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:
New: See photos from the symposium.
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 (
14:35 Robert Joynt
(
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 Salomaan muistokirjoitus
(in Finnish).
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.