Session 1: "Energy Research" (chair: Joachim Maier)

09:30 a.m.

G. Jeffrey Snyder (Northwestern University, Evanston, US)
"Designing thermoelectric materials with solid state chemistry"

10:15 a.m.

Clare P. Grey  (University of Cambridge, UK)

11:00-11:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session 2: "Nanoscience" (chair: Klaus Kern)

11:30 a.m.

Mario Ruben (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
"Quantum computing with molecules:
Implementing Grover´s search algorithm into a single metal ion"

12:15 p.m.

Franz J. Gießibl (Universität Regensburg)
"Exploring bonds and spins on the picoscale by atomic force microscopy"

1:00-2:30 p.m.

Lunch Break

Session 3: "Computational Solid State Research" (chair: Ali Alavi)

2:30 p.m.

Eberhard K. U. Gross (MPI of Microstructure Physics, Halle)
"Potential energy surfaces and Berry phases beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation"

3:15 p.m.

Joachim Sauer (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
"Structure and reactivity of thin oxide films: silica and ceria"

4:00-4:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

Session 4: "Quantum Materials" (chair: Bernhard Keimer)

4:30 p.m.

Jörg Wrachtrup (Universität Stuttgart)
"Nanoscale probing of materials with a quantum sensor"

5:15 p.m.

George A. Sawatzky (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA)
"Molecular orbital constructs and the electronic structure of quantum materials - a somewhat unconventional view"

6:00 p.m.

Get-Together

Session 5:"Quantum Materials" (chair: Hidenori Takagi)

09:30 a.m.

Leslie M. Schoop (Princeton University, US)
"Solid state chemistry and quantum materials"

10:15 a.m.

Seigo Tarucha (RIKEN, JP)
"Controlling and detecting quantum dynamics of single spins and spin correlations"

11:00-11:15 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session 6: "Computational Solid State Research" (chair: Walter Metzner)

11:15 a.m.

Manfred Sigrist (ETH Zurich, CH)
"Strontium Ruthenate – an unconventional superconductor at the crossroads"

12:00 p.m.

Igor Mazin (US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, US)
"Some highlights of computational research of high-T_c superconductors at MPI-FKF in 1989-1994"

12:45-2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

Session 7: "Nanoscience" (chair: Jochen Mannhart)

2:00 p.m.

Lena F. Kourkoutis (Cornell University, New York, US)
"Sub-Angstrom electron beams for probing quantum materials"

2:45 p.m.

Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zurich, CH)
"Quantum devices in 2D materials"

3:30-4:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

Session 8: "Energy Research" (chair: Bettina V. Lotsch)

4:00 p.m.

Michael Grätzel ( École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH)
"Mesoscopic photosystems for the generation of electricity and fuels from sunlight"

4:45 p.m.

Sossina M. Haile (Northwestern University, Evanston, US)
"Understanding and exploiting the splendid redox flexibility of ceria and its derivatives"