I Week

Prof. M. Sigrist: Introduction to Unconventional Superconductivity.
Prof. M. Troyer: Quantum Monte Carlo methods.

6 October
08:00 - 08:50 Registration.
08:50 - 09:00 Opening of the Training Course.
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. M. Troyer: 1st Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. M. Sigrist: 1st Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:20 Participant presentations.
16:20 - 16:30 Break.
16:30 - 18:30 Prof. M. Sigrist - Prof. M. Troyer: Training Session.

7 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. M. Troyer: 2nd Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. M. Sigrist: 2nd Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Mr. G. Coslovich: Time-resolved ultrafast optical studies
of High-Tc Superconductors.
16:00 - 16:15 Break.
16:15 - 18:30 Prof. M. Sigrist - Prof. M. Troyer: Training Session.

8 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. M. Troyer:3rd Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. M. Sigrist:  3rd Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Mr. T. Ivek: Collective Charge Excitations below the
Metal-to-Insulator Transition in BaVS3.
16:00 - 16:15 Break.
16:15 - 18:30 Prof. M. Sigrist - Prof. M. Troyer: Training Session.

9 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. M. Troyer: 4th Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. M. Sigrist: 4th Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Dr. K. Kim: Optical response of insulating CuO4 plaquett
network.
16:00 - 16:15 Break.
16:15 - 18:30 Prof. M. Sigrist - Prof. M. Troyer: Training Session.

10 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. M. Troyer: 5th Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. M. Sigrist: 5th Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Mr. G. Klingschat: SU(3)-Hubbard model with (strong)
attractive coupling.
16:00 - 16:30 Dr. N. Magnani: Hidden Order and Low-Energy Excitations
in Neptunium Dioxide.
16:30 - 16:40 Break.
16:40 - 18:30 Prof. M. Sigrist - Prof. M. Troyer: Training Session.


II Week

Prof. G. Aeppli: Collective quantum effects in simple insulators.
Prof. P. Littlewood: Novel quantum condensates in excitonic matter.

13 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. G. Aeppli: 1st Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. P. Littlewood: 1st Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:20 Dr. V. Yushankhai: Self-consistent renormalization theory
of spin fluctuations in paramagnetic spinel LiV_2O_4.
16:20 - 16:30 Break.
16:30 - 18:30 Prof. G. Aeppli - Prof. P. Littlewood: Training Session.

14 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. G. Aeppli: 2nd Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. P. Littlewood: 2nd Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Mr. A. Mai: Valence Transition and Superconductivity in
the Two-Dimensional Extended Periodic Anderson Model.
16:00 - 16:15 Break.
16:15 - 18:30 Prof. G. Aeppli - Prof. P. Littlewood: Training Session.

15 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. G. Aeppli: 3rd Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. P. Littlewood: 3rd Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Mr. N. Matthias: From an Antiferromagnet to a Valence
Bond Solid: Evidence for a First Order Phase Transition.
16:00 - 16:15 Break.
16:15 - 18:30 Prof. G. Aeppli - Prof. P. Littlewood: Training Session.

16 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. G. Aeppli: 4th Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. P. Littlewood: 4th Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Dr. M. Poltavskaya: Two-Time Green Functions in the
Theory of Low-Dimensional Spin-1/2 Magnets.
16:00 - 16:15 Break.
16:15 - 18:30 Prof. G. Aeppli - Prof. P. Littlewood: Training Session.

17 October
09:00 - 11:00 Prof. G. Aeppli: 5th Lesson.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. P. Littlewood: 5th Lesson.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch.
15:30 - 16:00 Mr. M. Ringel: Magnetic properties of impurities with
strongly correlated electrons.
16:00 - 16:30 Mr. S. Skornyakov: Correlated band structure of NiO:
LDA+DMFT(QMC) study.
16:30 - 16:40 Break.
16:40 - 17:20 Mr. M. Warner: Towards Organic Quantum Computation?
17:20 - 17:50 Mr. K. Wohlfeld: Novel Spin-Orbital Polarons in Cubic
Vanadates.
17:50 - 18:00 Break.
18:00 - 18:30 Prof. G. Aeppli - Prof. P. Littlewood: Training Session.
18:30 - 18:45 Closing of the Training Course.