The UzyFest-85 Announcement

We gather to celebrate the 85th birthday of our colleague and friend, Uzy Smilansky. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Uzy has covered a wide range of physical and mathematical topics, mostly at the interface between classical and quantum mechanics. His style is best demonstrated by quoting a few titles of his works: «Can one hear (or count) the shape of a quantum graph?» (with the answers being yes and no, respectively), «The interior-exterior duality», and «Nodal domain counting». Uzy's work exploring the relationship between spectral and periodic orbit correlations revealed a deep connection to Random Matrix Theory — now an indispensable framework for understanding both single- and many-body quantum chaos. It is precisely these profound ties that we aim to explore and strengthen throughout the workshop.

The topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to:
  
     Quantum graphs and microwave networks
     Semiclassical approach to quantum chaos
     Non-Hermitian RMT and dissipative quantum chaos
     RMT in many-body quantum chaos and SYK models
     Random spectra and determinantal point processes
     Log-correlated fields and multiplicative chaos

The program will consist of invited and contributed talks, and a poster session. Please navigate through this website for further information. [For previous events browse: 2009,  2014,  2018].

The workshop is co-sponsored by The Israel Science Foundation, H.I.T. − Holon Institute of Technology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The University of Haifa, IAMP − International Association of Mathematical Physics, Annales Henri Poincaré (Institut Henri Poincaré and Swiss Physical Society), Journal of Mathematical Physics (AIP), and Entropy (MDPI).