XVIII AUTUMN SCHOOL
 
 

``Topology of Strongly Correlated Sytems''



 
 
 
 

Time 

Monday, 9 

Tuesday, 10 

Wednesday, 11 

Thursday, 12 

Friday, 13 

           

8.50-9.00 

Opening 

       

9.00-10.00 

Thouless 

Thouless 

Thouless 

Tesanovic 

Tesanovic 

10.00-11.00 

't Hooft 

't Hooft 

Zinn-Justin 

Neuberger 

Brambilla 

           

11.30-12.30 

Zinn-Justin 

Zinn-Justin 

Polikarpov 

Ambjorn 

Caldeira 

           

14.30-15.30 

Volovik 

Polikarpov 

Social  Programme 

Baker 

 

15.30-16.30 

Bettencourt 

Ambjorn 

 

Wiegmann 

 
           

17.00-18.00 

Polikarpov 

Reinhardt 

 

Volovik 

 

18.00-19.00 

Short Talks 

Short Talks 

 

Short Talks 

 
           

19.30- 

Reception

 

School Dinner 

   


 
 

The list of lecturers and speakers is (50 minutes plus discussion):



 
 
 

Lecturer/Speaker

Topic/title

J. Ambjorn

Non-commutative geometry on the latice, random surfaces with extrinsic curvature (2 lectures)

M. Baker

Dual Superconductivity, Effective String Theory of Vortices, and Regge Trajectories (1 talk)

L. Bettencourt

The role of topological excitations in the thermodynamics of second order transitions(1 talk)

N. Brambilla

The role of the QCD vacuum in the dynamics of heavy-quark bound states (1 talk)

A. Caldeira

Mobility of topological excitations in low dimensional magnetic systems (1 talk)

G. 't Hooft

Vortices and instantons in QCD (2 lectures)

H. Neuberger

Regulated chiral gauge theory (1 talk)

M. I. Polikarpov

Confining strings and monopoles in Lattice QCD (3 lectures)

H. Reinhardt

Magnetic monopoles, vortices and topology of gauge fields (1 talk)

Z. Tesanovic

Vortices, Quasiparticles and Physics of Superconducting Oxides (2 lectures)

D. J. Thouless

Vortices, quantization of circulation and flux in superfluids (3 lectures)

G. E. Volovik

Momentum space topology: 3He-A vs Standard Model, spin current QHE, etc... (2 lectures)

P. B. Wiegmann

Current algebra and topological mechanism of superconductivity (1 talk)

J. Zinn-Justin

Anomalies and regularization in chiral gauge theories (3 lectures)


 
 

The list of short talks is (15 minutes including discussion):



 
 
 
 

Speaker

Title

Time

T. Baier, E. Bick 

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the colored Hubbard model

Tue 10, 18h15

F. Bruckmann

Pointlike (Hopf) defects in Abelian Projections

Thu 12, 18h30

G. Burgio

Topology and Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theories: the Abelian case

Thu 12, 18h15

S. Kato

The Perfect Quantum Lattice Action for Low-energy SU(2) Gluodynamics

Thu 12, 18h00

L. Jonke

Quantum fluctuations of the Chern-Simons theory and dynamical dimensional reduction

Mon 09, 18h30

A. Melikidze

Localization on short-range potentials in dissipative quantum mechanics

Mon 09, 18h00

A. Melikidze

Strong pinning of vortices: quantum perspective 

Tue 10, 18h30

A. Nefediev

Strong hadronic decays in QCD_2

Mon 09, 18h15

L E. Oxman

Universal properties in low dimensional fermionic systems and bosonization.

Tue 10, 18h00

M. Paranjape

Topological Symmetry Breaking and the Confinement of Anyons

Thu 12, 18h45

S. Rombouts

Quantum Monte Carlo: what can random numbers tell us about correlated quantum systems?

Tue 10, 18h45