplay of Orbital Paramagnetism and
Diamagnetism in Nanometer Scale 2DEG Strips.
3:50 - 4:10 Coffee break
4:10 - 4:45 Gary Mitchell, Thermodynamic Analysis of Spectra.
4:50 - 5:25 Lev Kaplan, Interaction Matrix Element Fluctuations in Quantum Dots.
5:30 - 6:05 Mahir Hussein, Symmetry Breaking Study with Deformed Ensembles
7:00 Dinner in the Cyclotron Atrium and Poster Session
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Sunday, October 21
9:00 - 9:35 Victor Flambaum, Variation of Fundamental Constants in
Space and Time: Theory and Observations.
9:40 - 10:15 Josef Paldus (together with X. Li), Non-Dynamic Correlation
and Coupled-Cluster Methods.
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:15 Marcos Dantus, Coherent and Incoherent Control of LaserMatter Interactions.
11:20 - 11:55 Linda Reichl, Quantum Control of Cold Atomic Systems Using Nonlinear Dynamics.
12:00 - 12:35 Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Ab-initio Density Matrix Renormalization Group and Canonical Transformation Theories of Strongly Interacting
Electrons.
12:40 - 2:10 Lunch break
2:10 - 2:45 Naftali Auerbach, Doorway States and the Super-Radiant
Mechanism.
2:50 - 3:25 Felix Izrailev, Ericson versus Conductance Fluctuations in a
Model of Interacting Fermions.
3:30 - 3:50 Coffee break
3:50 - 4:25 Raymond F. Bishop, A Microscopic Treatment of Spin-Lattice
Models of Magnetism and Their Quantum Phase Transitions via the Coupled
Cluster Method.
4:30 - 5:05 William A. Lester Jr., Some Applications of Quantum Monte
Carlo to Molecular Systems.
5:10 - 5:45 Hiroshi Nakatsuji, Towards Accurately Predictive Quantum
Chemistry with the Solution of the Schrödinger equation.
7:00 Dinner at the Kellogg Center
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Monday, October 22
9:00 - 9:35 Stephanie Reimann, Finite Quantum Systems Set Rotating.
9:40 - 10:15 Joseph A. Carlson, Simulations of Dilute Fermions and LowDensity Neutron Matter.
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:15 Michael Guidry, Instabilities of Doped Mott Insulators and
the Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors.
11:20 - 11:55 Sven Åberg, Mesoscopic Fluctuations of the Pairing Gap.
12:00 - 12:35 Maxim Mostovoy, Magnetoelectric Properties of Ferromagnetic Domains.
12:40 - 2:10 Lunch break
2:10 - 2:45 Debashis Mukherjee, Applications of a Novel Spin-free Combinatoric Open-shell Coupled Cluster Theory to Single-reference Doublets.
2:50 - 3:25 Stuart Tessmer, Scanning Probe Microscopy of Semiconductor
Donor Molecules.
3:30 - 3:50 Coffee break
3:50 - 4:25 Michael Moore, Optimized Double-Well Quantum Interferometry with Gaussian Squeeze-States.
4:30 - 5:05 Masahiro Ehara, Photochemistry of Biological Chemosensors,
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, and Inner-shell Electronic Processes
5:10 - 5:45 Valentin V. Sokolov, Statistics of Resonance Widths and Decay Rates Distribution.
5:50 - 6:25 Vaclav Spicka, Mesoscopic Systems and Nonequilibrium Green’s
functions
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