MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
Dresden, Germany
International workshop and seminar on
DISORDERED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
Workshop: March 2 - March 6, 1998
Seminar: March 9 - April 9, 1998
Scientific Coordinator:
Günter Radons
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Universität Kiel
e-mail: radons@theo-physik.uni-kiel.de
The meeting aims at combining methods and knowledge from the field of
disordered systems with recent approaches and advances in classical
dynamical systems. The interplay between chaos and quenched randomness
provides a challenge at the foundations of equilibrium and non-equilibrium
statistical mechanics and applies to extended nonlinear systems in condensed
matter physics and other areas.
Topics: Disordered billiards and generic dynamical systems with disordered
potentials, dynamical systems with random couplings, coupled map lattices
and spatially continuous dynamical systems with quenched disorder, random
walks in random environments and their dynamical realizations, products of
random matrices, generalizations of Markov partitions, thermodynamic formalism
for disordered systems, applications of replica calculations, dynamical
mean-field theory, escape rate formalism, periodic orbit theory, realizations
of billiards in heterostructures, chaotic transport, aging phenomena,
microscopic approaches to non-equilbrium thermodynamics in the presence of disorder.
The meeting starts with a one-week workshop introducing fundamental
concepts, methods, and recent developments. It continues as a seminar with
more specialized talks, discussions, and informal working sessions.
Preliminary list of speakers:
H. van Beijeren (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
L. Bunimovich (Atlanta, USA)
E. G. D. Cohen (New York, USA)
B. Derrida (Paris, France)
A. Engel (Magdeburg, Germany)
J. Fritz (Budapest, Hungary)
P. Gaspard (Bruxelles, Belgium)
T. Geisel (Göttingen, Germany)
M. Gundlach (Bremen, Germany)
P. Hänggi (Augsburg, Germany)
H. Horner (Heidelberg, Germany)
K. W. Kehr (Jülich, Germany)
I. Kondor (Budapest, Hungary)
J. Krug (Essen, Germany)
J.-M. Luck (Saclay, France)
Ch. Newman (New York, USA)
H. Posch (Vienna, Austria)
I. Procaccia (Rehovot, Israel)
P. Rujan (Oldenburg, Germany)
H. Spohn (Munich, Germany)
D. Szasz (Budapest, Hungary)
T. Tel (Budapest, Hungary)
B. Toth (Budapest, Hungary)
G. Vattay (Budapest, Hungary)
A. Vulpiani (Roma, Italy)
D. Weiss (Regensburg, Germany)
W. Zimmermann (Jülich, Germany)
Applications for participation should be sent to the address below. Application forms are available upon request or on the conference web page. Registration fee is DM 150. Costs for accommodation and lunch will be covered by the MPI for Physics of Complex Systems. Upon request a limited funding is available to partially contribute towards travel expenses. Deadline for applications is December 31st, 1997