MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME











International Workshop and Seminar on


Dynamics of Complex Systems




Workshop (May 11 - 15, 1999)






Scientific Coordinators:



Yoram Alhassid Bernhard Mehlig Michael Wilkinson
Yale, USA Dresden, Germany Strathclyde, Scotland






Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Nöthnitzer Strasse 38
D-01187 Dresden
Tel.: +49-351-871-2105; Fax: +49-351-871-2199
http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/$\tilde{~}$dyncomps/index.html


WORKSHOP PROGRAM



MONDAY, MAY 10


09:30 - 10:20 ARRIVAL

19:00 Welcome reception (Cafeteria at the Max Planck Institute)



TUESDAY, MAY 11

08:45 - 09:00 OPENING    
09:00 - 09:40 Fritz Haake (Essen)    
  Liouville dynamics, Ruelle-Pollicot-type resonances, and    
  mixed phase space    
09:40 - 09:45 Discussion    
09:45 - 10:25 Jan M. Rost (MPIPKS Dresden)    
  Critical point motion in few-body systems    
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion    
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK    
11:00 - 11:40 William H. Miller (Berkeley)    
  Semiclassical approach for including quantum effects    
  in simulations of complex molecular systems    
11:40 - 11:45 Discussion    
11:45 - 12:25 Rodolfo Jalabert (Strasbourg)    
  From the Fermi glass to the Mott insulator in one dimension    
12:25 - 12:30 Discussion    
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH    
14:30 - 15:10 Sven Aberg (Lund)    
  Chaos assisted tunneling from superdeformed states    
15:10 - 15:15 Discussion    
15:15 - 15:55 Tilo Wettig (TU München)    
  QCD with random matrices    
15:55 - 16:00 Discussion    
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK    
16:30 - 17:10 Itzhack Dana (Bar-Ilan)    
  Band distributions and the classical-quantum correspondence    
  on the torus    
17:10 - 17:15 Discussion    
17:15 - 19:00 SUPPER    
19:00 Poster presentations    



WEDNESDAY, MAY 12

09:00 - 09:40 Konstantin Efetov (Bochum)    
  Negative magnetoresistance in granulated materials    
  in a strong magnetic field    
09:40 - 09:45 Discussion    
09:45 - 10:25 Martin Janssen (Bochum)    
  Correlated random band matrices    
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion    
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK    
11:00 - 11:40 Yan Fyodorov (Essen)    
  A systematic approach to statistics of resonances    
11:40 - 11:45 Discussion    
11:45 - 12:25 Karol Zyczkowski (Cracow)    
  Signatures of quantum chaos based on coherent states    
12:25 - 12:30 Discussion    
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH    
14:30 - 15:10 Alexander Altland (Bochum)    
  Field theory of the random flux model    
15:10 - 15:15 Discussion    
15:15 - 15:55 Richard Berkovits (Bar-Ilan)    
  Peak spacings statistics in disordered quantum dots    
15:55 - 16:00 Discussion    
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK    
16:30 - 17:10 Mario Feingold (Ben-Gurion)    
  Complexity in biological systems: single molecule studies    
  of DNA-Protein interactions    
17:10 - 17:15 Discussion    
17:15 - 17:55 Frank Steiner (Ulm)    
  Arithmetic versus generic quantum chaos    
17:55 - 18:00 Discussion    
18:00 - 19:30 SUPPER    



THURSDAY, MAY 13

09:00 - 09:40 Douglas Stone (Yale)    
  Recent developments in theory and experiments related to chaotic    
  optical resonators    
09:40 - 09:45 Discussion    
09:45 - 10:25 Bruno Eckhardt (Marburg)    
  Fluctuations and correlations in semiclassical matrix elements    
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion    
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK    
11:00 - 11:40 Roland Ketzmerick (MPI Göttingen)    
  Quantum signatures of long-time dynamics in mixed systems    
11:40 - 11:45 Discussion    
11:45 - 12:25 Dimitri Kuznezov (Yale)    
  Dynamical evolution of complex quantum systems    
12:25 - 12:30 Discussion    
12:40 - 14:30 LUNCH    
14:30 - 15:10 Charles Marcus (Stanford)    
  Quantum dots in the tunneling regime:    
  from the Coulomb blockade to universal statistics and beyond    
15:10 - 15:15 Discussion    
15:15 - 15:55 Felix Izrailev (UNAM)    
  Correlated disorder and mobility edge in 1D models    
15:55 - 16:00 Discussion    
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK    
16:30 - 17:10 Narendra Kumar (Bangalore)    
  Wave propagation through random amplifying medium    
17:10 - 17:15 Discussion    
17:15 - 17:55 Lev Kaplan (Harvard)    
  Quantum ergodicity, localization, transport    
  and the theory of wavefunction scarring    
17:55 - 18:00 Discussion    
18:00 - 19:30 SUPPER    
19:30 Poster presentations    



FRIDAY, MAY 14


09:00 - 09:40 Raphael D. Levine (The Hebrew University)    
  On the independence of correlated events    
09:40 - 09:45 Discussion    
09:45 - 10:25 Oded Agam (The Hebrew University)    
  Quantizing the Lotka-Volterra equations: effects of discretization    
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion    
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK    
11:00 - 11:40 Qian Niu (University of Texas at Austin)    
  Geometric phase in adiabatic spin dynamics    
11:40 - 11:45 Discussion    
11:45 - 12:25 Theo Geisel (MPI Göttingen)    
  Metal-insulator transitions due to avoided band crossings in chaotic systems    
12:25 - 12:30 Discussion    
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH    
14:30 - 15:10 Vladimir Zelevinsky (Michigan State)    
  Shell model as testing ground for chaos and complexity    
15:10 - 15:15 Discussion    
15:15 - 15:55 Sara M. Cronenwett (Stanford)    
  Mesoscopic fluctuations of the Coulomb blockade    
15:55 - 16:00 Discussion    
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK    
16:30 - 17:10 Thomas Guhr (MPI Heidelberg)    
  Quantum chromodynamics on the lattice: a disordered system    
17:10 - 17:15 Discussion    
17:15 - 17:55 Michael Schreiber (TU Chemnitz)    
  Interacting particles in a random potential    
17:55 - 18:00 Discussion    
19:00 WORKSHOP DINNER    



SATURDAY, MAY 15

09:00 - 09:40 Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann (Marburg)    
  Microwave results on chaotic billiards and mesoscopic systems    
09:40 - 09:45 Discussion    
09:45 - 10:25 Yshai Avishai (Ben-Gurion)    
  Quantum hall plateau transitions in disordered superconductors    
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion    
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK    
11:00 - 11:40 Steve Tomsovic (Washington State)    
  Chaos in quantum dots: dynamical modulation of Coulomb blockade peak heights    
11:40 - 11:45 Discussion    
11:45 - 12:25 Klaus Richter (MPIPKS Dresden)    
  Semiclassics of Andreev billiards and weak localization:    
  success and open problems    
12:25 - 12:30 Discussion    
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH    
14:30 - 15:10 Maciej A. Nowak (GSI Darmstadt, Cracow)    
  New methods for non-hermitean random-matrix models    
15:10 - 15:15 Discussion    
15:15 - 15:55 Thomas Papenbrock (University of Washington)    
  Self-bound many-body systems realized as billiards: collective    
  and chaotic motion    
15:55 - 16:00 Discussion    
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK    
16:30 - 17:10 Ralph Hofferbert (TU Darmstadt)    
  First experimental evidence for chaos-assisted tunneling in a    
  microwave annular billiard    
17:10 - 17:15 Discussion    
17.15 - 17:55 Doron Cohen (Harvard)    
  Quantum dissipation due to the interaction with chaotic degrees-of-freedom    
  and the correspondence principle    
17:55 - 18:00 Discussion    
18:00 - 18:30 SUMMARY: Douglas Stone    
19:00 - 20:00 SUPPER    

Dyncomps account
5/11/1999