4^th International Conference on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics August 16-17, 2018 London, UK

Venue: Park Inn by Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre London Heathrow

Professor Dr. Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science and Executive Director of Global University Partnerships (USA & Far East) at the University of Starthclyde, Glasgow, UK. His expertise is in fluid mechanics, fluid-solid interfaces, turbulence and turbulent mixing, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and nanotechnology. He has been active in both fundamental and applied research. To date, he has co-authored two books and has published about 400 papers in the above technical areas.

Nanotechnology, Fluid-solid interfaces

Andrés Cantarero is Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Valencia. After his Ph. D., he spent two years at the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Physics as a postdoc, where he came back several times as visiting professor. His main field of research has been optical spectroscopy studies of semiconductor nanostructures, mainly Raman spectroscopy. He developed several phenomenological models on Raman spectroscopy and lattice dynamics and, more recently, using density functional theory. He has also been working on transport and magnetic properties of solids. His main interests nowadays are thermoelectric materials, an exciting topic within energy harvesting. He organized several Schools and Conferences, is the co-author of around 330 publications, 3 book chapters and 3 patents. He was the principal investigator of more than 20 national projects, three European projects and several local projects. He belongs to the Molecular Science Institute of the University of Valencia and the Applied Physics Department.

Optical spectroscopy studies of semiconductor nano-structures, Thermoelectric materials

Professor Subhendra. D. Mahanti (S. D. Mahanti) was born in Cuttack, India, on September 24, 1945. He received his B.Sc (Honors in Physics) from Utkal University in 1961, standing 2nd in the University, M.Sc (Physics) from Allahabad University in 1963, standing 1st in the University. After doing research at Allahabad University in an Indo-US project, he went to the United States in 1964 and did his Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from the University of California, Riverside (1964-1968). After spending two years at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, he joined the physics faculty at Michigan State University in 1970, where he has been a full Professor since 1982 He served as the Associate Director of Center for Fundamental Research and the Director of the physics graduate program. He has been visiting professor at several leading institutions in Europe and India. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Prof. Mahanti retired on August 15, 2013 from his teaching duties and spends most of his time doing research and visiting educational and research institutions in India.

His research interests are broad with special focus on the electronic structure of complex systems, looking at the effects of electron correlations in narrow band systems, nature of bonding and the origin of band gaps in multi-component narrow band gap semiconductors, symmetry principles in multi-ferroics, and nature of deep defect states in and transport properties of narrow band-gap semiconductors. His research over the years has been in the area of magnetic materials, high Tc superconductors, multi-ferroics, systems showing colossal magnetic resistance, high performance thermoelectrics, and topological insulators. He has co-organized several national and international conferences, published more than 280 papers in reputed journals, has been reviewer for many journals, and member of several research proposal evaluation panels.

Supriyo Bandyopadhyay is Commonwealth Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University where he directs the Quantum Device Laboratory. Research in the laboratory has been frequently featured in national and international media (newspapers, internet blogs, magazines such as Business Week and EE Times, CBS, NPR, journals such as Nature, and internet news portals). Inventions made in this laboratory have been highlighted in the US Army Nanoscience Poster prepared for the Pentagon and have resulted in multiple patents. The laboratory’s educational activities were featured in a pilot study conducted by the ASME at Pennsylvania State University. The laboratory has graduated many outstanding Ph.D.s who have become internationally recognized faculty members and won numerous national and international awards.

Spintronics and Quantum device

Patrick Siarry was born in France in 1952. He received the PhD degree from the University Paris 6, in 1986 and the Doctorate of Sciences (Habilitation) from the University Paris 11, in 1994. He was first involved in the development of analog and digital models of nuclear power plants at Electricite de France (E.D.F.). Since 1995 he is a professor in automatics and informatics. His main research interests are computer-aided design of electronic circuits, and the applications of new stochastic global optimization heuristics to various engineering fields. He is also interested in the fitting of process models to experimental data, the learning of fuzzy rule bases, and of neural networks.

Automatics, Theory and Signal Processing, Electronics, Programming in FORTRAN, numerical analysis, applied statistics, etc.

