40th Meeting of Polish Physicists
September 6-11, 2009, Cracow

Schedule

Sunday:
Sep/06
Institute of Physics UJ:
12:00-20:00 registration
14:00-17:00 session (S-0) for teachers (organized by the School Teachers Section of the Polish Physical Society)
18:30-20:00 welcome party
AGH-UST Teaching Center (U-2):
20:00-22:00 Grzegorz Turnau and Andrzej Sikorowski concert
Monday:
Sep/07
"Aula Duża A" - Auditorium Maximum UJ:
08:45-10:00 opening ceremony
10:00-11:00 plenary session P-1
chair: Reinhad Kulessa (UJ)
10:00-11:00 Jerzy Jurkiewicz (UJ)
Quantum gravity
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-13:30 plenary session P-2
chair: Wiesław Kamiński (UMCS)
11:30-12:30 Paweł Olko (IFJ PAN)
Hadron-therapy
12:30-13:30 Andrzej Sobolewski (IF PAN)
Photophysics of hydrogen bonds: from theory to applications
13:30-15:30 lunch
15:30-18:30 topical sessions S-1
11:30-13:30 open lecture W-1
chair: Wiktor Zipper (UŚ)
18:30-19:30 Jerzy W. Niewodniczański (AGH-UST & PAA)
Nuclear energetics - current state and future
"Sala Konferencyjna" - Auditorium Maximum UJ:
15:30-18:30 IPSEC VII meeting
Tuesday:
Sep/08
"Aula Duża A" - Auditorium Maximum UJ:
09:00-11:00 plenary session P-3
chair: Henryk Figiel (AGH)
09:90-10:00 Jakub Tworzydło (UW)
Low-dimensional systems
10:00-11:00 Marek Szymoński (UJ)
Nanotechnology at surfaces of materials with large energetic gap
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-13:30 plenary session P-4
chair: Robert Gałązka (IF PAN)
11:30-12:30 Józef Barnaś (UAM)
Gigantic magnetoresistivity
12:30-13:30 Krzysztof Meissner (UW)
Boundaries of physics
13:30-15:30 lunch
15:30-18:30 topical sessions S-2
19:00-20:00 Meeting of the Women' Section of the Polish Physical Society
Wednesday:
Sep/09
"Aula Duża A" - Auditorium Maximum UJ:
09:00-11:00 plenary session P-5
chair: Jerzy A. Janik (IFJ PAN)
09:00-10:00 J. Georg Bednorz (IBM Research GmbH, Zurich)
High Tc Superconductivity – a discovery and its impact
10:00-11:00 Krzysztof Rogacki (INTiBS)
Room temperature superconductivity?
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-13:30 plenary session P-6
chair: Maciej Kolwas (IF PAN)
11:30-12:30 Wojciech H. Żurek (LANL)
Between classical and quantum world
12:30-13:30 Paweł Horodecki (PG)
Quantum informatics
13:30-15:30 lunch
15:30-18:30 topical sessions S-3
16:00-18:30 Polish Physical Society Delegates meeting
18:30-19:30 poster session
19:30-11:30 The Spirit of Physics - historical fiction commedy (in Polish, with English subtitles). The play was recorded 2008, Sep 26th during open-air theater show. Scenario and directory: Jurek Grębosz. Cast: scientific and research staff of the Institue of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. English subtitles available.
Thursday:
Sep/10
"Aula Duża A" - Auditorium Maximum UJ:
09:00-11:00 plenary session P-7
chair: Krzysztof Pomorski (UMCS)
09:00-10:00 Andrzej Gałkowski (IFPiLM)
Project of the termonuclear reactor ITER in Cadarache
10:00-11:00 Henryk Wilczyński (IFJ PAN)
Cosmic ray
11:30-13:00 lunch
13:30-18:00 excursion to Salt Mine in Wieliczka
18:00- banquet in "Folwark Zalesie"
Friday:
Sep/11
"Aula Duża A" - Auditorium Maximum UJ:
09:00-11:00 plenary session P-8
chair: Stanisław M. Dubiel (AGH-UST)
09:00-10:00 Jakub Zakrzewski (UJ)
Ultracold matter
10:00-11:00 Jan Królikowski (UW)
LHC – physics beyond Standard Model
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-13:30 Andrzej Białas (UJ & PAU), Zofia Gołąb-Meyer (UJ), Marek Jeżabek (IFJ PAN), Stefan Jurga (UAM), Krzysztof J. Kurzydłowski (PW), Maciej Kolwas (IF PAN & EPS), Reinhard Kulessa (UJ & PTF) and Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (UW)
Open discussion on a further fate of the Polish physics
13:30-14:00 closing ceremony
14:00-15:00 dinner