Nordita Events [before January 2018]

Topics in Theoretical Physics

by Several Speakers (from around the world)

Europe/Stockholm
Nordita Seminar Room

Nordita Seminar Room

Description
Talks will be given by a number of scientists who are in town in connection with the appointment of assistant professors at Nordita. The purpose of this day is to give scientists in the Stockholm area a chance to hear the applicants in an informal setting. There will be three more talks on Thursday. The list below give an indication of the topic, or the title of the talk.

Chairman: Hector Rubinstein <rub@physto.se>

9:00 Dimitrios Tsimpis (Munich): string/M-theory
9:30 Stefan Hofmann (Perimeter Inst): Cosmological frontiers of fundamental theories

Chairman: Hans Hansson <hans.hansson@physto.se>

10:00 Eddy Ardonne (Caltech): Topological phases and quantum computation
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Andreas Osterloh (Hannover): Towards the convex roof of multipartite entanglement measures

Chairman: Mats Wallin <wallin@kth.se>

11:30 Markus Porto (Darmstadt): Structure, function, and evolution of proteins
12:00 Leonor Saiz (New York): Multilevel modeling of biological processes: from molecular interactions to the dynamics of cellular networks

12:30 Lunch

Chairman: Anders Rosengren <roseng@kth.se>

14:00 Mats Granath (Gothenburg): High-temperature superconductivity
14:30 Jani-Petri Martikainen (Helsinki): Cold atomic gases

Chairman: Hans Agren <agren@TheoChem.kth.se>

15:00 Mathias Bostrom (Linkoping): Effects of salt ions, buffer, and pH
15:30 Coffee

Chairman: Ariel Goobar <ariel@physto.se>

16:00 Robert E Smith (Univ. Pennslyvannia): Probing dark energy
16:30 Wynn Ho (Harvard): Neutron Stars as Laboratories for Extreme Physics