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Day 1 - June, 16th 2008

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• 09:00 to 09:20 - Registration
• 09:20 to 09:30 - Welcome

Ab-initio approaches to nanostructures: chair Peter Kratzer

• 09:30 to 10:20 - Jerzy (Jerry) Bernholc
  
  Multiscale Simulations and Design of Nanomaterials and Devices
• 10:20 to 10:40 - Coffee Break
• 10:40 to 11:20 - Fabio Della Sala
  
  Complex semiconductor nanocrystals with electron-hole separation: comparison between theory and experiment
• 11:20 to 12:00 - Giovanni Vignale
  
  Continuum mechanics of quantum many-body systems
• 12:00 to 14:30 - Lunch Break

Electronic correlations in quantum dots: chair Giovanni Vignale

• 14:30 to 15:10 - J.-P. Leburton
  
  Tunable many-body interaction in quantum dots
• 15:10 to 15:50 - Guido Goldoni
  
  Spin and charge excitations in multi-electron QDs -
• 15:50 to 16:10 - Coffee Break
• 16:10 to 16:50 - Constantine Yannouleas
  
  Few-electron anisotropic quantum dots in low magnetic fields: exact-diagonalization results for excitations, spin configurations and entanglement
• 16:50 to 18:00 - Poster Session

Day 2 - June, 17th 2008

Self-assembled quantum dots: chair Matti Manninen

• 09:30 to 10:10 - Gabriel Bester
  
  Atomistic Calculation of Excitations in Semiconductor Nanostructures
• 10:10 to 10:50 - Korkusinski Marek
  
  Atomistic tight-binding calculations of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures
• 10:50 to 11:10 - Coffee Break
• 11:10 to 11:50 - Peter Kratzer
  
  Signatures of intermixing in the spectra of InGaAs quantum dots: a tight binding study
• 11:50 to 12:30 - Sébastien Sauvage
  
  Intersublevel transitions in self-assembled quantum dots
• 12:30 to 14:30 - Lunch Break

Carbon based nanostructures: Chair J. Bernholc

• 14:30 to 15:10 - François Peeters
  
  Graphene quantum dots
• 15:10 to 15:50 - Juan José Palacios
  
  Magnetism in nanostructured graphene
• 15:50 to 16:10 - Coffee Break
• 16:10 to 16:50 - Wlodzimierz Jaskolski
  
  Friedel Oscillations in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots and Superlattices
• 16:50 to 17:30 - K Varga
  
  Novel computational approaches to study transport and field emission properties of carbon nanotube devices

Day 3 - June, 18th 2008

Magnetism in quantum dots: chair Juan José Palacios

• 09:30 to 10:10 - A. Govorov
  
  Electronic states in single and double magnetic quantum dots:
• 10:10 to 10:50 - J. Fernandez-Rossier
  
  Single Mn doped quantum dots: from CdTe to InAs.
• 10:50 to 11:10 - Coffee Break
• 11:10 to 11:50 - Pawel Hawrylak
  
  Electronic properties of quantum dots with carriers and magnetic ions
• 11:50 to 12:30 - Matti Manninen
  
  Magnetism of quantum dot clusters: A Hubbard model Study
• 12:30 to 14:30 - Lunch Break

Nanowires and quantum dot molecules: chair Belita Koiller

• 14:30 to 15:10 - Llorenc Serra
  
  Spin-orbit coupling and the electronic properties of semiconductor quantum wires
• 15:10 to 15:50 - B. Szafran
  
  Violation of microreversibility relation by electron soliton in a deformed quantum wire
• 15:50 to 16:10 - Coffee Break
• 16:10 to 16:50 - Shun-Jen Cheng
  
  Manipulation of optical fine structure of spin excitons in self-assembled quantum dot molecules
• 16:50 to 17:20 - Poster Session
• 19:00 to 22:00 - Dinner

Day 4 - June, 19th 2008

Qubits: Chair François Peeters

• 09:30 to 10:10 - Belita Koiller
  
  Spin and charge qubits in donor-based silicon quantum computer architectures
• 10:10 to 10:50 - M. Stopa
  
  Nanosystems in realistic electrostatic environments: from quantum computation to photovoltaics
• 10:50 to 11:10 - Coffee Break

Strain and piezoelectricity in self-assembled quantum dots: chair Gabriel Bester

• 11:10 to 11:50 - G. Bryant
  
  Squeezing the light out of quantum dots: the role of internal and externally imposed strain
• 11:50 to 12:10 - Zielinski Michal
  
  Strain in self-assembled quantum dots
• 12:10 to 12:50 - Max Migliorato
  
  Piezoelectric Coefficients of Strained InAs and GaAs
• 12:50 to 13:00 - Closing word