Workshop on New Developments in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

18 - 21 September 2009 at ETH Zurich

Workshop scope

The discovery of many materials with novel electronic properties provides a major challenge to theoretical condensed matter physics. The central task lies in the identification and understanding of the electronic phases of such materials, spanning the range from microscopic modelling to phenomenological description. While we possess well-established theories for standard electronic phases (simple metals, semiconductors, conventional superconductors, magnets etc) a large number of materials cannot be classified within these categories and require new theoretical concepts and approaches. They belong mainly to the class of strongly correlated electron systems. In particular, the low-energy physics of such systems cannot be derived easily by ab-initio methods, but has often to be approximated by effective models, whose solution pose challenging problems on their own.

The goal of this workshop of three days is to bring leading scientists in the field together in order to discuss newest developments and also to encourage new collaborations. This workshop is a joined activity between Switzerland and Japan and has a long tradition going back to the early nineties. In the past it had been funded by various organizations in Japan and Switzerland, such as SNF, PSI, the Japanese Kakenhi (JSPS) and NEDO etc. This year’s workshop will be devoted to one of the initiators of the joint workshop series, Kazuo Ueda, who celebrates his 60th birthday this year.

Program

Detailed program can be found here .

Official Webpage of Pauli Center: Workshop on New Developments in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems .

Organizers

Manfred Sigrist, Matthias Troyer and Hirokazu Tsunetsugu

Invited Speakers

Kazuo Ueda
Fakker Assaad
Bertram Batlogg
Dionys Baeriswyl
Gianni Blatter
Christoph Bruder
Stephanie Curnoe
Thomas Dahm
Carsten Honerkamp
Peter Horsch
Masatoshi Imada
Hiroshi Kontani
Frederic Mila
Shin Miyahara
Hans-Ruedi Ott
T. Maurice Rice
Naokazu Shibata
Frank Steglich
Dieter Vollhardt
Philipp Werner
Mike Zhitomirsky

Photos

• Apero - HIT - Sept. 18, 2009
• Talks - ETH - Sept. 19 - 21, 2009
• Breaks - ETH - Sept. 19 - 21, 2009
• Rheinfall - Excursion - Sept. 20, 2009
• Stein am Rhein - Excursion - Sept. 20, 2009
• Wine tasting - Sept. 20, 2009
• Banquet - Restaurant Chlosterhof - Sept. 20, 2009

Talks

• Fakher Assaad
  Dionys Baeriswyl
  Gianni Blatter
  Christoph Bruder
  Stephanie Curnoe
  Thomas Dahm
  Peter Horsch
  Masatoshi Imada
  Hiroshi Kontani
  Frederic Mila
  Shin Miyahara
  T. M. Rice
  Naokazu Shibata
  Frank Steglich
  Kazuo Ueda
  Dieter Vollhardt
  Mike Zhitomirsky