Doppler Institute Seminar

Main seminar of the Doppler Institute, meeting mostly on Tuesday afternoons, usually in the main building in Břehová 7, but switching occasionally between different places. The earlier history of the seminar can be found here. Absence of an affiliation usually means that the speaker is a regular member of the seminar.

2015

February 10 at 16.00 [B-111]
Nicolai Friis (IQQQI Innsbruck), the fresh laureate of the Václav Votruba Prize: Cavity-mode entanglement in relativistic quantum information
January 6 at 16.00 [B-111]
Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa: Resolvent expansions and continuity of the scattering matrix at embedded thresholds: the case of quantum waveguides

2014

Exceptionally on Monday December 8 at 15.00 [B-111]
Arthemy Kiselev (University of Groningen): Why do the differential forms anti-commute?
November 25 at 16.00 [B-111]
Jussi Behrndt (TU Graz): Spectral and extension theory of elliptic partial differential operators
September 9 at 16.00 [B-111]
Vít Jakubský: Qualitative analysis of trapped Dirac fermions in graphene
May 13 at 16.00 [B-111]
David Krejčiřík: What is the optimiser for the lowest eigenvalue of the Robin problem with attractive boundary parameter?
April 1 at 16.00 [B-111]
Semjon Vugalter (KIT Karlsruhe): Infinite mass boundary condition for Dirac operators
February 11 at 16.00 [B-111]
Václav Potoček (University of Glasgow), fresh recipient of a honourable mention of the Václav Votruba Prize contest: Phase-space methods in rotational quantum systems
January 21 at 16.00 [B-111]
Philipp Hauke (Universität Innsbruck), fresh recipient of a honourable mention of the Václav Votruba Prize contest: Observing the quantum speed limit and its breakdown
Exceptionally on Thursday January 16 at 16.00 [B-111]
Jaroslav Trnka (California Institute of Technology), the fresh laureate of the Václav Votruba Prize: The Amplituhedron

2013

December 10 at 16.00 [B-111]
Diana Barseghyan (Universität Erlangen): A regular version of Smilansky model
Exceptionally on Thursday November 14 at 16.00 in [B-111]
Sylwia Kondej (Zielona Gora): A quantum system with a double line interaction
October 29 at 16.00 [B-111]
Václav Klika (CTU): Modelling of coupled phenomena using nonequilibrium thermodynamics
Exceptionally on Wednesday June 5 at 16.00 in [B-111]
Philippe Briet (Toulon): Exponential decay and resonances for time dependent quantum systems
Exceptionally on Thursday April 25 at 15.00 in [B-215]
Patrik Öhberg (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh): Light-matter interaction and artificial electromagnetism
(this is the first of a series of lectures)
Exceptionally on Thursday April 25 at 14.00 in [B-215]
Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh): Quantum limited measurements
(this is the first of a series of lectures)
Exceptionally on Thursday April 18 at 14.30 in [B-215]
Mikko P.J. Partanen (Aalto University): Noiseless amplification of weak coherent fields without external energy
Exceptionally on Thursday April 18 at 13.30 in [B-215]
Teppo Häyrynen (Aalto University): Generation of nonclassical light by nonlinear cavities
Exceptionally on Thursday April 18, exceptionally at 10.00 in [B-215]
Lyonell Boulton (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh): Computing electromagnetic oscillations in a resonator
April 2 at 16.00 [B]
Sergej Moroz (University of Washington), the fresh laureate of the Václav Votruba Prize: Super Efimov effect
Exceptionally on Thursday March 21 at 16.00 [B]
Aldo Pratelli (Erlangen): A new variational model for the growth of islands
January 22 at 16.00 [B]
Vít Jakubský: Potential algebras of low-dimensional Dirac operators: applications
Exceptionally on Thursday January 17 at 16.00 [B]
Georgi D. Raikov (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): Spectral properties of quantum waveguides

