Fall 2006
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
University
|
Title
|
Friday Sep 15
|
Omri Gat
|
Jerusalem
|
Phase transitions
and critical phenomena in laser light-mode systems.
|
Friday Oct 6
|
1pm: Yves Colin de
Verdière
3pm: Robert
Littlejohn
|
Grenoble
Berkeley
|
Normal forms for
avoided crossings in the quantum adiabatic limit and the semi-classical
Landau-Zener formula.
Quantum Normal Forms and Torus Quantization Rule
|
Monday Oct 9
|
Raul Vallejos
|
CBPF/Rio de Janeiro
|
Entangling power of
baker maps
|
Friday Oct 13
|
Leonid Pastur
|
Swansea/
Kharkiv
|
Limiting
Laws of Linear Eigenvalue Statistics
for Unitary Invariant Matrix Models
|
Friday Oct 20
|
Arnd Bäcker
|
Dresden
|
Dynamical tunneling in
systems with a mixed phase space
|
Friday Oct 27
|
Sebastian Müller
|
Cambridge
|
Periodic-Orbit
Theory of Level Correlations
|
Friday Nov 3
|
Isaac Chenchiah
|
Bristol
|
Quasiconvex
envelopes of elastic energy densities: What they are, why they
matter, and how to compute them.
|
Friday Nov 10
|
Mike Jeffrey
|
Bristol
|
Conical Diffraction:
the complexification of a 170 year old phenomenon
|
Friday Dec 8
|
Alfredo Ozorio de
Almeida
|
CBPF, Rio de Janeiro
|
TBA
|
