List of Lecturers
(as of 10/07/2010)
G. Benenti (Como,
Italy)
Microscopic mechanism
for increasing thermoelectric efficiency
O. Bourgeois (Grenoble, France)
Thermal conductance of suspended nanostructures in diamond and
silicon
D. Cahill (Urbana,
US)
Heat conduction across interfaces with molecular layers: solids,
liquids, and vapors
A. Dhar
(Bangalore, India)
Heat conduction in
disordered harmonic lattices with energy conserving noise
M. Esposito (Brussels, Belgium)
Finite-time efficiency of small devices
L. Gammaitoni (Perugia,
Italy)
Zeropower: a Europe-wide initiative
for nanoscale energy management
J. Gemmer (Osnabruck, Germany)
From ballistic to
hopping transport in topologically disordered quantum systems
F. Giazotto (Pisa, Italy)
Heat transport in
superconducting nanostructures and two-dimensional electron gas systems
P. Hänggi (Augsburg, Germany)
Hot quantum system interacting with cold one: The chronicle of
mutual equilibration
Y. Imry
(Weizmann, Israel)
Thermal transport and thermoelectric coefficients near the
Anderson transition and in molecular junctions
S. Lepri (Florence, Italy)
Nonreciprocal wave propagation in a nonlinear system
H. Linke (Lund, Sweden)
Nonlinear
thermoelectric effects in semiconductor nanostructures
G. Mahan (Penn State, USA)
Heat flow in nanostructures
G. Mahler (Stuttgart, Germany)
Thermodynamics of small systems: Emergence of irreversibility
M. Menschke (Aalto,
Finland)
Heat transport and
cooling in superconducting and metallic nanostructures
A. Nitzan (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Heating, heat conduction and cooling in non-equilibrium molecular
junctions
J.-L. Pichard (Saclay,
France)
Thermal enhancement of interference effects in quantum point
contacts
T. Prosen (Ljubljana,
Slovenia)
On some exactly
solvable cases of far from equilibrium transport in many-body quantum chains
D. Rossini (Pisa, Italy)
Thermalization and ergodicity in
many-body open quantum systems
K. Saito (Tokyo, Japan)
Dimensionality dependence of phononic
transports
D. Segal (Toronto,
Canada)
Heat engines and
thermal conduction: An information theory model
A. Shakouri (UCSC, US)
Transient charge and energy transport in thermoelectric devices
L. Shi (Austin,
US)
Thermal transport and thermoelectricity in nanostructured
and complex materials
S. Sinha (Urbana, US)
Disorder driven thermal transport in hard and soft matter
C. G. Smith (Cambridge,
UK)
Cooling an electron gas below
the lattice temperature using quantum dot energy levels
I. Terasaki (Nagoya, Japan)
Oxide thermal rectifier and oxide thermoelectric device
S. Volz (Paris, France)
Controlling heat
conduction in nanostructured materials to enhance the
thermoelectric figure of merit
X. Zotos (Heraklion, Greece)
Open issues on the
transport of 1D quantum magnets
Lectures: 35min + 5min discussion.
Proceedings
List of Posters
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On occasion of a special session authors will be given 2-3 min. time to
highlight the key ideas of their posters (say 2-3 transparencies).
Poster size: about 100cm x 80cm.