Academic Year 2011

Asymptotics, phases and chaos, Optical and Quantum
Conference in Honour of
Michael Berry
on the occasion of his 70th Birthday

Auditorium Instituto de Ciencias Físicas,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Cuernavaca, México, September 7th to 9th, 2011

Program
Wednesday
9:00 Registration (Continued in the morning coffee breaks.)

9:30 Michael Berry
Beyond xp but still far from zeta

10:40 C. Jung
Rainbow singularities in chaotic scattering from 2 to 4 degrees of freedom

11:30 Coffee break



12:00 M. Novaes
The combinatorics of quantum chaos

12:50 Boris Gutkin
Spectral statistics of "cellular" billiards

13:40 Lunch

15:20 Francois Leyvraz
Statistical independence of spectra belonging to different symmetries

16:10 S. Müller
Semiclassical approach to discrete symmetries in quantum chaos

17:00 Coffee Break


17:00-19:30 Poster Sesion
F. Gonzalez Montoya: "Caustics and chaotic dispersion in the Stormer problem"

H. Hernandez Saldana: "Classical analog of quantum eigenfunctions in energy space in simple and no so simple one dimensional systems."
H. Hernandez Saldana:"Fluctuations at the edge of chaos: analytical results for the dynamics and S the q-statistics"

C. Pineda: "Non-Markovian behavior of small and large complex quantum systems"

Alexander Franco: "Novel doorways and resonances in large-scale classical wave systems"

Andres Garcia Fidelity decay under isospectral perturbation: An RMT analysis. E. Zambrano: "Blind spots and Fidelity"

J.P. Gors: "Optical study of quantum fidelity thanks to Mach Zehnder interferometer and two chaotic fibers"


17:30 E. Heller, CIC Distinguished Lecturer
Classical and Semiclassical Branched Flow in a Weak Random Potential

20:00 Birthday party



Thursday
9:30 U. Smilansky
Courant's Nodal Domain Theorem - Revisited

10:20 S. Gnutzmann
Topological Resonances and Nonlinear Wave Equations in Quantum Graphs

11:10 Coffee Break


11:40 H.-J. Stoeckmann
Freak waves: A microwave study

12:30 Demetrios Christodoulides
Optical Airy beams and bullets

13:20 Lunch
15:00 R. Méndez
Doorway states in the time domain

15:40 S. Fishman
The Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLSE) with a random potential: effective noise and scaling theory.

16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 M. Sieber
Trace formula for a dielectric disk with a point scatterer

17:50 K. Oleschko
Visibility and invisibility of the moon corona: Prime number distribution


Friday
9:30 A. Ozório de Almeida
Initial value representation for the Loschmidt Echo

10:20 N. Anantharaman
Semiclassical measures for the Schrodinger equation on the torus

11:10 Coffee Break
11:40 B. Dietz
Exceptional Points in Microwave Billiards with and without Time Reversal Invariance

12:30 L. Benet
On random interacting two-level boson systems

13:10 Lunch
14:50 E. Abramochkin
Radial Airy Function and Related Light Beams

15:40 B. Wolf
Canonical discretization of optical and quantum systems.

16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 E. Sadurni
Schrodinger waves replicate before and after breaking

17:40 M. Berry
On reflection: shifts in dipole radiation at interfaces


 
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