Schedule for Quantum Dynamics - Winter 2006

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Date Speaker Topic
January 3rd Bruno Nachtergaele Organizational meeting
January 10th Yoshiko Ogata Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics - Part I
January 17th Yoshiko Ogata Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics - Part II
January 24th Ram Anand Puri On the Symmetry Group of Markov Chains, Classical and Quantum - Part I
January 31st Ram Anand Puri On the Symmetry Group of Markov Chains, Classical and Quantum - Part II
February 7th Austin Calder Intro to density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG)
February 14th Spiros Michalakis Entanglement in finitely correlated states
February 21st Jeremy Clark Decoherence and scattering chains
February 28th Osya Polterovich (Math & Physics Seminar) The spectral function and the remainder in local Weyl's law: View from below
March 7th Lionel Levine (Math & Physics Seminar) The limiting shape of the rotor-router and related models