s − Invited Talks Eric Clément, Philippe Claudin, Bruno Andreotti PMMH-ESPCI , 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005, Paris. "Creep, fluidity and non-local microscopic processes in granular rheology" Granular materials belong to the class of amorphous athermal systems. Like foams, emulsions, suspensions, or metallic glasses, they exhibit a dynamical phase transition between static and flowing states. Analogo...

Money MesMeRizes a nd MysTifies. Its influence extends far beyond the steely confines of numbers, ledgers, and rational calculations. Yet, for a long time economists managed to keep monetary analysis safely constrained within technical territory. Coinciding with Gertrude Stein’s (1936: 88) sober dictum that “whether you like it or whether you do not, money is money and that is all there is abou...

s of Invited Talks Ian Affleck UBC, Vancouver Phase Diagram of a Chain of Interacting Majorana Fermions While the interacting Dirac fermion chain is well understood, the chain of Majorana (Hermitean) fermion operators has recently been proposed as an experimentally realizable model. I will discuss its fascinating phase diagram which includes the supersymmetric tri-critical Ising point and a gen...

One of the most challenging questions of today, in the overlap of computer science, mathematics, and physics, is the exploration of potential capabilities of quantum computers. Milestones which intensified and enlarged research considerably were the algorithm of Shor [1], who showed that quantum computers could factor large integers efficiently (which is widely believed to be infeasible on clas...

1 Abstract \Access is the killer app" 3] is the vision of the Daedalus project at U.C. Berkeley. Being able to be connected seamlessly anytime anywhere to the best network still remains an unfulllled goal. Often, even determining the \best" network is a challenging task because of the widespread deployment of overlapping wireless networks. In this report, we describe a policy-enabled handoo sys...

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Abstract The first tenured woman physics professor at ETH Zurich, and a career‐long campaigner for fair play level playing field women in science, Ursula Keller, talks to Francesca Moglia, EPIC's former photonics technologies program manager.