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From Solid State to Biophysics XII
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Cavtat, Croatia, June 13-20, 2026
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Program ver. 05
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Saturday 13 June
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Hotel lobby, terrace
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Arrivals & organized transfers from the airport all day
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10:00 - 20:00 Registration at the PerfectMeetings desk in the front lobby of the hotel ‘’Croatia’’
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19:30 - 22:00Welcome reception at the upper terrace above the hotel lobby. Light foods & drinks.
Performance by Klapa Subrenum.
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Sunday 14 June
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Sunday
RagusaNotable Guests
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1.1 General Interest
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08:00Conference opening, welcome message
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08:20Elisa De Ranieri (Editor)Newton (Cell Press)
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08:25David Hopwood (Editor)Cambridge Materials (Cambridge University Press)Notable Guests
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08:30Stuart Parkin
MPI Halle, Germany		2D van der Waals materials for magnetic tunnel junctions and racetrack memoriesDavid Smith
(director) IRB, Croatia
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09:10Mark Brongersma
Stanford, USA		Resonant Metamaterials and Tissue TransparencyOsor Barišić
(director) Inst. Physics, Croatia
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09:50Bianxiao Cui
Stanford, USA		Nano-Bio interface, from mechanism to drug development
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10:30Coffee Break
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1.2 General Interest
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11:00Michelle Simmons
UNSW, Australia		Atomic Electronics – building quantum computers in silicon with atomic precision
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11:40Manish Chhowalla
Cambridge, UK		Benefits of ultra-clean interfaces on 2D semiconductors for energy efficient electronics
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12:20Richard New
Western Digital, USA		WD Research: Magnetics Beyond Storage
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13:00Lunch break
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Sunday
Ragusa
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Bobara
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Orlando
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1.3 Superconductivity
1.5 Magnetism & Symmetry
1.7 Complex Systems
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14:00Johan ChangElectronic orders and interactions in oxide superconductors14:00Jaroslav FabianSpin phenomena and correlations in 2D materials14:00Dolores BozovicNonlinear dynamics of the auditory system
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14:30Goran KarapetrovEffect of Disorder on Superconducting and Charge Density Wave Order14:30Junichiro KishineChirality-induced Spin and Orbital Selectivity14:30Theo GeiselStochastic Properties of Musical Time Series
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15:00Zurab GuguchiaDesigning Phase Diagrams of High-Temperature Superconductors Using Uniaxial Stress and Hydrostatic Pressure15:00Mirta HerakMagnetism and symmetry in hybrid organic-inorganic magnet15:00N. Duane LohTokenizing Complexity: The Keys to Hypothesis-Generation in Science
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15:30Pascal SimonUpper critical field and pairing symmetry in 2D Ising superconducting materials15:30Qihang LiuSpin group: symmetry theory of magnetism15:30Karoly HolczerToward an (NV-ODMR) based Imaging System –aka, a high-density Quantum Sensor Platform
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16:00Tea break16:00Tea break16:00Tea break
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1.4 2D Supercoductivity
1.6 Nanoscale Methods
1.8 Biological Nanopores
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16:30Lovro Anto BarišićDownfolding a quantum many-body system: the quasi-1D Fermi polaron16:30Steve PresseSimulation-Based Inference for Reaction Diffusion Systems16:30Cees DekkerNanopores for protein analysis from sequencing to functional transport
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17:00Adina Luican-MayerAtomic Relaxation, Structural Reconstruction, and Emergent Electronic Textures in Twisted 2D Layers17:00TBATBA17:00Jan BehrendsA different game with the same toy: trapping as opposed to translocation in single molecule discrimination with biological nanopores
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17:30Pavol SzabóIsing superconductivity in bulk crystals based on NbSe2 and TaS217:30Milan SykoraStrongly Confined Graphene Quantum Dots: Electronic Structure and Charge Doping Effects from Ensemble Level Studies17:30Chan CaoSingle-molecule analysis of glycan sulfation with a biological nanopore
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18:00Kenneth BurchSwitching the Superconducting Symmetry of FeSe by Exfoliation18:00Elena RozhkovaLight-Activated Hybrid Nanoarchitectures for Controlled Redox Chemistry18:00Matteo Dal PeraroDissecting biophysical and sensing properties of aerolysin pore-forming toxins
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19:30
Get-together at the terrace with the light foods & drinks. Performance by Tsho-Coo Cavtat band.
