International Doctoral Training Session
Les Houches, France; Frontiers of condensed matter: nanosciences and energy
When: September 2, 2013 - September 13, 2013
For whom: Casimir Pre-Ph.D. students and Ph.D. students
Organisation:
- C.Dujardin (Lyon)
- F.Hekking (Grenoble)
- F.Hippert (Grenoble)
- J. Meyer (Grenoble)
- J. van Ruitenbeek (Leiden)
Programme:
This Les Houches international doctoral training session aims at offering Master and Ph.D students a training programme in the area of Condensed Matter Physics. It is organized jointly by the Ecole Doctorale de Physique de Grenoble (France), the Casimir Research School Delft-Leiden (Netherlands), and the Ecole Doctorale de Physique et d'Astrophysique (PHAST), Lyon (France), in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian (Spain) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (Germany).
This Les Houches international doctoral training session aims at offering Master and Ph.D students a training programme in the area of Condensed Matter Physics. It is organized jointly by the Ecole Doctorale de Physique de Grenoble (France), the Casimir Research School Delft-Leiden (Netherlands), and the Ecole Doctorale de Physique et d'Astrophysique (PHAST), Lyon (France), in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian (Spain) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (Germany).
The session will consist of six courses on the following topics :
1. Quantum information processing with superconducting circuits, L. Di Carlo (Delft)
2. Spins in semiconductor nanostructures, D. Ferrand (Grenoble)
3. Mesoscopic superconductivity, T.M.Klapwijk (Delft)
4. Topological phases, J. Meyer (Grenoble)
5. Scattering approach to quantum transport, Yu.V. Nazarov (Delft)
6. Dissipation in quantum mechanics, relaxation and decoherence, G. Schön (Karlsruhe)
The duration of each course is 3 * 1.5 hours. The courses will be complemented by more specialized research seminars on timely topics.
During the session, there will be plenty of time for informal discussions between participants and lecturers. A poster session will be organized, including a short oral presentation at the beginning of the session enabling the participants to present their research interests to each other.
The session can host 70 participants, (including lecturers - limited by the size of the lecture hall), and is intended for experimentalists and theoreticians.
- S. Bergeret (San Sebastian) - Introduction to superconductor-ferromagnet nanohybrids
- P. Degiovanni (Lyon) - Electron quantum optics in quantum Hall edge channels
- S. Florens (Grenoble) - Kondo effect in quantum dots: general introduction and current trends
- J. Gomez-Rivas (Eindhoven) - Semiconductor nanoantennas: directional emission and absorption by nanowires
- A. Minguzzi (Grenoble) - Strongly correlated one-dimensional bosons
- J. van Ruitenbeek (Leiden) - Single molecules as electronic devices
- I. Safi (Orsay) - Luttinger liquid in a mesoscopic context
- V. Vitelli (Leiden) - Shocks in fragile matter
More info can be found on this website
Les Houches
Les Houches is a village in the Chamonix valley in the French Alps.
Established in 1951, the Physics School is situated at 1150m above sea level in natural surroudings, with breathtaking views on the Mont Blanc mountain range. The Les Houches Physics School is affiliated with université Joseph Fourier (UJF) Grenoble. It is joint interuniversity facility of UJF and Grenoble-INP, supported by UJF, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Direction des Sciences de la Matière du Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA/DSM).
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