50 Years of Anderson Localization
Programme

Symposium, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, December 4-5, 2008

"Localization [..], very few believed it at the time, and even fewer saw its importance, among those who failed to fully understand it at first was certainly its author. It has yet to receive adequate mathematical treatment, and one has to resort to the indignity of numerical simulations to settle even the simplest questions about it."

P.W. Anderson, Nobel Lecture, 1977

  
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Thursday December 4        
         
10h30-11h30: Registration at IHP and installation of posters            
         
11h30-11h45: Opening        
           
11h45 (invited) Sajeev John (Toronto) Chairman: Bart van Tiggelen and Diederik Wiersma     
  Anderson Localization in Bandgap Materials              
           
12h45: Lunch (on your own)        
         
14h15 (invited)    Peter Wölfle (Karlsruhe) Chairman: Cord Müller     
  Anderson localization transition in anisotropic geometries: self-consistent theory          
       
15h00 (invited)  Azriel Genack (New York City) Chairman: Cord Müller     
  π a la mode: speckle evolution and modes of localized waves
         
15h45: Coffee break and posters session      
         
16h15 (invited)   Philippe Bouyer (Orsay) Chairman: Patrick Sebbah     
  Anderson localization of matter-waves          
         
17h00 (invited)  Richard Weaver (Urbana) Chairman: Patrick Sebbah     
  Localization in laboratory elastodynamics, and unitarization of
incoherent reflection matrices in multiply scattering structures 		 
         
17h45 (contributed)  John Scales (Golden) Chairman: Patrick Sebbah     
  Millimeter wave localization in random dielectrics: theory,
measurements and applications
         
18h15: Poster session        
         
21h30 -23h00 diner croisière sur le Seine   at the charge of the participants; inscription deadline November 20,
costs 69 € per person to be paid in advance  		    
         
         
Friday December 5        
         
09h00 (invited)    Michael Schreiber (Chemnitz) Chairman: Roberta Citro         
  Numerical investigations of the Anderson transition          
         
09h45 (invited)   Massimo Inguscio (Florence)  Chairman: Roberta Citro       
  Anderson localization of ultracold atoms in certain random lattices
         
10h30 (contributed)  Dominique Delande (Paris) Chairman: Roberta Citro       
  Experimental observation of the Anderson transition with atomic matter waves  
         
11h00: Coffee break and poster session      
         
11h30 (contributed)  Denis Basko (Trieste) Chairman: Sergey Skipetrov       
  Many-body localization for weakly interacting electrons in a disordered potential  
         
12h00 (invited) David Thouless (Seattle) Chairman: Sergey Skipetrov       
  Anderson localization in the seventies and beyond      
         
12h45: Lunch (on your own)      
         
14h15 (invited)  Alexander Mirlin (Karlsruhe) Chairman: Andrey Chabanov       
  Anderson transitions: Recent developments      
         
15h00 (invited)   François Germinet (Cergy-Pontoise) Chairman: Andrey Chabanov       
  Some recent mathematical results on strong localization      
         
15h45 (contributed) Frank Vollmer (Harvard) Chairman: Andrey Chabanov       
  Strong photon localization in disordered photonic crystal waveguides  
         
16h15: Coffee break and poster session      
         
16h45 (invited)  John Page (Winnipeg) Chairman: Costanza Toninelli       
  3D Transverse localization of elastic waves      
         
17h00 (invited)  Georg Maret (Konstanz) Chairman: Costanza Toninelli       
  Recent optical experiments on Anderson localization      
         
17h45 (invited)  Ad Lagendijk (Amsterdam) Chairman: Costanza Toninelli       
  Experiments of Anderson localization with light      
         
18h30: Closure symposium        
         
18h45-19h30: Farewell drink