Programme 

Conference in Honor of

CN Yang's 85th Birthday

Statistical physics, high energy, condensed matter & mathematical physics
 
Swissotel Merchant Court

31 October – 3 November 2007, Singapore

Overview of Program

For overview of program, please click here.

Main Conference Program

 

Wednesday

31-Oct

Venue

Session I

Public Talk

8:00 AM

 

Registration

8:30 AM

 

Opening Ceremony

9:00 AM

Chair: Bertil Andersson

Martin Perl (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

 

 

Innovation and Speculation in Engineering and Science: An Example from the Search for Massive Elementary Particles

9:45 AM

Tea Break

 

10:15 AM

Chair: K K Phua

Walter Kohn (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 

 

Nearsightedness of Electronic Matter                 

11:00 AM

 

Ludwig Faddeev (Steklov Mathematical Institute)

 

 

Prospect for knot-like excitations for the Quantum Yang-Mills theory

11:45 AM

 

Akira Tonomura (Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory)

 

 

Quantum Phenomena Visualized by Electron Waves

12:30 PM

Lunch

 

Venue

Session II (A)

 

2:00 PM

Chair: K Fujikawa

H T Nieh (Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University)

 

 

Torsional Topological Invariant

2:25 PM

 

Y M Cho (Seoul National University)

 

 

Topology of Vacuum Space-time

2:50 PM

 

Pauchy W-Y.Hwang (National Taiwan University)

 

 

What happened to the cosmological QCD phase transition?

3:15 PM

 

Weimin Wu (Fermi Lab)

 

 

Yang and Steinberger

3:40 PM

Tea Break

 

4:10 PM

Chair: Y M Cho

Ling-Lie Chau (University of California at Davis)

 

 

Almost Every Problem He Touched Eventually Turned Into Gold

4:35 PM

 

York-Peng Edward Yao (University of Michigan)

 

 

Analytic Scattering Amplitudes for QCD

5:00 PM

 

Bing-Lin Young (Iowa State University)

 

 

Neutrino Oscillations and the Daya Bay Theta 13 Experiment

5:25 PM

 

Session ends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session II (B)

 

2:00 PM

Chair: Bai-Lin Hao

David Sherrington (University of Oxford)

 

 

Complex macroscopic behaviour in range-free many body problems

2:25 PM

 

Zhong-Can Ou-Yang (The Institute of Theoretical Physics)

 

 

Exact Shape Equation of Lipid Monolayer Domain and Its Kindney-Boojum-Like Solutions: Cusp removes Neumann's Type Divergence

2:50 PM

 

H Q Lin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

 

Phase separation of atoms in optical lattices

3:15 PM

 

Bambi Hu (Hong Kong Baptist University)

 

 

Asymmetric Heat Conduction in Nonlinear Systems

3:40 PM

Tea Break

 

4:10 PM

Chair:Bruce Mckellar

Yu Lu (Academia Sinica)

 

 

The spin-charge gauge approach to the theory of doped Mott insulators

4:35 PM

 

Bang-Fen Zhu (Tsinghua University)

 

 

Theory of direct optical measurements of pure spin currents in semiconductors

5:00 PM

 

Ping Sheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 

 

Revisiting the hydrodynamic boundary condition: New results on an old problem

5:25 PM

 

Session ends

 

Thursday

1-Nov

Venue

Session III

 

9:00 AM

Chair: Fa-Yueh Wu

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

 

 

Ultracold atoms. Achievements and Perspectives

9:45 AM

 

Paul C. W.Chu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 

 

20 Years after HTS

10:30 AM

Tea Break

 

11:00 AM

Chair: David Sherrington

Shou-Cheng Zhang (Stanford University)

 

 

Quantum Spin Hall Effect

11:30 AM

 

T T Wu (Harvard University)

 

 

Scattering and Production at High Energies

12:00 PM

 

A Zee (University of California at Santa Barbara)

 

 

Some thoughts about gravity

12:30 PM

Lunch

 

Venue

Session IV (A)

 

2:00 PM

Chair: Lay Nam Chang

Mo-Lin Ge (Nankai University)

 

 

Quantum Entanglements ,Braid Groups, Yang-Baxterization and Berry's Phase

2:25 PM

 

Louis H Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago)

 

 

Q-deformed Spin Networks, Yang-Baxter Eqn & Quantum Info Theory

2:50 PM

 

Leon Takhtajan (Stony Brook State University of New York)

 

 

Yang-Baxter equation and quantum periodic Toda lattice

3:15 PM

 

Vladimir Korepin (Stony Brook State University of New York)

 

 

Entanglement in Spin Chains

3:40 PM

Tea Break

 

4:10 PM

Chair: Mo-Lin Ge

K Fujikawa (Nihon University)

 

 

Geometric phase and chiral anomaly; their basic differences

4:35 PM

 

Lay Nam Chang (Virginia Tech University)

 

 

Consequences in physical systems of a fundamental minimal length

5:00 PM

 

C H Oh (National University of Singapore)

 

 

Optically induced spin current in atoms

5:20 PM

 

Igor Bray (Curtin University of Technology)

 

 

Recent Progress in Atomic Ionisation Theory

5:35 PM

 

Session ends

6:30 PM

 

 

 

Session IV (B)

 

2:00 PM

Chair:  Ignacio Cirac

Bruce McKellar (Melbourne University)

 

 

Model kinetic equations with non-Boltzman properties

2:25 PM

 

T Eguchi (Kyoto University)

 

 

String Landscape and Weak-Gravity Conjecture

2:50 PM

 

Ngee Pong Chang (City College of CUNY)

 

 

Five Decades after the revolution:  What do we know about the neutrino ?

