At the Frontiers of Condensed Matter V

Blas Alascio, Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA.
"The Solid State Theory group in Bariloche" [abstract]
Enrique Anda, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Rio de Janeiro.
"Science and Physics in Argentina and Latin America in the Last Decades" [abstract]
Liliana Arrachea, Departameto de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
"Heat pumping mechanisms in electronic and phononic systems" [abstract]
Christian Batista, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos.
"Spontaneous Quantum Hall Effect in Frustrated Magnets" [abstract]
Silke Biermann, Ecole polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France.
"Electronic structure calculations for correlated materials" [abstract]
Stefan Blügel, IFF Forschungszentrum, Jülich.
"Topologically Protected Spin Textures at Metal Surfaces" [abstract]
Aldo Craievich, Universidad de San Pablo (USP), Brasil.
"The National Synchrotron Light Laboratory, Brazil. Past, present and future" [abstract]
Leticia Cugliandolo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
"Density of topological defects across phase transitions" [abstract]
Francisco de la Cruz, Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Centro Atómico Bariloche.
"Low Temperature Laboratory and Superconductivity in Bariloche" [abstract]
Victor Etgens, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Paris.
"Grazing Incidence Fast Atom Diffraction: a new in situ technique to study the Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth" [abstract]
Ricardo Faccio, Crystallography, Solid State and Materials Laboratory, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
"Electronic and structural distortions in graphene induced by carbon vacancies and boron doping" [abstract]
Yanina Fasano, Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA.
"Local Quasiparticle Density of States of Superconducting SmFeAsO_1-xF_x Single Crystals: Evidence for Spin-Mediated Pairing" [abstract]
Josep Fontcuberta, Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona.
"Switchable magnetization and polarization using multiferroics" [abstract]
Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano, Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica - CSIC, Madrid, España.
"Electron localization in cerium oxide-based materials" [abstract]
Gastón Garbarino, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CNRS, Grenoble.
"Structural and electronic pressure-temperature phase diagram of the new iron based superconductors" [abstract]
Santiago Grigera, IFLYSIB, Argentina & University of St. Andrews, UK.
"Unconventional magnetization processes and thermal runaway in spin-ice Dy2-Ti₂O₇" [abstract]
Karen Hallberg, Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, CNEA.
"Switching currents through molecules" [abstract]
Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University, Athens, USA.
"Manipulation of Charge, Spin and Conformation in Single Atoms and Molecules" [abstract]
Diego Hurtado, Universidad de San Martín - CONICET.
"Science and political Institutions: development of Physics in Argentina, 1940-2000" [abstract]
Rodolfo Jalabert, Université Louis Pasteur.
"What is measured in the scanning gate microscopy of a quantum point contact?" [abstract]
Miguel Kiwi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
"Half a century of condensed matter physics in Latin America: a personal perspective" [abstract]
Pablo Levy, Centro Atómico Constituyentes, CNEA, Buenos Aires.
"Electric pulse induced resistance switching in oxide - metal junctions" [abstract]
Daniel López, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne.
"Sub-wavelength photonics: controlling near-field interactions between nanosystems" [abstract]
George Martins, Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, USA.
"Transport in Carbon Nanotubes: 2LSU(2) regime reveals subtle competition between Kondo and Intermediate Valence states" [abstract]
Nicola Marzari, MIT, Cambridge.
"What is wrong with DFT ?" [abstract]
Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory.
"s_± Pairing Symmetry and Pairing Mechanism in Fe-based Superconductors" [abstract]
Jagadeesh Moodera, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge.
"Frontiers in Spin Polarized Tunneling" [abstract]
Adriana Moreo, University of Tennessee .
"Competing Pairing Symmetries in a Generalized Two-Orbital Model for the Pnictides" [abstract]
Claudine Noguera, Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, Paris.
"Structure of MgO nano-islands on metallic substrates: A semi-empirical, order N, Hartree-Fock simulation" [abstract]
Manuel Nuñez Regueiro, Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble.
"Physical origins of the dependence of Tc on the As-Fe-As angle in iron superconductors: the 1111 and 21311 cases" [abstract]
Alberto Passos Guimaraes, CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
"The Development of the Study of Magnetism in Brazil" [abstract]
Fernando Reboredo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
"When nothing really matters: finding the zeros of the fermionic many-body wave function" [abstract]
Nancy Sandler, Ohio University, Athens.
"Spin-orbit and Kondo effect in graphene" [abstract]
Andrés Saúl, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanosciences de Marseille - CNRS, France.
"Magnetic structure and superexchange pathways in CsV₂O₅" [abstract]
Arthur Smith, Ohio University, Athens.
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and First-Principles Theoretical Study of Manganese-induced Stripe Phase Superstructures on GaN(0001)" [abstract]
Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University, Athens.
"Spin orbit effects in quantum point contacts and quantum dots: from current polarization to Kondo effect" [abstract]
María Varela del Arco, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge.
"Atomic resolution views of complex oxide materials" [abstract]
Franck Vidal , Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Paris.
"Growth and magnetic properties of embedded Co nanowires with diameters in the 3-5 nm range" [abstract]
Mariana Weissmann, Centro Atómico Constituyentes, CNEA, Buenos Aires.
"The troubled beginnings of solid state physics in Buenos Aires" [abstract]

At the Frontiers of Condensed Matter V

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