We would like to invite you to encourage your students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists to participate in the Pan-American Advanced Study Institute on ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS to be held in the beautiful city of Cartagena, Colombia, between June 6-17 2011.
This will have the format
of a course/workshop given by leading experts in the field,
and attended by a maximum of 65 participants from the US and
Latin-America (one of the goals of this Institute, mostly
funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, is to
strengthen the scientific connections between the US and
Latin-America).
You will find all information about the workshop in our Web page: www.cursopasi.unal.edu.co
The following are the 3 major topics and 15 confirmed lecturers:
I - Electronic transport:
Latha Venkataraman
(Columbia University, USA)
Marcel Mayor (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Gianluca Stefanucci (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Jeff Neaton (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., USA)
Caio Lewenkopf (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
II - Spectroscopy of
complex systems:
Alex Fainstein (Instituto
Balseiro, Argentina)
Shaul Mukamel (University of California - Irvine, USA)
Weitao Yang (Duke University, USA)
Victor Batista (Yale University, USA)
III - Laser chemistry and optimal control:
E.K.U. Gross (Max Planck
Institute - Halle, Germany)
Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University, USA)
Todd Martinez (Stanford University, USA)
Leticia González (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena,
Germany)
Alberto Castro (BIFI-Zaragoza, Spain)
Please alert prospective
participants that they should present a poster on their
ongoing work, and that the deadline to request support is
March 15, 2011.
We would also appreciate if you can circulate this
information to any one interested.
For inquiries, please e-mail: cursopasi@unal.edu.co
Thanks,
_The Organizing Committee_:
Aldo Humberto Romero,
CINVESTAV, Mexico
Adam Wasserman, Purdue University, USA
Todd Martinez, Stanford University, USA
Andres Reyes, Universidad Nacional, Colombia