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Dedicated to Hermann Hartmann on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday


The Frankfurt Workshop on "Quantum and Classical Complexity: From Atoms to Biosystems" is to be held from 5-7 May 2014 (Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon) at the "Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften" located in Bad Homburg (near Frankfurt).

A focus will be placed on the role of quantum vs. classical complexity, entanglement and decoherence in high-dimensional, structured systems. The workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary discussion forum for participants from different background, including chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics.


Confirmed speakers include:

Federica Agostini (Max-Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle)
Volker Betz (Department of Mathematics, Technical University Darmstadt)
Heinz-Peter Breuer (Institute of Physics, Freiburg University)
Declan Byrne (UCD School of Physics, University College Dublin)
Bill Coffey (School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin)
David Coker (Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Boston University)
Gregor Diezemann (Theoretical Chemistry, Mainz University)
Frank Grossmann (Institute of Theoretical Physics, TU Dresden)
Gerhard Hummer (Max-Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt)
Oliver Kühn (Institute of Physics, Rostock University)
Caroline Lasser (Department of Mathematics, Technical University Munich)
Christoph Lienau (Ultrafast Nano-Optics, University of Oldenburg)
Rocco Martinazzo (Chemical Dynamics Theory Group, University of Milano)
Klaus Møller (Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark)
Peter Nalbach (Theoretical Physics, Hamburg University)
Martin Plenio (Controlled Quantum Dynamics Group, Ulm University)
Klaus Richter (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Regensburg University)
Dieter Schuch (Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Walter Strunz (Theoretical Quantum Optics, Technical University Dresden)
Ivano Tavernelli (Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, EPFL Lausanne)
Michael Thoss (Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, University of Erlangen)
Jiri Vanicek (Theoretical Physical Chemistry, EPFL Lausanne)

The Organizers

Irene Burghardt (burghardt at chemie.uni-frankfurt.de)
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Sara Bonella (sara.bonella at roma1.infn.it)
Departement of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Andreas Buchleitner (abu at uni-freiburg.de)
Departement of Physics, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg

Ángel Sanz Ortiz (asanz at iff.csic.es)
Instituto de Fisica Fundamental, IFF-CSIC (Spain)