MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
International Workshop on
Quantum Dynamics in Terms of Phase-Space
Distributions
May 22 - 26, 2000
Scientific Coordinators:
| Thomas Dittrich | H. Jürgen Korsch | Klaus Richter |
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| Universidad de los Andes | Universität Kaiserslautern | MPI-PKS |
| Bogotá, Colombia | Kaiserslautern, Germany | Dresden, Germany |
| ARRIVAL
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| 19:00 | Welcome reception (Cafeteria at the Max Planck Institute)
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MONDAY, MAY 22
| 09:00 - 09:15 | OPENING | ||
| Chair: Jürgen Korsch | |||
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Fritz Haake (Essen) | ||
| Limited phase-space resolution and Ruelle resonances | |||
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Bruno Eckhardt (Marburg) | ||
| Double ionization in strong light fields | |||
| 10:45 - 11:15 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Martin Sieber (Dresden) | ||
| Semiclassical approximations in terms of closed trajectories | |||
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Frank Steiner (Ulm) | ||
| Wave chaos in the cosmic microwave background radiation | |||
| 12:45 | LUNCH | ||
| Chair: Klaus Richter | |||
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Bilha Segev (Beer-Sheva) | ||
| Phase-space propagators: tunneling and interference | |||
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Eli Pollak (Rehovot) | ||
| Phase-space representation of thermal tunneling | |||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Eric J. Heller (Cambridge) | ||
| - Colloquium - | Putting quantum phase space to work: from chaos to chemistry | ||
| 17:30 - 19:30 | POSTER SESSION: 1st and 2nd floor | ||
| 19:30 | SUPPER |
TUESDAY, MAY 23
| Chair: Thomas Dittrich | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Joshua Wilkie (Burnaby) | ||
| Quantum classical correspondence in the Wigner-Weyl phase-space representation | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | William H. Miller (Berkeley) | ||
| Semiclassical approximations for molecular dynamics: | |||
| What can and cannot describe quantum effects | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Frank Grossmann (Dresden) | ||
| Quantum effects in molecules by interfering classical trajectories | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Steven Tomsovic (Pullman) | ||
| to be announced | |||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 - 17:00 | POSTER SESSION: 1st and 2nd floor | ||
| 17:00 - 17:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| Chair: Holger Schanz | |||
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Gregor Tanner (Nottingham) | ||
| Graphs, combinatorics, and quantum chaos | |||
| 18:15 - 19:00 | Predrag Cvitanovic (Evanston) | ||
| Spatiotemporally recurrent patterns | |||
| 19:00 | SUPPER | ||
| 20:30 - 21:15 | Michael Berry (Bristol) | ||
| Phase space and looking |
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24
| Chair: Bodo Huckestein | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Peter Hänggi (Augsburg) | ||
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| Disordered systems in phase space | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Andrey R. Kolovsky (Kaiserslautern) | ||
| Quantum cable car for Wannier-Stark ladders | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Itzhack Dana (Ramat-Gan) | ||
| Renormalization of quantum Anosov maps: reduction to fixed Bloch boundary conditions | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Uzy Smilansky (Rehovot) | ||
| Action correlations | |||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 - 19:00 | EXCURSION TO CASTEL 'WEESENSTEIN' AND ITS SURROUNDINGS | ||
| 19:30 | CONFERENCE DINNER AT RESTAURANT 'LUISENHOF' | ||
THURSDAY, MAY 25
| Chair: Petr Seba | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Marek Kus (Warszawa) | ||
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| Coherent-state vs. classical dynamics of kicked top | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | John Klauder (Gainesville) | ||
| Coherent states and the taming of chaos | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Patricio Leboeuf (Orsay) | ||
| Quantum dynamics in the Bargmann representation | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Robert Littlejohn (Berkeley) | ||
| Wavelets, phase-space lattices, etc.: optimizing basis sets | |||
| in few-body quantum calculations | |||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | ||
| Chair: Monique Combescure | |||
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Thomas Seligman (Cuernavaca) | ||
| Unitary representations of canonical transformations: | |||
| An alternative route to semiclassics | |||
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Dmitry Jakobson (Chicago) | ||
| Some old and new results on eigenfunctions | |||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Jon Keating (Bristol) | ||
| Pseudosymmetries of Anosov maps and spectral statistics | |||
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Steven Zelditch (Baltimore) | ||
| Which integrable Hamiltonians have uniformly bounded quantum eigenstates? | |||
| 19:00 | SUPPER |
FRIDAY, MAY 26
| Chair: Tania Monteiro | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida (Rio de Janeiro) | ||
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| Semiclassical Wigner function for chaotic eigenstates | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Roland Ketzmerick (Göttingen) | ||
| Quantum Signatures of Classical Power-Law Trapping | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Shmuel Fishman (Haifa) | ||
| Relaxation and diffusion for the kicked rotor | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Wolfgang P. Schleich (Ulm) | ||
| Quantum dynamics of cold atoms | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Matsusada M. Sano (Cancel sesion) (Ulm) | ||
| Quantum dynamics | |||
| 12:30 | FAREWELL AND LUNCH |