The Metal-Non Metal Transition in Macroscopic and Microscopic Systems
SESSION I - MNM transitions in oxides
Chairman: Professor P.P. Edwards
School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
09.30 Professor C.N.R. Rao
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India(1) Metal-insulator transitions in perovskite oxides and giant magneto resistance and related aspects of manganates
10.05 Discussion
10.15 Professor T.V. Ramakrishnan
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India(2) Theory of giant magneto resistance oxides: some questions
10.50 Discussion
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Professor G. Kotliar
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, U.S.A.(3) The metal to non-metal transition in correlated and disordered systems: recent theoretical and experimental developments
12.05 Discussion
12.15 Dr N.M. Harrison
Department of Computational Materials Science, Daresbury Laboratory(4) A first principles approach to the electronic structure of the insulating phase
12.50 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
SESSION II - MNM transitions in liquids and expanded metals
Chairman: Professor P.A. Dowben
Department of Physics, University of Nebraska, U.S.A.
14.30 Professor F. Hensel
Fachbereich Physikalische Chemie, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany(5) The liquid-vapour phase transition in fluid metals
15.05 Discussion
15.15 Professor J.E. Enderby
Department of Physics, University of Bristol(6) Liquid alloy semiconductors revisited
15.50 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.30 Professor W.J. Nellis
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA(7) Metallization of fluid molecular hydrogen at 140 GPa (1.4 Mbar)
17.05 Discussion
17.15 General Discussion
17:45 Close
SESSION III - Semiconductors and semimetals
Chairman: Dr D.P. Tunstall
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews
09.15 Professor H. von Lohneysen
Physikalisches Institut, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany(8) Current issues in the physics of heavily doped semiconductors at the metal-insulator transition
09.50 Discussion
10.00 Professor Y. Iye
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan(9) Magnetic-field-induced metal-insulator transitions in graphite and diluted magnetic semiconductors
10.35 Discussion
10.45 Coffee
SESSION IV - Superconductivity and magnetism
Chairman: Professor D.E. Logan
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford
11.15 Professor S. Sachdev
Department of Physics, Yale University, Connecticut, U.S.A.(10) Magnetic properties of strongly disordered electronic systems
11.50 Discussion
12.00 Professor A.S. Alexandrov
Department of Physics, Loughborough University of Technology(11) Mott insulator-high-Tc bipolaronic superconductor transition in cuprates
12.35 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
SESSION V - MNM transitions in clusters
Chairman: Professor F. Hensel
Fachbereich Physikalische Chemie, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany
14.15 Professor K. Rademann
Walter-Nernst-Institut, Humboldt Universitat Berlin, Germany(12) Geometries and electronic structures of isolated metal oxide and metal clusters
14.50 Discussion
15.00 Dr R.L. Johnston
School of Chemistry, University of BirminghamProfessor R.E. Palmer
Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham(13) The development of metallic behaviour in clusters
15.40 Discussion
15.50 Tea
SESSION VI - Overview and general discussion
Chairman: Professor C.N.R. Rao
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
16.20 Professor P.P. Edwards
School of Chemistry, University of BirminghamProfessor D.E. Logan
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford(14) The metal-non metal transition: a century of study
17.00 General Discussion
18.00 Close