International Workshop on "Statistical Physics of Quantum Systems"

First Announcement and Call for Papers

We cordially invite you to attend and/or present a paper at the International Workshop on Statistical Physics of Quantum Systems held during 2-4 August 2010 at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/access_e.html (In the convention hall of the An block of the campus.) http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/campusmap_e.html

This is a satellite meeting of the international conference STATPHYS 24 http://www.statphys.org.au/ In this workshop, we will discuss on the recent developments of studies on various novel properties of strongly interacting quantum systems, non-equilibrium quantum dynamics under time-depending fields, and quantum response as well as other related topics. Specific topics include, but not restricted to a.. Phase transitions in quantum systems b.. Novel quantum properties in the ground state c.. Quantum dynamics d.. Quantum transport phenomena e.. Quantum information processing

We ask you to register and/or submit a paper at the following web site: http://looper.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/spqs2010/ The registration will be open by 8 March, 2010. The deadline of registration and/or submission is 30 April, 2010. We will choose poster presentations as well as a small number of oral presentations from the submitted papers and tell the authors the decision by 1 June, 2010.

The registration fee is 20,000 yen (JPY20,000) for regular participants and 10,000 yen (JPY10,000) for students. It includes the attendance as well as the abstract book/CD. Please pay the fee in cash at the on-site registration desk when you arrive at the workshop. (Sorry, we do not accept credit cards.)

We will have a party on the night of 3 August. The fee for the party is 5,000 yen for regular participants and 2,000 yen for students. We will collect the fee at the workshop site.

Confirmed invited speakers include M. Batchelor (Australian National University, http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~murrayb/Murray_Batchelor2.html) O. Cepas (Grenoble, CNRS, http://perso.neel.cnrs.fr/olivier.cepas/) G. Ordonez (Butler University, http://www.butler.edu/physics/faculty-staff) T. Petrosky (University of Texas, http://order.ph.utexas.edu/people/Petrosky.htm) H.A. De Raedt (University of Groningen, http://www.rug.nl/staff/h.a.de.raedt/index) M. Troyer (ETH, http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/people/troyer) G. Vidal (University of Queensland, http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/vidal/) T. Xiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, http://power.itp.ac.cn/~txiang/)

Local Organizers: S. Miyashita, N. Hatano, M. Imada, N. Kawakami, N. Kawashima, A. Kuniba, H. Nishimori, M. Oshikawa, T. Sakai, and S. Todo