scientific program
SEMINAR WEEK 1 (September 7 - 11)
WORKSHOP WEEK 2 (September 14 - 18)
FOCUS MEETING WEEK 3 (September 21 - 25)
SEMINAR WEEK 1 (September 7 - 11)
| Sunday, September 6 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - | Reception with food and beverages |
| Monday, September 7 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening by Organizers |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Stephen Creagh (University of Nottingham) |
| Semiclassical theory of tunneling (Part I) (lecture - pdf.file) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Akira Shudo (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| Complex semiclassical approach to chaotic tunneling (Part I) (lecture - pdf.file) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:45 | Uzy Smilansky (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot) |
| Chaotic scattering revisited (Part I) (review article - pdf.file 25 MB) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | MPIPKS Colloquium |
| Chairman: Jan-Michael Rost (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) | |
| Gerhard Paulus (University Jena) | |
| Recent experiments in above-threshold ionization | |
| Tuesday, September 8 | |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Martin Holthaus (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) |
| Many-body tunneling of a forced BEC (Part I) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Uzy Smilansky (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot) |
| Chaotic scattering revisited (Part II) (review article - pdf.file 25 MB) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:45 | Stephen Creagh (University of Nottingham) |
| Semiclassical theory of tunneling (Part II) (lecture - pdf.file) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Wednesday, September 9 | |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Oliver Morsch (CNR-INFM, Pisa) |
| Quantum tunneling in optical lattices: From Asymmetry to Zener (Part I) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Akira Shudo (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| Complex semiclassical approach to chaotic tunneling (Part II) (lecture - pdf.file) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Excursion |
| Thursday, September 10 | |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Uzy Smilansky (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot) |
| Chaotic scattering revisited (Part III) (review article - pdf.file 25 MB) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Martin Holthaus (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) |
| Many-body tunneling of a forced BEC (Part II) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:45 | Oliver Morsch (CNR-INFM, Pisa) |
| Quantum tunneling in optical lattices: From Asymmetry to Zener (Part II) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Friday, September 11 | |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Stephen Creagh (University of Nottingham) |
| Semiclassical theory of tunneling (Part III) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Akira Shudo (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| Complex semiclassical approach to chaotic tunneling (Part III) (lecture - pdf.file) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:45 | Martin Holthaus (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) |
| Many-body tunneling of a forced BEC (Part III) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
WORKSHOP WEEK 2 (September 14 - 18)
| Sunday, September 13 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - | Reception with food and beverages |
| Monday, September 14 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening by Sergej Flach (MPIPKS) and the Organizers |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University) |
| Chaos-assisted tunneling with or without symmetry | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Roland Ketzmerick (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Regular-to-Chaotic Tunneling and Spectral Statistics | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Stephen Creagh (University of Nottingham) |
| Squeezing light from optical resonators | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Akira Shudo (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| Pruning theory of the Stokes geometry | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Martin Holthaus (Carl von Ossietzky Univerität Oldenburg) |
| Amplitude-controlled BEC tunneling | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Mark Fromhold (University of Nottingham) |
| Effects of tunnelling on electron and cold-atom transport | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | TSICS09-Colloquium |
| Chairman: Andreas Läuchli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) | |
| Eric Heller (Harvard University) | |
| Tunneling and coherence in few and many body systems | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Supper |
| 19:00 | Poster session I (odd numbers) |
| Tuesday, September 15 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Joachim Ankerhold (Universität Ulm) |
| Macroscopic quantum tunneling as detection process in superconducting circuits | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Louis Pecora (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington) |
| Regularization of tunneling rates with quantum chaos | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Jan Wiersig (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) |
| Tunneling and scattering in optical microcavities | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Takahisa Harayama (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto) |
| Chaos assisted tunneling in two-dimensional microcavity lasers | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Ulrich Kuhl (Philipps Universität Marburg) |
| Scattering in disordered microwave systems | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Soo-Young Lee (Seoul National University) |
| Tunneling emission in deformed dielectric microcavities | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Srihari Keshavamurthy (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) |
| Role of dynamical tunneling in the control of driven systems | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Steffen Löck (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Regular-to-chaotic tunneling rates: From the quantum to the semiclassical regime | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Supper |
| 19:30 | Poster session II (even numbers) |
| Wednesday, September 16 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Ennio Arimondo (University of Pisa) |
| Tunneling control for Many-Body systems | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Sandro Wimberger (Universität Heidelberg) |
