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The Mesoscopic Systems Seminars take place Tuesdays at 11 am in room 1D1.


Winter Semester 2010/2011

Due to giving birth in September 2010 and subsequent maternity/parental leave, there are no own group seminars scheduled at present.
See the MPIPKS Seminar Program for the central list of seminar talks.


Summer Semester 2010

International Conference

(3rd Asian-German Workshop on Optical Microcavities)
Optical Microcavities: Quantum Chaos in Open Systems Meets Optical Resonators

May 17-21, 2010
Organisers:
Martina Hentschel (MPIPKS, Germany)
Susumu Shinohara (MPIPKS, Germany)
Jung-Wan Ryu (MPIPKS, Germany)

Mesoscopic Seminars

June 15
Hui Cao (Yale University)
Chaotic microcavity lasers

June 30 -- Wednesday 11 am
Vladimir Osipov (Universiät Duisburg-Essen)
Integrable threory of quantum transport in chaotic cavities

July 6
Iva Brezinova (Universiät Wien)
Transport through quantum dots: Making semiclassics quantitative

July 15 -- Thursday 2 pm
(together with the Condensed Matter Seminar)
Grigory Tkachov (Universiät Würzburg)
Single-valley Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells: Topological effects and antilocalization



Winter Semester 2009/10

note the International Seminar and Workshop at MPIPKS
Tunneling and Scattering in Complex Systems - From Single to Many Particle Physics
September 07 - 25, 2009

November 10
(together with the Quantum Dynamics Seminar)
Frank Steiner (Universiät Ulm)
Exact Gutzwiller trace formula for an infinite quantum graph

January 26, 2010
Eva Weig (LMU München)
Nanomechanics with electrical and optical gradient forces



Summer Semester 2009

No seminars besides the MPIPKS seminar and workshop program due to my maternity leave, sorry.


Winter Semester 2008/09

November 7 -- Friday 3pm
(together with the Condensed Matter Seminar)
Eduardo V. Castro (TPC, Univ. Porto, Portugal)
Graphene double layer and its electric field effect

December 18 -- Thursday 11 am
Mihail Croitoru (University of Antwerpen, Belgium)
High-quality nanowires and nanofilms: interplay of quantum confinement and superconductivity

January 15 -- Thursday 4.30 pm
Joshua Bodyfelt (Wesleyan University, USA)
Probing Localization via Scattering Fidelity

January 22 -- Thursday 2 pm
(together with the Condensed Matter Seminar)
Carsten Timm (TU Dresden)
Molecular Spintronics and the Master Equation

January 27
Horacio Pastawski (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba)
Time-reversal mirrors and focusing: From classical acoustics to quantum systems



Summer Semester 2008

International Conference and Seminar

New Frontiers of Quantum Chaos in Mesoscopic systems

May 19-30, 2008
Organisers:
Martina Hentschel (MPIPKS, Germany)
Mark G. Raizen (University of Texas, USA)
Jan Wiersig (Bremen, Germany)


Mesoscopic Seminars

March 18
Swarnali Bandopadhyay (MPIPKS Dresden)
Effect of shell structure on Anderson orthogonality catastrophe

April 1
Georg Röder (MPIPKS Dresden)
Orthogonality catastrophe in mesoscopic systems: A quantum chaos perspective

May 6
Grigory Bordyugov (University of Potsdam)
Response functions of spiral waves

June 4
Tom Philbin (University of Erlangen/ University of St. Andrews)
Geometry of light

July 15 -- Note the special place: Seminar Room 3
Mohamed Benyoucef (IFW Dresden)
Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Quantum Optics

July 23 -- Note the special date: Wednesday 2 pm
Heung-Sun Sim (Kaist, Korea)
Electron-electron interactions in electronic interferometers

August 28 -- Note the special date: Thursday 11 am
Remy Dubertrand (Orsay, France)
Quantum chaos techniques for dielectric cavities

August 29 -- Note the special date: Friday 11 am
Binhe Wu (Shanghai, China)
Nonequilibrium phonon generation and fluctuations of a quantum dot molecule



Winter Semester 2007/08

October 9
Mahir Hussein (Gutzwiller Fellow MPIPKS Dresden, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil)
Symmetry Breaking Study with Deformed Ensembles

November 6
Arul Lakshminarayan (MPIPKS Dresden)
Extreme Statistics of Random States and Quantum Chaotic Wavefunctions

November 8
- jointly with the Electronic Correlations Seminar -
Klaus Ziegler (University of Augsburg)
Diffusive Transport in Graphene

December 3 ( Monday, Seminar Room 3 )
Peter Zahn (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
High TMR ratio in Fe/MgO/Fe junctions with even one atomic Fe layer

December 18 ( 2 pm - jointly with Time Series Analysis )
Eduardo G. Altmann (MPIPKS Dresden)
Poincare recurrences in open systems