3:15 PM

 

M Konuma (University of Tokyo)

 

 

Chen Ning Yang and the Formation of the AAPPS (Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies)

3:40 PM

Tea Break

 

4:10 PM

Chair: A C T Wu

M.A. Van Hove (City University of Hong Kong)

 

 

Atomic-Scale Structure: from Surfaces to Nanomaterials

4:35 PM

 

Zi Qiang Qiu (University of California at Berkeley)

 

 

Magnetic Coupling and Quantum Well States"

5:00 PM

 

Seunghwan Kim (POSTECH, Korea)

 

 

The Modeling and Functional Connectivity of the Brain

5:25 PM

 

Session ends

6:30 PM

Conference Dinner

Banquet at Swissotel Merchant Court

 

Friday

2-Nov

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venue

Session V

 

9:00 AM

Chair: A Zee

Andrew C. Yao (Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University)

 

 

Symmetry Effects in Computation

9:45 AM

 

David Thouless (University of Washington)

 

 

Topological quantum numbers and phase transitions in matter

10:30 AM

Tea Break

 

11:00 AM

Chair: Maw-Kuen Wu

Fa-Yueh Wu (Northeastern University)

 

 

Professor C. N. Yang and Statistical Mechanics

11:30 AM

 

Bai-Lin Hao (The Institute of Theoretical Physics)

 

 

Statistics, Statistical Physics, and Bioinformatics

12:00 PM

 

Zhentang Zhao (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

 

Free Electron Laser Developments in China

12:30 PM

Lunch

 

Venue

Session VI (A)

 

2:00 PM

Chair: K Young

Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)

 

 

Recent Progress in Quantum Information

2:25 PM

 

Murray T Batchelor (The Australian National University)

 

 

Interacting multi-component fermions and the Yang-Baxter equation: future prospects

2:50 PM

 

Ching-Ray Chang (National Taiwan University)

 

 

Spin precession and interferometers

3:15 PM

 

Mary Beth Ruskai (Tufts University)

 

 

Degradable Channels in Quantum Information Theory

3:40 PM

Tea Break

 

4:00 PM

Chair: Alfred Huan

T Y Fan (Beijing Institute of Technology)

 

 

Quasicrystals and partial differential equations

4:15 PM

 

Choon-Lin Ho (Tamkang University)

 

 

Quasi-exact solvability of Schroedinger, Pauli, Dirac, and Fokker-Planck equations from the prepotential approach

4:30 PM

 

Desheng Wang (Nanyang Technological University)

 

 

Effective Numerical Recipes for Maxwell Equations

4:45 PM

 

Shi Yu (Fudan University)

 

 

Is Quantum Information Relevant to Particle Physics?

5:00 PM

 

Seng Ghee Tan (Data Storage Institute, A*STAR)

 

 

Local spin dynamic arising from the non-perturbative SU(2) gauge field of the spin orbit effect

5:15 PM

 

Nguyen Anh Ky (Institute of Physics & Electronics, Vietnam)

 

 

On a two-parametric graded R-matrix satisfying the Yang-Baxter Equation

 

 

Session ends

 

 

 

 

Session VI (B): Contributed talk session

2:00 PM

Chair: Yuan Ping Feng

Keshav N. Shrivastava (University of Malaya)

 

 

Byers and Yang's Theorem on Flux Quantization

2:15 PM

 

Ka-Di Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

 

 

Voltage-Controlled Berry Phases in Two Coupled Quantum Dots

2:30 PM

 

Vo Van Thuan (Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology)

 

 

A comment on the wave function of neutrino and P-nonconservation

2:45 PM

 

Wilber Choon Siang Lim (National Institute of Education)

 

 

A Theoretical and Numerical Study of the B-Z DNA Transition

3:00 PM

 

Woon Siong Gan (Acoustical Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd)

 

 

Gauge Invariance Approach to Acoustic Fields

3:15 PM

 

C Q Sun (Nanyang Technological University)

 

 

Bonding electronics and energetics: an approach crossing the barriers of classical and quantum approximation

3:30 PM

Tea Break

 

4:00 PM

Chair: Ngee Pong Chang

Guang-Ming Zhang (Tsinghua University)

 

 

Topological quantum phase transition of the Kitaev model

4:15 PM

 

Qing-Hai Wang (University of Connecticut)

 

 

Worldline Instantons and Pair Production

4:30 PM

 

Siew Ann Cheong (Nanyang Technological University)

 

 

Exact Ground States and Correlation Functions of Interacting Spinless Fermions on a Two-Legged Ladder

4:45 PM

 

