Name: Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids 2012
Start: 2012-07-22T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2012-07-27T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Embassy Suites Napa Valley

Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids 2012

from Sunday, 22 July 2012 (16:00) to Friday, 27 July 2012 (13:00)
Embassy Suites Napa Valley (Chardonnay Ballroom)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

22 Jul 2012

23 Jul 2012

24 Jul 2012

25 Jul 2012

26 Jul 2012

27 Jul 2012

08:30	Graphene I - Zhiqiang Li (National High Magnetic Field Lab) (until 10:15) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
08:30	Welcome to LEES 2012 - Michael Martin (LBNL) Dimitri Basov (UC San Diego) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
08:45	Tunable Optical Properties of Graphene - Feng Wang (UC Berkeley) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:15	Probing Interactions and Dynamics in Single- and Few-Layer Graphene by Optical Spectroscopy - Tony Heinz (Columbia University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:45	Beyond Graphene: Two-Dimensional Crystals - Antonio Castro Neto (National University of Singapore) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:15	--- Break ---
10:45	Metal-Insulator Systems - David Tanner (University of Florida) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:45	Common Fermi-liquid origin of T2 resistivity and superconductivity in n-type SrTiO3 - Dirk van der Marel (Université de Genève) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:15	Determination of the electromagnon origin in the multiferroic TbMnO3 by Raman scattering - Maximilien Cazayous (Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (UMR 7162) Université Paris Diderot Paris 7) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:45	Spectroscopic investigation of materials uner extreme conditions - Janice Musfeldt (University of Tennessee) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
12:15	Existence of Heavy Fermions in the Antiferromagnetic Phase in CeIn3 - Shin-ichi Kimura (UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science) (Chardonnay Ballroom)

08:30	Transition Metal Oxides - Pascale Roy (Synchrotron Soleil) (until 10:15) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
08:30	Infrared ellipsometry studies of oxide-based heterostructures - Christian Bernhard (Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:00	Mott-Hubbard excitons in edge-sharing CuO4 chains - Alexander Boris (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:30	How bad metals turn good: spectroscopic signatures. - Antoine Georges (École Polytechnique) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:00	Terahertz study of magnetic excitations in a chiral iron-langasite - Sophie de Brion (Institut Néel, CNRS-UJF) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:15	--- Break ---
10:45	Graphene II - Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford University) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:45	Genzel Prize: Terahertz magneto-optics and magneto-plasmonics of graphene and graphite - Alexey Kuzmenko (University of Geneva) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:30	Tuning the Electronic Structure of Graphene - Eli Rotenberg (LBNL) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
12:00	Many-body interactions in graphene and graphite via infrared magnetospectroscopy - Zhigang Jiang (Georgia Insitute of Technology) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
12:15	Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanomaterials - Robert Kaindl (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (Chardonnay Ballroom)

08:30	Spin Phenomena - George Gruner (UCLA) (until 10:15) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
08:30	Quantum information processing with spins in diamond and silicon carbide - David Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:00	Ultrafast probes of spin and charge dynamics - Joe Orenstein (UC Berkeley and LBNL) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:30	Topological Structures of Novel Quantum System – Views from Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscope - Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:00	Observation of Spin-Orbital Separation in the spin chain Sr2CuO3 with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering - Thorsten Schmitt (Paul Scherrer Institut) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:15	--- Break ---
10:45	Photoinduced Studies II - Ricardo Lobo (Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Materiaux, CNRS) (until 12:15) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:45	Light-induced non-equilibrium superconductivity throughout the pseudogap phase of cuprates - Andrea Cavalleri (Max Planck Department for Structural Dynamics Center For Free Electron Laser – Hamburg, Department of Physics – University of Oxford) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:15	Electronic matter wave rescattering at a nanoscale metal tip on attosecond time scales - Peter Hommelhoff (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:45	LIGHT INDUCED MELTDOWN OF QUASIPARTICLES IN HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTORS - Alessandra Lanzara (UC Berkeley) (Chardonnay Ballroom)

