International Seminar and Workshop on Weak Chaos, Infinite Ergodic Theory, and Anomalous Dynamics

Scientific programme in
Seminar week 1 from 25 to 29 July
Workshop from 1 to 5 August
Seminar week 2 from 8 to 12 August

Seminar week 25 to 29 July

 
Monday, July 25
10:00 - 11:00 Introduction
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:30 Igor Sokolov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Origins and models of anomalous diffusion
   
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Roberto Artuso (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria)
  Dynamical features of weak chaos I
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome buffet
   
Tuesday, July 26
10:00 - 11:00 Igor Sokolov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Introduction to continuous time random walks and fractional kinetics
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:15 Eduardo Altmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
  Interplay between randomness and chaos in scattering systems
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Roberto Artuso (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria)
  Dynamical features of weak chaos II
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:00 Katrin Gelfert (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
  Phase transitions in non-contracting iterated function systems
   
16:15 - 16:45 Special session: Ian Melbourne (University of Surrey)
  Some statistical properties of some deterministic systems
   
19:00 - 21:00 Supper
   
Wednesday, July 27
10:00 - 11:00 Sebastien Gouezel (Université de Rennes 1)
  Intermittency and renewal theory I
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:15 Giampaolo Cristadoro (Università di Bologna)
  Recurrence for quenched random Lorentz tubes
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Roberto Artuso (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria)
  Dynamical features of weak chaos III
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:00 Takuma Akimoto (Keio University)
  Relationship between dynamical instability and transport coefficient in anomalous diffusion
   
19:00 - 21:00 Supper
   
Thursday, July 28
10:00 - 11:00 Sebastien Gouezel (Université de Rennes 1)
  Intermittency and renewal theory II
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:15 Stanislav Burov (Bar-Ilan University)
  Single particle to ensemble of particles transition and weak ergodicity breaking
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Sud)
  Brownian functionals and their applications I
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:00 Christian Rodrigues (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften)
  Dynamics under bounded random perturbation: A topological approach to a measure-theoretical problem
   
16:15 - 16:45 Special session: Roland Zweimüller (University of Surrey)
  Some statistical properties of some infinite measure preserving systems
   
19:00 - 21:00 Supper
   
Friday, July 29
10:00 - 11:00 Sebastien Gouezel (Université de Rennes 1)
  Intermittency and renewal theory III
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:00 Dalia Terhesiu (University of Surrey)
  Mixing rates and higher order dual ergodic theorems for dynamical systems with infinite measure
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Sud)
  Brownian functionals and their applications II
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:30 Round table discussion
   
19:00 - Dinner in a restaurant
   
Saturday, July 30
09:00 - 17:00
Hiking tour through the Saxon Switzerland - had to be cancelled due to continuous rain
   
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Workshop August 1 to 5

 
Sunday, July 31
18:30 - 19:30 Registration
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception in the institute's main building
   
Monday, August 1
09:00 - 09:15 Opening - Scientific Coordinators
   
09:15 - 10:00 Ralf Metzler (Technische Universität München)
  Random motion in complex systems, ergodicity breaking, and single particle trajectories
   
10:00 - 10:45 Igor Sokolov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Aging effects and nonergodicity in CTRW and in mixed-origin models
   
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
   
11:15 - 12:00 Jon Aaronson (Tel Aviv University)
  Rational weak mixing of infinite measure preserving transformations
   
12:00 - 12:45 Yoji Aizawa (Waseda University)
  Nonstationary chaos revisited from infinite measure ergodicity
   
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 - 15:15 Ferruccio Renzoni (University College London)
  Power-law tail distributions and anomalous diffusion in cold atom systems
   
15:15 - 16:00 David Kessler (Bar-Ilan University)
  Infinite covariant densities for diffusion in logarithmic potentials
   
16:00 - 16:30
Group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) & Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30
WCHAOS11 Colloquium (Chairperson: Holger Kantz, MPIPKS)
  Joseph Klafter (Tel Aviv University)
  How strange is strange kinetics
   
19:00 - 21:00 Supper
   
Tuesday, August 2
09:00 - 09:45 Eric Lutz (Universität Augsburg)
  Fractional diffusion in optical lattices
   
09:45 - 10:30 Carlangelo Liverani (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")
  Toward a rigorous derivation of the Fourier law
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Henk van Beijeren (Utrecht University)
  Anomalous transport properties of one-d Hamiltonian systems
   
11:30 - 12:00 Vasily Zaburdaev (Harvard University)
  Perturbation spreading in many particle systems: A random walk approach
   
12:00 - 12:30 Mark Edelman (Yeshiva University)
  Chaos and fractional dynamical systems
   
12:30 - 14:15 Lunch break
   
14:15 - 15:00 Alberto Robledo (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
  Manifestations of the intermittency route to chaos in the physics of condensed matter and of complex systems
   
15:00 - 15:30 Itzhack Dana (Bar-Ilan University)
  Weak-chaos ratchet accelerator
   
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 18:00 Poster talks
   
19:00 - 20:00 Supper
   
20:00 - 22:00
Poster Session I
   
Wednesday, August 3
09:00 - 09:45 Vladimir Filimonov (ETH Zürich)
  Robust effective multifractality and the self-excited multifractal model
   
09:45 - 10:30 Armin Bunde (Universität Gießen)
  Clustering of extreme events and detection of external trends in climate records with long-term memory
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Aleksander Weron (Wroclaw University of Technology)
  Khinchin theorem for Levy flights
   
11:30 - 12:00 Marcin Magdziarz (Wroclaw University of Technology)
  Ergodic properties of anomalous diffusion processes
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
   
13:30
Leaving for the excursion to Dresden's city centre
19:00
Conference dinner in the restaurant "Alte Meister"
   
Thursday, August 4
09:00 - 09:45 Stephan Eule (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation)
  Mixing normal and anomalous kinetics
   
09:45 - 10:30 Aleksei Chechkin (National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology")
  Natural and modified forms of distributed order fractional diffusion equations
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:45 Rudolf Friedrich (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  Anomalous diffusion: From fractional master equations to path integrals
   
11:45 - 12:15 Shai Carmi (Bar-Ilan University)
  Fractional Feynman-Kac equation for anomalous diffusion functionals
   
12:15 - 12:45 Igor Goychuk (Universität Augsburg)
  Subdiffusive dynamics in washboard potentials
   
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
   
14:30 - 15:15 Gleb Oshanin (Université Pierre & Marie Curie)
  Mean first passage times: Meaningful or meaningless?
   
15:15 - 16:00 Domokos Szasz (Budapest University of Technology)
  Mixing in a stochastic model of heat conduction
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:00 Carl Dettmann (University of Bristol)
  New horizons in multidimensional diffusion: The Lorentz gas and the Riemann hypothesis
   
17:00 - 17:30 Tomoshige Miyaguchi (Osaka City University)
  Ultraslow convergence to ergodicity in transient subdiffusion
   
17:30 - 18:00 Thomas Kempton (University of Utrecht)
  Gurevich pressure for suspension flows
   
19:00 - 20:00 Supper
   
20:00 - 22:00
Poster Session II
   
Friday, August 5
09:00 - 09:45 Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Some finite time properties of dynamics
   
09:45 - 10:30 Alain Comtet (Université Pierre & Marie Curie)
  Continued fractions and diffusion processes
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:45 Angelo Vulpiani (Università di Roma Sapienza)
  Transport properties of chaotic and non-chaotic many particle systems
   
11:45 - 12:30 Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary University of London)
  Anomalous transport in a piecewise isometric system
   
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 14:45 Lamberto Rondoni (Politecnico di Torino)
  Flat scatterers billiards: Equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties
   
14:45 - 15:30 Thomas Prellberg (Queen Mary University of London)
  Multiple intermittency and q-state spin chains
   
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 16:45 Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  Anomalous transport in the presence of truncated Levy flights
   
16:45 - 17:15 Francesco Cellarosi (Princeton University)
  Homogeneous dynamics for theta sums
   
17:15 - 17:45 Peter Nandori (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  Limit theorems for time-dependent dynamical systems
   
17:45 - 18:00 Closing remarks
   
19:00 - 21:00 Supper
   
Saturday, August 6
09:00 - 17:00
Excursion to Freiberg
   
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Seminar week 8 to 12 August

 
Monday, August 8
10:00 - 11:00 Introduction
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:30 Roland Zweimüller (University of Surrey)
  Aspects of infinite ergodic theory I
   
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Eli Barkai (Bar-Ilan University)
  Weak ergodicity breaking I: Introduction
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:00 Alessandro Taloni (CNR-Istituto per l'Energetica e le Interfasi)
  N-body interacting systems: Fractional dynamics representation and beyond
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome buffet
   
Tuesday, August 9
10:00 - 11:00 Roland Zweimüller (University of Surrey)
  Aspects of infinite ergodic theory II
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:15 Ian Melbourne (University of Surrey)
  Suppression of anomalous diffusion in even dimensions
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Eli Barkai (Bar-Ilan University)
  Weak ergodicity breaking II: Non-equilibrium
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:00 Kathrin Padberg-Gehle (Technische Universität Dresden)
  Transfer operator based numerical analysis of mixed phase space
   
19:00 - 21:00 Supper
   
Wednesday, August 10
10:00 - 11:00 John Lowenstein (New York University)
  Weakly chaotic kicked oscillators: Renormalization, symbolic dynamics, and transport I
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:15 Markus Niemann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
  Parameters of a continuous time random walk from deterministic dynamics
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 14:45 Nickolay Korabel (Bar-Ilan University)
  Pesin-type identity for intermittent dynamics with a zero Lyaponov exponent
   
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee break
   
15:15 - 16:00 Phil Howard (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford)
  Entropy and stretching rates for intermittent maps
   
19:00 - 21:00 Supper
   
Thursday, August 11
10:00 - 11:00 John Lowenstein (New York University)
  Weakly chaotic kicked oscillators: Renormalization, symbolic dynamics, and transport II
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:15 Sergej Flach (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
  Wave spreading in nonlinear disordered media - is our weak chaos also yours?
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Rainer Klages (Queen Mary University of London)
  From normal to anomalous (deterministic) diffusion I
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:00 András Némedy Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  Statistical properties of the system of two falling balls
   
19:00 - Dinner in a restaurant
   
Friday, August 12
10:00 - 11:00 John Lowenstein (New York University)
  Weakly chaotic kicked oscillators: Renormalization, symbolic dynamics, and transport III
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:00 Renat Sibatov (Ulyanovsk State University)
  Fractional infinitely divisible processes as a basis for modeling nanodynamics
   
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00 Rainer Klages (Queen Mary University of London)
  From normal to anomalous (deterministic) diffusion II
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
   
15:30 - 16:00 Round table discussion
   
18:30 - 21:00 Supper