Kazunari Shima (Saltama Institute of Technology)

 

 

Nonlinear Supersymmetric General Relativity and Unity of Nature

5:00 PM

 

Haibin Su (Nanyang Technological University)

 

 

Novel Nano-Device and Symmetry Role in Chemical Event of C60 and Carbon Nanotube Composite

5:15 PM

 

Liang Jiu Qing (Shanxi University, China)

 

 

Aharonov-Bohm Phase, Singular Gauge, Wu-Yang monopole and Topological Numbers

 

 

 Session ends

Saturday

3-Nov

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venue

Session VII

 

9:00 AM

Chair: Soo Ying Lee

Maw-Kuen Wu (Academia Sinica)

 

 

Applications of Nanotechnology to the Development of Energy-related Technologies

9:30 AM

 

Michael Fisher (University of Maryland)

 

 

Atoms and ions; universality, singularity and particularity:  On Boltzmann's Vision a Century Later

10:30 AM

Tea Break

 

11:00 AM

Chair: David Thouless

Hesheng Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

 

 

Prospect of Particle Physics in China

11:30 AM

 

Enge Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

 

What controls the evolution of surface-based nanostructures? Insights from computer simulation

12:00 PM

 

Kerson Huang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

 

Fifty years of hard-sphere Bose gas: 1957-2007

 

 

 Session ends

12:30 PM

 

 

SCIENCE EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF CN YANG’S 85TH BIRTHDAY

(02 November 2007, Friday)

Details of Symposium

Date:               02 November 2007, Friday

Time:               1.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Venue:             Hwa Chong Institution

                        Auditorium (High School Section)

                        661 Bukit Timah Road

                        Singapore 269734

 

Time

Event  / Speaker

 1.00 – 1.30 pm

Registration

1.30 pm

Opening address

Chair:

Prof Leo Tan – National Institute of Education, NTU, Singapore

1.30 – 2.30 pm

Power of the Sun

Lecture by Nobel Laureate  - Prof Walter Kohn 

(Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998)

Q & A Session

2.30 – 3.30 pm

Pictures, Models, Approximations & Reality:  Phase transitions and our understanding of the physical world

Prof Michael Fisher - Distinguished University Professor and Regent's Professor, University of Maryland

3.30 – 3.50 pm

Tea break

3.50 -  4.30 pm

 Frontiers of Science in the 21st Century

Prof Kerson Huang - Emeritus Professor of Physics,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4.30 – 5:10 pm

Matter-Antimatter Interactions and their Applications

Prof Igor Bray

Curtin University & Deputy Director of Australian Research Council – Centre of Excellence Anti-Matter Studies

5.20 – 6.00 pm

Panel Discussion

Chair: Prof Lee Sing Kong – National Institute of Education, NTU

Panel members:

Professors Walter Kohn; Kerson Huang; Michael Fisher and Igor Bray

Asia-Pacific Meeting on Frontiers in Plasma Science

Wednesday   31 October  2007 (Day-1)
Venue Maplewood Room
1.30 PM Chair: TAKABE Hideaki
Shuyan XU    Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics Research with Intense Lasers
2:15 PM   TANIKAWA, Takao
     New RF Helicon-Plasma Devices for Various Applications
3.00 PM   YUGAMI Noboru
     THz radiation generation via laser plasma interaction experiments
3.45 PM Tea Break  
4:15 PM Chair: HAU Lin-Ni
TAKABE Hideaki    Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distribution: A Characteristic of Space Plasma
5:00 PM   RYU Chang-Mo
     Dynamo Mechanism by Transport Flow
5.45 PM   Rajdeep S. RAWAT
     Plasma Focus Devise as Intense Multiple Radiation Source for Applications
 6:30 PM Dinner  
Thursday   1 November 2007 (Day-2)
Venue Maplewood Room
1:30 PM Chair: Ken OSTRIKOV
RYU Chang-Mo    Plasma Nanoscience: From Astronucleosynthesis to Origin of Life
and Industrial Nanomanufacturing
2:15 PM   TOU Teck Yong
     Plume Dynamics in TEA CO2 Laser Ablation of Polymers
3:00 PM   Masayoshi Y. TANAKA
     Plasma Hole – a singular vortex in a magnetized plasma
3.45 PM Tea Break  
4:15 PM Chair: ANG Ricky
Ken OSTRIKOV  Quantum Plasmas - Space charge limited electron flows
5.00 PM   Shuyan XU
     Generation and Application of High Density Low-Frequency Inductively Coupled Plasmas
7.00 PM   Banquet at Swissotel Merchant Court
Friday   2 November 2007 (Day-3)
Venue Maplewood Room
0900 AM Chair:     4th Key Person's Meeting for Establishment of DPP in AAPPS
TAKABE Hideaki  
10.30 AM  Tea Break

Public Lectures Held in Conjunction with the Conference

There will be public lectures held in conjunction with the Conference by Martin Lewis Perl, Walter Kohn and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. For the detailed program, please click here.

On 3 November, CN Yang and Fan Zeng will be sharing with us on the intepretations on beauty in Mandarin. Please click the links for more details:

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