XII-th VIETNAM SCHOOL OF PHYSICS

ANNOUNCEMENT 1
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The workshop will be held in Nhatrang from 8th – 10th of January 2006 as an accompanying activity of the 12th Vietnam School of Physics (VSOP). The workshop includes a wide range of topics of modern physics covered by previous VSOP's (for more details about the VSOP, please, visit the website http://www.iop.vast.ac.vn/activities/vsop).

Scientific program:

The scientific program includes sessions for oral presentations as well as posters.

The duration of a talk is 30 min (for an invited talk) or 15 min (for a contributed talk) including the time for questions and discussions.

1. Chuan-Tsong Chan (NCTS, Hsin Chu, Taiwan): “High-energy Symmetries in String Theory"
2. Chia-chu Chen ( Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan): “Quantum Phase Transtion and Entanglement”.
3. Hanyong Choi (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Seoul, Korea): "Effects of triplet pairing components in the artificial layers of superconductor and ferromagnet".
4. Tetsuo Deguchi (Ochanomizu Univ., Tokyo, Japan): ”The loop algebra symmetry of the XXZ spin chain at roots of unity" .
5. Do Ngoc Diep (Inst. of Math., Hanoi, Vietnam): “Topological quantum fields: mathematics or physics”
6. Vladimir Dobrev (INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria): "Characters for conformal supersymmetry".
7. Ko Furuta (RIKEN, Wako, Japan): “Locality and evolution of cosmological fluctuation”.
8. Nguyen Van Hieu (Hanoi Nat. Univ., Hanoi, Vietnam): “Quantum Theory of Strongly Correlated Few-Electron Systems in Physics of Nanodevices”.
9. Pham Quang Hung (Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia): “A model of dark energy and dark matter”.
10. Ji-soon Ihm (Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, Korea): "Quantum conductance and field emission of carbon nanotubes with various defects".
11. Kenzo Ishikawa ((Hokkaido Univ., Hokkaido, Japan): "Wave packet scattering as a bridge between large and small scale".
12. Seunghoon Jhi (POSTECH, Pohang, Korea):"Theory and applications of molecular absorption on nanotubes: From hydrogen to DNA"
13. Yoo-Vo Kim (Univ. Paris Sud, Orsay, France): "Metallic spin transport on the nanoscale: From giant magnetoresistance to spin-momentum transfer".
14. Hu-Jong Lee (POSTECH, Pohang, Korea): “Anomalous Electrical Conductance Quantization in Nano-scale Constriction".
15. Feng-Li Lin(Nat. Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, Taiwan): “Big Bang in Domiain-Wall/QFT Correspondence”.
16. Grant Mathews (Univ. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA): "Interpretation of dark matter and dark energy in general relativity and brane-world cosmology".
17. Alejandra Melfo (Univ. de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela): "See-saw mechanism in supersymmetric SO(10)".
18. Masaharu Nomachi (Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan): “Neutrino physics and double beta decay experiments - to the limit of sensitivity”.
19. Duong Hong Phong (Columbia Univ., New York, USA): “String perturbation theory and effective actions”.
20. Cho Hiap Oh (Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore): "Geometric phase of mixed states".
21. Goran Senjanovic (Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy): “Grand unification: a theory of fermion masses”.
22. Tzu-Chiang Yuan (Nat. Tsing-Hua Univ., Hsin Chu, Taipei, Taiwan): "CP violating effects in charged Higgs decay in minimal supersymmetric model".

Poster sessions:

A poster contribution should be prepared in a single page on an A0 sheet.

Other events:

Coffee and tea breaks between scientific sessions will be covered by the organizers. Other events (banquet, excussions, etc.) if organized will be at the cost of the participants. If allowed by the budget a conference banquet will be organized.

Financial support:

Some financial support may be available (priority will be given to young participants).

Registration deadlines:

• for talk: 01 December 2006.
• for financial support: 01 December 2006.
• for participation only: 15 December 2006.

Please, return the completed registration form (doc ,  pdf) to the contact address given below.

Co-ordinators:

1. Patrick Aurenche (Annecy, France)
2. Chia-Chu Chen (Tainan, Taiwan)
3. Nguyen Mong Giao (Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam)
4. Pham Quang Hung(Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)
5. Nguyen Anh Ky (Hanoi, Vietnam)
6. Nguyen Hong Quang (Hanoi, Vietnam)

Contact address: