Preliminary scientific program

Abstracts of talks

Sunday, 21 June
18:00 - 20:00Registration
19:00 - 21:30Welcome reception providing light dinner and beverages
  
Monday, 22 June
9:00 - 9:30Opening by Peter Fulde (Director emeritus of MPIKS) & Scientific Coordinators
  
 Session I: From Quantum Chaos to Condensed Matter Physics I
 Session Chair: Steven Anlage
9:30 - 10:15Giulio Casati (University of Insubria)
 The kicked rotor: From classical diffusion to Anderson localization and beyond
10:15 - 11:00Fritz Haake (University of Duisburg-Essen)
 Random matrices and quantum chaos
11:00 - 11:30coffee break
11:30 - 12:15Boris Altshuler (Columbia University)
 Statistical mechanics, localization and quantum chaos
  
12:15 - 14:00lunch break
  
 Session II: From Quantum Chaos to Condensed Matter Physics II
 Session Chair: Victor Galitsky
14:00 - 14:45Dominique Delande (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI)
 Anderson localization of cold atoms in correlated disorder
14:45 - 15:30Alex Altland (Universität Köln)
 Field theory approach to quantum chaos
15:30 - 15:55Oded Agam (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
 The internal structure of a vortex and its exited states in a two dimensional superfluid
15:55 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:30QCMC15 Colloquium
 Chair: Jens. H. Bardarson
 Carlo Beenakker (Universiteit Leiden)
 Chaotic scattering of Majorana fermions: Complexity without complex numbers
18:00 - 19:00 dinner
19:30 - 20:15Evening talk: Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland)
 Richard Prange and his Physics
20:15 - 22:00Poster session
  
Tuesday, 23 June
 Session III: Localization I
 Session Chair: Klaus Richter
09:00 - 09:25Gabriel Lemarié (Université Paul Sabatier)
 Observation of the Anderson transition with atomic matter waves
09:25 - 09:50Radu Chicireanu (Université Lille 1)
 Experimental study of two-dimensional Anderson localization with the atomic kicked rotor
09:50 - 10:15Bertrand Georgeot (Université Paul Sabatier)
 Two scenarios for quantum multifractality breakdown
10:15 - 10:30group picture (to be published on the workshop's web page)
10:30 - 10:45coffee break
 Session Chair: Dietrich Belitz
10:45 - 11:10Chushun Tian (Tsinghua University)
 Planck's quantum-driven integer quantum Hall effect in chaos
11:10 - 11:35Tobias Micklitz (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)
 Strong Anderson localization in cold atom quantum quenches
11:35 - 12:00Vincent Josse (Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau )
 Direct weak localization signatures with ultracold atoms : The CBS revival
12:00 - 12:25Dima Shepelyansky (Université Paul Sabatier)
 Anderson transition for Google matrix eigenstates
  
12:30 - 14:30 lunch break
  
 Session IV: Topological States of Matter I
 Session Chair: Azriel Genack
14:30 - 15:10Victor Galitski (University of Maryland)
 Topological phases of matter
15:10 - 15:35Itzhack Dana (Bar-Ilan University)
 Quantum and topological manifestations of superweak chaos in Floquet systems
15:35 - 16:00coffee break
 Session Chair: Henning Schomerus
16:00 - 16:25Kai Sun (University of Michigan)
 Topological states of matter and strongly correlated systems
16:25 - 16:50Kuhl, Ulrich (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
 Microwave experiments on topological transition of dirac points and manipulation of edge states in artificial strained graphene
16:50 - 17:15Nir Davidson (Weizmann Institute)
 Coherence of trapped ultra-cold atoms: From ballistic billiards to molecular chaos
17:15 - 17:40Mathias Weidemüller (Universität Heidelberg)
 Exploring coherent and incoherent dipolar transport with ultracold Rydberg gases
18:00 - 19:30dinner
19:30 - 21:00Panel : Field theory and quantum chaos moderated by Italo Guarneri
 Members of the Panel: Oded Agam, Alex Altland, Uzy Smilansky and Fritz Haake
21:00 - 23:00Poster session (posters up all week)
  
Wednesday, 24 June
 Session V: Quantum Chaos
 Session Chair: Giulio Casati
09:00 - 09:40Roland Ketzmerick (Technische Universität Dresden)
 Quantum signatures of partial barriers in open chaotic systems
09:40 - 10:05Arnd Baecker (Technische Universität Dresden)
 Classical and quantum aspects of higher-dimensional systems
10:05 - 10:30Italo Guarneri (University of Insubria)
 Classical prefigurations of quantum localization
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
 Session Chair: Betrand Georgeot
11:00 - 11:25Martin Sieber (University of Bristol)
 Universality in quantum chaotic systems with symmetries
11:25 - 11:50Azriel Genack (Queen's College)
 Universal structure of transmission eigenchannels inside opaque media
11:50 - 12:15Eugene Bogomolny (Université Paris-Sud and CNRS)
 Exact solution for scattering on two Aharonov-Bohm vortices
12:15 - 12:40 Sandro Wimberger (Parma University)
 Transport and Non-Equilibrium dynamics with cold atoms
12:45 - 14:15 lunch break
14:15 - 17:50leaving MPIPKS for guided tours and steam boat tour
18:30 - 22:30Conference Dinner at Schlosshotel Pillnitz
  
Thursday, 25 June
 Session VI: Localization II
 Session Chair: Thomas Guhr
09:00 - 09:40Igor Aleiner (Columbia University)
 Many body localization and the finite temperature metal-insulator transition
09:40 - 10:05Ehud Altman (Weizmann Institute)
 New insight from theory and experiment on many-body localization
10:05 - 10:35coffee break
 Session Chair: Tobias Micklitz
10:35 - 11:00Klaus Richter (Universität Regensburg)
 Many-body quantum interference from a semiclassical perspective
11:00 - 11:25Piet Brouwer (Free University of Berlin)
 Semiclassical theory of interaction corrections to the conductivity of random conductors
11:25 - 11:50Dietrich Belitz (University of Oregon)
 The Ferromagnetic Quantum Phase Transition in Metals
11:50 - 12:15Jens H. Bardarson (MPIPKS Dresden)
 Many-body localization characterized from a one-particle perspective
12:15 - 14:30 lunch break
 Session Chair: Nir Davidson
14:30 - 14:55 Dima Abanin (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)
 Many-body localization in periodically driven systems
14:55 - 15:20Yevgeny Bar Lev (Columbia University)
 Dynamics of Many-Body Localization
  
 Session VII: Topological States of Matter II
15:20 - 16:00Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland)
 Non-abelian anyons and topological quantum computation
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
 Session Chair: Itzhack Dana
16:30 - 16:55Mikael Rechtsman (Pennsylvania State University)
  Aspects of photonic topological insulators
16:55 - 17:20 Henning Schomerus (Lancaster University)
 Amplification and absorption in topological photonic systems
17:20 - 17:45Netanel Lindner (Technion)
 Topological pumping in far-from-equilibrium periodically driven systems
18:00 - 19:00dinner
19:30 - 21:00Panel: Many-body localization moderated by Sankar Das Sarma
 Members of the Panel: Dima Abanin, Igor Aleiner, Ehud Altman, Jens Bardarson
19:30 - 21:00Poster session
  
 Friday, 26 June
 Session VIII: Quantum Chaos and Random Matrix Theory
 Session Chair: Sandro Wimberger
09:00 - 09:40Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute)
 Random walks and Random matrices
09:40 - 10:05Adam Sawicki (MIT)
 Quantum statistics on graphs
10:05 - 10:35coffee break
 Session Chair: Shmuel Fishman
10:35 - 11:00Olivier Giraud (Universite Paris-Sud)
 Multifractality and spectral statistics in critical random matrix ensembles
11:00 - 11:25Sasha Sodin (Tel Aviv University)
 The Wegner N-orbital model: Wegner estimates and localisation
11:25 - 11:50Sebastian Müller (University of Bristol)
 Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems
  
12:00 - 13:45 lunch break
  
 Session IX: Random Matrix Theory
 Session Chair: GŸnter Radons
13:50 - 14:15Antonio Christian Da Silva (Dunn Capital Management)
 Information ratio analysis of momentum strategies
14:15 - 14:40Boris Gutkin (University of Duisburg-Essen)
 Classical foundations of many-particle quantum chaos
14:40 - 15:05Ram Band (Technion)
 Universality of the momentum band density of periodic graphs
15:05 - 15:35coffee break
 Session Chair: Steven Anlage
15:35 - 16:00Thomas Guhr (University of Duisburg-Essen)
 Non-stationarity in financial markets: Dynamics of market states versus generic features
16:00 - 16:40Victor Yakovenko (University of Maryland)
 Economic inequality from statistical physics point of view
18:00 - 18:45dinner
End of workshop



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