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

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List of Posters

Click on Participants . 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.