Last update: 12/03/2015

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  Tuesday, 10th March
08:00 - 16:30 Registration
   
11:45 - 12:45 lunch & discussions
   
12:45 - 13:00 Opening
   
  Scientific Coordinators
   
13:00 - 14:15 Immanuel Bloch (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching)
  Probing and exploring quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium
   
14:15 - 15:00 coffee break & discussions
   
15:00 - 16:15 Andrew George Green (University College London)
  Quantum and classical in adiabatic computation
   
16:15 - 16:45 discussions
   
16:45 - 18:00 Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University)
  An Introduction to Many Body Localization (Theory)
   
18:30 - 19:30 supper
   

Workshop


  Wednesday, 11th March
chairperson: Christopher Laumann
   
09:30 - 10:05 Vadim Oganesyan (City University, New York)
  Phenomenology of many body localized phases
   
10:05 - 10:40 Bela Bauer (Microsoft Research Station Q, Santa Barbara)
  Analyzing many-body localization with a quantum computer
   
10:40 - 10:50 group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page)
10:50 - 11:00 coffee break
   
chairperson: Dmitry Abanin
   
11:00 - 11:35 Maksym Serbyn (University of California, Berkeley)
  Probing the many-body localization transition with matrix elements of local operators
   
11:35 - 12:10 Anushya Chandran
  (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, North Waterloo)
  A semi-classical limit for the many-body localization transition
   
12:30 - 15:00 lunch & discussions
   
chairperson: Andrew Potter
   
15:00 - 15:35 François Huveneers (Université Paris Dauphine)
  A mechanism for transport in nearly many-body localized systems
   
15:35 - 16:10 Jonas A Kjäll (Stockholms Universitet)
  MBL features in a disordered quantum Ising chain
   
16:10 - 16:30 coffee break
   
chairperson: Alexander Mirlin
   
16:30 - 17:05 David Pekker (University of Pittsburgh)
  Encoding the structure of many-body localization with matrix product operators
   
17:05 - 17:40 Antonello Scardicchio (The Abdus Salam ICTP)
  Many-body mobility edge in a mean-field quantum spin glass
   
18:00 - 19:00 supper
   
19:00 - 22:00 poster session

Workshop


  Thursday, 12th March
chairperson: Michael Kolodrubetz
   
09:30 - 10:05 Leticia F. Cugliandolo (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris)
  Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Brown magnetization dynamics: functional formalism and numerical integration
   
10:05 - 10:40 Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (LMU Munich)
  Transport properties and condensation phenomena of interacting bosons in the non-equilibrium regime
   
10:40 - 11:00 coffee break
   
chairperson: Markus Müller
   
11:00 - 11:35 Subroto Mukerjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  Conservation laws in localized systems
   
11:35 - 12:10 Romain Vasseur (UC Berkeley)
  Quantum glasses and many-body delocalization transitions
   
12:30 - 15:00 lunch & discussions
   
chairperson: Achilleas Lazarides
   
15:00 - 15:35 Adolfo G. Grushin
  (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
  Aspects of floquet fractional chern insulators
   
15:35 - 16:10 Mark Rudner (Copenhagen Unversity)
  Interactions and dissipation in Floquet-Bloch systems
   
16:10 - 16:30 coffee break
   
chairperson: Liliana Arrachea
   
16:30 - 17:05 Aditi Mitra (New York University)
  Dissipative Floquet topological systems
   
17:05 - 17:40 Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University)
  Quantum dynamics of strongly interacting spins and photons
   
19:30 - 22:00
Workshop dinner at the restaurant ''Dresden Gin House''

Workshop


  Friday, 13th March
chairperson: André Eckardt
   
09:30 - 10:05 Florian Marquardt (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  Relaxation dynamics in qubit chains
   
10:05 - 10:40 David Weld (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  New frontiers in optical lattice dynamics
   
10:40 - 11:00 coffee break
   
chairperson: Julia Meyer
   
11:00 - 11:35 Arnab Das (Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata)
  Statistical mechanics of periodically driven closed quantum systems
   
11:35 - 12:10 Seiji Miyashita (The University of Tokyo)
  Phase transitions in spin dynamics under time-dependent fields
   
12:30 - 15:00 lunch & discussions
   
chairperson: Sid Parameswaran
   
15:00 - 15:35 Krishnendu Sengupta
  (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata)
  Suppressing excitations during passage through critical points: A tale of two rates
   
15:35 - 16:10 Marcos Rigol (The Pennsylvania State University)
  Quenches and localization in disordered quantum systems
   
16:10 - 16:30 coffee break
   
16:30 - 18:00 poster session & discussions
   
18:00 - 19:00 supper
   

Workshop


  Saturday, 14th March
   
09:30 - 12:30 discussions