Welcome to the Institute for Theoretical Sciences Inaugural Workshop

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Welcome to the Institute for Theoretical
Sciences Inaugural Workshop
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Institute for Theoretical Sciences A Joint
Institute of Argonne National Laboratory and
University of Notre Dame
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Institute Members

• Director Prof. Boldizsár Jankó, Theoretical
  Condensed Matter Physics, ND
• Members of Steering CommitteeDr. George
  Crabtree, Chairman, Director of Materials Science
  Division, ANLProf. Anthony Hyder, Treasurer,
  Director of Office of Research, ND
• Prof. Robert Rosner, Laboratory Director,
  ANLProf. Jeff Kantor, Vice President for
  Research, ND Prof. Joseph Marino, Dean, College
  of Science , ND
• Dr. Eric Isaacs, Director, Center for Nanoscale
  Materials, ANL
• StaffMr. Drew Sandler, Center Administrator, ND

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ITS Programs

• ITS Guests
• individual visits
• two weeks or less
• Visiting Fellows Program
• Form Critical mass
• Team Leader
• 4-6 weeks typical duration
• (2 weeks 3 months)
• 2-3 additional visitors (selected jointly with
  the Team leader)
• 1-2 graduate students

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Recent ITS Guests

• Anthony J. Leggett
• The recent PSU "supersolid" experiments some
  conceptual questions

Susan N. Coppersmith Comparing classical and
quantum complex systems
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ITS Visitor Programs

• Fall 2005 ITS Visiting Fellows
• Team leader
• Jainendra K. Jain
• Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics,
• Pennsylvania State University
• TOPIC Emergence of fractional Hall type
  structures in rapidly rotating BEC systems.
• Team members
• Prof. Hans Hansson, Stockholm Univ.
• Prof. Prof. Jon Magne Leinaas, Univ. Oslo
• Prof. Susanne Viefers, Univ. Oslo

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ITS Visitor Programs

• Fall 2005 ITS Visiting Fellows
• Team leader
• Alan Luther, Nordic Institute for Theoretical
  Physics (NORDITA)
• TOPIC
• Fermionic Susceptibilities in quasi 1-D systems
• Team members
• Vadim Cheianov (Russia)
• Michael Zvonorov (Russia)
• Olav Syljuasen (Norway)
• ITS Workshop
• A. Smirnov (Russia), A. Tsvelik (Brookhaven),
  S. Kivelson (Stanford)

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New ITS Facility at Notre Dame
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OBJECTIVE To grow the Institute for Theoretical
Sciences into a national Condensed Matter Theory
Institute
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For Further Information
Institute for Theoretical Sciences University of
Notre Dame Phone [phone] Fax
574.631.5952 www.theoryinstitute.org Boldizsar
Janko, Director Drew Sandler, Administrator