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From the 18th to the 30th August 2003 , a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) was held in Cargèse, Corsica, France. Cargèse is a nice small village situated by the mediterranean sea and the Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese provides ? a traditional place to organize Theoretical Physics Summer Schools and Workshops * in a closed and well equiped place. The ASI was an International Summer School on "Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems". The main goal of the school was to develop the mutual interaction between Physics and Mathematics concerning statistical properties of classical and quantum dynamical systems. Various experimental and numerical observations have shown new phenomena of chaotic and anomalous transport, fractal structures, chaos in physics accelerators and in cooled atoms inside atom-optics billiards, space-time chaos, fluctuations far from equilibrium, quantum decoherence etc. New theoretical methods have been developed in order to modelize and to understand these phenomena (volume preserving and ergodic dynamical systems, non-equilibrium statistical dynamics, fractional kinetics, coupled maps, space-time entropy, quantum dissipative processes etc). The school gathered a team of specialists from several horizons lecturing and discussing on the achievements, perspectives and open problems (both fundamental and applied).
List of contents
Theory.- A Short Ergodic Theory Refresher.- Notes on Spectral Theory, Mixing and Transport.- Complexity, Fractal Dimensions and Topological Entropy in Dynamical Systems.- Working with Complexity Functions.- SRB distribution for Anosov maps.- Dynamical Systems Theory of Irreversibility.- Aspects of Open Quantum System Dynamics.- Energy Surfaces and Hierarchies of Bifurcations.- Phase-Space Semiclassical Analysis. Around Semiclassical Trace Formulae.- Applications.- Atom-Optics Billiards.- Control of Chaos and Separation of Particles in Inertia Ratchets.- Fractal Time Random Walk and Subrecoil Laser Cooling Considered as Renewal Processes with Infinite Mean Waiting Times.- Anomalous Transport in Two-Dimensional Plasma Turbulence.- The Onset of Synchronism in Globally Coupled Ensembles of Chaotic and Periodic Dynamical Units.- Quantum Breaking Time for Chaotic Systems with Phase Space Structures.- Hamiltonian Chaos and Fractals in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- Inert and Reacting Transport.- Anomalous Transport in Steady Plane Flows of Viscous Fluids.- Tracer Transport During the Geostrophic Adjustment in the Equatorial Ocean.- The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem in the Thermodynamic Limit.
Summary
From the 18th to the 30th August 2003 , a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) was held in Cargèse, Corsica, France. Cargèse is a nice small village situated by the mediterranean sea and the Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese provides ? a traditional place to organize Theoretical Physics Summer Schools and Workshops * in a closed and well equiped place. The ASI was an International Summer School on "Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems". The main goal of the school was to develop the mutual interaction between Physics and Mathematics concerning statistical properties of classical and quantum dynamical systems. Various experimental and numerical observations have shown new phenomena of chaotic and anomalous transport, fractal structures, chaos in physics accelerators and in cooled atoms inside atom-optics billiards, space-time chaos, fluctuations far from equilibrium, quantum decoherence etc. New theoretical methods have been developed in order to modelize and to understand these phenomena (volume preserving and ergodic dynamical systems, non-equilibrium statistical dynamics, fractional kinetics, coupled maps, space-time entropy, quantum dissipative processes etc). The school gathered a team of specialists from several horizons lecturing and discussing on the achievements, perspectives and open problems (both fundamental and applied).
