Professor Henning Schomerus

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Below is a list of different dissemination activities.

organization of conferences

session chairman at international conferences

  • "Woma 2011", 27 May 2011, Busan, South Korea
  • "UK-Japan graphene workshop", 3 February 2011, Lancaster, UK
  • "Workshop on Random Matrix Theory", 19 December 2009, Brunel, London
  • International "Workshop On Microcavities and their Applications" (WOMA), 25-28 August 2009
  • Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific 5 [DDAP5], 9-12 September 2008, Nara, Japan
  • 4th Windsor Summer School "Quantum Transport and Dynamics in Nanostructures", 6 - 18 August 2007, Windsor, UK
  • "NANOELECTRONICS 2006: Novel Nanomaterials, Quantum Transport, and Noise of Electrons and Photons", 8 - 11 January 2006, Lancaster University, UK
  • "School on Counting Statistics", 7 & 8 January 2006, Lancaster University, UK
  • MCRTN International Workshop "Nanoscale Dynamics and Quantum Coherence", 2 - 5 October 2005, Catania, Italy
  • Focus meeting "Quantum chaos and its applications to mesoscopic physics", 14 - 25 June 2004, APCTP Pohang, South-Korea
  • Conference "Atomic Physics 2003", 2 -6 December 2003, MPIPKS Dresden
  • Conference "Electron Interference and Decoherence in Nanostructures" 4 - 8 November 2002, MPIPKS Dresden
  • "Quantum chaotic scattering" panel, Conference on Anderson localization, quantum chaos and random matrices, 24 - 28 September 2001, ICTP Trieste
  • TMR Network Meeting & School "Phase coherent dynamics of hybrid nanostructures", 24 - 29 May 1999, Bad Herrenalb, Germany

lecturer at academic schools

  1. Summer School "Quantum Transport and Dynamics in Nanostructures", 6 - 18 August 2007, Windsor, UK
    • Counting statistics of electrons and photons
  2. Marie Curie Advances Study Institute "Quantum Optics and Computation", 4 - 6 April 2006, Riomaggiore, Italy
    • Entanglement of electrons by parity-preserving scattering in Aharonov Bohm rings
    • Resonant fluorescence in quantum dots and non-Markovian master equations
  3. First Winterschool for Dresden secondary school pupils, 4 - 6 February 2002, MPI-PKS Dresden
    • Chaos and predictability (Feb 4)
    • Beyond the microchip: information technology on the nanoscale (Feb 6)
  4. Workshop on Nonlinearity: Noise in Nonlinear Systems, 14 - 25 August 1995, ICTP Trieste, Italy
    three lectures on quantum chaos
    • Universality classes of spectra
    • Microwave billiards
    • Semiclassical approximations

