NATO Advanced Study Institute
ESF Network
Topological Defects and the Non-Equilibrium Dynamics
of Symmetry Breaking Phase Transitions
Program of round tables and discussions
17.00 - 19.30
February 17, Wednesday
Defects in astrophysics, Gravity:
Yurii Shil'nov, 20 min.
"Chiral symmetry breaking in external gravitational and electromagnetic fields."
Christos Charmousis, 30 min.
"Self-gravitating domain walls"
Michiyasu Nagasawa, 30 min.
"Defect Number Density and its Cosmological Implications"
Alesandro Melchiorri, 20 min.
"CMB anisotropies from Scaling Seeds"
February 18, Thursday
High temperature field theory and defect formation:
Luis Bettencourt, 45 min.
"Vortex String formation induced by Temperature Quenches in 3D U(1) scalar field theory."
Nuno Antunes, 45 min.
"The role of the Ginzburg regime in the formation of topological defects."
Martin Kunz, 30 min.
"Monopole formation in thermal equilibrium"
Arttu Rajantie, 30 min.
"Simulating the dynamics of hot gauge theories."
February 19, Friday
Defects in Particle Physics:
Greg Stephens 20 min.
"nonequilibrium symmetry-breaking in classical field theory."
Daniele Steer 20 min.
"Kinks and fermions at finite temperature."
Nathan Francis Lepora, 30 min.
" Electroweak vacuum geometry."
Leandros Perivolaropoulos, 30 min.
"Existence and stability of superconducting gauged stringy textures."
February 20, Saturday
Quench
Leticia Cugliandolo 45min
"Out of equilibrium dynamics in glassy systems"
Jacek Dziarmaga 30 min
"Topological Defects from an Inhomogeneous Quench".
Eleftheria Kavoussanaki 30 min.
"Quenching in an annulus"
Nicolas Rivier. 30 min.
"Formation of topological defects as a foaming transition "
A.Schakel 20 min.
presentation of Hagen Kleinert notes "vortex nucleation of 1st- order transitions"
February 21, Sunday
Helium - 4
Ray Rivers 30 mins
"Initial vortex creation at a quench "
Gary Williams 30 min
"Vortex-Mediated 4He Superfluid Transitions in Two and Three Dimensions."
"Vortex Dynamics and Quenched 4He Superfluid Transitions."
Feodor Kusmartsev 30 min
"Vortex Loops Driven Phase Transition and Analogous Phenomena."
February 22, Monday
Solid state systems
Henryk Arodz 30 min.
Domain walls and disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals."
Lyubov V. Kreminskaya, 30 min.
"The phase vortex closes itself in a laser beam, after passing through a
compound lenses. Topological aspects."
Nicolas Rivier. 30 min
"Topological defects in glass"
Sergey Brazovskii, 60 min.
"Phase slips, dislocations and plastic flows of electronic crystals."
February 23, Tuesday
Defects in solid state physics
David Langlois, 30 min.
"Superfluidity in neutron stars."
Raz Carmi, 30 min.
" The Search for SpontaneousNucleation of Magnetic Flux in High Tc Superconductors Through a Rapid Phase Transition."
Nataliya Kirova, 30 min.
"Combined topological defects in conjugated polymers and in spin density waves."
"Topological character of excitaions in strongly correlated electronic systems:
confinement and dimensional crossover."
February 24, Wednesday
Superfluid helium - 3
Vladimir Dmitriev, 30 min.
"Observation of fractional harmonics in NMR signal in 3He-B"
Hans Bozler, 30 min.
"Planar Textures in the A Phase of 3He."
Derek Cousins, 30 min.
"Andreev reflection measurements on a B-A phase boundary in 3He".
February 25, Thursday
Posters presentation:
Alexander Feher,
"Low-frequency dynamics of homogeneously precessing domain in He-3 B."
Paul Matthew Saffin,
"Elecroweak and Semilocal String Formation"
M. Blasone,
"Pressure in the Ginsburg-Landau systems in the presence of vortices"
Lyubov V. Kreminskaya,
"The optical vortices and speckles formation during multi-beam
interference"
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