Workshop schedule

Workshop on Decoherence in Quantum Dynamical Systems

To be held at ECT* Trento, IT

April 26^th -30^th, 2010

Workshop Schedule (a pdf file is available here)

Sunday	April 25th
20.00pm	Informal welcome dinner: Ristorante-Pizzeria ALLA MOSTRA, Trento
Monday	April 26th
09.00am	Arrival and registration
	Chairperson: Peter Saalfrank
09.30am	Franz Hasselbach	U-Tübingen, DE	Decoherence of electron waves caused by irreversible electromagnetic interaction with charges in a resistive plate
10.30am	Coffee
11.00am	Stefan Gerlich	U-Vienna, AU	Coherence and decoherence of hot, complex molecules
12.00pm	Klaus Hornberger	MPIPKS, Dresden	Hund's paradox and the collisional stabilization of chiral molecules
13.00pm	Lunch/Discussion
	Chairperson: Alahari Navin
14.30pm	David Hinde	ANU, Canberra, Australia	Quantum coherence and decoherence in low energy nuclear collisions: from superposition to irreversible outcomes
15.30pm	Coffee
16.00pm	Lorenzo Corradi	INFN Legnaro, IT	Aspects of the transition from quasielastic to deep inelastic processes
Tuesday	April 27th
	Chairperson: Ron Johnson
09.30am	Alexis Diaz Torres	U-Surrey, UK	Decoherence in low energy nuclear collisions?
10.30am	Coffee
11.00am	Mahir Hussein	USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Collective response of atom clusters and nuclei: Role of chaos
12.00pm	Marek Ploszajczak	GANIL, Caen, France	Shell Model for Open Quantum Systems
13.00pm	Lunch/Discussion
	Chairperson: Walter Strunz
14.30pm	Aurelian Isar	NIPNE, Bucharest, RO	Quantum decoherence and entanglement in two mode open systems
15.30pm	Coffee
16.00pm	Peter Saalfrank	U-Potsdam, DE	Open system density matrix theory for surface science problems
17.00pm	Ulrich Kleinekathöfer	Jacobs University, Bremen	Applying time-local quantum master equations to dissipative dynamics and transport
Wednesday	April 28th
	Chairperson: Ronnie Kosloff
09.30am	Jyrki Piilo	U-Turku, Finland	Open quantum systems with memory
10.30am	Coffee
11.00am	Barry Garraway	U-Sussex, UK	Decay analysis with reservoir structures
12.00pm	Irene Burghardt	ENS, Paris, FR	Coherence and decoherence in ultrafast molecular processes: non-Markovian approaches based upon a hierarchical effective- mode decomposition
13.00pm	Lunch/Discussion
	Chairperson: Irene Burghardt
14.30pm	David Coker	UCD, Dublin, IR	Coherent excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting systems
15.30pm	Coffee
16.00pm	Angelo Bassi	U-Trieste, IT	Non-Markovian quantum dynamics: a stochastic Schrödinger equation approach
17.00pm	Guillaume Hupin	GANIL, Caen,FR	Quantum Monte-Carlo for Non-Markovian dynamics
Thursday	April 29th
	Chairperson: Baha Balantekin
09.30am	Denis Lacroix	GANIL, Caen, FR	The nuclear many-body problem: an open quantum system perspective
10.30am	Coffee
11.00am	Takashi Nakatsukasa	RIKEN, Japan	Time-dependent approaches to quantum dynamics of many-body systems
12.00pm	Arnau Rios Huguet	U-Surrey, UK	Time-dependent Green's Functions Approach to Nuclear Reactions
13.00pm	Lunch/Discussion
	Chairperson: Klaus Hornberger
14.30pm	Walter Strunz	TU-Dresden, DE	Quantum decoherence of qubits
15.30pm	Coffee
16.00pm	Ronnie Kosloff	Hebrew University, IS	Control by decoherence: weak field control of excited state objective
	Workshop Dinner (time and location TBA)
Friday	April 30th
	Chairperson: Jeff Tostevin
09.30pm	Baha Balantekin	U-Wisconsin, USA	Dissipation in Multidimensional Quantum Tunneling and Sub-barrier Fusion
10.30am	Coffee
11.00am	Mahananda Dasgupta	ANU, Canberra, Australia	Coherence and dissipation in nuclear fusion
12.00pm	Kouichi Hagino	Tohoku University, JP	Sub-barrier fusion reactions with dissipative couplings
13.00pm	Close of Workshop, lunch and and farewells

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