New Directions in Mesoscopic Physics (Towards Nanoscience)

Lectures.- Field theories in physics of disordered conductors.- Non-Fermi-liquid metals in low dimensions.- Counting statistics of mesoscopic noise.- Coulomb blockade and Kondo effect in quantum dots.- Quantum coherent transport: From mesoscopic circuits to molecular wires.- Phase measurements in Quantum Dots.- Superconducting quantum bit based on the Cooper pair box.- Dissipation in Josephson qubits.- Entanglement and decoherence studies in Cavity QED experiments.- Seminars.- Quantum Electro-Mechanical Systems.- Possible weak temperature dependence of electron dephasing.- Momentum-resolved tunneling: Spectroscopic tool and basis for device applications.- Edge states and quantum Hall effects in d+id’ superconductors.- Universal scaling flow diagram for magnetoconductance in disordered GaAs layers.- Fluctuations of the anisotropy energy in nanoscale ferromagnetic particles.- Full counting statistics in multi-terminal normal metal tunnel junction structures.- Resonant Cooper-Pair Tunneling: Counting Statistics and Frequency-Dependent Current Noise.- Infuence of thermal puctuations on an underdamped Josephson tunnel junction.- Quantum computing with many superconducting qubits.- Few-electron liquid and solid phases in artificial molecules at high magnetic field.- Phase Coherence and Spin Dynamics.