11 OCTOBER
12 OCTOBER
13 OCTOBER
2:30 pm
Ultracold atomic gases as a new condensed matter system: atomic physics meets solid state.
W. Phillips
Quantum Computers and Raising Schrodinger’s Cat.
D. Wineland
New opportunities for breakthroughs with isotopes in Physics and Medicine
M. Raizen
Atoms and Photons: from cold atoms to astrophysics.
R.Kaiser
3:30-3:55 pm
What is mature, what is new and what is to come (or not) in semiconductor Physics
(Belita Koiller)
Quo vadis Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
(Itamar Procaccia)
Laser Physics & Photonics
(Deborah Kane)
3:55-4:20 pm
Fundamental constants & units
(Peter Mohr)
Renormalization Theory – Physics and Mathematics
(Manfred Salmhofer)
Physics case and situation of the future Linear Collider projects
(Juan Fuster)
4:20-5:00 pm
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5:00-5:25 pm
New directions in ultralow temperature physics
(John Saunders)
Spin structure at the nano scale:
From magnetic superlattices to topological spintronics
(J. Raynien Kwo)
Physics for Development
(Sandro Scandolo)
5:25-5:50 pm
Biological Physics: from Schrödinger to 2017 Nobel Prize on CryoEM and Beyond
(Aihua Xie)
The Frontiers of Nuclear Physics
(Robert Tribble)
Magnetism
(Xiaofeng Jin)
5:50-6:15 pm
Physics Education
(Hideo Nitta)
AMO physics: diversity and specialty
(Toshiyuki Azuma)
Challenging research areas in astrophysics
(Grazina Tautvaisiene)
6:15-6:40 pm
Physics and the Gender Gap: diversity and universality
(Igle Gledhill)
The quest for fusion: from ITER to DEMO
(Minh Quang Tran)
Computational Physics
(HaiQing Lin)
6:40-7:05 pm
Astroparticle Physics, a brief overview
(Sunil Gupta)
The LAAMP project: Advanced light sources for development
Introduction — Bruce McKellar, IUPAP President (5′)
The LAAMP project — Sandro Scandolo, chair of C13 and chair of LAAMP executive board (10′)
Advanced light sources: the Latin-American experience — A. José Roque da Silva, Director, Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron (LNLS) (10′)