Previous Colloquia in 2003/2002


15.12.2003
Michael Hortmann, Universität Bremen
"Cryptography and quantum mechanics"
08.12.2003
Wolfgang Zinth, LMU München
"Photosynthesis - ultrafast reactions for highly efficient energy conversion"
01.12.2003
Gerd Leuchs, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
"Quantum properties of optical fiber solitons"
24.11.2003
Heiner Igel, LMU München
"Computational wave propagation in seismology"
17.11.2003
Gerhard Birkl, Universität Hannover
"Atomic quantum systems in optical mircro-structures"
10.11.2003
Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann, Universität Marburg
"Transmission studies in open microwave billiards
03.11.2003
Gerard t'Hooft, Utrecht University
"Quantum Mechanics at the Black Hole Horizon"
27.10.2003
Rainer Blatt, Universität Innsbruck
"Quantum computer - dream and realization"
20.10.2003
A. J. Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University, New York
"Making an effort to listen: Mechanical amplification by novel molecular motors in the ear"
06.10.2003
Claude Godreche, CEA Saclay
"Nonequilibrium dynamics of ferromagnetic spin systems"
25.08.2003
Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University
"Initializing at will: Equation-free modeling and experimentation"
18.08.2003
Klaus Dietz, MPIPKS
"Quantum dynamics in open systems"
04.08.2003
Piet Brouwer, Cornell University Ithaka, USA
"Quantum pumps for charge and spin"
21.07.2003
Ralf Metzler, NORDITA Copenhagen
"Topology matters: Some aspects of DNA physics"
14.07.2003
Ian Affleck, Boston University
"Conductance of Luttinger liquid y-junctions"
07.07.2003
Frank Cichos, TU Chemnitz
"Diffusion in nanostructures"

30.06.2003
Andreas Schäfer, Universität Regensburg
"Quantum chromodynamics and random matrix theory"
23.06.2003
Daniel Robert, University of Bristol
"The ears of insects: Microscale sensors and auditory nanomechanics"
16.06.2003
D. D. Osheroff, Stanford University
"The importance of interactions between TS in glassy materials at low temperatures:
A historical perspective"
10.06.2003
A. K. Wroblewski, Warsaw University
"Sense and nonsense in bibliometrics"
02.06.2003
Julius Wess, LMU Müchen
"Field theory and quantum mechanics on deformed spaces"
26.05.2003
Raymond Kapral, University Toronto
Martin-Gutzwiller-Fellowship, Award Ceremony
"Knotty problems in nonlinear dynamics"
19.05.2003
Werner Hanke, Universität Würzburg
"Where are we at in the microscopic theory of high-Tc superconductivity?"
12.05.2003
Marek Ploscajczek, GANIL Caen
"Description of the structure of weakly bound/unbound correlated quantum systems"
28.04.2003
Hans Briegel, LMU München
"Multi-particle entanglement: Concepts and applications"
14.04.2003
Matthias Steinmetz, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP)
"Structure formation in a preposterous universe"
07.04.2003
Michael F. Crommie, University of California at Berkeley
"STM studies of surface Kondo impurities and clusters"
17.03.2003
T. Maurice Rice, ETH Zürich
"The diversity of electronic states in solids - A challenge for renormalization group methods"
24.02.2003>
Philipp Gegenwart, CPfS Dresden
"Quantum criticality in heavy Fermon systems"
17.02.2003
Ernst H. Brandt, MPI for Metals Research Stuttgart
"Statics and dynamics of the vortex lattice in high-Tc superconductors"
10.02.2003
Bruno Eckhardt, University Marburg
"Chaotic mixing"
03.02.2003
Ingolf Volker Hertel, Max-Born-Institut Berlin
"Ultrafast dynamics and H-transfer in clusters and biologically relevant molecules"
27.01.2003
Nimrod Moiseyev, Technion Haifa
"NON HERMITIAN QUANTUM MECHANICS: Theory and applications to problems that hard/impossible to solve by the conventional QM"
20.01.2003
Oriol Bohigas, LPTMS, Orsay
"Quantum chaos: From the atomic nucleus to the Riemann zeta function"
13.01.2003
Philippe Blanchard, Universität Bielefeld
"Complex random network: The origin of scale-free graphs, percolation, epidemic thresholds and all that"
09.12.2002
T.W. Haensch, MPQ Garching
"Precision spectroscopy with ultra-short pulses"
02.12.2002
Clemens Bechinger, Universität Konstanz
Colloidal suspensions as analog computers for complex tasks"
25.11.2002
Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech
"Driven diffusive systems: Surprises far from thermal equilibrium"
18.11.2002
Ramamurti Shankar, Yale University
"Renormalization group for interacting fermions - a pedagogical introduction"
11.11.2002
Eric J. Heller, MPIPKS
"From quantum corrals to concert halls: Waves in confined spaces"
04.11.2002
Hermann Grabert, Universität Freiburg
"Electron-electron interactions in mesoscopic wires"
28.10.2002
Michael E. Fisher, University of Maryland
"The SAGA of COULOMBIC CRITICALITY: From Debye and Hückel to Ginzburg and beyond"
21.10.2002
Eric Clément, Université Paris IV
"Fragility of granular matter: An experimentalist's point of view"
14.10.2002
Bernhard Kramer, Univ. Hamburg
"Scaling at the Anderson transition"
07.10.2002
Richard Gill, Univ. Utrecht
"Passion at a distance of 30 sigma?"
