The CCQCN Project is funded in the framework of the EC's SEVENTH FRAMEWORK

PROGRAMME (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1) under Grant Agreement n° 316165

Deliverable 4.3:

Announcement of Second Year’s Workshops

Project no. 316165

Project acronym: CCQCN

Project full title: Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology

REGPOT-2012-2013-1

SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

Deliverable 4.3

Announcement of Second Year’s Workshops

Due date of deliverable: February M12

Dissemination level: PU

Announcement of Second Year’s Workshops Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology

The Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology will organize, as described

in its DoW, a total of seven planned workshops (that is, the Kick-off meeting/workshop plus

five thematic workshops on the research work areas of the Center, plus a final

workshop/conference), which will engage the Center’s researchers (members, ERs and

SERs), international visitor experts, regional experts and administrators, and participants

from the academic community. As is also described in the DoW (WP4), CCQCN can organize

possible additional workshop organization (if the funds permit it) in research areas related to the

research activities of the Center and its members.

Kick-Off Meeting

The kick-off Meeting of the CCQCN took place on September 5-7, 2013, at the premises of

the Department of Physics. The meeting fulfilled its threefold objective, namely:

a) The announcement (and dissemination), in a formal manner, of the formation (and

the launch) of the Center for “Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology” in the

research and academic communities and in the regional authorities and actors.

b) The provision of an important scientific exchange in the Center’s research areas,

with the gathering of high-caliber researchers from the CCQCN Center’s twinning

organizations, who presented their research work and interacted with the Center’s

scientists and researchers, the academic and research community of the region (U.

Crete, FORTH) and the regional actors at large (Region of Crete, Regional Innovation

Council of Crete).

c) The provision of an important administrative exchange between the REGPOT

Programme Coordinator official and the management committee of the CCQCN

Center, elucidating significant issues and clarifying administrative items (which is of

particular importance in setting-up the managerial structures in a proper and

efficient way, at the very beginning of the project), and also presenting the coming

European Initiatives in the European Research Area.

Thematic workshops

The thematic five workshops focus on broad research directions of the CCQCN project, that

is, magnetism, electronic complexity, holographic applications, quantum metamaterials and

nano/graphene device applications. Workshops/conferences strengthen the interaction of

the younger members of the Center (ERs) with the more senior ones (SERs, CCQCN

members) and also permit the intense interaction with external experts (from twinning

institutions and major international research groups). They comprise a vehicle for research

advancement, introduction to new collaborations as well as dissemination of the research

results produced at the Center. The dates of the workshops have been selected in order to

maximize the participation of the members of twinning institutions.

The following thematic workshops/conferences have been planned for the 2nd and 3rd years

of the lifetime of the project:

(i) Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Condensed Matter Physics [Holographic

applications] (Responsible: Prof. Kiritsis), which will take place September 1-7, 2014, in

Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.

(ii) Quantum metamaterials (Responsible: Prof. Tsironis), which is planned to take place

June 1-6, 2015, in the island of Spetses, Greece.

(iii) Spin-Orbit Coupling in Surface or Interface States (Correlated electronic materials;

Responsible: Prof. Panagopoulos), which is planned to take place June 8-12, 2015, in the

island of Spetses, Greece.

(iv) “Μagnetics 2015: Dynamics and Transport” (Magnetics workshop; Responsible: Prof.

Zotos), which is planned to take place September 13-19, 2015, at Kolymbari, Crete,

Greece .

(v) Graphene/nano applications (Responsible: Prof. Iliopoulos), which is planned to take

place in Fall 2015, in Crete, Greece.

Final Conference

The CCQCN Final Conference will take place in summer 2016, in Crete Greece, and is

planned to be a weeklong conference covering all research areas of the Center. Numerous

scientists form the twinning institutions and other prime research institutions around the

world are expected to participate.

First Year’s Workshops and Conferences

The 1st year’s workshops and conferences are presented in Appendix II of this document.

Second Year’s Workshops and Conferences

1.The Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Condensed Matter Physics Conference, will

take place in September 1-7, 2014, at Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. It has been announced via

the Conference’s website (http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/regpot2014/index.html), and the

mailing and e-communication of its poster to all members of the global research community

in the field.

More than 100 participants will attend.

The announcement materials and the current list of participants are presented in Appendix I

of this document.

