Cooperative Phenomena in Statistical Physics: Theory and Applications

Workshop: February 22 - February 28, 1999
Seminar: February 7 - March 5, 1999

Scientific Directors:
  • Michael Baake (Universität Tübingen)
  • Uwe Grimm (TU Chemnitz)
  • Rudolf A. Römer (TU Chemnitz)
  • Michael Schreiber (TU Chemnitz)




  • SEMINAR PROGRAM




    Sunday, February 7

    19:00 - 23:00 meeting informal welcome and first pub tour

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    Week 1


    Monday, February 8

    10:00 - 11:00 meeting welcome and discussion of seminar details
    16:00 meeting let's meet for some coffee and tea

    Tuesday, February 9

    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Paul Pearce (script in 2 A5)
    Open boundary conditions for exactly solvable models and conformal invariance I
    16:30 - 17:20


    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Eeuwe S. Zijlstra (script in 2 A5)
    Existence and localization of surface states
    in a 1D model quasicrystal
    discussion

    Wednesday, February 10

    10:00 - 11:20

    11:20 - 11:30
    seminar Alexander Quandt (script)
    Introduction to density-functional theory and all that ...
    discussion

    Thursday, February 11

    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Paul Pearce (script in 2 A5)
    Open boundary conditions for exactly solvable models and conformal invariance II
    16:30 - 17:20


    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Mohammad Ebrahim Fouladvand and Farhad Jafarpour (script in 2 A5)
    A multi-species ASEP: A comparison between ordered sequential
    and random sequential schemes
    discussion

    Friday, February 12

    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Paul Pearce (script in 2 A5)
    Open boundary conditions for exactly solvable models and conformal invariance III
    16:30 - 17:20

    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Przemyslaw Repetowicz
    Quasiperiodic Ising models
    discussion

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    Week 2


    Monday, February 15

    09:45 - 10:00 meeting discussion of seminar details
    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Manfred Scheunert (script + lecture notes in 2 A5)
    Introduction to quantum groups I
    16:30 - 17:20

    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Ruibin Zhang (script)
    Induced representations of quantum groups and noncommutative geometry
    discussion
    17:30 - 18:20

    18:20 - 18:30
    seminar Pedro S. Goldbaum
    Gap labelling theorem for periodic Ising chains
    discussion

    Tuesday, February 16

    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Manfred Scheunert (script + lecture notes in 2 A5)
    Introduction to quantum groups II
    16:30 - 17:20

    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Jan de Gier (script)
    Exact solution of a model for traffic flow
    discussion
    17:30 - 18:20

    18:20 - 18:30
    seminar Ivan Dornic (script)
    What is persistence and what do we learn from it?
    discussion

    Wednesday, February 17

    11:00 - 12:30 MPI seminar of the MPI group "Pattern Formation"
    Michael Baake: Which distribution of matter diffracts? --- An intermediate investigation
    16:30 - 18:00 lecture Manfred Scheunert (script + lecture notes in 2 A5)
    Introduction to quantum groups III

    Thursday, February 18

    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Fabian Eßler (script in 2 A5)
    Introduction to solvable latice models of correlated fermions
    13:30 MPI seminar of the MPI group "Electronic Correlations"
    Alexander Quandt: Nanostructured Boron Materials
    16:30 - 17:20

    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Holger Frahm (script in 2 A5)
    Integrable impurities in one-dimensional correlated systems
    discussion

    Friday, February 19

    16:30 - 17:10

    17:10 - 17:50

    17:50 - 18:00
    seminar

    seminar
    Christoph Richard
    Random Tilings I: Concepts and examples
    Moritz Höffe
    Random Tilings II: Diffraction theory
    discussion

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    Week 3


    see the workshop program.


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    Week 4


    Monday, March 1

    09:45 - 10:00 meeting discussion of seminar details
    10:00 - 10:50

    10:50 - 11:00
    seminar Marcio J. Martins (script in 2 A5)
    Lorentz lattice gases and integrable models
    discussion
    16:30 - 17:20

    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Joachim Hermisson
    Renormalization of aperiodic quantum chains
    discussion

    Tuesday, March 2

    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Andreas Schadschneider (script1, script2)
    Introduction to self-organized criticality and applications I
    16:30 - 17:20


    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Valery Krivnov and Alexander Ovchinnikov (script in 2 A5)
    The unsaturated magnetism in the Hubbard ladder model
    with infinite interaction
    discussion

    Wednesday, March 3

    10:00 - 10:50

    10:50 - 11:00
    seminar Paul Ziesche
    Several recent aspects of electron correlation
    discussion

    Thursday, March 4

    10:00 - 11:30 lecture Andreas Schadschneider (script1, script2)
    Introduction to self-organized criticality and applications II
    16:30 - 17:20


    17:20 - 17:30
    seminar Jon Links (script in 2 A5)
    The construction of closed integrable spin chains with
    quantum algebra symmetry
    discussion

    Friday, March 5

    09:45 - 10:00 meeting discussion of last minute details
    10:00 - 10:50


    10:50 - 11:00
    seminar Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
    Distribution of the total amount of light transmitted
    through an opaque medium
    discussion

    Fragen, Hinweise ?
    Questions, suggestions ?
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