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Monday 15 June
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Monday
RagusaNotable Guests
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2.1 General Interest
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08:30Marko Lončar
Harvard U., USA		Efficient photon and phonon interfaces for spin qubits in diamond
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09:10Chwee Teck Lim
NUS, Singapore		Why Mechanics Matters in Disease Biology
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09:50Felix Ritort
U. Barcelona, Spain		Heatomics for Life
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10:30Coffee Break
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2.2 Cuprate Superconductivity
2.5 2D Materials
2.8 Biological Nanopores
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11:00Masafumi HorioLayer-selectively enhanced superconducting gap in the highest-temperature superconductor11:00Boris YakobsonThe ‘metabolism’ of high temperature ceramics11:00Jens GundlachNanopore Single-Molecule Technology
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11:30Christopher HomesOptical properties of the overdoped cuprate superconductor La1.75Sr0.25CuO411:30Michael FuhrerReconfigurable Quantum Materials for Low-energy Electronics11:30Giovanni MagliaHow to engineer nanopores for molecular sensing and single-molecule enzymology
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12:00Richard HlubinaWhat does photoemission spectroscopy tell us about electron scattering in the cuprates?12:00Silvija GradecakScalable Growth and Integration of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Future Electronics12:00TBATBA
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12:30Ricardo LoboThe optical phase diagram of single-layer Bi-based cuprate superconductors12:30Oleg YazyevNonlocal disorder in graphene: from topological defects to amorphous state12:30Meni WanunuEnzyme-free modalities for nanopore-based proteomics
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Monday
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2.3 Quantum Materials Spectroscopy
2.6 Neuromorphic Computing
2.9 Bio-imaging & AI
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14:00Ana AkrapCoupling of charge, lattice and spin degrees of freedom in EuCd2As214:00Adrian IonescuEmbodied AI: from Materials to Ultra-Low-Power Integrated Oscillatory Hardware14:00Luigi BonacinaNonlinear Volumetric Imaging: From Optimized SWIR Excitation to High-Speed Spectro-Temporal Scanning
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14:30Milan OrlitaLandau level spectroscopy of topological insulators14:30Ivan SchullerQuantum Materials for Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Computing14:30Veronika PfannenstillImaging Immune–Cancer Cell Interaction Dynamics at Population Scale with Ultra-Thin Super-Extended Light Sheet Microscopy
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15:00Zoran RukeljHigh-temperature transport properties of a two-dimensional weakly doped parabolic semiconductor15:00Sven IngebrandtMaterial combinations for future 3-dimensionally integrated electronic circuits15:00Richard TaylorControlled delivery of (bio)nanoparticles to cells for quantitative studies in membrane biology
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15:30Lenart DudyWhen a Band Melts: A Tale of Dimensionality and Electronic Disorder15:30Francesca d'EliaIntegrating Conductive Polymers with Light-Responsive Materials for Dynamic Neurohybrid Interfaces15:30Sven BergmannDeep learning aging marker from retinal images unveils sex-specific clinical and genetic signatures
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16:00Tea break16:00Tea break16:00Tea break
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2.4 Charge & Correlated Order
2.7 Superconductivity & Topology
2.10 Neural Interfaces
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16:30Alexander BalandinQuasi-1D/2D Charge-Density-Wave Materials: From Exotic Physics to Applications16:30Maria IavaroneMagnetic Defects in Nb Surface Oxides: Implications for Superconducting Qubit Materials16:30Aleksandar OpančarCapacitive versus Faradaic Microelectrodes for Extracellular Stimulation
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17:00Uladzislaw GumiennikSynthesis and Characterisation of Size-Controlled Rare-Earth-Doped Magnetite Nanoparticle17:00Nina MarkovićNanostructured Superconducting Systems17:00Klas TybrandtSoft and stretchable neural electrodes based on gold nanowire composites
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17:30Wojciech TabiśSymmetry-selective control of the Verwey transition in magnetite via uniaxial stress17:30F. Nur ÜnalAnomalous non-Abelian Floquet Topological Phases17:30Bernhard WolfrumSelf-Folding Bioelectronic Interfaces for Conformal and Spatially Selective Peripheral Nerve Modulation
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18:00Matija ČuloElectron localization in a spin-clustered charge order phase in Ca1-xGdxMnO318:00Leonid RokhinsonToward high-order non-abelions: formation of helical states in the fractional quantum Hall regime18:00Filip NovkoskiSynthetic soft active particles - from cell to tissue
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19:30
Industrial Forum and Poster session 1
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Soirée at the terrace with the light foods & drinks.
Performance by Duo Jazzy Wolf & Davor & guests.
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