Talks (English)

Parts of this material is based upon workis based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant No. 0300398, No. 0600956, No 0901514,  and No. DMS-1160962 since 2003.

             
    Topological Invariants in Disordered Systems
       Distinguished Lecture Series in Applied and Computational Analysis
       UC Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics, May 5-15,2013
       Lecture 1: Electrons in Aperiodic Media (pdf file)
       Lecture 2: Computational Noncommutative Geometry (pdf file)
       Lecture 3: The Integer Quantum Hall Effect (pdf file)
       Lecture 4: Higher Topological Invariants: topological insulators (pdf file)

    Computational Noncommutative Geometry, the work of Emil Prodan (pdf file)
       Trails in Quantum Mechanics and Surrounding
       INFN, Frascati National Lab, January 29-February 2, 2013

    Modeling Liquid Metals & Bulk Metallic Glasses (pdf file)
       1)-Yeshiva University, College of Women, Physics,
       New-Yok City, December 4th, 2012
       2)-Joint Institute for Neutron Science, Oak Ridge, January 18th, 2013

    1)-Transverse Geometry of Tiling Spaces (pdf file)
       University of Connecticut, November 29th, 2012
      2)- Cantorization and Reconnection Cohomology (Temporary Draft)
       University of Connecticut, November 30th, 2012

    Hull and Tiling Space in Aperiodic Solids (pdf file)
       Joint Institute for Neutron Science, Oak Ridge, October 4th, 2012

    On the Noncommutative Geometry of Aperiodic Solids
        INDAM Meeting Noncommutative Geometry, Index Theory and Applications,
        Cortona, Italy, June 11-15 2012.  Four lectures: (June 11,12,13,14, 2012)
         1)- Gap Labeling Theorems (pdf file)
         2)-The Hull (pdf file)
         3)-Cohomology (pdf file)
         4)-Transverse Geometry (pdf file)

    Atomic Motion in Aperiodic Solids (pdf file)
        Polygone Scientifique, Maison des Magistères, Grenoble
        Theoretical Physics Colloquium, June 1st, 2012
  
    Aperiodic Solids and their Noncommutative Geometry
        The University of Chicago, Graduate School of Mathematics
        Four lectures: (Apr 17, 19, 24, 26, 2012)
         1)- Aperiodic Solids: a review
         2)- The Hull
         3)-  The C*-algebra and its K-Theory
         4)- The Gap Labeling Theorem

    TheTransverse Geometry of Tiling Spaces  (pdf file)
        CRM - University of Ottawa Distinguished Lecture Series
        Department of Mathematics,
        University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 13 2012

     Laplaceans on compact metric spaces (pdf file)
       Talk at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Mar 12 2012

     Theory of Aperiodic Solids: from 1980 to present (pdf file)
        The 2012 WPI-AIMR Annual Workshop,
        Cutting-edge Functional Materials for Green Innovation
         Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Feb 20-23, 2012

     Dissipative Dynamics for Electrons in Semiconductors  (pdf file)
       Workshop, Correlations and Interactions for Random Quantum Systems
       Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, October 24, 2011
          Workshop, Quantum Mechanics: From Foundations to Quantum Information Science,
        Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, March 6, 2012

    Atomic Motion and Transverse Geometry of Tiling Spaces  (pdf file)
        Colloquium talk, Department of Mathematics,
        University of Victoria, BC, Canada October 6, 2011.
        - Workshop "Mathematical approach to emerging topics in materials science 2012"
        WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Feb 18-19, 2012
        - Talk at the Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan, Feb 25 2012
        - Talk at the LPTMS, U. Paris Sud, Orsay, France, Mar 13 2012

     Wannier Transform for Aperiodic Solids  (pdf file)
        Conference "Modern Trends in PDE's, Geometric Analysis and 
        Mathematical Physics"  .
        University of Cergy-Pontoise September 5-6, 2011.

     Mathematical Aspects of Electronic Transport in Aperiodic Solids ,
        International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2011),
        July 21, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada.


