The Mauterndorf Winterschool 2025 in the castle of Mauterndorf will feature 26 invited talks and tutorial lectures (see list below) and there will be a large poster session of contributed presentations on Wednesday evening in the "Gemeindesaal" in the village centre.

The School starts on Sunday, 9 February 2025 at 5 p.m. with a Welcome Reception and registration in the castle.
During the week, there will be two morning and two evening sessions each day, with free time in between for skiing or other activities. The famous Winterschool ski race will take place on Friday noon, with the farewell party and winners ceremony in the evening.

We are looking forward to exciting talks and lively discussions and hope that you will take home many new ideas that will inspire your research.

• Andrei Geim (University of Manchester): Dirac plasma and its exotic electronic properties
• Liang Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Topology in 2D materials
• Jun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University): High-Temperature Quantum Valley Hall Effect and Valleytronics
• Mansour Shayegan (Princeton University): Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect in the lowest Landau level
• Thomas Dietl (IFPAN, Warzawa): Quantitative understanding of the quantum spin Hall effect
• Elizaveta Semenova (Danish Technical University Lyngby): Engineering Scalable Quantum Photonic Devices for Telecom Applications
• Stefan Reitzenstein (TU Berlin): Advanced quantum dot based quantum light sources for applications in photonic quantum information technology
• Val Zwiller (KTH Stockholm): Detecting light at the single photon level: quantum devices and applications
• Thomas Michely (Universität Köln): Physics with a 1D metal in a 2D material
• Rupert Huber (Universität Regensburg): Lightwave choreography of Bloch electrons
• Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zürich) 
• Andreas Stier (WSI München): Hybridized excitons in monolayer semiconductors
• Ursula Wurstbauer (Universität Münster): Collective excitations, moiré minibands and exciton ensembles in van der Waals structures
• Erik Bakkers (TU Eindhoven): Progress on hexagonal Silicon Germanium
• Menno Veldhorst (TU Delft) 
• Andreas Reiserer (TU München): Erbium dopants for quantum networks
• Shahal Ilani (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel): Quantum Twisting Microscopy
• Andreas Kuhlmann (Universität Basel): Hole spin qubits in silicon MOS structures
• Masiar Sistani (TU Wien)

• Nanowires and quantum dots
• 2D materials, graphene and dichalcogenides
• Quantum photonics and integrated optics
• Quantum transport
• Quantum information processing with solid-state platforms
• Topological insulators
• Nanoelectronic devices
• etc.

a.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gunther Springholz, Mag.^a Susanne Schwind 
Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics
University of Linz (JKU)
Altenberger Str. 69
A-4040 Linz, Austria
Tel.: +43 (0)732 2468 9600
Email: winterschool(at)jku.at

• Gunther Springholz (Chairman, JKU Linz)
• Armando Rastelli (JKU Linz)
• Alberta Bonanni (JKU Linz)
• Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zürich)
• Jonathan Finley (WSI TU München)
• Sven Höfling (Univ. Würzburg)
• Georgios Katsaros (IST Austria)
• Hubert Krenner (Univ. Augsburg)
• Jochen Mannhart (MPI-FKF Stuttgart)
• Stephan Reitzenstein (TU Berlin)
• Heike Riel (IBM Zürich)
• Christian Schüller (Univ. Regensburg)
• Gottfried Strasser (TU Wien)
• Christian Teichert (Montanuniv. Leoben)
• Gregor Weihs (Univ. Innsbruck)
• Val Zwiller (KTH Stockholm)

• Günther Bauer (JKU Linz)
• Klaus von Klitzing (MPI-FKF Stuttgart)
• Friedemar Kuchar (Montanuniversität Leoben)

JKU Linz: Gunther Springholz, Moritz Brehm, Andreas Schell, Thomas Fromherz, Alberta Bonanni, Armando Rastelli
Montanuniversitaet Leoben: Rainer T. Lechner

Please send your abstract, using this template, opens a file, as a Word or pdf file by email to: winterschool(at)jku.at

Please bring along your printed poster (format A0) to the Winterschool, for the poster session on Wednesday (5 p.m.) in the village municipal office (address: Markt 52, 5570 Mauterndorf).

Please check on your poster session and number in the POSTER LIST.

The location of the International Winterschool on New Developments in Solid State Physics is the picturesque 13th century castle of Mauterndorf, a small village in the heart of the Austrian Alps which had already been a station on an ancient Roman trading route over the Radstädter Tauern: You can still see an original Roman mile stone in the middle of the village. On the location of the medieval castle there had then been a Roman fort.
In medieval times, the castle of Mauterndorf, situated on a rocky cliff, had been a toll station, and the summer residence of the archbishops of Salzburg.
Find out more , opens an external URL in a new windowabout the history of Mauterndorf and its castle.

In the afternoon between the morning and evening sessions, there is some time for skiing, snow shoe walking or other activities in the snow or discussions in the local cafes, bars and restaurants. Mauterndorf is a small village and you will probably meet some colleagues wherever you go.
You can just step into one of the ski shuttle busses (free of charge), with stops throughout the village, and get to the cable car in a few minutes, which takes you up the mountain Großeck and Speiereck. On a sunny day it is also very nice to just go up the mountain and enjoy the wonderful view of the Austrian Alps, for example from the Panorama-Restaurant, or on the Winter Wonderland Walk, which is 3 kilometres long and with a max 6% inclination perfectly suited for sledges and toboggans or snowshoe hiking.

We would like to encourage you to take part in our SKI RACE, which has a long tradition at the Winterschool and is to be considered as a fun event! It will take place on Friday, February 14, at 1 p.m. on the mountain Großeck.

However, please bear in mind that the participation is at you own risk!

The registration for the race is possible between Monday morning and Wednesday 12:00 at the conference desk: please register either only individually or individually and as a team member. The ski teams must consist of 4 persons, among them 1 senior.

There will be separate registration lists for Ladies, Junior Gentlemen (age < 40), Senior Gentlemen (age > 40), Snowboarders, (Children) and Teams
Team: 4 persons (among them 1 Senior).
Everybody who is a member of a team has to sign up as an individual as well.

Please visit the Tourist Website of Salzburger Lungau, opens an external URL in a new window for booking your accommodation for the Winterschool.

Be aware of possible SPAM mails by "Coordination@reservationsmanagement.org" or similar addresses - these should be ignored or immediately deleted.
We only contact you via the Winterschool Email address.

The closest airport to Mauterndorf is Salzburg Airport. It is Austria’s second largest airport, at the heart of the motorway network interface Salzburg-Munich-Vienna-Villach. There are well scheduled flights to the main European cities and it is well linked up to the main transport hubs of Frankfurt, Vienna, London and Zurich. Coming by taxi or rented car the drive to the village of Mauterndorf on the Tauernautobahn motorway takes approximately 90 minutes.

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The village of Mauterndorf has a stop that serves the public bus transport network. The train ride from the city of Salzburg out to Radstadt changing to the Postbus to Mauterndorf takes approximately two-and-a-half hours. Heading north, Tamsweg is the next available train stop.

Here , opens an external URL in a new windowyou can search for your individual train and bus connections.

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Mauterndorf can be reached on the A 10 Tauernautobahn motorway via the St. Michael exit and then by taking the B 99 to Mauterndorf.
Please note! A motorway toll sticker (Vignette) is required for all motorways in Austria. There is also an additional motorway toll for the Tauerntunnel (between Flachauwinkel-Süd and Zederhaus) heading south and for the Katschbergtunnel (between Rennweg and St. Michael) heading north. There is plenty of parking space available on site.

Visitors who do not wish to purchase a motorway sticker can reach Mauterndorf as follows: