Sunday, 15 April 2012

17:00 – 21:00

Registration

from 18:30

WELCOME BUFFET / Informal get together

Monday, 16 April 2012

7:45

BREAKFAST

8:30 – 9:00

Raymond Bishop

Welcome and introduction

Ernst Dreisigacker

About the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation

9:00 – 9:40

Peter Holdsworth

Spin ice: Static and dynamic propeties of an emergent Coulomb gas

9:40 – 10:20

Roser Valenti

Frustration in antiferromagnets and spin liquids

10:30 – 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 11:40

Leon Balents

Field-anisotropy phase diagram for S=1/2 triangular antiferromagnets

11:40 – 12:20

Matthias Troyer

Interacting anyons: Generalizations of quantum magnetism

12:20

Conference photo (in front of the Physikzentrum)

12:30

LUNCH

Monday, 16 April 2012

14:30 – 15:10

Garnet Chan

Variational wavefunctions and molecular quantum magnetism

15:10 – 15:50

Oliver Waldmann

Molecular nanomagnets: A challenge for quantum many-body physics in "small" spin systems

16:00 – 16:30

COFFEE BREAK

16:30 – 17:10

Frederic Mila

Exactly dimerized ground state of spin-S chains with three-body interactions

17:10 – 17:50

Oleg Derzhko

Flat-band spin and electron systems: Ground-state and low-temperature properties

17:50 – 18:30

Jozef Strecka

Quantum phase transitions in the exactly solved spin-1/2 Heisenberg-Ising two-leg ladder

19:00

DINNER   

Followed by a social evening on invitation of the
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
in the Physikzentrum

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

7:45

BREAKFAST

8:30 – 9:10

Andreas Läuchli

SU(N) quantum magnetism: A new arena for exotic ground states

9:10 – 9:50

Frank Verstraete

Density matrix renormalization group methods for quantum field theories

10:00 – 10:30

COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 11:10

Andreas Honecker

Order by disorder and phase transitions in a highly frustrated spin model on the triangular lattice

11:10 – 11:50

Helger Rosner

Surprises in low dimensional spin 1/2 magnets - from crystal chemistry to microscopic magnetic models of complex oxides

11:50 – 12:30

Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler

Frustrated edge-shared chain cuprates: Achieved understanding and remaining open problems

12:30

LUNCH

14:30 – 15:10

Jesko Sirker

New aspects of transport in spin chains

15:10 – 15:50

Stefano Carretta

Molecular nanomagnets as quantum simulators

15:50 – 16:30

Lapo Bogani

Controlling the dynamics of molecular magnets with photons

16:30 – 17:90

COFFEE BREAK

17:00 – 17:40

Peter Lemmens

Spin liquid response in the Kagome lattice: Insight from inelastic light scattering

17:40 – 18:20

Bella Lake

Asymmetric thermal linehape broadening in dimerised antiferromagnets - evidence for strong correlations at finite temperature

18:45

DINNER   

19:45

Poster Session

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

7:45

BREAKFAST

8:30 – 9:10

Mike Zhitomirsky

Magnon pairing in quantum spin nematic

9:10 – 9:50

Karlo Penc

Exact ground states with deconfined gapless excitations for the 3-leg spin-1/2 tube

10:00 – 10:30

COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 11:10

Peter Prelovsek

Transport in pure and disordered spin chains

11:10 – 11:50

Philipp Sindzingre

Multiple spin exchange model on the triangular lattice

11:50 – 12:30

Damian Farnell

Coupled cluster theories of quantum magnetism

12:30 – 12:45

Jürgen Schnack

Concluding remarks
and poster awards 

12:45

LUNCH

End of the seminar and departure