List of Invited Speakers

Friedhelm Bechstedt   (Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany)
          Optical spectra of semiconductors from first principles
Alberto Bramati    (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)
          Superfluidity of microcavity polaritons

Enrique Calleja    (Universidad Polite´cnica de Madrid, Spain)
          On the spontaneous and ordered growth of III-N nanocolumns: growth on
           nonpolar substrates and applications to Optoelectronic Devices
£ukasz Cywiñski    (Institute of Physics PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
          Dephasing of electron spin qubits due to their interaction with nuclei in quantum dots

Tomasz Kazimierczuk   (University of Warsaw, Poland) 
          Spectroscopy of CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots

Olivier Krebs   (LPN-CNRS, Marcoussis, France) 
          Magneto-optical properties of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots doped
         by a single Mn atom

Jacek Majewski   (University of Warsaw, Poland) 
          Functionalized carbon nanotubes – a key to nanotechnology?

Laurens Molenkamp   (Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany) 
          Dirac Fermions in HgTe Quantum Wells  

Milan Orlita   (High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Grenoble, France)
          Optical spectroscopy of graphene and graphite
Piotr Perlin   (Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
          New concepts of nitride light emitters
David Ritchie   (University of Cambridge, UK)
          Single-Photon and Entangled-Photon Sources for Quantum Information

Gian Salis   (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland)
          Spin precession in the combined Rashba- and Dresselhaus-field of a
           two-dimensional electron gas


Symposium:  "(Nano)characterization Methods for Semiconductors"

Francesco d'Acapito    (ESRF, Grenoble, France)
          
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in the nanocharacterization of semiconducting systems
Martin Albrecht   (IKZ, Berlin, Germany)
          High resolution transmission electron microscopy of semiconductor low-
          dimensional systems

Tomasz Durakiewicz   (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
          High resolution photoemission spectroscopy of systems with strongly correlated
          f-electrons

Edward A. Görlich    (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
          
Polish Synchrotron Radiation Source - Current Status

Ferdinand Hofer   (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria)
          The advanced sensitivity of EFTEM
Vaclav Holy    (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
         
Investigation of nanostructures by synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques

Serge Huant     (Institut Néel, CNRS/UJF, Grenoble, France)
          
Scanning-gate microscopy of semiconductor nanostructures: an overview
Paul M. Koenraad     (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
          
Semiconductor nanostructure formation and doping studied at the atomic
          scale by cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy

Pawe³ Korecki   (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
          
Atomic-Scale Imaging by means of X-ray Absorption Anisotropy

Sébastien Sauvage     (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
         
Absorption nanospectroscopy of single quantum dots in the infrared
Claus M. Schneider   (Institute of Solid State Research, IFF, Jülich)
          Spectromicroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation: Past, Present, and Future

Krystyna Stiller   (Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg)
          To see and to catch atoms. What can we learn using atom probe tomography ?

Alberta Bonanni   (Johannes Kepler Universitaet, Linz, Austria- chairperson of the
          symposium and moderator of the rump session