| Correlation measures for many-body bosonic systems | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Group photo (to be published on the website) & Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Peter Schmelcher (Universität Heidelberg) |
| Correlated Tunneling in pure and mixed bosonic systems | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Doron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva) |
| BEC dynamics in a few site system | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Excursion |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Thursday, September 17 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Reinhard Dörner (Goethe Universiät Frankfurt am Main) |
| Localization and Delocalization of Vacancies in diatomic Molecules | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Andreas Buchleitner (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg) |
| Nonlinear resonances in many-particle dynamics: From Helium to Bose-Hubbard | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Mahir Hussein (University of São Paulo) |
| The invisible quantum barrier | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Denis Ullmo (Université d'Orsay) |
| Tunneling in graphene n-p junctions in the quantum hall regime | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Moritz Hiller (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg) |
| Scattering properties of bose-hubbard hamiltonians with two and three sites | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Tobias Kramer (Universität Regensburg) |
| Tunneling and scattering in the n-Dimensional Coulomb problem | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Kinya Takahashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka) |
| Instanton vs. stable-unstable manifold guided tunneling: | |
| Change of semiclassical mechanism with perturbation strength | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Tomás Novotný (Charles University in Prague) |
| Overcoming a barrier due to non-Gaussian noise | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Supper |
| Friday, September 18 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Kensuke Ikeda (Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu) |
| Natural boundary, Pade mending and chaotic tunnelling | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Amaury Mouchet (Université François Rabelais, Tours) |
| Tunnelling and complex time paths | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Stefan Rotter (Technische Universität Wien) |
| Transport through nano-wires with surface roughness | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Shmuel Fishman (Haifa Institute of Technology) |
| Tunneling and scattering in complex systems - Summary and future perspectives | |
| 12:30 | Lunch and Departure |
FOCUS MEETING WEEK 3 (September 21 - 25)
| Monday, September 21 | |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Tsampikos Kottos (Wesleyan University) |
| Optical waveguides with Antilinear Symmetries: Randomness versus Chaos | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Ulf Peschel (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| On the perfect excitation of an ion by an optical pulse | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | MPIPKS Colloquium |
| Martin Gutzwiller Fellowship, Award Ceremony | |
| Chairman: Frank Jülicher (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) | |
| Juan M. R. Parrondo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) | |
| Paradoxes in stochastic dynamics | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Supper |
| 19:30 | Poster session with beverages |
| Tuesday, September 22 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Boris Shapiro (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa) |
| Expansion of cold atomic gases in the presence of disorder | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Patricio Leboeuf (Université Paris-Sud) |
| Anderson localization and superfluidity of a weakly interacting Bose gas | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Thomas Wellens (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) |
| Nonlinear coherent transport of waves in disordered media | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Barbara Dietz-Pilatus (Technische Universität Darmstadt) |
| Chaotic scattering in the regime of overlapping resonances in systems with and | |
| without induced violation of time-reversal invariance | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Matthias Michler (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Quantum signatures of partial barriers in phase space | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Bernd Köber (Philipps-Universität Marburg) |
| Coupling fidelity in a microwave billiard | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Stefan Bittner (Technische Universität Darmstadt) |
| Microwave experiments with circular and square dielectric billiards | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Poster session with Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Eva-Maria Gräfe (University of Bristol) |
| Mean-field approximation for a non-Hermitian Bose-Hubbard dimer | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Alexander Stotland (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva) |
| Semilinear response and RMT for the heating rate of cold atoms in vibrating traps | |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Joshua Bodyfelt (Wesleyan University) |
| Probing anderson localization via fidelity | |
| 19:00 | Supper |
| Wednesday, September 23 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Klaus Richter (Universität Regensburg) |
| Ribbons, rings and rough cavities: Mesoscopic effects in transport through graphene structures | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Martin Sieber (University of Bristol) |
| Resonance eigenstates in open chaotic quantum maps | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Fabrice Mortessagne (Univeristé de Nice) |
| Microwave investigation of graphene-like structure | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Henning Schomerus (Lancaster University) |
| < | Fractal Weyl laws - beyond ballistic chaotic decay |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| Thursday, September 24 | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Ragnar Fleischmann (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göottingen) |
| Branched flows and random caustics | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Olivier Brodier (Universit Franois-Rabelais Tours) |
| Decoherence and nonlinearity | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Friday, September 25 | |
| 10:00-12:00 | informal discussions |
| Departure |
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