university seminars and talks at conferences

  1. Quantum mechanical diffusion in periodic potentials, 24 June 1993, Universität Essen, Germany
  2. Torque and force on dielectric particles, June 1994, Kyoto, Japan
  3. Subdiffusive and superdiffusive transport and generalized duality, Physikertagung, February 1996, Regensburg, Germany
  4. Bifurcations and semiclassics in the mixed phase space, Evaluation of SFB 237, June 1996, Universität Essen, Germany
  5. Collective influence of close classical trajectories on semiclassical spectra, 18 June 1996, Universität Ulm, Germany
  6. Semiclassics for mixed phase spaces, SFB Meeting, October 1996, Bad Honnef, Germany
  7. Semiclassical contributions of periodic-orbit clusters in a mixed phase space, Israel/German young scientists meeting, 26 June 1997, MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  8. Uniform approximations, December 1997, Universität Bochum, Germany
  9. Spectra of the kicked top, 18 December 1997, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
  10. Semiclassical quantization for systems with a mixed phase space, 26 February 1998, Yale University, USA
  11. Thouless energies for mixed dynamics, Extended Research Workshop on Disorder, Chaos and Interaction in Mesoscopic Systems, 9 September 1998, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  12. The reduced gap in Andreev billiards with a mixed phase space, 3 December 1998, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  13. The linewidth of chaotic laser resonators, 15 April 1999, Universität Essen, Germany
  14. Quantum-limited linewidth of a chaotic laser cavity, Thu 29 April 1999, Seminar "Dynamics of complex systems", MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  15. Excitation spectrum of Andreev billiards with a mixed phase space, TMR Network Meeting & School "Phase coherent dynamics of hybrid nanostructures", 25 May 1999, Bad Herrenalb, Germany
  16. Kinetic theory of shot noise in non-degenerate diffusive conductors, XVI Sitges Conference, "Statistical and dynamical aspects of mesoscopic systems", 9 June 1999, Sitges, Spain
  17. The linewidth of laser cavities with chaotic shape, 21 August 1999, Summer school on condensed matter theory, Windsor, UK
  18. Quantum limit of the laser linewidth in chaotic cavities, 26 January 2000, University of Bristol, UK
  19. Large sample-to-sample fluctuations of the nonequilibrium critical current in mesoscopic Josephson junctions, TMR Network Meeting "Phase coherent dynamics of hybrid nanostructures", 9 May 2000, Carsege, France
  20. Dynamical effects on wave propagation in random media, 22 June 2000, MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany
  21. Universal twinkling exponents for mixed systems, 27 July 2000, Universität Essen, Germany
  22. Dynamik komplexer Wellen (colloquium), 18 October 2000, Universität Essen, Germany
  23. Dynamics of wave propagation in random media (invited), 27 February 2001, Gentner Symposium, Ein Gedi, Israel
  24. Counting statistics of photons produced by electronic shot noise, 18 April 2001, FU Berlin, Germany
  25. Quantum phenomena of systems with a mixed phase space (invited), 6 September 2001, Quantum Challenges 2001, Universität Essen, Germany
  26. Microscopic versus mesoscopic local density of states in 1D localization (Sep 24)
  27. Statistics of the Petermann factor in chaotic cavities (Sep 25)
  28. Semiclassical significance of bifurcations (Sep 25)
  29. Delay times of localized waves (Sep 27)
    (talks 26.-29.: invited) Conference on Anderson localization, quantum chaos and random matrices, September 24-28 2001, ICTP Trieste
  30. Delay times of localized waves (theory colloquium), 18 October 2001, Uni Karlsruhe
  31. Beyond the microchip: information technology on the nanoscale 24 January 2002, Kuratorium meeting MPI-PKS Dresden
  32. Quantum Transport in the mixed phase space: How deterministic? (invited) Dynamic Days Europe, 17 July 2002, Heidelberg, Germany
  33. Dynamik lokalisierter Wellen in ungeordneten Medien, 18 July 2002, LMU München, Germany
  34. Band-center anomaly in 1d localization (invited), 10 September 2002, Conference "Chaos and Interactions in Complex Quantum systems" (September 9-13 2002), Regensburg, Germany
  35. Wavefunction statistics in 1d Anderson localization (invited), 8 November 2002, Conference "Electron Interference and Decoherence in Nanostructures", November 4 - 8 2002, MPI-PKS Dresden
  36. Wavefunction statistics in 1d Anderson localization, 14 November 2002, Uni. Düsseldorf, Germany
  37. Large fluctuations in mesoscopic transport (colloquium), 19 March 2003, MPISF Göttingen, Germany
  38. Waves in Complex Media and Mesoscopic Phenomena, 5 May 2003, Grand Evaluation of the MPIPKS Dresden
  39. Particle-wave duality in mesoscopic transport (invited), European Advanced Studies Conference "Chaos and Complex Systems", 31 May 2003, Novacella, Italy
  40. Deviations from universality in mesoscopic transport, 5 June 2003, Universität Ulm, Germany
  41. Particle-wave duality in mesoscopic transport, 20 June 2003, University of Oxford, UK
  42. Particle-wave duality in mesoscopic transport (theory colloquium), 10 July 2003, Technical University Dresden, Germany
