PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Seminar
Sunday, August 10
Monday, August 11
Tuesday, August 12
Wednesday, August 13
Thursday, August 14
Friday, August 15
Workshop
Sunday, August 17
Monday, August 18
Tuesday, August 19
Wednesday, August 20
Thursday, August 21
Friday, August 22
Preliminary Seminar Program
| Sunday, August 10 | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, August 11 | |
| 07:30 | Registration |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Scientific Organizers |
| Opening | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute) |
| The semiclassical approximation - An elementary introduction I | |
| → Lecture notes and recommended literature | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Marcus de Aguiar (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) |
| Path integrals and coherent states I: Basics | |
| → Lecture notes | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Gert-Ludwig Ingold (Augsburg University) |
| From path integrals to semiclassics | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Hajo Leschke (Erlangen University) |
| Wiener integrals I | |
| 19:00 | Supper |
| Tuesday, August 12 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute) |
| The semiclassical approximation - An elementary introduction II | |
| → Lecture notes and recommended literature | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Marcus de Aguiar (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) |
| Path integrals and coherent states II: Semiclassical limit | |
| → Lecture notes | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Thomas Dittrich (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) |
| Semiclassical Wigner dynamics I | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Hajo Leschke (Erlangen University) |
| Wiener integrals II | |
| 19:00 | Supper |
| Wednesday, August 13 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute) |
| The semiclassical approximation - An elementary introduction III | |
| → Lecture notes and recommended literature | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Marcus de Aguiar (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) |
| Path integrals and coherent states III: Examples and applications | |
| → Lecture notes | |
| 12:30 - 12:40 | Group photo |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Thomas Dittrich (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) |
| Semiclassical Wigner dynamics II | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Hajo Leschke (Erlangen University) |
| Wiener integrals III | |
| 18:00 - open end | Barbecue with Colombian Music |
| Thursday, August 14 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute) |
| The semiclassical approximation - An elementary introduction IV | |
| → Lecture notes and recommended literature | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University) |
| From generalized Gaussian wave packet dynamics to homoclinic orbits | |
| → Transparencies | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | David Tannor (Weizmann Institute) |
| Bohmian mechanics with complex action I: An exact form of quantum mechanics using complex trajectories | |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 19:00 | Supper |
| Friday, August 15 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | David Tannor (Weizmann Institute) |
| Bohmian mechanics with complex action II: Derivation from the path integral formulation | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Klaus Richter (Regensburg University) |
| Semiclassical methods in mesoscopic quantum transport | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Gert-Ludwig Ingold (Augsburg University) |
| Path integrals for dissipative systems | |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 19:00 | Supper |
Preliminary Workshop Program
| Sunday, August 17 | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, August 18 | |
| 07:30 | Registration |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Jan-Michael Rost (MPIPKS) and Scientific Organizers |
| Opening | |
| Chairman: Marcus A.M. de Aguiar | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Kazuo Takatsuka (University of Tokyo) |
| Ascending to the path integrals and full quantum realm from semiclassics | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Italo Guarneri (Universitá dell'Insubria) |
| Pseudoclassical approximation and quantum accelerator modes | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Robert Littlejohn (University of California Berkeley) |
| Semiclassical mechanics of the Wigner 6j symbol | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Akira Inomata (State University of New York at Albany) |
| Semiclassical approaches to supersymmetric quantum mechanics | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairman: Hermann Grabert | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Gert-Ludwig Ingold (University of Augsburg) |
| Lissajous curves and semiclassics: The two-dimensional harmonic oscillator | |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Tomas Novotny (Charles University in Prague) |
| Josehpson junctions as threshold detectors of the full counting statistics | |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Dmitri Sokolovski (Queen's University of Belfast) |
| Qubit interacting with a Bose-Einstein condensate: Feynman paths, time measurements and decoherence | |
| 15:25 - 16:10 | Maura Sassetti (Universitá di Genova) |
| Multiple quasi-particle tunneling between edge states | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | QDCPIS08 Colloquium |
| Ulrich Weiss (University of Stuttgart) | |
| Decoherence and relaxation of coupled qubits | |
| 18:30 | Supper |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Poster Session I |
| Tuesday, August 19 | |
| Chairman: Gert-Ludwig Ingold | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | David Tannor (Weizmann Institute) |
| Bohmian mechanics with complex action: An exact formulation of quantum mechanics with complex trajectories | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Marco Roncadelli (Italian Institut of Nuclear Physics) |
| Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi theory | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Dmitrii Shalashilin (University of Leeds) |
| Variational principle and description of quantum dynamics by trajectories of coupled classical and quantum variables | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Michael Herman (Tulane University) |
| Accurate and efficient semiclassical surface hopping calculations | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairman: Kenneth Kay | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Marcus de Aguiar (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) |
| Controlling phase space caustics in the semiclassical coherent state | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Thomas Dittrich (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) |
| Time-domain scars: Resolving the spectral form factor in phase space | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Alfredo Ozorio de Almeida (Brazilian Center for Physics Research) |
| Double phase space scenario for nonunitary semiclassical evolution of the density operator | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Hans-Jürgen Korsch (Technical University Kaiserslautern) |
| Number conserving phase space dynamics and semiclassical approximation for many particle Bose-Hubbard systems | |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Michele Ceotto (Universitá degli Studi di Milano) |
| Semiclassical initial value representation implementations | |
| 17:50 - 18:35 | Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University)/ |
| Christoph-Marian Goletz (Technical University Dresden) | |
| Semiclassical dynamics in a mixed phase space | |
| 18:35 | Supper |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Evening Lecture |
| Thomas Dittrich (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) | |
| CeiBA - A research center on complex systems for Colombia | |
| Wednesday, August 20 | |
| Chairman: Ulrich Weiss | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Klaus Richter (Regensburg University) |
| Interfering paths in decay and ionization of open quantum systems | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Jürgen Stockburger (University of Ulm) |
| Semiclassical trajectories for open systems: Concepts and computations | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Daniel Alonso (La Laguna University) |
| Emission spectra of atoms with non-Markovian interaction: Fluorescence in a photonic crystal | |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | Sergei Ivanov (University of Bochum) |
| On applicability of centroid and ring polymer molecular dynamics for IR spectroscopy | |
| 12:05 - 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Excursion and Conference Dinner in Pillnitz |
| Thursday, August 21 | |
| Chairman: Michael Herman | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Kenneth Kay (Bar-Ilan University) |
| A semiclassical initial value treatment of the Green's function and its trace | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Martin Sieber (University of Bristol) |
| Resummed semiclassical formulae for wavefunctions and Green functions | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Petr Braun (University Duisburg-Essen) |
| New developments in periodic orbit theory of level correlation | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Eli Pollak (Weizmann Institute) |
| The semiclassical route to quantum dynamics of systems with many degrees of freedom | |
| 12:30 - 12:40 | Group photo |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairman: Dmitry Shalashilin | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Wilhelm Becker (Max Born Institute) |
| Quantum-orbit theory for atomic processes driven by intense laser fields | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Jan-Michael Rost (MPIPKS) |
| Semi- and quasiclassical paths of laser induced ionization | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Nark Nyul Choi (Kumoh National Institute of Technology) |
| Chaotic ionization of the Helium atom | |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Omri Gat (Hebrew University) |
| Wave packet Rabi oscillations in semiclassical cavity QED | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Tobias Kramer (Regensburg University) |
| Photoionization dynamics in external fields | |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Bernard Gaveau (Université Paris VI) |
| A new concept of nuclear reactor | |
| 18:00 | Supper |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Poster Session II |
| Friday, August 22 | |
| Chairman: Steven Tomsovic | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Reinhold Egger (University of Düsseldorf) |
| Iterative path integral summation approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Chi Mak (University of Southern California) |
| Multilevel strategies for Monte Carlo path integral dynamics simulations | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Dominik Marx (University of Bochum) |
| Ab initio path integral simulation for complex molecular systems | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Michael Thoss (Technical University Munich) |
| Quantum dynamical treatment of systems with many degrees of freedom using multiconfiguration basis-set methods | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairman: Thomas Dittrich | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Hermann Grabert (Freiburg University) |
| Josephson junctions as on-chip noise detectors | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Anupam Garg (Northwestern University) |
| Path integral methods for spin systems | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Rob Coalson (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Functional integral approaches to the statistical mechanics of an inhomogeneous Coulomb gas | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | William H. Miller (University of California Berkeley) |
| Using the initial value representation of semiclassical theory to add quantum effects to classical molecular dynamics simulations | |
| 17:30 - open end | MPIPKS Summer Barbecue Party |
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