Dear Colleague,
It is our pleasure to announce the establishment of a new international scientific research centre and its activities scheduled for 2014. We would like to invite you to the Inauguration Conference and would appreciate if you could please share this announcement with your colleagues and relevant institutions that may be interested in ICTP-ECAR and its activities.
Best regards,
Prof. Tugrul SENGER
Acting Director, ICTP-ECAR
ictp-ecar@iyte.edu.tr
ICTP – Eurasian Centre for Advanced Research (www.ictp-ecar.org)
ICTP – ECAR is a new regional centre intended to foster the advancement of basic sciences in Eastern Europe and Near Asia (in particular, Balkan, Black Sea, Inner Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa) countries. The Centre’s organization and activities are based on the decades-long successful model of ICTP (www.ictp.it). ICTP-ECAR is located in the campus of Izmir Institute of Technology Campus, Izmir, Turkey.
Inauguration Conference
ICTP-ECAR will start its activities with an inauguration conference on 5-7 May 2014. The conference will begin with an opening ceremony on 5th of May at 3 pm and will continue with colloquium-style talks by distinguished scholars the following two days. ICTP-ECAR Steering Committee and Scientific Council members will be among the participants and presenters whose names are listed below.
Gabriel Aeppli, London Centre for Nanotechnology
Ignatios Antoniadis, CERN
Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nihat Berker*, Sabanci University
Athanasios Fokas*, University of Cambridge
Ramin Golestanian, University of Oxford
Rahmi Güven, Boğaziçi University
Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University
Klaus von Klitzing, MPI-Stuttgart
Fernando Quevedo, ICTP
Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi, ICTP
N. Serdar Sarıçiftçi, Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Mehmet Sarıkaya, University of Washington
Manfred Sigrist, ETH Zürich
Cumrun Vafa*, Harvard University
* to be confirmed
Please visit www.ictp-ecar.org for further information about the Conference.
Advanced Workshop
Next activity of ICTP-ECAR is a workshop that will be held on 29 Sep.-03 Oct. 2014 under the title “Advanced Workshop on Landau-Zener Interferometry and Quantum Control in Condensed Matter”.
The workshop will address recent developments on Landau-Zener dynamics and related quantum control in complex systems including (but not limited to) many body effects in ultracold gases, dissipative Landau-Zener transitions, Landau-Zener interferometry in superconducting qubits, double and triple quantum dots, spin & charge qubits, N-V centers and nano-mechanical systems.
The central idea of this workshop is to bring together various condensed matter communities, dealing with complex systems, where the nonequilibrium dynamics at avoided crossings is (other than in pure atomic systems) highly influenced by many body interactions and, in many cases, environmental fluctuations.
Please visit www.ictp-ecar.org for further information about the Workshop.