  43. Information processing on the nanoscale, 25 September 2003, BAR meeting of the MPG, MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  44. Full wavefunction statistics and anomalies in one-dimensional localization (invited), 1 October 2003, RTN meeting "Nanoscale Dynamics, Coherence, and Computation" (October 1-4 2003), Calvia, Spain
  45. Dynamical Mesoscopics, 6 November 2003, University Karlsruhe, Germany
  46. Disorder-induced localization in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, 20 January 2004, MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  47. Transport and Dynamics in Complex Quantum Systems, 19 February 2004, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
  48. Suppression of shot noise by dynamical mechanisms, DPG spring meeting, 8 March 2004, Regensburg, Germany
  49. Quantum-to-classical correspondence in mesoscopic transport (invited), 23 June 2004, Focus meeting "Quantum chaos and its applications to mesoscopic physics", APCTP Pohang, South-Korea
  50. Quantum-to-classical crossover of quasi-bound states in open systems (invited), International Workshop on "Nanoscale Dynamics and Quantum Coherence", 22 September 2004, Hamburg, Germany
  51. Quantum-to-classical crossover of quasi-bound states in open systems, "IV. Workshop on chaotic and disordered billiards", 7 October 2004, Göttingen, Germany
  52. Transport and Dynamics in Complex Nanostructures, 14 October 2004, University of Lancaster, UK
  53. Transport and Dynamics in Complex Nanostructures, 29 October 2004, Universität Hannover, Germany
  54. Quantum-to-classical correspondence in ballistic mesoscopic systems, 4 November 2004, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  55. Quantum-to-classical correspondence in ballistic mesoscopic systems (theory colloquium), 5 November 2004, Universität zu Köln, Germany
  56. Complexity on the Nanoscale, 22 February 2005, University of Nottingham, UK
  57. Transport and Dynamics in complex nanostructures, 24 February 2005, TU Berlin, Germany
  58. Quantum-to-classical correspondence in ballistic mesoscopic systems, 4 March 2005, Conference "Korrelationstage 2005", MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  59. Quantum-to-classical correspondence of resonances in ballistic chaotic systems, 12 March 2005, workshop "Aspects of Quantum Chaotic Scattering", MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  60. Quantum-to-classical crossover of quasi-bound states in ballistic systems, 29 September 2005, International Workshop "Correlations in quantum systems: quantum dots, quantum gases and nuclei", Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  61. Non-exponential relaxation from entanglement with stationary unobserved degrees of freedom, 2 October 2005, MCRTN International Workshop "Nanoscale Dynamics and Quantum Coherence", Catania, Italy
  62. Quantum-to-classical crossover of quasi-bound states and fractal Weyl laws in ballistic open systems, 23 November 2005, City University London, UK
  63. Quantum-to-classical crossover of quasi-bound states and fractal Weyl laws in ballistic open systems, 2 December 2005, University of Bristol, UK
  64. Non-exponential relaxation from entanglement with stationary unobserved degrees of freedom, 12 January 2006, EPSRC Network Meeting on "Transport, Dissipation and Control in Quantum Devices", Manchester, UK
  65. Non-exponential relaxation from entanglement with stationary unobserved degrees of freedom, 17 February 2006, Lancaster, UK
  66. A simple model for non-exponential relaxation of complex quantum systems, 9 March 2006, Warwick, UK
  67. Entanglement of electrons by parity-preserving scattering in Aharonov Bohm rings, 4 April 2006, Marie Curie Advances Study Institute "Quantum Optics and Computation", Riomaggiore, Italy
  68. Resonant fluorescence in quantum dots and non-Markovian master equations, 6 April 2006, Marie Curie Advances Study Institute "Quantum Optics and Computation", Riomaggiore, Italy
  69. Prompt entanglement between static and flying qubits in an Aharonov-Bohm double electrometer, 22 April 2006, Conference "Quantum phenomena at low temperatures", Lammi, Finland
  70. Entanglement between static and flying qubits in an Aharonov-Bohm double electrometer, 4 August 2006, International seminar and workshop "Dynamics and Relaxation in Complex Quantum and Classical Systems and Nanostructures", Dresden, Germany
  71. Entanglement of qubits by an Aharonov-Bohm effect, 26 October 2006, University of Nottingham, UK
  72. Nonexponential dephasing of cold atoms, 13 December 2006, Manchester University, UK
  73. Dynamical localisation and decoherence: effects of Levy noise, 19 April 2007, BAMC, Bristol, UK
  74. Counting statistics of electrons and photons, 10 August 2007, Summer School "Quantum Transport and Dynamics in Nanostructures", Windsor, UK
  75. Nanolectrophotonics, 23 January 2008, Midterm review of the Marie Curie EXT, Lancaster, UK
  76. Staggered level repulsion in lead-symmetric transport, 28 February 2008, Conference "Quantum Chaos: Routes to RMT Statistics and Beyond", Banff, Canada
  77. Transport in molecularly doped graphene, 25 April 2008, University of Basel, Switzerland
  78. Nonexponential dephasing of cold atoms, 2 July 2008, University of Hertfordshire, UK
