INVITED PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

The programme of EPS-12 will follow the traditional scheme of the series consisting of plenary talks, parallel symposia with invited presentations and posters.
The abstracts of the plenary talks can be downloaded here.
Invited plenary speakers Title
Alferov, Zhores I. 
A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute St. Petersburg		 Semiconductor Heterostructures: State-of-Art and Future Trends
Barabaschi, Pietro
ITER Garching JWS		 ITER: Realizing the Promise of Fusion Energy
Barbara, B., Friedman, J., Sessoli, R.
CNRS, France, Amherst College, USA, University of Florence, Italy		 Quantum Dynamics of Nanomagnets
Capasso, Federico
Semiconductor Physics Research Department, Bell Laboratories Murray Hill		 Teaching Electrons and Photons New Tricks with State-of-the Art Technology: Quantun Cascade Lasers, Optical Microbilliards, and QED-Based Nanomechanics
Dietl, Tomasz
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw		 Semiconductor Spintronics
Economou, Eleftherios N.
ITE, Heraklion, Crete		 Photons and Phonons in Mesoscopic Systems
Hau, Lene
Harvard University		 Slow Light
Joshi, Chandrashekhar
UCLA  Los Angeles		 Ultrahigh Energy Density Science with Relativistic Electron Beams
Morán-López, José Luis
Instituto Potosinode Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C.		 Is Physics the Privilege of Developed Countries?
Nifenecker, Hervé
ISN Grenoble		 How much could nuclear power contribute to the mitigation of CO2 emissions?
Rikken, Geert
Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung		 New effects of symmetry-breaking in magnetic fields
Schäfer, Gerhard 
University of Jena		 Recent Progress and Future Developments in Gravitational Physics
Solomon, Sorin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem		 The Importance of Being Discrete: The Emergence of Complex Social Dynamics from Simple Individual Interactions
Stachel, Johanna
University of Heidelberg		 Deconfined Nuclear Matter, What Have we Learnt from the SPS?
Tisza, László
MIT  Cambridge		 Eugen Wigner Memorial Lecture: Remembering Eugene Wigner, Pondering his Legacy
Treille, Daniel
CERN		 What Have We Learnt with the LEP Machine?
Veltman, Martinus J.G.
University of Michigan, NIKHEF		 The Higgs particle: facts and speculation
Vicsek, Tamás
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest		 Crowd Control
Walther, Herbert
MPI für Quantenoptik, Garching		 Single Atom Experiments and the Test of Quantom Physics
Weaire, D.
Trinity College, Dublin		 The value of useless studies
Wolfendale, Arnold
University of Durham		 The Origin of Cosmic Rays
Zeilinger, Anton
Universität Wien		 Quantum Computation, Teleportation
 

9:00 - 12:40 Tuesday, 27 August 2002
YOUNG PHYSICISTS' DAY
The Young Physicists' Day is a common event of EPS-12 and the International Conference of Physics Students. This will include about 12 oral presentations selected either from the best students' talks of ICPS or from the best posters of the EPS-12 Young Physicists' Poster Competition. Abstracts of ICPS contributions can be found here.Poster contributions submitted for the Young Physicists' Poster Competition will be on display during Monday. Contribution may be concerned with any area of physics (not necessarily linked to one of the symposia). The contribution must be based primarily on the young physicist's own work. Entrants may not be over 35 years of age on 30 August 2002. Intention to participate at the poster competition should be indicated upon abstract submission. Authors will be advised along with the notification on poster presentation acceptance whether or not their contribution has been accepted for inclusion in the competition. All competotors will receive a certificate of participation. On Monday, 26 August a panel of judge will select the winners who will orally present their contribution on Tuesday morning.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

 
Organized by
Roland Eötvös Physical Society