Thermal and Electronic Transport in Nanostructures

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1 Workshop, -, November 11, :30 am - 09:00 am Alexandre R. Rocha Stefano Lepri ISC Davide Donadio University of California - Davis Hugo Aramberri Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona Luiz Felipe C. Pereira Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Alexandre R. Rocha Stefano Lepri ISC Giulio Casati CNR-INFM and University of Insubria at Como REGISTRATION Lecture 1- Fundamentals of electronic transport Lecture 1- Thermal transport in low-dimensional systems Thermal energy transport and dissipation: from nanostructures to hydrogen-bonded liquids Thermal conductivity close to structural phase transitions from first principles Thermal transport and mechanical strength of 2D carbon-based materials Lecture 2- Fundamentals of electronic transport Lecture 2 - Thermal transport in low-dimensional systems Anomalous conductivity and efficient thermal diodes

2 Workshop, -, November 11, :00 pm - 04:30 pm 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm Jouni Ahopelto VTT Finland Liliana Arrachea University of Buenos Aires Alexandre R. Rocha Stefano Lepri ISC Ronan Murphy Tyndall National Institute Clivia Sotomayor Catalan Inst. of Nanotech Abhishek Dhar ICTS POSTER SESSION Thermal and Electrical Properties of Thin Semiconductor Membranes Adiabatic response and quantum thermoelectrics for ac driven electron systems Lecture 3 - Fundamentals of electronic transport Lecture 3 - Thermal transport in low-dimensional systems Thermoelectric properties of PbTe materials driven near structural phase transition Thermal transport in silicon phononic crystals Lecture 1 - Fundamentals of thermal transport

3 Workshop, -, November 11, :30 pm - 10:00 pm Mads Brandbyge Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Douglas Soares Galvao State University of Campinas Olivier Bourgeois CNRS Abhishek Dhar ICTS Amnon Aharony Caio Lewenkopf Fluminense Federal University Keiji Saito Keio University WORKSHOP DINNER I Electron and phonon transport and their coupling far from equilibrium: The DFT-NEGF and semi-classical Langevin approach Enhanced Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Carbon-based Nanostructures Playing with molecular junctions - three tales from the south Toward the quantum regime of thermal transport by attowatt sensitive thermal conductance measurements Lecture 2 - Fundamentals of thermal transport Time reversal symmetry breaking, spin-orbit interactions and spintronics Conductance oscillations in a dot-cavity system in the Kondo regime Universal trade-off relation between power and efficiency for heat to work conversion

4 Workshop, -, November 11, 2016 Ari Harju Aalto University Abhishek Dhar ICTS Giuliano Benenti CNCS Ali Shakouri Purdue University Zlatan Aksamija University of Massachusetts Amherst Ora Entin - Wohlman Giuliano Benenti CNCS Ali Shakouri Purdue University Large-scale gpu simulations on electronic and thermal transport in graphene Lecture 3 - Fundamentals of thermal transport Lecture 1 - Fundamental aspects of thermoelectricity Lecture 1 - Thermoelectric transport in nanostructures: experimental aspects Lecture 1 - Energy transport in nano- and molecular junctions Phonons, Phonons Everywhere: Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Semiconductor Devices Enhanced performance of three-terminal thermoelectric devices Lecture 2 - Fundamental aspects of thermoelectricity Lecture 2 - Thermoelectric transport in nanostructures: experimental aspects

5 Workshop, -, November 11, :00 pm - 03:45 pm 04:00 pm - 04:30 pm 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm Lucas Lindsay Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ernane de Freitas Martins George Matsas UNESP Giuliano Benenti CNCS Ali Shakouri Purdue University Lecture 2 - Energy transport in nano- and molecular junctions First principles phonon thermal transport: from bulk to the nanoscale QM/MM and electronic transport simulations for detecting dna hybridization using graphene IIP COLLOQUIUM - THE UNRUH EFFECT Lecture 3 - Fundamental aspects of thermoelectricity Lecture 3 - Thermoelectric transport in nanostructures: experimental aspects Lecture 3 - Energy transport in nano- and molecular junctions

6 Workshop, -, November 11, :00 pm - 04:30 pm 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm 07:00 pm - 09:30 pm Emmanuel Pereira Federal Univeristy of Minas Gerais Sebastian Volz Ecole Centrale - Paris Luciano Colombo University of Cagliari Robert Whitney UniversitGrenoble Diego Rabelo da Costa Federal Univerisity of Cear POSTER SESSION WORKSHOP DINNER II Increasing thermal rectification: ingredients for an efficient thermal diode Understanding and Controlling the Thermal Phonon Spectrum Thermal boundary resistance at Si/Ge interfaces Qu-stochastic thermodynamics for non-markovian systems : fluctuation theorems Valley filtering by electrostatic potentials in bilayer graphene and by using snake states in graphene nanoribbons

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