1 July - 19 December 1997
Organisers:JP Keating (Bristol), DE Khmelnitskii (Cambridge), IV Lerner (Birmingham), P Sarnak (Princeton)
This is the final conference in the programme Disordered Systems and Quantum Chaos
10.00 - 11.00 Richard Prange
Anderson localization vs quantum integrability
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot)
A quantum dot coupled to a dissipative environment: from Coulomb blockade
to Kondo physics
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court
14.30 - 15.30 Felix von Oppen (Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg)
Surface acoustic waves and composite fermions in modulated structures
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 17.00 Theo Nieuwenhuizen (University of Amsterdam)
Thermodynamics of the glassy state: does it work?
17.00 - 18.00 Andre Voros (Saclay)
Chaotic eigenfunctions in phase space
18.00 - 18.45 Wine Reception
19.00 Dinner at Wolfson Court
09.00 - 10.00 Jean-Louis Pichard (CEA-Saclay)
Maximum mixing of one body states by a local interaction
10.00 - 11.00 Markus Büttiker (Geneve University)
Dynamical electrical transport in chaotic cavities
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Giulio Casati (University of Como)
Non-ergodic behaviour in quantum mechanics
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court
14.30 - 15.30 Vladimir Falko (University of Lancaster)
Image of local density of states fluctuations in disordered metals in
the resonant tunneling experiments
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 17.00 Lev Kaplan (Princeton University)
Wavefunction intensity statistics in chaotic systems: scarring vs. RMT
17.00 - 18.00 Itzhack Dana (Bar-Ilan University)
Band Husimi Distributions for Quantum Chaos on the Torus
19.00 Dinner at Wolfson Court
09.00 - 10.00 Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University)
Thermopower of disordered and chaotic conductors
10.00 - 11.00 Charles Marcus (Stanford University)
The role of interactions in quantum chaos.
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Harold Baranger (Bell Labs, NJ)
Chaos and Interacting Electrons in Ballistic Quantum Dots
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court
AFTERNOON FREE
17.00 - 19.00 Newton Institute Christmas Party
19.00 Dinner at Wolfson Court
09.00 - 10.00 Felix Izrailev, Universidad de Puebla, Mexico
Statistical approach to isolated systems of interacting particles based
on the structure of chaotic eigenstates
10.00 - 11.00 Jonathan Robbins, Bristol University
The Spin-Statistics Relation from Schrodinger Quantum Mechanics
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Nathan Argaman, UCSB
Superconducting proximity effects in disordered mesoscopic systems
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court
14.30 - 15.30 Douglas Stone (Yale University)
Theory of Asymmetric Resonant Cavities
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 17.00 Tania Monteiro (University College London)
Periodic Orbits and the transition to chaos in the Resonant Tunneling
Diode.
17.00 - 18.00 Mark Fromhold (Nottingham University)
Chaos in diodes, dots and billiards
19.30 Conference Dinner at the University Arms Hotel
09.00 - 10.00 Jens Marklof
Spectral form factors of rectangle billiards: The Berry-Tabor conjecture,
random walks, and equidistribution
10.00 - 11.00 Gilles Montambaux (Orsay)
Boundary conditions in disordered systems
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Angus MacKinnon, Imperial College
The statistics of the scattering matrix for disordered systems
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court
14.30 - 15.30 Sergei Kravchenko (NY City College)
Unexpected insulator-conductor transition in two dimensions
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 17.00 Eugene Bogomolny (Orsay)
Intermediate statistics