QUANTUM CRITICALITY
	ICAM WORKSHOP Columbia University, Dept of Physics, Room 301, Pupin Hall. 20^th-23^rd March 2003 A scientific workshop and outreach event sponsored by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

The workshop is sponsored by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) and has two objectives:

To carry out a highly informal scientific summit on the cutting issues in the area of quantum criticality,

To bring the excitement of this field to the broader community, running a public lecture and small musical concert "Music of the Quantum", and aiming to make serious contact with science writers in the media..

The meeting is to be held in a highly interactive style, with a large fraction of time devoted to discussion. Key subjects to be covered include criticality in itinerant electron systems and the breakdown of the standard model, the interplay of superconductivity and magnetism, novel types of criticality including frustrated and low dimensional systems, and critical points in high temperature superconductivity. We intend to invite members of the press to some of our sessions, and on the Saturday evening there will be an evening of music and physics, with a commissioned performance of orchestral music inspired by the theme of quantum matter, criticality and collective emergent phenomena.

http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/qcritical

To register: forward completed registration form to conference coordinator Rose Romero, rbromero@lanl.gov .