(Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
(University of Cape Town)
South African-German WE-Heraeus Seminar: Nonlinear dynamics and anomalous transport in low dimension
International Workshop
2 - 6 February 2026
The study of unconventional dynamics and transport in low dimension has a long and distinguished history. It is thus perhaps surprising how much progress this field has seen in recent years, both in theory and experiment. This event is devoted to covering these developments in depth, starting from an introduction to the basics of the field and leading up to the cutting edge of current day research. The goal of this event is to bring together different communities which have studied anomalous dynamics and transport in low dimensions.
The format is chosen to maximise accessibility to a diverse set of participants. It is particularly aimed at researchers in the south of Africa, with an emphasis of career stages up to junior faculty. We aim to enable contacts between researchers based in Africa and in Germany at similar career stages, in the hope that these will persist as the researchers move ahead in their careers.
Topics include
- Anomalous dynamics and transport
- Low dimensions
- Many-body dynamics
- Chaotic Dynamics
- Quantum transport
- Thermalization
- Non-Hermitian dynamics
- Large deviations
- Nonlinear Dynamics.
List of invited participants
Vassos Achilleos (Le Mans Université, FR)
Monika Aidelsburger* (LMU Munich, DE)
Nora Alexeeva (University of Cape Town, SA)
Igor Barashenkov (University of Cape Town, SA)
André Botha (University of South Africa, SA)
Pieter Claeys (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, DE)
Fabian Essler (University of Oxford, UK)
Flore Kunst (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, DE)
Stefano Lepri (Italian National Research Council, CNR-ISC Florence, IT)
Joel Moore (UC Berkeley, US)
Silvia Pappalardi (University of Cologne, DE)
Tomaž Prosen (University of Ljubljana, SI)
Haris Skokos (University of Cape Town, SA)
Georgios Theocharis (Le Mans Université, FR)
Hugo Touchette (Stellenbosch University, SA)
Ruben Verresen (University of Chicago, US)
Paul Woafo (University of Yaoundé I, CM)
* to be confirmed
With the support of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.
