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Thermal and Electronic Transport in Nanostructures

Workshop | Monday, October 31, 2016 - Friday, November 11, 2016

Directors: Giulio Casati, Claudionor Gomes Bezerra, Davide Donadio, Luiz Felipe C. Pereira
Date Time Speakers Name Talk Title

Monday

October 31, 2016

08:30 am - 09:00 am

REGISTRATION

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Alexandre R. Rocha
Invited speaker

IFT-UNESP (Brazil)

Lecture 1- Fundamentals of electronic transport

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Stefano Lepri
Invited speaker

ISC (Italy)

Lecture 1- Thermal transport in low-dimensional systems

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Davide Donadio
Invited speaker

University of California - Davis (United States of America)

Thermal energy transport and dissipation: from nanostructures to hydrogen-bonded liquids

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Hugo Aramberri
Invited speaker

Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (Spain)

Thermal conductivity close to structural phase transitions from first principles

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Luiz Felipe C. Pereira
Invited speaker

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)

Thermal transport and mechanical strength of 2D carbon-based materials

Tuesday

November 01, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Alexandre R. Rocha
Invited speaker

IFT-UNESP (Brazil)

Lecture 2- Fundamentals of electronic transport

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Stefano Lepri
Invited speaker

ISC (Italy)

Lecture 2 - Thermal transport in low-dimensional systems

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Giulio Casati
Invited speaker

CNR-INFM and University of Insubria at Como (Italy)

Anomalous conductivity and efficient thermal diodes

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Jouni Ahopelto
Invited speaker

VTT Finland (Finland)

Thermal and Electrical Properties of Thin Semiconductor Membranes

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Liliana Arrachea
Invited speaker

University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Adiabatic response and quantum thermoelectrics for ac driven electron systems

Wednesday

November 02, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Alexandre R. Rocha
Invited speaker

IFT-UNESP (Brazil)

Lecture 3 - Fundamentals of electronic transport

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Stefano Lepri
Invited speaker

ISC (Italy)

Lecture 3 - Thermal transport in low-dimensional systems

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Ronan Murphy
Invited speaker

Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)

Thermoelectric properties of PbTe materials driven near structural phase transition

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Clivia Sotomayor
Invited speaker

Catalan Inst. of Nanotech (Spain)

Thermal transport in silicon phononic crystals²

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Abhishek Dhar
Invited speaker

ICTS (India)

Lecture 1 - Fundamentals of thermal transport

04:00 pm - 04:30 pm

COFFEE BREAK

04:30 pm - 05:30 pm

POSTER SESSION

07:30 pm - 10:00 pm

WORKSHOP DINNER I

Thursday

November 03, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Mads Brandbyge
Invited speaker

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Denmark)

Electron and phonon transport and their coupling far from equilibrium: The DFT-NEGF and semi-classical Langevin approach

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Douglas Soares Galvao
Invited speaker

State University of Campinas (Brazil)

Enhanced Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Carbon-based Nanostructures

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Yonatan Dubi
Invited speaker

Ben Gurion University (Israel)

Playing with molecular junctions - three tales from the south

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Olivier Bourgeois
Invited speaker

CNRS (France)

Toward the quantum regime of thermal transport by attowatt sensitive thermal conductance measurements

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Abhishek Dhar
Invited speaker

ICTS (India)

Lecture 2 - Fundamentals of thermal transport

Friday

November 04, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Amnon Aharony
Invited speaker

()

Time reversal symmetry breaking, spin-orbit interactions and spintronics

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Caio Lewenkopf
Invited speaker

Fluminense Federal University (Brazil)

Conductance oscillations in a dot-cavity system in the Kondo regime

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Keiji Saito
Invited speaker

Keio University (Japan)

Universal trade-off relation between power and efficiency for heat to work conversion

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Ari Harju
Invited speaker

Aalto University (Finland)

Large-scale gpu simulations on electronic and thermal transport in graphene

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Abhishek Dhar
Invited speaker

ICTS (India)

Lecture 3 - Fundamentals of thermal transport

Monday

November 07, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Giuliano Benenti
Invited speaker

CNCS (Italy)

Lecture 1 - Fundamental aspects of thermoelectricity

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Ali Shakouri
Invited Lecturers

Purdue University (United States of America)

Lecture 1 - Thermoelectric transport in nanostructures: experimental aspects

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Yonatan Dubi
Invited Lecturers

Ben Gurion University (Israel)

Lecture 1 - Energy transport in nano- and molecular junctions

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Zlatan Aksamija
Invited speaker

University of Massachusetts Amherst (United States of America)

Phonons, Phonons Everywhere: Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Semiconductor Devices

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Ora Entin - Wohlman
Invited speaker

()

Enhanced performance of three-terminal thermoelectric devices

Tuesday

November 08, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Giuliano Benenti
Invited speaker

CNCS (Italy)

Lecture 2 - Fundamental aspects of thermoelectricity

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Ali Shakouri
Invited speaker

Purdue University (United States of America)

Lecture 2 - Thermoelectric transport in nanostructures: experimental aspects

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Yonatan Dubi
Invited speaker

Ben Gurion University (Israel)

Lecture 2 - Energy transport in nano- and molecular junctions

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Lucas Lindsay
Invited speaker

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States of America)

First principles phonon thermal transport: from bulk to the nanoscale

03:00 pm - 03:45 pm

Ernane de Freitas Martins
Oral Contribution

IFT-UNESP (Brazil)

QM/MM and electronic transport simulations for detecting dna hybridization using graphene

04:00 pm - 04:30 pm

COFFEE BREAK

04:30 pm - 05:30 pm

George Matsas
Invited speaker

UNESP (Brazil)

IIP COLLOQUIUM - THE UNRUH EFFECT

Wednesday

November 09, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Giuliano Benenti
Invited speaker

CNCS (Italy)

Lecture 3 - Fundamental aspects of thermoelectricity

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Ali Shakouri
Invited speaker

Purdue University (United States of America)

Lecture 3 - Thermoelectric transport in nanostructures: experimental aspects

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Yonatan Dubi
Invited speaker

Ben Gurion University (Israel)

Lecture 3 - Energy transport in nano- and molecular junctions

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Emmanuel Pereira
Invited speaker

Federal Univeristy of Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Increasing thermal rectification: ingredients for an efficient thermal diode

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm

Sebastian Volz
Invited speaker

Ecole Centrale - Paris (France)

Understanding and Controlling the Thermal Phonon Spectrum

04:00 pm - 04:30 pm

COFFEE BREAK

04:30 pm - 05:30 pm

POSTER SESSION

07:00 pm - 09:30 pm

WORKSHOP DINNER II

Thursday

November 10, 2016

09:00 am - 10:00 am

Luciano Colombo
Invited speaker

University of Cagliari (Italy)

Thermal boundary resistance at Si/Ge interfaces

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Robert Whitney
Invited speaker

Université Grenoble (France)

Qu-stochastic thermodynamics for non-Markovian systems : fluctuation theorems

11:00 am - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Diego Rabelo da Costa
Invited speaker

Federal Univerisity of Ceará (Brazil)

Valley filtering by electrostatic potentials in bilayer graphene and by using snake states in graphene nanoribbons

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH