QUANTUM MECHANICS
OF
COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Recent years have seen
considerable progress in the rigorous
mathematical understanding of complex classical and quantum systems. In
particular, this has
been the case with disordered systems, the equilibration of many body
systems, and systems describing interaction of matter with radiation.
Quantum systems have been analyzed almost exclusively through spectral
theory. There is no appropriate quantum analogue of classical entropy,
reservoir, chaotic system and propagation of chaos, common place
notions when dealing with classical systems although the notion of
return
to equilibrium has been established.
Our aim is to
connect
these circle of ideas by bringing together experts in nonequilibrium
systems as well as researchers in quantum mechanics and field theory
during
the period Mai 15 - August 15. It is hoped that ideas will be generated
during two workshops, one from June 1 to June 6 leading into a
symposium
commemorating Ludwig
Boltzmann's work, and the other will
be July 24-31.
The following people have
agreed to come for some period of time: Riccardo Adami
(Rome), Anton Arnold
(Vienna), Jean
Bellissard (Atlanta), Federico Bonetto (Atlanta), Maria
Carvalho (Portugal/Atlanta), Thomas Chen (Princeton), Anna
Dall'Acqua (Munich), Stephane de Bievre (Lille), Jan
Dereszinski (Warszawa), Laurent Desvillettes (Cachan), Jean
Dolbeault (Paris), Raffaele Esposito (L' Aquila), Maria
Esteban (Paris), Pierluigi Falco (Rome), Juerg
Froehlich (Zuerich), Ester Gabetta (Pavia),
Irene Gamba (Texas), Marcel
Griesemer (Stuttgart), Christian Hainzl
(Birmingham,
Alabama), Christian Jaekel (Zuerich), Vojkan
Jaksic (Montreal), Shi Jin (Wisconsin), Alain
Joye (Grenoble), Mathieu Levin (Denmark), Elliott
Lieb (Princeton), Joszef Lorinczi (Munich), Jani
Lukkarinen (Munich),
Rossana
Marra (Rome), Sergey Morozov
(Munich), Clement
Mouhot (Lyon), Tadahiro Miyao (Munich), Bruno Nachtergaele
(Davis), Krzysztof
Pachuki (Warszawa), Gianluca Panati (Munich), Federica
Pezzotti
(L'Aquila), Alessandro Pizzo
(Zuerich), Mario Pulvirenti (Rome), Benjamin
Schlein (Harvard), Robert Seiringer
(Princeton), Eric Sere (Paris), Geoffrey
Sewell (London), Heinz Siedentop
(Munich), Israel Michael Sigal
(Toronto), Herbert Spohn (Munich), Cedric
Villani (Lyon), Shih-Hsien
Yu (Hongkong).
Participant's dates of stay (as of May 15)
Title
and abstracts of possible talks
Tentative Program for the first workshop June
1
- 6
Program for the second workshop July 24 - 31
The organizers: Eric Carlen. Laszlo Erdoes and Michael Loss