FROM SUPERCONDUCTORS AND SUPERFLUIDS TO QUANTUM FIELDS: THE ROAD MAP OF A PHYSICIST A Symposium in honor of Grigory Volovik and his seminal contributions in physics A public symposium on Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics will be organized on Monday, September 10, 2001, in lecture hall F1 in the Technical Physics building, Helsinki University of Technology, Otakaari 3A.

Programme

9:00 Coffee

• 9:30 - 10:30 Academician Olli Lounasmaa, Prof. Nikolai Kopnin, Prof. Pertti Hakonen, Acad. Prof. Matti Krusius, Prof. Erkki Thuneberg Reminiscences from the road
  
• 10:30-11:00 Prof. Thomas Kibble (Imperial College, London) Topological defects in cosmology and condensed matter

Lunch

• 12:30-13:00 Prof. Efim Kats (Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble) Pseudo-Casimir effect in liquid crystals
• 13:00-13:30 Prof. Vladimir Mineev (CEA, Grenoble) Paraconductivity near normal metal - superconductor quantum critical point
• 13:30-14:00 Academician Alexander Parshin (Kapitza Institute, Moscow) Kinematic multiplication of steps and the nature of burst-like growth of helium crystals

Coffee break

• 14:30-15:00 Academician Igor Fomin (Kapitza Institute, Moscow) Symmetry of the superconducting phase in the itinerant ferromagnet UGe₂
• 15:00-15:30 Academician Vladimir Dmitriev (Kapitza Institute, Moscow) Pulsed NMR experiments on ³He in aerogel
• 15:30-16:00 Prof. Grigory Volovik (Low Temperature Laboratory and Landau Institute) How it really happened!

Welcome

Director
Low Temperature Laboratory

Short CV

GRIGORY VOLOVIK, born in Moscow on September 7, 1946, graduated from the Physical Technical Institute in Moscow, in 1970. He continued his studies in the famous Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and earned his PhD in 1973 with the thesis "Dynamics of particles strongly interacting with a Bose system", and his Senior Doctorate in 1981 with the thesis "Topology of defects in condensed matter".

Grigory Volovik has served as a staff member of the Landau Institute from 1973 to present and as a visiting professor in the Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, from 1993 to present. Since 1992 he has acted as an Associate Editor of the journal Pis'ma ZhETF (JETP Letters) and in 2001-2005 he will co-chair the Steering Committee of the ESF Network Cosmology in the Laboratory (COSLAB).

During his long carrier in science Grigory Volovik has published 250 scientific articles and a book with the title "Exotic properties of superfluid 3He" (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992). At present he is working on a new book which deals with superfluid analogies of cosmological phenomena.

Grigory Volovik won the Landau Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992 for a series of works on "Topology, defects, superfluidity". In 2001 he was elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters as a foreign member.