08:30	Plasmonics - Girsh Blumberg (Rutgers University) (until 10:15) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
08:30	Towards a q-dependent optics - Martin Dressel (Universitat Stuttgart) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:00	Tapered terahertz plasmonic waveguides - Daniel Mittleman (Rice University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:30	Control of light with phase discontinuities: photonics with metasurfaces - Frederico Capasso (Harvard University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:00	The Orientation of Luminescent Excitons in Layered Nanomaterials - Jon Schuller (Columbia University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:15	--- Break ---
10:45	High Tc Cuprates I - Harold Weinstock (AFOSR) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:45	Gap signatures in the IR and THz properties of the cuprate and iron-based superconductors - Christopher Homes (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:15	Control of correlated electrons in metal-oxide superlattices - Keimer Bernhard (Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:45	Superconducting gap in the pnictides – theory and ARPES - Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin, Madison) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
12:15	Log(1/T) flux-flow resistivity: a dynamical signature of vortices in cuprate superconductors - David Broun (Simon Fraser University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)

08:30	Topological Insulators II - Kenneth Burch (University of Toronto) (until 10:15) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
08:30	STM Studies of Topological Insulators - Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:00	Low frequency electrodynamics of topological insulator surface states - N. Peter Armitage (The Johns Hopkins University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
09:30	Novel electronic states of topological insulators studied by ARPES - Takafumi Sato (Department of Physics, Tohoku University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:00	Terahertz Quantum Hall Effect in Topological Insulator HgTe - Andrei Pimenov (Vienna University of Technology) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:15	--- Break ---
10:45	Nanoscale Spectroscopies - Fritz Keilmann (Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik) (until 12:15) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
10:45	Nano-optical imaging and spectroscopy of mesoscopic phase behavior in quantum matter - Markus Raschke (University of Colorado) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:15	Graphene as a tunable plasmonic material - Michael Fogler (UC San Diego) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
11:45	Infrared nanospectroscopy of plasmons in semiconductors, metal nanoantennas and graphene - Rainer Hillenbrand (CIC nanoGUNE) (Chardonnay Ballroom)

16:00	--- Registration ---
19:00	--- Welcome Reception ---

12:30	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Correlated Physics - Lance Cooper (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) (until 15:45) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
14:00	Far infrared study of magnetic field-induced normal state of the high temperature superconductor LSCO. - Thomas Timusk (McMaster University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
14:30	RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF IRON BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS - Girsh Blumberg (Rutgers University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
14:45	α-(BEDT-TTF)2I3: Complex electrodynamic response of the charge-ordered phase - Tomislav Ivek (Institut za fiziku) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:00	Hidden Order Pseudogap and Hybridization Modulation in URu2Si2 - Alexander Balatsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:30	Pressure suppression of unconventional CDW state in PrRu4P12 studied by optical conductivity - Hidekazu Okamura (Kobe University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:45	--- Break ---
16:15	Topological Insulators I - Alexander Balatsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory) (until 18:00) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
16:15	Topological magneto-electric effect - Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
16:45	Ultrafast Probing of Dynamical Spin-Charge Coupling in Topological Insulators - Nuh Gedik (MIT) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
17:15	Optical conductivity of Bismuth-based topological insulators - Stefano Lupi (Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
18:00	--- Dinner ---
20:00	Poster Session 1 (until 22:00) (Fountain Court)
20:00	AB-Stacked Multilayer Graphene Synthesized via Chemical Vapor Deposition: A Characterization by Hot Carrier Transport - Haibing Peng (University of Houston, Physics Department) (Fountain Court)
20:00	AC Conductivity of AA-stacked and Twisted Bilayer Graphene - Calvin Tabert (University of Guelph) (Fountain Court)
20:00	An infra-red study of thin film Bi$_2$Se$_3$ electronic structure across multiple thicknesses - Kirk Post (University of California, San Diego, Department of Physics) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Angle-resolved photoemission on metallic and insulating phase of VO2 - Luca Moreschini (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA) (Fountain Court)
20:00	ARPES in 1D CDW systems: taking a fresh look at an old problem - Marco Grioni (ICMP-EPFL) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Broadband microwave study of 2D superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition - Wei Liu (Johns Hopkins University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Dispersive Kondo resonance and hybridized bands in Yb-based compounds - Masaharu Matsunami (UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in the expanded fullerides Cs3C60 - Katalin Kamaras (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Electronic and optical properties of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 superlattices: interface charge density, Fermi surfaces, and optical reflectivity spectra - Se Young Park (Columbia University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Gate tunable real-space plasmons in graphene revealed by infrared nano-imaging - Zhe Fei (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego) (Fountain Court)
20:00	High THz field induced dynamics of Sr14Cu24O41 - Elsa Abreu (Department of Physics, Boston University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Hybridization gap and anisotropic far-infrared optical conductivity of URu2Si2 - Julien Levallois (DPMC - University of Geneva) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Imaging the Electric Breakdown in V2O3 at the Nanoscale - Stefan Guénon (Department of Physics and Center for Advanced Nanoscience, University of California San Diego) (Fountain Court)
20:00	In-plane electronic anisotropy in the optical spectra of Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 - Masamichi NAKAJIMA (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Infrared probe of p-doped GaAs in the ferromagnetic semiconductor GaMnAs and non-magnetic system GaBeAs - Brian Chapler (University of California San Diego) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Infrared signatures of ambipolar injection in narrow gap Donor-Acceptor polymer transistors - Omar Khatib (UCSD) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Infrared study of carrier scattering in graphene field effect device 2h0' - E.J. Choi (Univ. of Seoul, Korea) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Infrared study of tunable magnetoplasmons in graphene - Zhiqiang Li (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Infrared study on the electronic structure of metallic pyrochlore Bi2Ir2O7 - Yunsang Lee (UCSD/Soongsil University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Low energy electrodynamics of the Kondo-lattice antiferromagnet CeCu$_2$Ge$_2$ - Grace Bosse (The Institute for Quantum Matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Low energy electronic excitations and magneto-phonon resonance in graphite and graphene - Dmitry Smirnov (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Low-frequency optics on Sr_(1−x)Ca_(x)RuO_(3) - Marc Scheffler (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Magnetic field induced color change in α-Fe2O3 single crystals - Peng Chen (Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Measuring Collective CDW Excitations throughout momentum space using XUV ARPES - Stefan Kaiser (Max Planck Department for Structural Dynamics, CFEL, U Hamburg) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Na2IrO3 by ARPES: a spin-orbit-induced band insulator. - Riccardo Comin (University of British Columbia) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Near-field spectroscopy of optically doped graphene - Martin Wagner (UCSD) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Optical Properties of (SrMnO3)n/(LaMnO3)2n Superlattices: An Insulator-to-Metal Transition Observed in the Absence of Disorder - Andrea Perucchi (ELETTRA - Sincrotrone Trieste) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Orbital fluctuations and orbital order below the Jahn-Teller transition in Sr3Cr2O8 - Zhe Wang (EP 5, EKM, Institute for Physics, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Plasmarons and phonons in finite momentun optical conductivity of graphene - Jules Carbotte (McMaster University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Quantum Hall effect from 2D surface states of the 3D topological insulator HgTe - Andreas V. Stier (Johns Hopkins University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Reconfigurable gradient index using VO2 memory metamaterials - Michael Goldflam (University of California, San Diego) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Sliding Phononic Gaps in the Charged Incommensurate Planes of Sr14Cu24O41 - Adrian Gozar (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Structure of the hidden order gap in URu$_2$Si$_2$ revealed by optical spectroscopy - Jesse Hall (McMaster University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Synthesis and Magnetic Dynamics of Multiferroic Chromates - Andrei Pimenov (Vienna University of Technology) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Terahertz Response and Colossal Kerr Rotation from the Surface States of the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 - Rolando Valdes Aguilar (Department of Physics and Astronomy. Johns Hopkins University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Three-dimensional band structure of heavy fermion CeCoIn5 measured by photon-dependent angle resolved photoemission - Jonathan Denlinger (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Three-Dimensional Electronic structure of Li1+xFeAs - Tetsuya Hajiri (Nagoya University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Time-domain THz spectroscopy of central modes in BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 - Hynek Nemec (Institute of Physics AS CR, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Praha, Czech Republic) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Topological surface state dispersion measured using THz magneto-ellipsometry - Jason Hancock (University of Geneva/University of Connecticut) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Ultrafast carrier dynamics in CVD graphene probed by terahertz spectroscopy - Alex Frenzel (Harvard / MIT) (Fountain Court)