30.09.2002
Manuel A. Fortes, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa
"Solid and liquid foams: Concepts and rheological properties"
23.09.2002
Patrick Tabling, ENS Paris
"Some physical and dynamical aspects in microfluid systems"
26.08.2002
Michael Menzinger, University of Toronto
"Reactive Flows in Toronto"
19.08.2002
Denis J. Evans, Australian National University
"The fluctuation theorem"
12.08.2002
Nicolai Chernov, University of Alabama
"Dynamics of a massive piston in an ideal gas"
05.08.2002
Pierre Gaspard, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
"Microscopic chaos and transport phenomena"
22.07.2002
Alexander Grosberg, University of Minnesota
"Physics of charge inversion in chemical and biological systems"
15.07.2002
Jörg Bilgram, ETH Zürich
"Solidification far from equilibrium - Morphologies of xenon crystals
01.07.2002
Sergey Novikov, Landau Institute Moscow and University of Maryland
"Topological phenomena in normal metals"
24.06.2002
Isabel Darcy, University of Texas
"Tied in Knots: Applications of knot theory to the study of protein mechanism"
17.06.2002
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Knots and Physics"
10.06.2002
Robert Brooks, Technion Haifa
"Spectral properties of Riemann surfaces"
03.06.2002
Antti-Pekka Jauho, Micro- and Nanotechnology Research Center, Lyngby, Denmark
"Mesoscopic Coulomb drag"
27.05.2002
R. Luest, Dt. Klimarechenzentrum Hamburg
"From the bottom of the sea, down to earth into space"
13.05.2002
Giulio Casati, Univ. Como
"Efficient quantum computing of complex dynamcis"
29.04.2002
Johannes Voit, Dt. Sparkassen- und Giroverband
"From Brownian motion to operational risk: Physics and financial markets"
22.04.2002
Arkady Pikovsky, Universität Potsdam
"Synchronization"
15.04.2002
Alfredo Ozorio d' Almeida, MPIPKS
Martin-Gutzwiller-Fellowship, Award Ceremony
"The birth of 'Semiclassics': A personal view of the Gutzwiller Trace Formula"
08.04.2002
Jonathon Howard, MPI CBG Dresden
"Microtubules, Motors and Mechanoreceptors"
04.03.2002
James A. Warren, NIST, Gaithers Burg, MD
"Phase field modeling of crystal growth, grain boundaries and electrodeposition: A unified approach"
25.02.2002
Andreas Schadschneider, Universität zu Köln
"Cellular automaton approach to pedestrian dynamics"
18.02.2002
Kai Nagel, ETH Zürich
"Breakdown and recovery in traffic flow models"
04.02.2002
Rüdiger Kniep, MPI CPfS
"Complexity in Chemistry: A + B = AB"
28.01.2002
Christof Wunderlich, Universität, Hamburg
"Thermally activated escape and stochastic resonance with individual atoms"
21.01.2002
Jürgen Kuebler, TU Darmstadt
"Magnetism of metals: a density functional view"
14.01.2002 Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Universität Heidelberg
"Intermolecular Coulombic decay in clusters and weakly bound systems"
07.01.2002
Shmuel Fishman, Israel Institute of Technology
"Relaxation and diffusion in chaotic systems"
Previous Colloquia in 2001/2000
Colloquia in 2008