  79. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 5 September 2008, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
  80. Nonexponential decoherence in a quantum Lévy kicked rotator, 9 September 2008, Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific 5 [DDAP5], Nara, Japan
  81. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 18 September 2008, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
  82. Lifetime distributions in open quantum systems: beyond ballistic chaotic decay, 22 January 2009, Conference "Resonances in physics and mathematics", CIRM, Luminy, France
  83. Transport in graphene: Disorder and Control, 26 February 2009, Royal Holloway UL
  84. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 6 March 2009, ESF Conference "Graphene Week", Obergurgl, Austria
  85. Graphene: the role of chemical disorder, 18 March 2009, East Midlands Mathematical Physics Seminar, Nottingham
  86. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 4 August 2009, "Graphene" Workshop, Benasque, Spain
  87. Excess quantum noise in dielectric microresonators, 26 August 2009, International "Workshop On Microcavities and their Applications" (WOMA), Seoul, South Korea
  88. Quantum pumping and pseudospintronics in graphene, 31 August 2009, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
  89. Fractal Weyl laws - beyond ballistic chaotic decay, 23 September 2009, Workshop "Tunneling and Scattering in Complex Systems - From Single to Many Particle Physics", MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  90. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 10 October 2009, "Agressia-09", Keswick
  91. Quantum pumping and pseudospintronics in graphene, 21 October 2009, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh
  92. Fractal Weyl laws - beyond ballistic chaotic decay, 18 December 2009, "Workshop on Random Matrix Theory", Brunel, London
  93. Resonator modes in unconventional cavities, 5 March 2010, Bristol University
  94. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 23 April 2010, UIB Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  95. Counting statistics for mesoscopic conductors with internal dynamical degrees of freedom, 22 June 2010, workshop "Physics of micro and nanoscale systems", Ystad, Sweden
  96. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 1 July 2010, conference "Nanopeter 2010", St Petersburg, Russia
  97. Adsorbate-limited conductivity of graphene, 1 September 2010, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark
  98. Fractal Weyl laws in dynamical systems with a mixed phase space, "Dynamics Days Europe", 8 September 2010, Bristol, UK
  99. Excess quantum noise in dielectric microlasers, 9 March 2011, Sheffield, UK
  100. Quantum optics and random matrix theory of PT symmetric resonators, 6 April 2011, UCL, London
  101. Counting statistics for mesoscopic conductors with internal dynamical degrees of freedom, 4 May 2011, Manchester, UK
  102. Excess noise and PT symmetry in optical microresonators, 11 May 2011, Magdeburg, Germany
  103. PT symmetry in optical resonators 13 May 2011, Bielefeld, Germany
  104. Quantum optics and random matrix theory of coupled PT-symmetric resonators, 27 May 2011, International "Workshop On Microcavities and their Applications" (WOMA), Busan, South Korea
  105. Universal routes to spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking in non-hermitian quantum systems, 31 May 2011, East Midlands Mathematical Physics Seminar, Nottingham
  106. Quantum optics and random matrix theory of coupled PT symmetric resonators, 17 June 2011, conference "Quantum physics with non-hermitian operators", MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
  107. Counting statistics for mesoscopic conductors with internal dynamical degrees of freedom, 5 July 2011, UCL, London
  108. Scattering approach to PT-symmetric dynamical systems, 27 September 2011, "PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics Symposium", Heidelberg, Germany
  109. Quantum noise and self-sustained radiation of PT-symmetric optical systems, 20 October 2011, Birmingham, UK

lectures for pupils and public audiences

  • Chaos and Predictability, 11 April 2001, MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany
  • Chaos and Predictability, 11 June 2002, Geiseltalgymnasium Mücheln
  • Chaos and Predictability, 11 June 2002, Heinrich-Heine Gymnasium Wolfen
  • Chaos and Predictability, 12 September 2002, MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany
  • Chaos and Predictability, 10 April 2003, St. Afra Gymnasium Meissen, Germany
  • Particle-wave duality for electrons in solid matter, 27 June 2003, MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany
  • Chaos and Predictability, 10 September 2003, MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany
  • Beyond the microchip: information technology on the nanoscale, 9 February 2004, MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany
  • Beyond the microchip: information technology on the nanoscale, Evening talk, `Jugend forscht' (Youth at research) state contest Saxony, 2 April 2004, MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany