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”