    Riemannian Geometry on Compact Metric Spaces  (pdf file)
        Workshop "Wave and Quantum Fields",
        Technion, Physics, Haifa, Israel, June 26-30, 2011

     Riemannian Geometry on Metric Cantor Sets  (pdf file)
        -Math Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 1st, 2011
              -Math Department,Fudan University, Shanghai, June 15, 2011

     Transverse Geometry for Tiling Spaces  (pdf file)
        Mini-course, delivered at SISSA, Trieste, Italy
        workshop "Trails in a Non Commutative Land" May 18-20, 2011
        SISSA, International School for Advanced Studies

     Wannier Transform for Aperiodic Solids  (pdf file)
        Mathematical Physics Seminar, School of Math., Georgia Tech
        March 16th, 2011.
             
   (i) J. Bellissard: Riemannian Geometry of Compact Metric Spaces
       (ii) G. De Nittis: Wannier Transform for Quasicrystals  (pdf file)
        "Challenge in Aperiodic Media" and workshop "ANR SubTile"
       Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon, Feb. 28-Mars 4, 2011

     1D-Quantum Systems (1980-1993), a review  (pdf file)
        workshop "Dynamics of Trace Maps and Applications to Spectral Theory"
        Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
        January 17-21, 2011

     Wannier Transform for Aperiodic Solids  (pdf file)
        Workshop "Random Schrödinger Operators"
        Centre Interfaculataire Bernoulli
          EPFL, Lausanne, June 3rd, 2010
        Workshop "The Mathematics of Aperiodic Order"
        KIAS, Seoul, Korea September 27, 2010

     Riemannian Geometry on Metric Cantor Sets  (pdf file)
        Dept. of Mathematics,  UC-Irvine, May 13, 2010
        Workshop "Quantum Dynamics", in honor of Pierre Duclos,
        CIRM, Luminy, Marseille, France, November 23-25, 2010

    Riemannian Geomerty of Compact Metric Spaces (pdf file)
       Dept. of Mathematics,  Northwestern University Evanston, IL,
       April 29 2010  

   A Mathematical Model for Mott Variable Range Hopping Conductivity (pdf file)
       Conference "Quantum Probability and Related Topics"
       Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,
       Facultad de Matemáticas, Santiago, Chile, 26 November 2009  

   Topological Aspects in the Theory of Aperiodic Solids andTiling Spaces (pdf file)
         - Research Horizon: graduate seminar -
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mathematics, 11 November 2009  

    The Topology of Tiling Spaces (pdf file)
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       Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 16 October 2009  


    The Gap Labeling Theorem then and now  (pdf file)
       Montana State University, Department of Mathematics, 29 April 2009  

    Riemannian Geometry on Metric Cantor Sets  (pdf file)
      Institut Camille Jordan,  Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I , France, 20 June 2008
       Fakultät für Mathematik , Universität Bielefeld , July 4, 2008

    The theory of Aperiodic Solids: 4 Lectures
          0)- Colloquium Talk: The Noncommutative Geometry of Aperiodic Solids
          1)- Lecture I:    Construction of the Noncommutative Brillouin Zone
          2)- Lecture II:  Coherent and Dissipative transport
          3)- Lecture III: The Riemannian Geometry of Atomic Surfaces
       SISSA, Trieste, Italy, 26-30 May 2008  

    Quantum Computing: what is it ?     Power Point file   
       School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Thursday March 6, 2008


    The Topology of Tiling Spaces     pdf.file     
       (i) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
       Mathematisches Institut, June 26th, 2007
      (ii) Fakultät für Mathematik Universität Bielefeld, June 28th, 2007
      (iii)  DMA-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, July 4th, 2007
      (iv) Born-Hilbert Seminar, Universität Göttingen, July 9th, 2007
        (v) Meccanica (a conference in honor of Sandro Graffi), Bologna, Italy, August 30th, 2008


    Analysis and Probability in Quantum Physics
      Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, 2006 (PASI)
      Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile,
      24 July-4 August, 2006
     Transport Theory in Dissipative Quantum Systems (135 pages)
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    Max Born Symposium in Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw June 26-28, 2006
       "Mathematical Problems in Nonrelativistic Quantum Dynamics"
       Topics in Quantum Transport Theory  (pdf)  (ps)


   Festival Colin de Verdière Grenoble Mai 29-June 2  2006
      Bloch Electrons in a Magnetic Field  (pdf)

