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.
Important Dates
The winterschool will be conducted from March 8 to March 14, 2025
at the Hotel Sonnalp in Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria.
If you would like to apply for participation, you will need to create an account on our website. The registration and abstract submission deadline is November 22, 2024. Information about registration and abstract submission will follow with the 1st and 2nd announcements.
The Winterschool lasts from Saturday afternoon, March 8, to Friday morning, March 14. There will be an informal reception party on Saturday, March 8, starting around 9 pm. If you arrive in time you can have dinner at the Hotel Sonnalp before the reception party. The scientific program starts on Sunday (March 9) morning and ends on Thursday (March 13) evening. Departure is on Friday (March 14) after breakfast.
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) |
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) |
| Joshua Folk (Vancouver, CA) | 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