First Announcement

 

March 8 - March 14, 2025

Registration and abstract deadline: Nov. 22, 2024

Hotel Sonnalp - Kirchberg in Tirol - Austria

40th anniversary of the Kirchberg Winterschool

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the Kirchberg Winterschool – International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials (IWEPNM). The first conference in our series took place in February 1985 with polymers as its central theme. Since then, the topics discussed in Kirchberg have continuously evolved – polymers, high-Tc superconductors, fullerenes, nanotubes, organic materials, 2D materials, and many more, but the Kirchberg feeling has remained the same - lively, open minded, and highly spirited.

We want to celebrate this exciting anniversary with you. As always, expect a great scientific program plus an evening of celebration including all former and the present main organizers of Kirchberg.

Program committee

E. Andrei (US) H. Kataura (JP) S. Reich (DE)
A. Bachtold (ES) R. Krupke (DE) J. Robertson (UK)
C. Backes (DE) H. Kuzmany (AT) S. Roth (DE)
H. M. Cheng (CN) Y. H. Lee (KR) P. Rudolf (NL)
J. Fink (DE) Y. Li (CN) C. Schönenberger (CH)
M. Glazov (RU) F. Libisch (AT) P. Sheng (CN)
R. Gorbachev (UK) A. Loiseau (FR) F. Simon (HU)
I. Grigorieva (UK) S. Maruyama (JP) C. Stampfer (DE)
S. Haigh (UK) J. Maultzsch (DE) M. Strano (US)
S. Heeg (DE) F. Mauri (IT) K. Suenaga (JP)
T. Heine (DE) K. S. Novoselov (UK) A. Swan (US)
T. F. Heinz (US) E. Obraztsova (RU) C. Voisin (FR)
A. Hirsch (DE) A. Penicaud (FR) J. Zaumseil (DE)
S. Ilani (IL) Th. Pichler (AT) A. Zettl (US)
A. Jorio (BR) M. Prato (IT)

Scope

Our mission is to give a broad overview over the physics and chemistry of carbon nanostructures, two-dimensional materials and topological systems through a series of invited talks and contributed poster presentations.

The scope of the winterschool covers experimental and theoretical work in the following fields:

  • materials science of graphene, nanographene, and carbon nanotubes
  • novel two-dimensional materials
  • optics, electronics, growth, and selection of carbon nanotubes and graphene
  • theory of novel materials
  • applications of novel materials
  • nanostructure spintronics
  • topological materials
  • plasmonic nanostructures
  • single-molecule experiments

Invited speakers

Eva Andrei (Piscataway, US) Philip Kim (Cambridge, US)
Nurit Avraham (Rehovot, IL) Xi Ling (Boston, US)
Ingrid Barcelos (Sao Paulo, BR) Annick Loiseau (Chatillon, FR)
Marc Bockrath (Columbus, US) Steve Louie (Berkeley, US)
Christoph Brabec (Erlangen, DE) Marceo Lozada Hidalgo (Manchester, UK)
Andres Castellanos-Gomez (Madrid, ES) Adina Luican-Mayer (Ottawa, CA)
Alexey Chernikov (Dresden, DE) Dominik Lungerich (Seoul, KR)
Cory Dean (New York, US)* Shigeo Maruyama (Tokyo, JP)
Otakar Frank (Prague, CZ) Francesco Mauri (Rome, IT)
Irina Grigorieva (Manchester, UK) Lukas Novotny (Zurich, CH)
Stefan Hecht (Berlin, DE) Maurizio Prato (Trieste, IT)
Sebastian Heeg (Berlin, DE) Raquel Queiroz (New York, US)
Tony Heinz (Stanford, US)* Archana Raja (Berkeley, US)
Helen Hölzel (Giessen, DE) Sivan Refaely-Abramson (Rehovot, IL)*
Shahal Ilani (Rehovot, IL) Mariana Rossi (Hamburg, DE)
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, US) Sunmin Ryu (Pohang, KR)
Ado Jorio (Belo Horizonte, BR) Helene Seiler (Berlin, DE)
Sabrina Jürgensen (Berlin, DE) Hadrien Vignaud (Barcelona, ES)
Christoph Kastl (Munich, DE) Xiaodong Xu (Seattle, US)
Hiromichi Kataura (Tokyo, JP) Jiong Zhao (Hongkong, CN)

* speakers whose attendance has yet to be confirmed

Time and Location

The 37th winterschool will be conducted from March 8 to March 14, 2025 at the Hotel Sonnalp in Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria.

The registration and abstract submission deadline will be Nov. 22, 2024. Information about registration and abstract submission will follow with the 2nd announcement.

Further Information

Tutorials, research lectures, and poster presentations will be scheduled for morning and evening sessions. The afternoon will be free for mini workshops, special tutorials and private discussions. A second announcement will soon be distributed to interested colleagues. Personal application for participation will be required. For current information please visit our website:

https://www.iwepnm.org