Plenary Talks

Monday, 26.03.2012

8:30 -- 9:15 Plenary Talk
Stanislas Leibler (BP)
Laboratory of Living Matter, The Rockefeller University
"Survival in the face of the unknown: some lessons from bacteria"

14:00 -- 14:45 Keynote and Prize Talks
H. Eugene Stanley (SOE), Boston University
 “The fragility of interdependency: Coupled networks & switching phenomena”

17:00 – 18:00 Max von Laue-Lecture
Naomi Oreskes (UC San Diego)
„The scientific consensus on climate change: Where do we go from here?”“

Dieter Richter (CPP), Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich
 “Soft Matter and Life Sciences: Research with Neutrons”

Hertha-Sponer-Preis:
Katharina Franke , Experimentelle Nanophysik, FU Berlin
"Elementary excitations in single molecules on surfaces"

Tuesday, 27. 3. 2012

8:30 -- 9:15 Plenary Talk
Yoshihisa Yamamoto (HL) , Stanford University, USA and National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Dynamical condensation of exciton-polaritons

13:15 – 14:45 Keynote and Prize Talks
Karsten Buse (DF), Fraunhofer-Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM, Freiburg
Terahertz Science and Technology: Key Innovations and Driving Applications

Ulrike Diebold (O) , Angewandte Physik, TU Wien
 “Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Defects, Adsorbates and Nanostructures at Oxide Surfaces”
Stern-Gerlach-Medaille:
Rainer Blatt, Universität Innsbruck und Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
 “The quantum way of doing computations”

Max-Planck-Medaille:
Martin Zirnbauer, Universität zu Köln
 “Of symmetries, symmetry classes, and symmetric spaces: from disorder and quantum chaos to topological insulators”

Festsitzungsvortrag
Martin Wegener , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
 “Metamaterials and Transformation Optics”

Wednesday, 28. 3. 2012

8:30 -- 9:15 Plenary Talk
David DiVincenzo (MA/TT), RWTH Aachen and FZ Jülich
 “Concepts in Quantum Computation”

13:15 -- 14:45 Keynote and Prize Talks
Ivan K. Schuller (MA) , UC San Diego
 “A Comprehensive Study of Exchange Bias: Towards a universal explanation”

Dierk Raabe (MM) , Max-Planck-Inst. für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf
 “Nanostructuring of 1 Million tons: Designing ultrastrong and ductile steels”

Martin Heimann (UP), MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena
 „Der globale Kohlenstoffkreislauf im Klimasystem: Wie weit lässt er sich steuern?"
"The global carbon cycle in the climate system: to which extent is it manageable?"

Walter-Schottky-Preis
Alex Greilich, TU Dortmund
"Optical approach to spin qubits"

20:00 -- 21:00 Öffentlicher Abendvortrag, Urania
Joachim Peinke, Univ. Oldenburg
Windenergie - eine turbulente Sache“

Thursday, 29. 3. 2012

8:30 -- 9:15 Plenary Talk
Michael Ghil (DY), ENS Paris and UC Los Angeles
The Complex Physics of Climate Change: Nonlinearity and Stochasticity

13:15 -- 14:45 Keynote and Prize Talks
Karin Jacobs (CCP/BP), Universität des Saarlandes
 “How superficial is adhesion? Common fundamentals of gecko, bacteria, protein and thin film adhesion”

"More than meets the eye: probing the planckian structure of spacetime"
Jörg Wrachtrup (TT), Uni Stuttgart
"Diamond quantum spintronics"

Gentner-Kastler-Preis
Jean-François Joanny, ULP Strasbourg
 “Mechanics and Growth of Tissues”

Georg-Simon-Ohm-Preis
Christian Schnabel, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden
 “3D imaging of lung tissue during total liquid ventilation”

18:00 -- 19:00 Lise-Meitner-Lecture, H 0105
Renate Loll, Universität Utrecht

Friday, 30. 3. 2012

8:30 -- 9:15 Plenary Talk
Matthias Scheffler (O), Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin
 “Role of van der Waals Interactions in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology”

 

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