Program

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Focus Sessions

The “Silver Jubilee” will include a number of focus sessions whose purpose is to critically review the progress over the last 25 years, and identify open questions and future directions. Each focus sessions will begin with an overview lecture, given by a top leader of the field, summarizing the development of the session's topic, pointing out the main successes, and possibly also failures, and giving a personal future outlook. Some of the sessions will end with an open panel discussion, led by the session chair – also a world expert in the focus of the session.

List of Focus Sessions:

Structure of quasicrystals – Do we know where the atoms are?
Metallurgy – Phases, growth, and stability.
Quasiperiodic Tilings – Is the theory complete?
Electron Microscopy – In memory of Kehsin Kuo (1923 – 2006).
Applications – Complex metallic alloys, the heritage of quasicrystals.
Diffraction – Do we know what a crystal is? Can we solve the phase problem?
Surfaces – What can we learn, now that we can see them?
Transport & physical properties – Why is the conductivity so poor?
Dynamics – Do we understand the role of phasons?

List of Invited Speakers

Overview Lectures

Marc de Boissieu, LTPCM-CNRS, France
Denis Gratias, LEM-CNRS, France
Françoise Hippert, LMGP Grenoble, France
Daniel Lenz, TU Chemnitz, Germany
Ronan McGrath, University of Liverpool, UK
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College, USA
Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
An Pang Tsai, Tohoku University, Japan   
Knut Urban, Research Center Jülich, Germany

Invited Lectures

Eiji Abe, University of Tokyo, Japan
Janez Dolinšek, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Jean-Marie Dubois, Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France
Michael Feuerbacher, Institute for Solid State Research, Jülich, Germany
Jay Fineberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Marie Geneviève Barthès-Labrousse, CNRS Vitry/Thiais, France
Chris Henley, Cornell University, USA
Karl Höhener, TEMAS AG, Switzerland
Yushu Matsushita, Nagoya University, Japan
Marek Mihalkovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Walter Steurer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Hiroyuki Takakura, Hokkaido University, Japan
Pierre Thibault, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Patricia Thiel, Iowa State University, USA
Hans-Rainer Trebin, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Elena Vedmedenko, University of Hamburg, Germany
Ning Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Xiangbing Zeng, University of Sheffield, UK