    Three Lectures on the Quantum Hall Effect  (pdf)
Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics, Dec 2-3 2005

      Three Lectures on the Theory of Aperiodic Solids
Gill Foundation, Distinguished Lecture Series
UCLA, Department of Mathematics, May 3-6, 2005
          Lecture I:     Structural Aspects and Noncommutative Geometry  (pdf)
          Lecture II:   Coherent and Dissipative Transport  (pdf)
          Lecture III:  The Integer Quantum Hall Effect   (pdf)


     Dissipative Transport and Kubo's Formula in Aperiodic Solids  (pdf)
Program on Open Quantum Systems
Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Wien, Feb. 1st, 2005

      Various Mathematical Aspects of Tiling Spaces  (pdf)
School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech, Jan. 24th, 2005

     Kubo's Formula for Quantum Transport  (pdf)
         Mathematics and Physics of Disordered Systems
         Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, May2-7, 2004
    Two Lectures on "Quantum Computing"
        "I: Introduction. Qubits, Quantum circuits (pdf) "
                                      (PowerPoint version 0.4MB)
        "II: Algorithms, Error-correcting codes, Physical Realizations (pdf)"
                                      (PowerPoint version 0.7MB)
Georgia Institute of Technology,
School of Mathematics, Atlanta, GA, October 15 & 29,  2003

    Coherent and Dissipative Transport in Aperiodic Media   (pdf)
        "The Noncommutative Geometry of Aperiodic Solids"
        "Entropy and Information: a physicist point of view" (PowerPoint Presentation 1.7 MB )
 Florida State University, Gainesville, FL, October 1-3,  2003

    Kinetic Models for Electronic Transport in Aperiodic Solids  (pdf)
Université Scientifique et Technique de Lille (USTL), France, June 24,  2003

    Linear Response Theory & Kubo's Formula for Electronic Transport  (pdf)
University of California Irvine, CA, May 29,  2003

    Tilings, Aperiodic Media and their Noncommutative Geometry  (pdf)
Duke University, February 28,  2003,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, May 12-13, Shanks Lectures.

    Random Matrix theory and the 2D Anderson Model  (pdf)
-Rutgers, December 15, 2002: "88th Statistical Mechanics Conference" Rutgers University,
    Celebrating E. Lieb's 70th birthday.
-Pasadena, February 17-18, 2003: "Western Seminar" Caltech, Mathematics,
- Como "Quantum Chaos: Theory and Applications", Villa Olmo, Como, June 17-22, 2003,
Celebrating G. Casati's 60th birthday. 

     I.H.E.S., Bures s/Yvette, France,  April 3, 2002    The Noncommutative Geometry of Aperiodic Solids   (pdf)
           "Rencontres de géométrie non-commutative" en l'honneur d'Alain Connes,

     38th Winter School of Theoretical Physics, 6-15 February 2002, Lądek Zdrój, Poland
           "Dynamical Semigroups: Dissipation, Chaos, Quanta"
           Coherent and Dissipative Transport in Aperiodic Solids: Part A   (pdf)
           Coherent and Dissipative Transport in Aperiodic Solids: Part B   (pdf)

     Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics, September 3-6, 2001
           The Strange Properties of Quasicrystals

     UC Berkeley, Departement of Mathematics, NJ,  August 23, 2001
           The Gap Labelling Theorem for Tilings   (pdf)

     Princeton, NJ,  December 12, 2000   Coherent and Dissipative Transport in Aperiodic Media   (pdf)

     MSRI, Berkeley, CA, October 17, 2000   Noncommutative Fermi surfaces  (pdf)
 
     MSRI, Berkeley, CA,  September 26, 2000
           Gap Labelling Theorem for Aperiodic Solids  (pdf)
 
     De Rham Colloquium, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 15, 2000
           Noncommutative Geometry of Aperiodic Solids  (pdf)
 
     Mathematical and Physical aspects of the (fractional) Quantum Hall Effect,
            Adelaide, Australia, August 16-20, 1999, 
           The Noncommutative Geometry of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect.   (pdf)
 
     Clausthal, Germany, November 2-6, 1998
           Kinetic Models for Quantum Transport: anomalous transport   (pdf)