Conference Organisers

▪ Thomas Frauenheim University of Bremen, BCCMS www.bccms.uni-bremen.de

▪ César A. Rodríguez-Rosario University of Bremen, BCCMS www.bccms.uni-bremen.de

▪ Gianaurelio Cuniberti Dresden University of Technology and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials Dresden www.nano.tu-dresden.de

▪ Mads Brandbyge Technical University of Denmark www.nanotech.dtu.dk/English/Staff/Faculty.aspx

http://www.bccms.uni-bremen.de/veranstaltungen/2013/cecam_np/

Nanophononics 2 0 1 3 BCCMS Bremen

Center for Computational Materials Science

Tuesday, August 20th 2013 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:10 Opening and welcome, Thomas Frauen-heim

Session: Devices

Chair: César A. Rodríguez-Rosario

09:10 - 09:50 Alexander A. Balandin, University of California, Riverside (US)Phononics in low-dimensional materials

09:50 - 10:30 Baowen Li, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

10:30 - 11:00

Anomalous phonon transport and anomalous diffusion Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:40 Peter Hanggi, University of Augsburg, (Germany)

Controlling heat flow across molecules: the role of a Berry phase and its impact for heat fluctuation relations

11:40 - 12:20 Nianbei Li, Tongji University, Shanghai (China)

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Phonon transport in one-dimensional non-linear lattices: renormalized phonons and effective phonon theory

Lunch Break and Coffee

Quantum effects

Chair: Mads Brandbyge

14:20 - 15:00 Abraham Nitzan, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)Manifestation of vibrational response,heating and heat transport in molecular conduction junctions

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Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (US)

Coherent phonon heat conduction

Coffee Break

16:10 - 16:50 Oliver Schmidt, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden (Germany)

Thermal conductivity in quantum dot and nanomembrane superlattices

19:00 - 21:30 Welcome Reception (Bremen Town Hall)

Wednesday, August 21st 2013 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)

Session: Nanoscale

Chair: Alessandro Pecchia

09:00 - 09:40 Jesus Carrete Montaña, Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), Grenoble (France)Statistical analysis of the thermal transport properties of computationally simulated materials

09:40 - 10:20 Giuseppe Romano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (US)

10:20 - 10:50

Modeling quasi-ballistic phononic transport in nanostructured materials

Coffee Break

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12:10

Nicola Marzari, Suisse Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (Switzerland)First-principles engineering of thermal transport in bulk materials and nanostruc-tures

Sebastian Volz, Centrale Graduate School Paris (France)

Phononic heat conduction and transmission in nanostructures

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- 14:00 Lunch Break and Coffee

Lattices and chrystals

Chair: Gemma Clare Solomon

14:00 - 14:40 Gerald Mahan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park (US)Thermal boundary resistance between a liquid and a solid

14:40 - 15:20 Elif Ertekin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)Interface scattering and thermal transport in graphene - boron nitride superlattices

15:20 - 16:00 Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Barcelona (Spain)

16:00 - 16:30

Confined phonons and thermal conductivity in Si ultrathin membranes

Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:10 Martin Maldovan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (US)

17:10 - 17:50

Heat management by thermocrystals: how to treat heat like light

Mihai Chirtoc, University of Reims Champag-ne Ardenne (France)

Heat transport characterization at inter-faces in multilayers and nanocomposites/nanofluids

19:00 - 23:00 Conference Dinner (Juergenshof)

Thursday, August 22nd 2013 (BCCMS, TAB Building/University Campus)

Session: Molecular effects I

Chair: Gabriele Penazzi

09:00 - 09:40 Yonatan Dubi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba (Israel)

Heat transport and thermal switching in DNA nano-junctions

09:40 - 10:20 Dana D. Dlott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy of energy flow in molecules

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 David G. Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)High and low thermal conductivity in molecular structures

11:30 - 12:10 Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California, San Diego (US)

Functional theories of thermoelectric phenomena

12:10 - 14:20 Lunch Break and Coffee

Session: Molecular effects II

Chair: Thomas Frauenheim

14:20 - 15:00 Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (US)Some recent advances in the spectroscopy of nanocarbons

15:00 - 15:40 Per Hyldgaard, Chalmbers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden)Thermal transport in sparse, van der Waals bonded systems

15:40 - 16:20 GuanHua Chen, University of Hong Kong (China)Decoherent effects on quantum transport

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Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis (US)

Atomistic simulations of thermal transport in nanostructured semiconductors

Poster Session and Catering Buffet

Friday, August 23rd 2013 (BCCMS, TAB Building/University Campus)

Session: Electrons and phonons

Chair: Fabian Pauly

09:00 - 09:40 Gemma Clare Solomon, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)Chemical control of current induced heating and thermoelectric response

09:40 - 10:20 Giulio Casati, University of Insubria, Como (Italy)Coupled particle and heat transport:a dynamical system‘s perspective

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Y. Sungtaek Ju, University of California, Los Angeles (US)

Electrocalorics: coupling phonons with polarization

Coffee Break

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Dvira Segal, University of Toronto (Canada)

Electron-phonon interaction effects in molecular conducting junctions: first principle results.

Closing words Departure