January 18 ( Friday - jointly with the Correlation Seminar )
Michele Governale (Ruhr University Bochum)
Non-equilibrium proximity effect in quantum dots

January 22 ( jointly with the Correlation Seminar )
Jongbae Hong (Seoul National University)
Kondo-Peak Splitting and Coherent Transport in a Single-Electron Transistor

Sang Wook Kim (Pusan National University)
Quantum chaos in open systems: Localization, manifolds, and exceptional points

Summer Semester 2007

April 17
Grigory Tkachov (MPIPKS Dresden)
Fano scattering of Cooper pairs in nanowaveguides

April 24
Ralf Schützhold (TU Dresden)
Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions

May 1
No Seminar - Public Holiday

May 11 (FRIDAY 11 am in 1D1)
Stefan Rotter (Yale University and TU Wien)
The Kondo box in the presence of exchange interaction

May 16 (WEDNESDAY 3pm in Seminar Room 1)
- jointly with the Time Series Analysis Group -
Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas)
Semiclassical evolution of dissipative Markovian systems

June 5
Eduardo Mucciolo (University of Central Florida, USA)
Electronics with Single-Molecule Magnets

June 12
Eduardo Mucciolo (University of Central Florida, USA)
Resilient Quantum Computation in Correlated Environments: A Quantum Phase Transition Perspective

July 10
within the
Mini-Workshop ``Optical microcavities: From rays to waves, from passive to active'' --
Susumu Shinohara (ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan)
Ray-wave correspondence in stadium-shaped optical cavities

July 25 (WEDNESDAY 4 pm in Seminar Room 1)
- jointly with the Time Series Analysis Group -
Thomas Friedrich (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Quantum properties of mushroom billiards

Winter Semester 2006/07

October 24
Group Meeting (All Welcome!)

October 31 - Public Holiday

November 7
Arunava Chakrabarti (University of Kalyani, India)
1-d lattices without long range translational order: Fun with (positionally) correlated disorder

November 14
Denis Ullmo (LPTMS Orsay, France)
Kondo effect in Quantum Dots: Mesoscopic Fluctuations and finite size effects

November 21
Steve Tomsovic (MPIPKS Dresden and WSU Pullman, USA)
Sensitivity of Wave Field Evolution in Chaotic Systems: Manifold Stability

November 28
Arnd Bäcker (TU Dresden)
Time-evolution of wave-packets in chaotic and mixed systems

December 5
Sebastien Burdin (MPIPKS Dresden)
Lecture on Kondo Physics

December 12
Almas Sadreev (Krasnoyarsk, Russia and Linkoeping, Sweden)
Bound states in the continuum in the transport through mesoscopic systems

December 19
Group Meeting


January 9
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS OF SPEAKER
Ralf Schützhold (TU Dresden)
Sweeping from the superfluid to Mott phase in the Bose-Hubbard model

January 16
Jan Wiersig (Bremen University)
Quantum chaos in optical microcavities

January 18
NOTE THE EXCEPTIONAL TIME:
Thursday 2pm, jointly with Strong Correlation Seminar
Kang-Hun Ahn (Chungnam National University, Deajon)
Theory of nanoelectromechanical systems: From nanotubes to vestibular hair cell

January 23
Tae Yoon Kwon (MPIPKS Dresden)
Passive resonances and active lasing modes in a chaotic microcavity

January 30
Jens Siewert (Catania, Italy and Uni Regensburg)
Macroscopic quantum effects in superconducting circuits

February 13
Steve Tomsovic (MPIPKS Dresden and WSU Pullman, USA)
Finite-time Lyapunov exponents: Kicked rotor

February 20
Arul Lakshminarayan (MPIPKS Dresden)
Entanglement and quantum chaos in spin chains

Febuary 27
Franziska Rohlfing (Uni Regensburg)
Supercurrents through InAs Quantum Wells in Parallel and Perpendicular Magnetic Fields

March 6
Rainer Bedrich (TU Dresden, now MPIPKS)
Hydrodynamic properties of fractal aggregates

March 15
NOTE THE EXCEPTIONAL TIME AND PLACE:
Thursday 11am at TUD BZW A120, jointly with Computational Physics Group, TU Dresden
A. Shudo (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Complex classical dynamics and quantum tunneling in the presence of chaos

Thursday, March 22 at 3.30 pm in 1D1
Rehersal Talks for DPG Spring Meeting
Swarnali Bandopadhyay, Sebastien Burdin, Martina Hentschel


Previous Seminars

July 26, 2006
Swarnali Bandopadhyay (MPIPKS Dresden)
Conductance of a multi-mode ballistic ring: Beyond Landauer and Kubo


Suggestions and Contact

Suggestions for speakers are welcome, please contact Martina Hentschel (office 1B12, ext. 1208, email martina).




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