Anderson Localization for the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation (NLSE)?

Supported by

The Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics

 

June 22nd - 27th, 2008

Lewiner Institute Seminar Room

 

Program

 

Sunday 22.06

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09:30-10:00    Registration and coffee

 

10:00-10:30     Shmuel Fishman, Technion
Opening and Introduction

 

10:30-11:05     Dima Shepelyansky, CNRS Toulouse
Nonlinearity, localization and quantum chaos

 

11:15-11:30    Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:05     Serge Aubry, CEA Saclay

Suppression of energy diffusion in nonlinear disordered models
under different  conditions

 

12:15-12:45    Organization for the workshop (including computer connections)

 

12:45-14:30     Lunch

 

14:30-15:05     Moti Segev, Technion
Anderson Localization of light

 

15:15-15:50     Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Institute
Localization experiments in nonlinear waveguide arrays

 

16:00-16:30    Coffee Break

 

16:30-17:05     Boris Malomed, Tel-Aviv University
Analytical approaches to dynamics of solitons in a random environment

 

17:15-17:50     Sergey Gredeskul, Ben-Gurion University
Soliton transmission through disordered 1D system with point defects

 

 

Monday 23.06

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09:30-10:05     Sankalpa Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Time dependent density profile and coherence properties of low dimensional BEC in disordered potential

 

10:15-10:50     Wei-min Wang, University Paris-Sud
Long time Anderson localization for nonlinear random Schroedinger Equation

 

11:00-11:30    Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:05     Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
On the problem of Anderson Localization for Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation

 

12:15-14:00    Lunch

 

14:00-14:35     Nir Davidson, Weizmann Institute
Matter wave localization with ultra cold atoms

 

14:45-15:20     Boris Shapiro, Technion
Expansion of cold atomic gases in the presence of disorder

 

15:30-16:00     Coffee Break

 

16:00-16:35     Tobias Paul, University Paris-Sud
Anderson localization in guided beams of Bose condensed atom

 

16:45-17:20     Peter Schlagheck, Regensburg University
Coherent backscattering of Bose-Einstein condensates in two-dimensional disorder potentials

 

17:30-18:00    Coffee Break

 

18:00-18:45     Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
The Mathematics of Anderson Localization, an introduction (*)

 

Tuesday 24.06

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9:30-10:05       Arkady Pikovsky, University of Potsdam
Chaotic destruction of Anderson localization in a nonlinear lattice

 

12:30-14:00    Lunch

 

15:00-15:35     Sergej Flach, Max Planck Inst. for Physics of Complex Systems,
Dresden
Universal spreading of wave packets in nonlinear disordered systems

 

15:45-16:20     Dmitry Krimer, Max Planck Inst. for Physics of Complex Systems,
Dresden
Computational aspects of wave packet spreading in disordered nonlinear Schroedinger chains

 

16:30-17:00    Coffee Break

 

17:00-17:35     Yevgeny Krivolapov, Technion
On the problem of Anderson Localization for Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation (*)

 

Wednesday 25.06

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09:30-10:05     Simone Warzel, Princeton/TU Munich

                        On the joint distribution of energy levels of random Schroedinger operators

 

12:30-14:00    Lunch

 

15:00-15:35     Rami Pugatch, Weizmann Institute
Observing a localization phase transition in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices

 

15:45-16:20     Yoav Lahini, Weizmann Institute
Localization and nonlinearity in disordered and incommensurate photonic lattices

 

Thursday 26.06

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09:30-10:05     Alexander Iomin, Technion
Resonant recurrence and Anderson localization in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation

 

12:30-14:00    Lunch

 

 

Friday 27.06

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10:30-12:00     Summary and statement of open problems by a panel