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Research Van Swinderen Institute Symposia and Meetings October 19-21, 2016: Symposium on advances in semi-classical methods in mathematics and physics

Program

October 19:

Time Speaker Title
09:00 - 09:45 Sir Michael Berry Phase-space physics: diabolism, whorls and tendrils, wignereal disease, superoscillations…
09:45 - 10:30 Leonid Polterovich Quantum speed limit vs. classical displacement energy
coffee
11:00 - 11:45 Carl Bender Nonlinear eigenvalue problems
11:45 - 12:30 Maciej Zworski From classical to quantum and back
lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Alfredo Ozorio de Almeida Multiple Groenewold products: From path integrals to semiclassical correlations
14:45 - 15:30 Raju Venugopalan The semi-classical dynamics of over-occupied Quark-Gluon Plasmas: universal non-thermal fixed points and topological transitions
coffee
16:00 - 16:30 Eduardo Nahmad-Achar Semi-classical methods for phase diagrams in finite matter-radiation systems
16:30 - 17:00 Konstantinos Efstathiou Fractional Hamiltonian Monodromy and Circle Actions
17:00 - 17:20 Ricardo Buring The Hunting of the Star-product
17:20 - 17:40 Anass Bouisaghouane Universal infinitesimal deformation of Poisson structures by using the Kontsevich graphs
reception Location: Van Swinderen Huys

October 20:

Time Speaker Title
09:00 - 09:45 François Gelis Semi-classical approach in quantum field theories coupled to strong sources
09:45 - 10:30 Robert Littlejohn Geometry of Hamilton's Principal Function
coffee
11:00 - 11:45 Francesco Iachello Excited states quantum phase transitions and quantum monodromy in many-body stystems
11:45 - 12:30 Klaas Landsman Quantization and noncommutative geometry
lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Caroline Lasser Semiclassical methods for computing molecular quantum dynamics
14:45 - 15:30 Andrei Belitsky Flux-tube physics and scattering amplitudes
coffee
16:00 - 17:00 Gerard ’t Hooft A deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics
17:00 - 17:30 Nico Hugenholtz Recollections about H.J. Groenewold
19:00 - dinner

Location: Grand Café of Restaurant Weeva

Evening speaker: Jan van Zanten, former PhD student of H.J. Groenewold

October 21:

Time Speaker Title
09:00 - 09:45 Boris Zhilinskií Qualitative theory of finite-particle quantum systems. Comparison of fully quantum, semi-quantum and completely classical models
09:45 - 10:30 Andreas Ringwald Topology in QCD and Axion Dark Matter
coffee
11:00 - 11:45 Roman Schubert On Groenewold's Quantum-Classical Correspondence for Observables and Applications in Normalforms
11:45 - 12:30 Vu Ngoc San The quantum rotation number for 2D integrable systems
lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Frans Klinkhamer Sphalerons in the Standard Model
14:45 - 15:30 Stefan Teufel Quantum geometry in semi-classical approximations
coffee
16:00 - 16:45 Andreas Knauf Molecular resonances and regularization
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