Martti SalomaaMartti Salomaa memorial symposium

 

A memorial symposium will be organized in honor of Prof. Martti Salomaa, late director of the Materials Physics Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology.

 

Date: Friday, 16th September 2005

Place: Helsinki University of Technology Physics building (Otakaari 3A, Otaniemi, Espoo), Hall F1

New: See photos from the symposium.

 

Program

 

9:00 Opening the symposium, greeting from the rector of Helsinki University of Technology, Matti Pursula

9:15 Martti Salomaa memorial talks by Rainer Salomaa and Matti Krusius

9:45 Christopher Pethick (Nordita, Copenhagen, Denmark): Ions and impurities in anisotropic superfluids

10:30 Coffee break (buy your coffee tickets before the symposium begins from the cafeteria!)

10:50 Gordon Baym (University of Illinois, USA): Remembering Martti Salomaa: novel phenomena in superfluids

11:35 Grigori Volovik (LTL, TKK and L.D. Landau Institute, Moscow, Russia): Witten superconducting strings vs Salomaa asymmetric vortices

12:20 Lunch

13:50 Gerd Schön (University of Karlsruhe, Germany): Josephson qubits and decoherence

14:35 Robert Joynt (University of Wisconsin, USA): Realization of quantum computation using semiconductor technology

15:20 Coffee break (buy your coffee tickets before the symposium begins from the cafeteria!)

15:40 Mikio Nakahara (Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Japan): Topological phase imprinting for vortex formation in BEC of alkali atoms

16:25 Martti Salomaa’s students

16:45 Closing the symposium

 

 

Victor Plessky was unfortunately unable to come.

 

Note: To make coffee serving more fluent, please buy coffee tickets from the cafeteria before the symposium starts! They can also be bought during the breaks, but then you will have to queue for your coffee much longer.

 

Martti Salomaa in memoriam.

Martti Salomaan muistokirjoitus (in Finnish).

 

Organizers

 

Tero Heikkilä, Low Temperature Laboratory, TKK

Saku Lehtonen, Materials Physics Laboratory, TKK

Janne Salo, Materials Physics Laboratory, TKK

Sami Virtanen, Materials Physics Laboratory, TKK

 

 

For more information, contact Tero Heikkilä, firstname.T.lastname@hut.fi.

 

The symposium is supported by the Academy of Finland and the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) through the TKK Support Foundation and the Department of Engineering Physics and Mathematics

 

Last modified 23rd September, 2005.