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”