12:30	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Pnictides - Laszlo Mihaly (Stony Brook University) (until 15:45) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
14:00	Anisotropic in-plane optical conductivity in detwinned iron-pnictides - Leonardo Degiorgi (ETH Zurich) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
14:30	Optical spectroscopy study on Fe-pnictides/chalcogenides - Nan-Lin Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:00	Optical conductivity of (Ba,K)Fe2As2: observation of a normal state pseudogap and the effect of impurity scattering in the superconducting order parameter - Ricardo Lobo (LPEM, ESPCI-CNRS) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:15	Infrared pseudogap in the $ab$-plane and $c$-axis responses of the pnictide high-$T_c$ superconductors - Soonjae Moon (Department of Physics, Hanyang University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:45	--- Break ---
16:15	Photoinduced Studies I - Larry Carr (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 18:00) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
16:15	Exploring Dynamic Phase Transitions in the Vanadates using Terahertz Spectroscopy - Richard Averitt (Boston University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
16:45	Fast Dynamics of Exchange Biased Bilayers - Ivan K. Schuller (UCSD) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
17:15	Ultrafast Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of the Charge- and Spin-Ordered Nickelate La1.75Sr0.25NiO4 - Giacomo Coslovich (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
17:30	Ultrafast quantum modulation spectroscopy of a solid state Mott insulator - Daniele Nicoletti (Max Planck Department for Structural Dynamics, University of Hamburg, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
18:00	--- Dinner ---
20:00	Poster Session 2 (until 22:00) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Anisotropic electron-phonon coupling in MgB2 by ARPES - Bart Ludbrook (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada) (Fountain Court)
20:00	ARPES evidence of translational symmetry breaking in superconducting Fe(Te1-xSex) - P.-H. Lin (ICMP-EPFL) Marco Grioni (Fountain Court)
20:00	Charge density wave formation near band degeneracies - Hans-Martin Eiter (Walther-Meissner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, D-85748 Garching, Germany) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Charge transport in semiconductor nanostructures investigated by terahertz spectroscopy - Hynek Nemec (Institute of Physics AS CR, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Praha, Czech Republic) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Coherent broadband THz spectrometer using photomixers for accurate determination of complex dielectric function - Komalavalli Thirunavukkuarasu (II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Coherent intersubband polarization switching in a semiconductor quantum well using terahertz pulses - Martin Wagner (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Controlling incandescence using Metamaterials - Xianliang Liu (Boston College) (Fountain Court)
20:00	d-wave quasiparticles and the origin of vortex viscosity in cuprates - David Broun (Simon Fraser University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Dispersive high-energy spin excitations in iron pnictide superconductors investigated with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering - Thorsten Schmitt (Paul Scherrer Institut) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Evidence for a Peierls phase-transition in a three-dimensionnal multiple charge-density-waves solid. - Barbara Mansart (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (Fountain Court)
20:00	High speed terahertz modulation from metamaterials with embedded high electron mobility transistors - David Shrekenhamer (Boston College) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Infrared Phonon Fingerprinting of Nanocrystals through Broadband Near-Field Spectroscopy - Alex McLeod (University of California San Diego) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Intense terahertz pulse-induced breaking of BCS superconducting phase in NbN - Ryusuke Matsunaga (Department of Physics, School of Science, The University of Tokyo) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Nanoscale investigation of multilayer, dispersive mirrors damage by spectroscopic near-field microscopy - Sergiu Amarie (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Nanoscale layering of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in Rb2Fe4Se5 - Aliaksei Charnukha (Max Planck Institute for Solid State research) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Non-equilibrium superconductivity in light-stimulated YBa2Cu3Ox - Cassandra Hunt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Max Planck Department for Structural Dynamics) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Optical and Raman spectrum in the magnetic state of iron pnictides - Belen Valenzuela (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Optical properties of mechanically-exfoliated Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 - Luke Sandilands (University of Toronto) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Optical Study of the Pseudogap State in YBa2(Cu1-xZnx)3O7-δ - Ece UYKUR (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Persistent high-energy spin excitations in RIXS spectra of optimally doped Bi-2212 - Marco Grioni (ICMP-EPFL) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Precursor superconducting phase at temperatures as high as 180 K in superconducting cuprate crystals from infrared spectroscopy - Adam Dubroka (Masaryk University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Raman response in density wave materials - Elizabeth Nowadnick (Stanford University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Single-layer terahertz metamaterials with bulk optical constant - Wenchen Chen (Boston College) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Single-layer terahertz metamaterials with bulk optical constant - Wenchen Chen (Boston College) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Spectroscopic near-field microscopy of biominerals in the phonon region - Fritz Keilmann (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Superconducting coherence along c-axis in the stripe phase of high-Tc cuprates - Kiyohisa TANAKA (Osaka University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Terahertz excitations in the 1D Ising chain quantum magnet CoNb2O6 - Christopher M. Morris (Johns Hopkins University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	THz Induced Breakdown of Superconductivity in NbN - Xiaoxiang Xi (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Towards understanding the c-axis infrared response of underdoped cuprate superconductors - Dominik Munzar (Masaryk University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Tuning the plasmonic regime in high temperature superconductor metamaterials - Odeta Limaj (Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Ultrafast conductivity dynamics in the colossal magnetoresistance La1-xCaxMnO3 thin films - Jingdi Zhang (Boston University) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Ultrafast optical study of the electron doped cuprate NCCO - James Hinton (UC Berkeley, LBNL) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Unique Automatic Beamsplitter Exchange Unit for a Research Vacuum FT-IR Spectrometer - Michael Joerger (Bruker Optik GmbH, Rudolf-Plank-Strasse 27, 76275 Ettlingen, Germany) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Vacuum FT-IR spectrometer: Research Tool at Synchrotron Infrared Beamlines - Michael Joerger (Bruker Optik GmbH, Rudolf-Plank-Strasse 27, 76275 Ettlingen, Germany) (Fountain Court)
20:00	Vortex-State Electrodynamics in Superconducting Thin Films Studied by Far-Infrared Spectroscopy - Xiaoxiang Xi (Brookhaven National Lab) (Fountain Court)

