Information Dynamics

Thomas Dittrich studied physics and philosophy in Hamburg. His research on complex quantum dynamics started with his Ph.D. in Essen and continued during postdoctoral stays at the Weizmann Institute, University of Augsburg, and MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems. In parallel with his position as professor of physics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, which he has held since 2000, he has enjoyed research stays in Germany, Israel, Mexico, India, and Brazil. He publishes on quantum chaos, semiclassical methods, quantum information, and randomness.

• The concept of information.- Simple applications.- Epistemological aspects.- Information and randomness.- Information in classical Hamiltonian dynamics.- Information in classical dissipative dynamics.- Fluctuations, noise, and microscopic degrees of freedom.- Information and quantum mechanics: digitalizing the microcosm.- Physical aspects of computing.- Quantum computation.