Kim Chul Koo studied at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 1964-Feb. 1968, B.S. in Applied Physics. At present he was Professor Emeritus in Yonsei University, korea

Theoretical Solid State Physics, (Acoustic) Meta materials, Many-body Theory, Theoretical Biophysics

Dr. Qiang has studied magnetic nanoparticles and nanocomposites for more than 30 years. His expertise includes: synthesis of nanoclusters and nanocluster-assembled composites; and characterization of magnetic and optical properties as well as transports of the nanomaterials by conductivity, optic and susceptibility. He applies magnetic nanomaterials in energy, environmental and biomedical science and technology.

Nano-Magnetism and Magnetic Nano-materials.

Giorgio Bellettini was born in Bologna (Italy) on May 5, 1934. He Studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa from 1953 to 1956. He is a Laurea Cum Laude in Physics at the University of Pisa on December 12, 1957, and member of the Italian Physical Society as of 1960. He was Full professor in General Physics as of 1979. As of year 1980 part-time resident at Fermilab to participate in the Collider Detector Experiment at the Tevatron, and Spokesperson of the Pisa Photoproduction Group at the Frascati Electron-Synchrotron, from 1960 to 1963. He was the assistant Professor of Atomic Physics, 1960-1961 (University of Pisa), and Full Professor of Physics with Particle Colliders, 1997 – 2006, University of Pisa. Finally he was retired in 2009 from University of Pisa.

Nuclear emulsions, Electron-Synchrotron, meson spectroscopy

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey in Solid State Physics. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He shifted to Firat University in 1980, and became professor in 1996, and He has already been working as professor. He published over 50 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions of oral or poster. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities.

Martensitic phase transformations and shape memory effect and applications to copper-based shape memory alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and crystallography, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

Matteo Tonezzer received his PhD degree “cum laude” from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Trento, Italy. His thesis was regarding the optimization of inorganic and organic nanostructured materials toward gas sensing. In 2011, he won the Young Scientist Award from the European Materials Research Society (EMRS). He worked in research centers in France (ESRF), Brazil (UFMG), Vietnam (HUST), Italy (INFM, CNR) and USA (GeorgiaTech). He is currently working for IMEM at the Italian National Research Council. He is author of more than a dozen papers on international journals and contributed, also with invited talks, to tens of international conferences..

His main area of interest concern the sensing properties of nanostructured organic and inorganic materials

Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 230 scientific publications. He is a member of the American Physical Society as well as Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy).

Current research interests include various aspects of solid state physics, crystallooptics, photonics; more particularly - theoretical study of the effects of disorder in quasi-two-dimensional nanofilms and layered structures caused by the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic excitations, light-matter coupling in composite nanostructures.

Dr. Suresh M. Chathoth has obtained his PhD in Physics from The Technological University of Munich, Germany in 2005. He has done postdoctoral research from The University of Gottingen, Germany and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Presently he is an Assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published several research papers in reputed journals.

His research interest includes glass transition and energy storage materials.

Born March1, 1934 in Zürich. Brought up in CH- 8700 Küsnacht. 1952 - 1958: Higher education at ETH Zürich, Division 9 for Physics and Natural Sciences. 1958: Diploma in Physics. 1958 - 1963: Member of the Research Team in the Helium Laboratory of the ETH (under Prof.Dr. J.L. Olsen) 1963: Doktoral degree in Experimental Physics (Theme: Thermal Expansion of Metals at liquid Helium Temperatures). 1963 - 1965: Postdoktoral position at Bell Telephone Research Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey (USA). 1965 - 1980: Member of Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. 1980 - 1999: Full Professor for Low Temperature Physics at the Technical University of Munich and Director of the Walther-Meissner-Institute for Low Temperature Physics of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Low Temperature Physics, Experimental Physics

Patricia Haro González was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. Her research interests have been growing and evolving continuously. During her PhD thesis she devoted a great deal of efforts to the spectroscopy of rare earth materials, studying the nanocrystals formation under laser irradiation techniques. In 2011, she finished her PhD with more than 30 publications in international journals, obtaining the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award by ULL. During her first postdoctoral position in Verona’s University, she started to work with nanoparticles and their applications as optical thermal sensors in bio-system. Years later, I moved to UAM and started to work in the Fluorescence Imaging Group in the Physics of Materials Department. Here, she began working and leading a new research line, the optical manipulation of fluorescent nanoparticles.

Nanoparticles, Nanocrystals, spectroscopy of rare earth materials