Tzu Chieh Wei, University of British Columbia
Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm
Nathaniel Johnston, University of Guelph
Raffi Budakian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Since the invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM) by Binnig, Quate and Gerber in 1986, force-based scanning probes have become an essential tool for imaging, manipulating and measuring materials on the nanometer scale. At the heart of the AFM is a mechanical sensor or cantilever that transduces the force generated between the probe tip and the sample into a displacement.
Dr. Frédéric Dupuis, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
The Winter School is a one-day event designed to bring together students, postdocs, and faculty for introductory lectures on the DMRG method in the physical sciences, taught by international experts. The school will also include talks highlighting a cross-section of modern DMRG related research.
Register early - space is limited.
Mustafa Muhammad, University of Cincinnati
Andrew Cleland, University of California
After more than eighty years from its rigorous mathematical formulation, quantum theory is still mysterious. Its usual textbook presentations are merely descriptions of an abstract mathematical formalism, where``states are described by unit vectors in a Hilbert space" and "observables are described by self-adjoint operators". However, this approach leaves aside the question about the underlying physical principles of the theory.
Mirko Lobino , University of Bristol