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Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schlein

Former Hausdorff Chair
Current position: Professor, University of Zürich

E-mail: benjamin.schlein(at)math.uzh.ch
Fax: +49 228 73 7992
Homepage: http://www.math.uzh.ch/index.php?id=1819&key1=1831%2F
Institute: Institute for Applied Mathematics

Academic Career

1999

Diploma in Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

1999 - 2002

Graduate studies in Mathematical Physics

2002

PhD from Institute of Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2002 - 2003

Courant Instructor, Courant Institute, New York University, NY, USA

2003 - 2004

Instructor, Stanford University, CA, USA

2004 - 2005

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, CA, USA

2005 - 2006

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

2006 - 2007

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of California, Davis, CA, USA

2007 - 2008

Research Fellow, supported by Kovalevskaja Award, LMU Munich

2007 - 2010

University Lecturer, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Cambridge, England, UK

2010 - 2014

Hausdorff Chair (W3), University of Bonn

Since 2014

Professor, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Research Profile

My research field is mathematical physics. I am very interested in the dynamical properties of quantum mechanical systems (quantum dynamics). In the last years, I have been working on the derivation of effective evolution equations for interacting many body systems; see [1,2,3,4,5], as well as on the study of the behavior of the solutions of these macroscopic evolution equations.

Another subject I have been working on is the derivation of Lieb-Robinson bounds for the time evolution of anharmonic lattice systems; these bounds establish the locality of the dynamics; see [6].

I am also interested in the study of the spectral properties of random matrices; in particular, in the last years, I have been working to establish the universality of the local eigenvalue statistics for ensembles of Wigner matrices; see [7,8,9].

Another class of questions I have been trying to understand is related with scattering theory for models of non-relativistic matter coupled to quantized radiation fields; see [10].

Research Projects and Activities

ERC Project “Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Dynamics”
2009 - 2014

Selected Publications

[1] László Erdős, Benjamin Schlein, Horng-Tzer Yau
Derivation of the cubic non-linear Schrödinger equation from quantum dynamics of many-body systems
Invent. Math. , 167: (3): 515--614
2007
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-006-0022-1
[2] László Erdős, Benjamin Schlein, Horng-Tzer Yau
Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate
Ann. of Math. (2) , 172: (1): 291--370
2010
DOI: 10.4007/annals.2010.172.291
[3] László Erdős, Benjamin Schlein, Horng-Tzer Yau
Rigorous derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a large interaction potential
J. Amer. Math. Soc. , 22: (4): 1099--1156
2009
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-09-00635-3
[4] Igor Rodnianski, Benjamin Schlein
Quantum fluctuations and rate of convergence towards mean field dynamics
Comm. Math. Phys. , 291: (1): 31--61
2009
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-009-0867-4
[6] Bruno Nachtergaele, Hillel Raz, Benjamin Schlein, Robert Sims
Lieb-Robinson bounds for harmonic and anharmonic lattice systems
Comm. Math. Phys. , 286: (3): 1073--1098
2009
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-008-0630-2
[7] László Erdős, Benjamin Schlein, Horng-Tzer Yau
Wegner estimate and level repulsion for Wigner random matrices
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (3): 436--479
2010
DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnp136
[8] László Erdős, José Ram\'\irez, Benjamin Schlein, Terence Tao, Van Vu, Horng-Tzer Yau
Bulk universality for Wigner Hermitian matrices with subexponential decay
Math. Res. Lett.
, 17: (4): 667--674
2010
DOI: 10.4310/MRL.2010.v17.n4.a7
[10] J. Fröhlich, M. Griesemer, B. Schlein
Asymptotic completeness for Compton scattering
Comm. Math. Phys. , 252: (1-3): 415--476
2004
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-004-1180-x

Publication List

MathSciNet Publication List (external link)

Awards

2006

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2009

ERC Starting Grant

2009

Young Scientist Prize in Mathematical Physics (IUPAP)

Selected Invited Lectures

2006

International Congress Mathematical Physics (ICMP), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2008

Annual meeting of DPG, Freiburg

2008

Annual meeting of DMV, Erlangen

2009

ICMP, Prague, Czech Republic

2010

Annual meeting DPG, Bonn

2010

QMath 11, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

2011

ICIAM, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2011

Annual meeting DMV, Cologne

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