2012

Exceptionally on Thursday December 13 at 16.00 [B]
Julien Royer (Universite de Toulouse): Local energy decay for the damped wave equation: contribution of low frequencies
November 20 at 16.00 [B]
Eric Lutz (FU Berlin): The physics of information: from Maxwell's demon to Landauer
November 6 at 16.00 [B]
Ari Laptev (Imperial & Mittag-Leffler): On some spectral inequalities for Schrödinger operators on graphs
October 9 at 16.00 [B]
David Krejčiřík: The semiclassical fall of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
September 18 at 16.00 [B]
Martin Kolb (LMU Muenchen): Spectral analysis of diffusions with random jumps
May 29 at 16.00 [B]
Libor Šnobl (CTU): Solvable Lie algebras with Borel nilradicals
May 15 at 16.00 [B]
Olaf Post (Durham University): Approximation vertex conditions by geometry
Exceptionally on Wednesday May 9 at 15.00 [R]
Manuel Gonzalez Ortiz (Universidad de Cantabria, Santander): The spectra of Hausdorff matrices as operators on ell_p, p in(1,infty)
Exceptionally on Friday April 27 at 10.30 [B]
Peter Prešnajder (Komensky University Bratislava): Quantum mechanics in a noncommutative space
Exceptionally on Friday April 20 at 16.00 [B]
Tomáš Mančal (Charles University): How important is quantum mechanics for the life of plants and bacteria?
April 3 at 16.00 [B]
Craig Hamilton: The future of quantum walks
March 20 at 16.00 [B]
Xue Ping Wang (Université de Nantes): Spectral properties near threshold for dissipative Schroedinger operators
March 13 at 16.00 [B]
Valentin Zagrebnov (Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille-Luminy): NESS in a leaking photon cavity

2011

December 20 at 16.00 [B]
Steffen Gielen (Albert Einstein Institute Golm), the fresh laureate of the Václav Votruba Prize: Geometric aspects of gauge and spacetime symmetries
November 29 at 16.00 [B]
Hugh Jones (Imperial College): The remarkable optical properties of materials with coordinated gain and loss
September 6 at 16.00 [B-13]
Teoman Turgut (Bogazici University): Lee model on manifolds
May 10 at 16.00 [B]
Fabio Bagarello (Universita degli studi di Palermo): Pseudo-bosons and related stuff
May 3 at 11.30 [T-112] (note the time and place change)
Jean-Pierre Gazeau (Paris 7): Finite tight frames and related quantization of finite sets
Exceptionally on Thursday April 28 at 16.00 [B-111]
Yaroslav Kurylev (University College London): Collapse to orbifolds and stability of inverse problems
April 19 at 16.00 [B]
Petr Šeba: Affine invariant curve description
April 12 at 16.00 [B]
Boris Mityagin (Ohio State University, Columbus): Convergence of spectral decompositions of Hill operators with trigonometric polynomial potentials
April 5 at 16.00 [B]
Hynek Kovařík (Politecnico di Torino): Eigenvalue estimates for two-dimensional magnetic Schroedinger operators
Exceptionally on Wednesday January 26 at 16.00 [B-111]
Petr Marek (Palacky University Olomouc), the fresh laureate of the Václav Votruba Prize: "Noiseless" amplification of light

