SMEC 2003
March 24-27

Date & Time

Authors/Title

March 25^th

08:40-09:25

A. Bishop:

Oxide high-temperature superconductors: Multiscale systems of local distortions correlated in elastic media.

09:25-10:00

T. Egami:

Synergetic coupling of spin, charge and lattice in high temperature superconductors.

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:05

M. Greven:

Recent neutron and X-ray scattering studies of complex oxides.

11:05-11:40

Y. Koike:

Impurity effects on the stripes and superconductivity in La_2-xSr_xCu_1-y(Zn,Ni)_yO_4.

11:40-12:15

C. M. Smith:

Effect of lattice and impurities on transport properties of cuprates.

12:15-12:35

G. Blumberg:

Density wave correlations in quasi-1d and 2d cuprates.

12:35-13:35

Lunch break

13:35-14:10

S. Billinge:

Nanaoscale electronic microstructures in correlated metals from neutron PDF measurements.

14:10-14:45

R. P. Sharma:

Role of incoherent lattice fluctuations in superconducting hole doped and electron doped systems and in CMR manganites.

14:45-15:20

S. Sridhar:

Is there a narrow collective conductivity mode in the cuprate oxides?

15:20-15:45

N. L. Saini:

Evolution of temperature dependent local Cu-0 displacements from underdoped to ovedoped La-Sr-Cu-O superconductor.

15:45-16:10

S. Conradson:

Beyond mean field apprpoaches: Nanoscale heterogeneity and properties of complex materials.

March 26^th

08:30-09:05

A. Bussmann-Holder:

Lattice and charge inhomogeneities in perovskite type transition metal oxides.

09:05-09:40

A. Moreo:

Nanoscale phase seperation, colossal magnetoresistance, and stripes in cuprates. 

09:40-10:00

J. L. Cohn:

Giant dielectric permittvity of electron-doped manganite thin films, Ca_1-xLa_xMnO₃ (0< x<0.03).

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:05

M. Oda:

Tunneling studies on the electronic excitation spectrum of Bi2212

11:05-11:40

E. W. Hudson:

Imaging Nanoscale Phase Segregation in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+x.

11:40-12:05

M. Weger:

Dramatic effect of inhomogeneities on electron-phonon coupling in exotic superconductors.

12:05-12:30

S. E. Barnes:

Hole phase separation in underdoped cuprate superconductors.

12:30-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-14:05

A. Bansil:

Electron correlation effects in novel materials: Recent studies of cuprates , manganates and 3D quantum dots.

14:05-14:40

A. Lanzara:

Competing degrees of freedom in the physical of high temperature superconductors.

14:40-15:15

D. Pavuna:

Direct ARPES studies on in-situ grown LSCO-214 superconducting films: Strain and enhanced superconductivity.

15:15:15:50

C. Kim:

Do apical oxygens have any role in high T_c superconductivity.

15:50-16:25

T. Mizokawa:

Photoemission study of diluted magnetic semiconductors and layered transition-metal oxides.

March 27^th

08:30-09:05

J. Ashkenazi:

Stripe like inhomogeneities, spectroscopies, transport and pairing in the high T_cCuprates. 

09:05-09:40

A. Bianconi:

Study of charge inhomogeneities in the La₂CuO_4.1 system.

09:40-10:15

H. Oyangi:

Non-equilibrium state X-ray absorption spectroscopy: A local structure study of photo-induced phase transition.

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T. Maitra and A. Taraphder:

Magnetic and Orbital correlations in the electron-doped manganites.

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F. N. Bukhanko:

Jahn-Teller Polaronic Inhomogeneous in Ferromagnetic La_1-xCa_xMnO_3.

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I. Singh, P. Dua:

Role of Inter - site Exchange and Hybrid Interactions in Itinerant Ferromagnetism.

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H. Maeta, C. Kawabata, F. Ono and N. Saini:

A search for extra Lattice distortions in High T_c La_1.85Sr_0.15CuO₄ associated with the Superconductivity.

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T. Örd, A. Liivat:

Fluctuations of order parameters in a two-band high-T_c superconductor.

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A. Sowa :

The Mesoscopic mechanics.