12:30	--- Lunch ---
13:45	--- Wine Country Excursions or Free Time to explore Napa Valley ---

12:30	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Metamaterials - Martin Dressel (University of Stuttgart) (until 15:45) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
14:00	Taming the Blackbody - Prof. Willie Padilla (Boston College) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
14:30	Active Terahertz Metamaterials - Hou-Tong Chen (Los Alamos National Lab) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:00	Tunable and Nonlinear Metamaterial Composites - David R. Smith (Duke University) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
15:45	--- Break ---
16:15	High Tc Cuprates & Pnictides - Setsuko Tajima (Osaka University) (until 18:00) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
16:15	Overview of ARPES studies of cuprate and pnictide superconductors - Dan Dessau (University of Colorado, Boulder) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
16:45	High Temperature Proximity Effect in Topological Insulators - Kenneth Burch (University of Toronto) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
17:00	Disentangling the electronic and phononic glue in a high-Tc superconductor - Stefano Dal Conte (Eindhoven University of Technology) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
17:15	Non-retarded pairing interaction in a high-Tc cuprate from coherent charge fluctuations spectroscopy - Barbara Mansart (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
17:30	Optical and transport properties in pnictides: anomalous effects due to interband interactions - Lara Benfatto (ISC-CNR and Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome) (Chardonnay Ballroom)
18:00	--- Transport to Conference Dinner Location ---
19:00	Conference Dinner (until 22:00) (Cave Theatre)
19:00	--- Arrive, Group Photo, Tour Winery Grounds ---
19:45	--- Dinner ---
20:40	Student Poster Award Winner Presentations (Cave Theatre)
20:50	Remembering Mike Tinkham - Paul Richards (UC Berkeley) (Cave Theatre)
22:00	--- Transport back to Embassy Suites ---

12:15

Summary / Conclusions / LEES 2014 - Dimitri Basov Michael Martin Ricardo Lobo (until 12:35) (Chardonnay Ballroom)