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Quantum Materials Summer School
May 25-28, 2009

Monday, May 25
Tuesday, May 26 Wednesday, May 27 Thursday, May 28
7:00-8:30am   Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
8:50-9:00am Opening Remarks    
9:00-10:00am George Sawatzky - UBC
TBA: Fe Pnictides
 Marcel Franz - UBC
Intro to Topological Insulators
 Adrian del Maestro - UBC
Introduction to Quantum Phase Transitions (2/2)
10:00-11:00am Stephen Julian - Toronto
Theory of Quantum Oscillation Measurement 		Claude Bourbonnais - Sherbrooke
Intro to the physics of organic coductors and  superconductors  		Martin Zwierlein - MIT
The BEC-BCS Crossover in Ultracold Fermi Gases
11:00-11:30am Coffee Break
11:30-12:30pm Stephen Julian - Toronto
Quantum Oscillation Studies of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 		Claude Bourbonnais - Sherbrooke
Intro to the physics of organic coductors and  superconductors   		Martin Zwierlein - MIT
Fermionic Superfluidity with Imbalanced Spin Populations
12:30-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:00pm Igor Herbut - SFU
Emerging Relativity in
 Graphene

 		Adrian del Maestro - UBC
Introduction to Quantum Phase Transitions (1/2) 		Travel downtown
3:00-4:00pm Check in to Marine Drive (from 3pm) Marcel Franz - UBC
Exact Quantization in Solids 		Poster Session
Main Meeting: 1 minute poster ads (3:30-4:30pm)
Followed by poster session
4:00-4:30pm Coffee Break
DINNER Welcome BBQ, 6pm
Koerner's Pub, UBC
 		Dinner
(self organized) 		Banquet at Nyala, 6:30pm Arranged by CIFAR

If you have questions, please write to us at qmss2009@gmail.com.

Locations
Welcome BBQ: Koerner's Pub, Graduate Student Center, UBC
Breakfast: Shrum lounge, Place Vanier, UBC
Lectures:  Room 102, Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC
Coffee Break: Room 101, Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC
Lunch: Ballroom, Place Vanier, UBC
Banquet: Nyala, 4148 Main St. (corner of King Edwards)
Poster Session: Abdul Ladha Science Centre, UBC