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Day 1 - July, 5th 2010

Welcome

• 09:30 to 10:00 - François Peeters
  
  Nanosuperconductivity

Nanofilms

• 10:00 to 11:00 - Wolf-Dieter Schneider
  
  Quantum oscillations, superconductivity, pseudogaps, zero-bias anomalies, and Coulomb blockade in nanoscaled metal films and islands
• 11:00 to 11:30 - Coffee Break
• 11:30 to 12:30 - Yukio Hasegawa
  
  Vortices in nano-size superconductors by low-temperature STM/S
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 15:00 - Roman Mints
  
  Cherenkov radiation and fractional vortices in Josephson junctions in thin films
• 15:00 to 15:30 - Coffee Break
• 15:30 to 16:30 - Jonatan Dubi
  
  Phase fluctuations and the superconductor-insulator transition in ultrathin films
• 16:30 to 17:30 - Discussion

Day 2 - July, 6th 2010

Nanotubes, nanowires and nanorings

• 09:30 to 10:30 - Junji Haruyama
  
  Superconductivity in carbon-nanotubes
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 12:00 - Richard Deblock
  
  Tuning the Josephson current in carbon nanotubes with the Kondo effect
• 12:00 to 13:30 - Lunch Break
• 13:30 to 14:30 - Jose Gonzalez
  
  Theoretical framework of superconductivity in carbon nanotubes
• 14:30 to 15:30 - Arkady Shanenko
  
  BCS-BEC crossover driven by quantum confinement in nanoscale superconductors
• 15:30 to 16:30 - Denis Vodolazov
  
  Strong influence of nonlocal nonequilibrium effects on the dynamics of the order parameter in a phase slip center: Ring studies
• 16:30 to 17:00 - Coffee Break
• 17:00 to 18:00 - Janne Lehtinen
  
  Quantum Tunneling in Superconducting Nanostructures

Novel methods

• 18:00 to 19:00 - Lucian Covaci
  
  Chebyshev-BdG: a novel method for solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations
• 19:30 to 21:30 - Dinner

Day 3 - July, 7th 2010

Superconducting correlations in nanograins

• 09:30 to 10:30 - Antonio Garcia-Garcia
  
  Shell effects in superconducting nanoparticles: from theory to experiment
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 12:00 - Wen-Hsien Li
  
  Development of superconductivity through interparticle interactions in nanoparticle assemblies
• 12:00 to 13:30 - Lunch Break
• 13:30 to 14:30 - Mikhail Croitoru
  
  Superconducting metallic grains: interplay of quantum confinement and parity

Novel methods

• 14:30 to 15:30 - E.K.U. Gross
  
  Superconductivity from ab-inito calculations
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break

Nano-design of superconductors

• 16:00 to 17:00 - Antonio Bianconi
  
  Feshbach-like shape resonances in superconductivity gaps in multigap superconducting superlattices at atomic limit
• 17:00 to 18:00 - Florian Loder
  
  Flux periodicities in loops and junctions with d-wave superconductors

Day 4 - July, 8th 2010

Andreev physics in nanoscale superconductors

• 09:30 to 10:30 - Dimitri Golubev
  
  Crossed Andreev Reflection and Charge Imbalance in Diffusive Normal-Superconducting-Normal Structures
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 12:00 - Pascal Simon
  
  Self-consistent description of Andreev bound states in Josephson quantum dot devices
• 12:00 to 13:00 - Alexandr Mel'nikov
  
  Transformation of anomalous spectral branches in vortex cores caused by quasiparticle scattering at boundaries and columnar defects
• 13:00 to 13:10 - Closing word