Mini-Workshop on Multifractality at Criticality

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Students in front of a computer
Aims

Multifractality provides a fundamental framework for describing complex scale-invariant phenomena in systems at criticality. Since its emergence in the study of turbulence and disordered systems in the 1980s, multifractality has become a unifying concept across diverse fields of physics, from localization and quantum phase transitions to classical critical phenomena, transport in complex media, and far-from-equilibrium systems.

This mini-workshop brings together leading experts to advance our understanding of multifractality at criticality, with a focus on theoretical foundations, numerical approaches, and experimental realizations.
A central motivation is to identify universal features and signatures of criticality encoded in multifractal spectra and to address current challenges in interpreting and predicting these signatures in complex quantum and classical systems.

Invited Participants
Martin Zirnbauer
University of Cologne

Random matrix theory and symmetry classes; field-theoretic approaches to disordered and critical systems
Keith Slevin
Osaka University

Anderson localization and quantum Hall systems; multifractal analysis and numerical methods.
Hideaki Obuse
Hokkaido University

Quantum transport and topological phases; numerical studies of critical systems in low dimensions
Weihan Li
MPI-PKS, Dresden

Multifractality in interacting and disordered systems; numerical simulations and scaling theory.
Sen Mu
MPI-PKS, Dresden

Critical phenomena, localization, and multifractal analysis in quantum many-body systems.
Joachim Peinke
University of Oldenburg

Turbulence and complex systems; multifractal analysis of classical fields and flows.
Organizers:
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Saberi Abbas
Prof. Dr. Abbas Ali Saberi
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics
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Prof. Stefan Kettemann
Associate Professor of Complex Systems
Event details and reservation
17 - 21 August 2026 (Monday - Friday)

Participation by invitation only
Date
Location
Constructor University Bremen, Germany