Scientific program

 Sunday, 8th September
18:30 - 19:30registration - in guest house no. 4
19:00 - 21:00welcome reception - in the institute's main building
  
 Monday, 9th September
08:45 - 09:00Opening - Frank Jülicher, director of the mpipks
 chair: Roland Ketzmerick
09:00 - 09:35Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
 Microwave studies of scattering systems with complex dynamics
09:45 - 10:20Thomas Guhr (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
 Distribution of scattering matrix elements: Exact results and experiment
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:35Stefan Rotter (Vienna University of Technology)
 Pump-controlled exceptional points and random laser emission
11:45 - 12:20Martina Hentschel (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
 Active vs. passive optical microcavities
12:30 - 14:00lunch break
  
 chair: Klaus Richter
14:00 - 14:35Eric Heller (Harvard University)
 Stability and quantum correspondence for branched flow
14:45 - 15:05Jakob Metzger (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation)
 The statistics of extreme waves
15:10 - 15:45Arnd Bäcker (Technische Universität Dresden)
 Classical and quantum aspects of higher-dimensional systems
15:55 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:30aqcs13 colloquium (chair: Roland Ketzmerick)
 Mathias Fink (Langevin Institute, Paris)
 Controlling waves at subwavelength scales in space and time through complex media
17:40 - 18:00Jan Wiersig (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
 Non-Hermitian effects due to asymmetric backscattering in optical microresonators
18:05 - 19:00supper
19:00 - 22:00poster session (focus on odd poster numbers)
  
 Tuesday, 10th September
 chair: Ulf Peschel
09:00 - 09:35David Guéry-Odelin (Université Paul Sabatier)
 Matter wave scattering on complex potentials
09:45 - 10:20Tsampikos Kottos (Wesleyan University, Middletown)
 Asymetric wave transport in structures with parity-time symmetry
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:35Bart van Tiggelen (LPMMC, CNRS, Grenoble)
 Momentum of the quantum vacuum
11:45 - 12:20Boris Shapiro (Technion Haifa)
 Fluctuating electromagnetic fields
12:30 - 14:00lunch break
  
 chair: Peter Schlagheck
14:00 - 14:35Juan Diego Urbina (Universität Regensburg)
 Quantum interference in interacting bosonic fields: A semiclassical approach
14:45 - 15:05Fabian Katzschmann (Universität Paderborn)
 Quantum walks in time
15:10 - 15:30Alois Regensburger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
 Observation of discrete-time solitons in a temporal fiber network
15:35 - 16:05coffee break
16:05 - 16:25Olivier Legrand (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
 Chaotic wave scattering in open systems applied to elecromagnetic reverberation chambers
16:30 - 16:50Malte Tichy (University of Aarhus)
 Many particle interference beyond Shih-Alley and Hong-Ou-Mandel
16:55 - 17:15Matthias Heinrich (University of Central Florida)
 Supersymmetric optical structures
17:20 - 17:40Holger Schanz (Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal)
 Topological resonances in quantum graphs
17:45 - 20:00supper
  
 Wednesday, 11th September
 chair: Fabrice Mortessagne
09:00 - 09:35Gregor Tanner (University of Nottingham)
 Discrete flow mapping
09:45 - 10:20Martin Sieber (University of Bristol)
 Discrete symmetries and spectral statistics
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:35Ulrich Kuhl (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
 Dynamical tunneling in closed and open microwave cavities
11:45 - 12:05Barbara Dietz (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
 Microwave experiments with constant width billiards: Spectral properties and dynamical tunneling
12:10 - 12:30Arthur Goetschy (Yale University)
 Filtering random matrices: Enhancing transmission in multiple scattering media with incomplete channel control
12:35 - 14:00lunch break
15:00 - 18:00guided tours either through the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon or through the Green Vault
19:00 -conference dinner in the restaurant Chiaveri
  
 Thursday, 12th September
 chair: Italo Guarneri
09:00 - 09:35Henning Schomerus (Lancaster University)
 Random-matrix theory of transport through Majorana nanowires
09:45 - 10:20Alexander Szameit (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
 Photonic graphene - The physics of honeycomb waveguide arrays
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:35Jan-Michael Rost (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
 Electron bunching in light matter interaction
11:45 - 12:05Carl Dettmann (University of Bristol)
 Anomalous diffusion in periodic structures
12:10 - 12:30Rafael Molina (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
 Escape from a lattice billiard
12:35 - 14:00lunch break
  
 chair: Andrey Kolovsky
14:00 - 14:35Philippe Bouyer (CNRS - Université Bordeaux)
 Quantum transport of matter waves in optical disorder
14:45 - 15:05Pierre Lugan (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
 Coherence properties of weakly interacting Bose gases across the superfluid-Bose-glass transition
15:10 - 15:30Sandro Wimberger (Universität Heidelberg)
 Many-body dynamics in dissipative optical lattices
15:35 - 16:05coffee break
16:05 - 16:40Cord A. Müller (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore & Universität Konstanz)
 Signatures of phase-coherent localization in random potentials
16:50 - 17:10Peter Schmelcher (Universität Hamburg)
 Interaction induced tunneling processes for strongly correlated ultracold bosonic systems
17:15 - 17:35Dmitry Savin (Brunel University)
 Shifts of resonance widths as a probe of eigenfunction nonorthogonality
17:40 - 19:00supper
19:00 - 22:00poster session (focus on even poster numbers)
  
 Friday, 13th September
 chair: Giulio Casati
09:00 - 09:35Markus Oberthaler (Universität Heidelberg)
 The static and driven quantum dimer: Experiments on many particle quantum dynamics
09:45 - 10:20Sergej Flach (Massey University)
 Wave surprises: Disorder against nonlinearity, flat band transport, phase-dependent gain
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:35Eduardo Altmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
 Leaking chaotic systems
11:45 - 12:20Dima Shepelyansky (Université Paul Sabatier)
 Google matrix and fractal Weyl law
12:30 - 14:00lunch break
  

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