Professor Marko Robnik, Member of EASA

         Director of CAMTP, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

         Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

         University of Maribor

         Krekova 2, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia, European Union

         Phone: +(386) (2) 2355 350 and 2355 351, Fax: +(386) (2) 2355 360

         Email: Robnik@uni-mb.si

         Web page: http://www.camtp.uni-mb.si/camtp/robnik/

         Full CV and list of publications

   

 

The scientific work of Professor Marko Robnik is in the wide domain of theoretical physics, and it began in 1978 in the field of mathematical
physics, kinetic theory and fluid mechanics at the University of Ljubljana, followed by theoretical astrophysics at the University of Bonn, mainly

treating physical processes in astrophysics, and nonlinear dynamics of classical and quantum chaos, later also at the University of Bristol,

England, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at

Santa Barbara, USA, in 1989. Since then he is working mainly on classical and quantum chaos, and mathematical physics. Marko Robnik is

best known for his seminal work, together with M. Berry, on energy level spacing distribution in quantized Hamiltonian systems with generic,

mixed phase space where regular and chaotic motion can coexist. In another seminal paper he clarified the role of anti-unitary symmetry in

statistics of energy levels, and proposed popular Aharonov-Bohm quantum billiard models. A particularly simple and appealing billiard model

whose shape is given as a conformal quadratic mapping of a unit disk is often known as Robnik billiard. He is the founder of the CAMTP -

Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, at the University of Maribor, in 1990.

CAMTP was founded when he returned to Slovenia from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

With the great moral and financial support of the Slovenian Government on the one hand, and the operational support by the Rector Professor

Alojz Križman at the time on the other hand, the Center started its scientific research activities in September 1990. It became an independent

research institution and legal entity in July 1991, but still academically part of the University of Maribor. Professor Marko Robnik is the director

of the institute since the foundation.

The main purpose of the Center is to carry out research in theoretical physics and applied mathematics, mainly in nonlinear dynamics, and also

to educate young researchers, PhD students, and also to organize scientific meetings, mainly international, but also elite national meetings with

strong international participation. The Center is small by the number of members but nevertheless very active, at the moment (January 2014)

it has nine members, from four countries.

So far at CAMTP five PhD students of theoretical physics have successfully finished their PhD thesis work, among them 3 Slovenians, one from
Greece and one from Brazil. One Slovenian earned PhD in mathematics. Two more PhD students of physics are working at CAMTP towards

earning the PhD degree, and one in mathematics.

One should emphasize the strong international conference activities of the Center, as it is organizing 2-3 international and high level or even world top

level conferences per year. Since 1993 the Center has organized more than 51 scientific conferences and meetings, namely seven series of scientific

meetings:

        i.  The international summer schools and conferences Let's Face Chaos through Nonlinear Dynamics. They started them in 1993,

            and had 9 so far, every three years, in Maribor, with two working weeks, with about 80-100 participants each time. The last one was on

            22 June - 6 July  2014.

       ii.  Japan-Slovenia Seminars on Nonlinear Science. They meet almost every year in Maribor or in Japan, have typically 3 working days in
Maribor, and twice three days in Japan, at various top universities, in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Osaka. Typically about 40-50 participants.
So far there were 13 meetings. The next one will be in October 2014 in Tokyo and Kansai area (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara).

      iii.  European Advanced Studies Conferences, organized in collaboration with Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the University of

            Patras, Greece, almost every year, with 3-4 working days. They had 8 so far. They take place at various places in Europe.

      iv.  SOCRATES Workshops on nonlinear dynamics, so far they had five, twice in Marburg, Germany, twice in Maribor, Slovenia, in collaboration
with Professor Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann of University of Marburg. (Later there was one follow-up meeting in Freiburg, in Germany, independent

            of CAMTP.) Each time about 30 participants for one week, typically.

       v.  Christmas Symposia on Physics, every year since 2002, so far 12 meetings, the next one will be in December of 2014. There are three
working days and about 45 participants.

      vi.  Computer Algebra and Scientific Computing, so far three meetings (2010, 2012 and 2013), about 45 participants each time and three to

            four working days.

     vii.  1st Out of the Box Conference, in collaboration with the University of Maribor and Rector Prof.Dr. Danijel Rebolj, 15-17 May 2012, with

            the subtitle "Innovative Ways to Improve the Culture of Living", with 30 invited speakers, including three Nobel Prize Laureates, and 27 other eminent
speakers, among them Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Felix Unger, President of the EASA, Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Siegfried Großmann from the University of
Marburg, Germany, etc.