2.The Quantum Metamaterials workshop (Responsible: Prof. Tsironis), which is planned to take

place June 1-6, 2015, at the island of Spetses, Greece, has been announced via CCQCN’s website and

the workshop’s website https://qcn.physics.uoc.gr/qmm2015/

3.The Spin-Orbit Coupling in Surface or Interface States (Correlated electronic materials;

Responsible: Prof. Panagopoulos), which is planned to take place June 8-12, 2015, at the island of

Spetses, Greece, has been announced via CCQCN’s website and the workshop’s website

http://qcn.physics.uoc.gr/socsis2015/

APPENDIX I

Announcement Materials

(and current List of Participants)

regarding the CCQCN Conference on

Quantum Field Theory, String Theory and

Condensed Matter Physics

1-7 September 2014, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece

Website of the Conference:

http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/regpot2014/index.html

Registration Form accessible at:

http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/regpot2014/form.php

Poster:

International Organizing Committee Local Organizing Committee

Costas Bachas (Paris) Koenraad Schalm (Leiden) David Tong (Cambridge) Jan Zaanen (Leiden)

Elias Kiritsis (UoC) Vassilis Niarchos (UoC) Christos Panagopoulos (UoC) Giorgos Tsironis (UoC)

Key Participants

Alan Adams (MIT) Joe Bhaseen (Cambridge) Jan De Boer (University of

Amsterdam) Benoit Doucot (Universite Pierre et

Marie Curie) Johanna Erdmenger (Max Planck

Institute, Munich) Antonio Garcia-Garcia (Cambridge) Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College

London) Andrew Greene, (University College

London) Sean Hartnoll (Stanford University) Gary Horowitz (UC Santa Barbara) Thierry Jolicoeur (Universite

d'Orsay) Shamit Kachru (Stanford University) Pierre LeDoussal (ENS, Paris) Sung Sik Lee (McMaster University

and Perimeter Institute) Robert Leigh (University of Illinois,

Urbana)

Gilad Lifshytz (Technion and University of Haifa)

Hong Liu (MIT) Andy Mackenzie (University of

St Andrews and MPI Dresden) Marc Mezard (ENS, Paris) Robert Myers (Perimeter

Institute) Hiroshi Ooguri (Caltech) Yaron Oz (Tel Aviv University) Philip Phillips (University of

Illinois, Urbana) Shinsei Ryu (University of

Illinois, Urbana) Subir Sachdev (Harvard

University ) Costas Skenderis (University of

Southampton) Gordon Semenoff (University of

British Columbia) Dam Son (University of

Chicago)* Adi Stern (Weizmann Institute) Henk Stoof (Utrecht University) Sandip Trivedi (Tata Insitute)

Participants’ List (not final)

Name Affiliation

1. APOSTOLAKIS APOSTOLOS LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY

2. Albrecht Dylan University of Crete

3. Amado Irene Technion

4. Amoretti Andrea University of Genoa

5. Antonio Garcia Garcia Cambridge University

6. Aprile Francesco University of Crete, CCTP

7. Bachas Constantin Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

8. Baggioli Matteo Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona/ Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies

9. Bea Besada Yago Santiago de Compostela

10. Betzios Panagiotis Utrecht University

11. Bhaseen Joe King's College London

12. Blake Michael DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK

13. Brister James King's College London

14. Buchel Alex UWO/PI

15. Chapman Shira Tel-Aviv University

16. Chatzaki Marili UOC

17. Cremonini Sera Cambridge and Texas A&M

18. Doucot Benoit CNRS and Paris 6 University

19. Erdmenger Johanna Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich

20. Fernandez Daniel UoC

21. Fraile Alberto CCQCN

22. Gauntlett Jerome Imperial College

23. Goutéraux Blaise Nordita, Sweden

24. Green Andrew London Centre for Nanotechnology/UCL

25. Hartnoll Sean Stanford University

26. Hellerman Simeon Kavli IPMU (University of Tokyo)

27. Horowitz Gary UC Santa Barbara

28. Huang Mei IHEP,CAS

29. Hyun Seungjoon Yonsei University

30. Iatrakis Ioannis Stony Brook University

31. Ishii Takaaki University of Crete

32. JOLICOEUR Thierry CNRS Orsay University

33. Jacobs Vivian Utrecht University

34. Jansen Aron Peter Utrecht University

Name Affiliation

35. Jarvinen Matti University of Crete

36. Kaplis Nikolaos Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University

37. Kim Keun-Young GIST

38. Kiritsis Elias UoC

39. Kleinert Philipp Thomas University of Oxford

40. Klug Steffen Instituut-Lorentz

41. Krikun Alexander NORDITA, Sweden

42. Kundu Arnab University of Barcelona

43. Lazarides Nick University of Crete

44. Lee Sung-Sik McMaster Univ / Perimeter Institute

45. Leigh Rob University of Illinois

46. Li Li University of Crete

47. Li Weijia University of Crete

48. Lippert Matthew University of Amsterdam

49. Liu Yan IFT, UAM-CSIC

50. Liu Hong MIT

51. Lucas Andrew Harvard

52. Mackenzie Andrew Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

53. Mamandur Kidambi Abhiram Ludwig Maximilians Universität München

54. Manuela Kulaxizi Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

55. Margaris Ioannis ccqcn, Department of Physics, University of Crete

56. Miguel Tierz Universidad Complutense de Madrid

57. Mohammadi Mozaffar Mohammad Reza

IPM

58. Mollabashi Ali IPM

59. Mukhopadhyay Ayan CPHT Ecole Polytechnique and IPhT CEA-Saclay, France

60. Natsuume Makoto KEK

61. Niarchos Vasilis University of Crete

62. Nitti Francesco APC, Université Paris 7

63. O'Bannon Andrew Univ. of Oxford

64. PANAGOPOULOS CHRISTOS UNIVERSITY OF CRETE

65. Palumbo Giandomenico University of Leeds

66. Pang Yi Texas AM

67. Papadoulaki Olga Utrecht University

68. Paranjape Manu Université de Montréal

69. Parnachev Andrei Leiden University

70. Pena-Benitez Francisco Crete U.

71. Petkou Anastasios Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Name Affiliation

72. Policastro Giuseppe Ecole Normale Superieure

73. Probst Jonas University of Oxford

74. Radicevic Djordje Stanford University

75. Ren Jie University of Crete

76. Rosen Christopher University of Crete, CCTP

77. Ryu Shinsei University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

78. Semenoff Gordon University of British Columiba

79. Sin Sang-jin Hanyang Univ.

80. Sircar Nilanjan Tel Aviv University

81. Stoof Henk Utrecht Universtity

82. Straub Ann-Kathrin Max-Planck-Institute for Physics

83. Sun Ya-Wen IFT, UAM-CSIC

84. Tallarita Gianni Centro Estudios Cientificos

85. Tanahashi Norihiro University of Cambridge

86. Tarrio Javier U. Barcelona

87. Tong David Cambridge

88. Way Benson DAMTP

89. Woodhead William Robert University of Southampton

90. Yoshinori Matsuo KEK

91. Zaanen Jan Leiden University

92. Khveshchenko Dmitri UNC-chapel hill

93. Le doussal Pierre LPTENS Ecole Normale Superieure Paris

94. Phillips Philip University of Illinois

95. van der Schee Wilke Utrecht University

APPENDIX II

First Year’s Workshops and Conferences

Kick-Off Meeting

During the first year of the lifetime of the Center (namely, Sept 1, 2013 – August 31, 2014)

organized its Kick-off Meeting and co-organized and co-sponsored 3 additional

workshops/conferences.

The Kick-off Meeting was organized in September 5-7, 2013, in the very first week of the

lifetime of the project. 60 participants (researchers, academics, regional administrators)

attended the meeting’s presentations. The Kick-off Meeting was announced in the, then,

newly developed website of the Center: http://qcn.physics.uoc.gr :

The Kick-off Meeting Summary Report has been presented in Deliverable D3.1.

Additional 1st Year’s Workshops/Conferences:

As described in the DoW (WP4), the Center organized the “Fourth International Workshop on

Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems” (focusing on complexity and dynamical systems),

which took place in Athens, 17-19 July 2014. CCQCN organized and partially supported this

workshop because it focused on issues related to the research activities of the Center and its

members. Information about the workshop can be found at:

http://grtr.physics.uoc.gr/2014/index.php

As is also described in the DoW (WP4), CCQCN can organize possible additional workshop

organization (if the funds permit it) in research areas related to the research activities of the Center

and its members. CCQCN co-organized the 4th PhD Summer School – Conference on “Mathematical

Modeling of Complex Systems”, which took place in Athens on July 14-25, and which was announced

and presented at:

http://nlsconf.physics.uoc.gr/

Within this framework, CCQCN also sponsored a session at the ICCMSE 2014 Conference (the 10th

International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering), 4-7 April 2014,

Athens; announced and presented at:

http://www.iccmse.org

It should be mentioned that, as sponsor in this Conference, CCQCN achieved a high level of visibility

and dissemination as can be seen in the following screenshot: