Quantum Chaos and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Supported by

The Institute of Theoretical Physics

The Minerva Center of Nonlinear Physics of Complex Systems

 

May 16-21, 2004

412 Taub (Arts and Humanities Building)

Technion, Haifa, Israel

 

Program

 

Sunday 16^th May

 

09:00-10:15    J. Robert Dorfman, University of Maryland

                        Introduction to Green-Kubo formula

10:30-11:00    Coffee Break

11:00-11:50    Michael Wilkinson, Open University, UK

                        Recent Result on Energy Diffusion

12:00-12:50    Doron Cohen, Ben Gurion University

                        The Kubo formula and quantum pumping

13:00-14:30    Lunch

14:30               Theory Seminar: Yehoshua Levinson, Weizmann Institute

                        Dephasing of electron beams in vacuum by electromagnetic

                        fluctuations

15:30-16:00    Coffee Break

16:00-16:50    Rainer Klages, MPI Dresden

                        Fractality of deterministic diffusion in the nonhyperbolic climbing

                        sine map

17:00-17:50    Henk van Beijeren, University of Utrecht

                        Thermodynamic formalism for dilute random Lorentz gases

 

 

Monday, 17^th May

 

09:00-09:50    Philippe Jacquod, University of Geneva

                        Classical dynamics and its influence on quantum reversibility

                        and entanglement generation

10:00-10:25    Arseni Goussev, University of Maryland

                        Lyapunov spreading of wave packets

10:30-10:55    Alexander Iomin, Technion

                        Loschmidt echo for a chaotic oscillator

11:00-11:30    Coffee Break

11:30-12:20    Itamar Procaccia, Weizmann Institute

                        Turbulent Drag Reduction by Polymers: the Riddle and its Resolution

12:30-14:30    Lunch

  

14:30-15:20    Thomas Gilbert, CNRS

                        Fractal properties of hydrodynamic modes

15:30-16:30    Eldad Betelheim, Hebrew University

                        Dispersive regularization approach to the Saffman-Taylor problem

16:30-17:00    Coffee Break

17:00-17:50    Michael Wilkinson, Open University, UK

                        Coalescence and caustics in turbulent aerosols

 

 

 

Tuesday 18^th May

                          

09:00-09:50    Saar Rahav, Technion

                        Point perturbations of integrable billiards

10:00-10:50    Georg Foltin, Weizmann Institute

                        The morphology of nodal lines: Random waves and percolation

11:00-11:30    Coffee Break

                        Greetings: Professor Peretz Lavie: Vice President for Resource Development

                        and External Relations

11:30-12:20    Niels Sondergaard (Weizmann  Institute)

                        Vibrating solids and quantum chaos

12:30-14:30    Lunch

14:30               Solid State Seminar: Ariel Maniv, Technion

                        Checking cosmological scenario using superconductors

15:30-16:00    Coffee Break

16:00-16:50    Daniel Wojcik, Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology

                        Transport properties of random quantum multibaker maps

 

                          

Wednesday, 19^th May

 

09:00-09:50    Martin Sieber, University of Bristol

                        Semiclassical evidence for universal spectral correlations               

10:00-10:50    Sebastian Mueller,

                        Semiclassical basis of spectral universality in Quantum Chaos

11:00-11:30    Coffee Break

11:30-12:20    Uzy Smilansky, Weizmann Institute

                        A comment on quantum dissipation

12:30-14:30    Lunch

14:30               Astrophysics Seminar: Matt Umurhan, Technion

                        Hydrodynamic Turbulence in Circumstellar Disks

15:30-16:00    Coffee Break

16:00-16:50    Fritz Haake, University of Essen

                        Decoherence  

17:00-17:50    Oded Agam, Hebrew University

                        Dephasing in disordered conductors under large voltage bias

18:00-18:30    Coffee Break

18:30-19:20    Nico van Kampen, University of Utrecht

                        A new approach to noise in quantum mechanics

 

20:30               Departure for Dinner

                        After Dinner Talk: Professor Erez Braun, Technion

                        Why are physicists interested in Biology?

                       

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 20^th May

 

09:00-09:50    Edward Ott, University of Maryland    

                        The onset of coherence in globally coupled systems              

10:00-10:30    Coffee Break

10:30-11:20    Bernard Derrida, ENS

                        Fluctuations and large deviations in non-equilibrium systems in

                        contact with two reservoirs   

11:30-12:20    Yuval Gefen, Weizmann Institute

                        Kinetic theory of fluctuations in conducting systems

12:30-14:00    Lunch

14:00-14:50    Christopher Jarzynski, Los Alamos

                        Equalities and inequalities for transitions between nonequilibrium

                        steady states

15:00-15:50    Claude Godreche, Weizmann Institute and Saclay

                        Aspects of nonequilibrium Kawasaki dynamics

16:00-16:30    Coffee Break

16:30               Colloquium: Henk van Beijeren, University of Utrecht

                        The uphill turtle race: how does nucleation of matter start?

 

Friday 21^st May

 

09:00-09:50    Joel Lebowitz, Rutgers University       

                        Time evolution and stationary states of closed and of open

                        quantum systems

10:00-10:40    Giora Shaviv, Technion

                        When does simple Statistical Mechanics not work?

10:45-11:15    Coffee Break

11:15-12:05    David Mukamel, Weizmann Institute

                        Traffic jams and ordering in driven systems

12:15-12:40   Daniel Wojcik, Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology

                        Classical and quantum fluctuation theorems for heat exchange

12:45-14:00    Lunch

14:00-14:25    Israel Klich, Technion

                        The optimal switching time

14:30-15:20    Ofer Biham, Hebrew University

                        Master equation for reaction networks on submicron-size grains

15:30-16:00    Coffee Break

16:00-17:00    Yosi Avron, Technion

                        Swimming at low Reynolds numbers