2010

Exceptionally on Thursday November 11 at 16.00 [B-13]
Helmut Rauch (Vienna University of Technology): Neutron quantum optics
(this is the first of a series of lectures)
Exceptionally on Thursday September 23 at 13.00 [B-13]
Gernot Alber (TU Darmstadt): Semiclassical approximation in quantum mechanics
(this is the first of a series of lectures)
August 3, exceptionally at 14.30 [B]
Stefan Teufel (Universitaet Tuebingen): Effective Hamiltonians for constrained quantum systems
The seminar of
Enrique Zuazua (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao) entitled Hardy inequalities and asymptotics for heat kernels, scheduled for May 18, had to be cancelled by the speaker due to a serious family reason. We hope to have the talk at a suitable occasion in the future.
April 27 at 16.00 [B]
Yehuda Pinchover (Technion, Haifa): Large time behavior of the heat kernel
April 20 at 16.00 [B]
Delio Mugnolo (Universität Ulm): Graphs, Evolution, Symmetries - an eternal golden string
Exceptionally on Wednesday March 31 at 16.00 [B]
Lloyd N. Trefethen (Oxford University): Eigenmodes of drums and physics Nobel prizes
March 23 at 16.00 [B]
Masao Hirokawa (Okayama University): Generalized spin-boson model in the light of circuit QED
February 9 at 16.00 [B]
Roman Orus Lacort (University of Queensland): Simulation of infinite-size 2D quantum lattice systems: corner transfer matrices and fermionic systems

2009

December 8 at 16.00 [B]
Hynek Lavička: Employment, Production and Consumption model: patterns of phase transitions
November 3 at 16.00 [B]
Martin Kolb (LMU Muenchen) : Towards a probabilistic description of point interactions
Exceptionally on Wednesday October 21 at 9.30 [B-13]
Stephen M. Barnett (University of Strathclyde): Quantum information
(this is the first of a series of lectures; the slides can be found here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV)
October 20 at 16.00 [B]
Vladimir I. Inozemtsev (JINR Dubna): Classical integrable many-particle systems
June 16 at 16.00 [B]
Aldo Prateli (Universita di Pavia): Which set minimizes the area with fixed minimal length of a bisecting chord? An answer for Zindler sets
Exceptionally on Monday June 8 at 13.30 [B-13]
Saverio Pascazio (Universita di Bari): Renormalization and statistical physics
(this is the first of a series of lectures)
Exceptionally on Thursday June 4 at 13.30 [B-13]
Janos Bergou (Hunter College, CUNY New York): Modern trends in quantum measurement
(this is the first of a series of lectures)
May 5 at 16.00 [B]
Lenka Zdeborová (Los Alamos National Laboratory), the last-year laureate of the Václav Votruba Prize: From glasses to hard optimization problems and back
March 17 at 16.00 [B]
Raouf Dridi: On the discretization of differential equations
March 3 at 16.00 [B]
Bernhard Burgstaller: C^*-algebras of semimultiplicative sets and their equivariant KK-theory
January 20 at 16.00 [B]
Jan Philip Solovej (University of Copenhagen): Bogolubov's theory for Bose gases
January 13 at 16.00 [B]
David Krejčiřík: The death of a Brownian particle in twisted domains
January 6 at 16.00 [B]
Pierre Duclos (Marseille and Toulon): Can one bind three electrons with a single proton?

2008

November 11 at 16.00 [B]
Pedro Freitas: Low eigenvalues of the Laplacians
November 4 at 16.00 [B]
Hynek Lavička: Visions and challenges in Social Sciences
October 7 at 16.00 [B]
Petr Hájíček (University of Bern): Intrinsic properties of quantum systems
Exceptionally on Wednesday October 1 at 16.00 [B]
Daniel Hook (Imperial College London): Complexified classical systems - an introduction
August 5 at 16.00 [B]
Faqir Bhatti (LUMS Lahore): Some properties of spectrum of planar honeycomb graph under complete set of invariants
June 10 at 16.00 [B-13]
Vyacheslav P. Spiridonov (JINR Dubna): Elliptic hypergeometric functions
Exceptionally on Monday May 26 at 16.00 [B-103]
Giovanni Gallavotti (Universita di Roma): Coarse graining and the chaotic hypothesis in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Exceptionally on Monday May 26 at 14.30 [B-103]
Juerg Froehlich (ETH Zurich): Irreversible behavior in open quantum systems
Exceptionally on Friday May 23 at 11.00 [B-103]
Yakov G. Sinai (Princeton University): Singularities of complex-valued solutions of non-linear PDE
May 13 at 16.00 [B]
Stefan Rauch-Wojciechowski (Linköping University): What means to explain the motion of the Tippe Top?
May 6 at 16.00 [B]
Rodolfo Figari (Universita di Napoli): Models of quantum environments II
Exceptionally on Monday May 5 at 15.00 [B-13]; this is an opening of a minicourse which will continue through the month of May on Mondays and Thursdays
Eric Lutz (Universität Augsburg): Modern nonequilibrium physics
March 25 at 16.00 [B]
Fritz Gesztesy (University of Missouri Columbia): Robin-to-Dirichlet maps and Krein-type resolvent formulas for Schroedinger operators on bounded Lipschitz domains
March 11 at 16.00 [B]
Rutwig Campoamor-Stursberg (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Contraction of Casimir invariants and the labelling problem
March 4 at 16.00 [B]
Alfred Michel Grundland (CRM Montreal): On rank-k solutions of hydrodynamic-type systems
January 8 at 16.00 [B]
David Krejčiřík: The Brownian motion in twisted waveguides

2007

November 13 at 16.00 [B]
Denis Kochan: Quantization of dissipative systems - some irresponsible speculations
November 6 at 16.00 [B]
Jiri Tolar: Group theoretical construction of mutually unbiased bases in Hilbert spaces of prime dimensions
October 16 at 16.00 [B]
Eva Maria Graefe (Kaiserslautern): Many particle and mean field description of a two mode Bose-Hubbard system
September 18 at 16.00, exceptionally [T]
Pavel Exner: Dirichlet networks squeezed to graphs, with a bent tube example
June 19, exceptionally at 14.00 in Villa Lanna
Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut): Functional determinants in quantum field theory
June 5 at 16.00 [B]
Olaf Post (Humboldt Universität Berlin): On the spectra of carbon nano-structures
May 22 at 16.00 [B]
Twareque Ali (Concordia University, Montreal): Vector coherent states over matrix domains and in supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Exceptionally on Monday March 26 at 16.00 [B]
Grigori Panasenko (Université de Saint-Etienne): Asymptotic analysis for thin structures
March 6 at 16.00 [B]
Břetislav Friedrich (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin): Why are cold molecules so hot?
January 9 at 16.00 [B]
Pierre Duclos (Marseille and Toulon): On the stability of the driven harmonic oscillator

2006

December 19 at 16.00 [B]
Patrik Ohberg (University of Edinburgh): Gauge potentials in atomic gases
November 14 at 16.00 [B]
Sudheer R. Jain (Utrecht University): A small collection of exact results for integrable and non-integrable systems
October 17 at 16.00 [B]
Cecilia Albertsson (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto): Worldsheet boundary conditions in Poisson-Lie T-duality
October 10 at 16.00 [B]
Eric Lutz (Augsburg University): Anomalous Levy diffusion: From the flight of an albatross to optical lattices
October 3 at 16.00 [B]
Aleksander Turbiner (UNAM, Mexico City): Exact solvability of the Calogero-Sutherland integrable models and the hidden algebras (a review)
September 19 at 16.00 [B]
Vladimir Geyler (Saransk and Berlin): Spectra of self-adjoint extensions related to the de Gennes-Alexander correspondence
June 13 at 16.00 [B]
Sylvain Golenia (Warsaw University): A new look at Mourre's commutator theory
May 23 at 16.00 [B]
Pavel Winternitz (CRM Montreal): Symmetry preserving discretization of ordinary differential equations with applications
May 23 at 14.30 [B]
Martin Roček (Stony Brook): Does smoothing matter?
May 16 at 16.00 [B]
Vyacheslav Priezzhev (JINR Dubna): Combinatorial treatment of the Bethe Ansatz in the theory of 1-D stochastic processes
March 14 at 16.00 [B]
Hynek Kovařík (Universität Stuttgart): Bound states of Schroedinger operators on regular metric trees

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