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Archives of live presentations of the EPS-12 Conference
                   
DateTimePresentation
 9:00 -
 9:30
Opening
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 9:30 -
10:10
Cecil Powell Memorial Lecture
D. Weaire (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland):
The value of useless studies
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10:10 -
10:50
Alferov, Zhores I. (A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia):
Semiconductor Heterostructures: State-of-Art and Future Trends
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11:20 -
12:00
Capasso, Federico (Semiconductor Physics Research Department, Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, USA):
Teaching electrons and photons new tricks with state-of-the-art technology: Quantum Cascade Lasers, optical microbilliards, and QED-based nanomechanics
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12:00 -
12:40
Dietl, Tomasz (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland):
Semiconductor Spintronics
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15:50 -
16:50
Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize Lecture
R. Sessoli (University of Florence, Italy), J. Friedman (Amherst College, Amherst, USA), B. Barbara (CNRS, Grenoble, France):
Quantum dynamics of nanomagnets
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16:50 -
17:30
Economou, Eleftherios N. (ITE, Heraklion, Crete, Greece):
Photons and Phonons in Mesoscopic Systems
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Date Time Presentation
Young Physicists' Day - Part one
 9:00 -
 9:20
S.A. Henry (Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom):
Present and future dark matter searches
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 9:20 -
 9:40
G. Bircam (TEV Inanc Turkes Ozel Lisesi, Turkey):
Transforming orbital wave motion into translatory motionv
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 9:40 -
 9:55
I. Aulika (Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, University of Latvia, Latvia):
Study of transparent ferroelectric thin films by optical reflectometry and ellipsometry
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 9:55 -
10:10
R.R. Sumathi (Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University, Chennai (Madras), India):
A new insulating material for the fabrication of InP based metal-insulator-semiconductor devices
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10:10 -
10:25
A. Bedalov (Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia):
Atmospheres of brown dwarfs
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10:25 -
10:40
M. Baumgartl (Physics, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Germany):
Strings
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10:40 -
10:55
T. Bergmann (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland):
Euro coin diffusion
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Young Physicists' Day - Part two
11:40 -
11:55
A. Musumarra (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy):
Advanced application of the quasi-free reaction mechanism to nuclear astrophysics
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11:55 -
12:10
J. Hill (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK):
Energy transfer and migration in light-emitting polymer systems
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12:10 -
12:25
A. Kocsonya (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary):
Non-destructive PIXE and XRF analysis of art and archaeological objects
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12:25 -
12:40
R. Paeglis (Institute of Solid State Physics and Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Latvia):
Electro-optic solution for visual acuity and contrast sensitivity modelling
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12:40 -
12:55
A.C. Kis (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA):
Processing and magnetic properties of bioceramics
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Symposium 1: European Research Infrastructure
14:45 F. Sette (ESRF, Grenoble, France):
X-ray science at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility: recent results and future challenges
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15:13 M. Altarelli (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy):
Science with VUV and soft X-ray synchrotron light sources
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15:41 F. Schluenzen (Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppen für strukturelle Molekularbiologie Hamburg, Germany):
Antibiotics targeting ribosomes
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16:09 F. Mezei (Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany):
ESS: a quantum leap in research opportunities
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16:37 R.Cywinski (University of Leeds, UK):
Muon beam research in condensed matter science: achievements and prospects
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17:05 F. Pászti (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary):
Ion beam analysis today and tomorrow
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18:00 -
20:00
Round Table Discussion: The Future of Research and Development in Europe
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Date Time Presentation
9:00 -
9:40
S. Solomon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel):
The Importance of Being Discrete: The Emergence of Complex Social Dynamics from Simple Individual Interactions
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 9:40 -
10:20
T. Vicsek (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary):
Crowd control
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10:20 -
11:00
P. Barabaschi (ITER Garching, Germany):
ITER: Realizing the promise of fusion energy
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11:30 -
13:00
EPS President's Address and General Meeting,
Gero Thomas Mem. Medal

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Date Time Presentation
9:00 -
9:40
G. Schäfer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany):
Recent progress and future developments in gravitational physics
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9:40 -
10:20
A. Wolfendale (University of Durham, UK):
The origin of cosmic rays
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10:20 -
10:40
EPS Public Understanding of Physics Prize
Joint EPS-BPU Prize for Environmental Physics

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11:10 -
11:50
J. Stachel (University of Heidelberg, Germany):
Deconfined nuclear matter, what have we learnt from the SPS?
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11:50 -
12:30
H. Nifenecker (ISN Grenoble, France):
How much could nuclear power contribute to the mitigation of CO2 emissions?
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12:30 -
12:40
Lise Meitner Prize
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12:40 -
12:50
Outreach Prize
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Symposium 7: High-Energy Accelerators and the Future of High-Energy Physics
16:10 W. Buchmüller (DESY, Hamburg, Germany):
Theoretical perspectives of Particle Physics
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16:38 L. Rolandi (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland):
What have experiments taught us?
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17:06 B. Foster (University of Bristol, UK, DESY, Hamburg, Germany):
The scientific Roadmap of Particle Physics in the coming 20 Years
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17:34 K. Hübner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland):
Challenges for accelerators
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18:02 J. Carr (Centre de Physique de Particules de Marseille, France):
Particle Physics without accelerators
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18:30 I.F. Corbett (ESO, Garching, Germany):
Challenges of going global: new paradigms for Particle Physics?
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Date Time Presentation
9:00 -
9:40
C. Joshi (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA):
High energy density plasma science with ultrarelativistic electron beams
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9:40 -
10:20
D. Treille (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland):
What have we learnt with the LEP machine?
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10:20 -
11:00
M.J.G. Veltman (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands):
The Higgs particle: fact and speculation
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11:30 -
12:10
J.-L. Morán-López (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosí, México):
Is physics the privilege of developed countries?
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14:50 -
15:30
L. Hau (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA):
Ultra-slow and stopped light and superfluid shock waves at the 'light roadblock'
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15:30 -
16:10
A. Zeilinger (University of Vienna, Austria):
Quantum interference of individual quantum systems
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16:40 -
17:20
H. Walther (Sektion Physik der Universität München and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany):
Single atom experiments and the test of Quantum Physics
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17:20 -
18:00
L. Tisza (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA):
Remembering Eugene Wigner and pondering his legacy
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18:00 -
18:20
Closing
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