Special Lecture Series Prof. Natan Andrei (Rutgers University, USA) on Quantum Impurities in and out of Equilibrium (six lectures) , March 11-16, 2007: 1. Sunday 15:00-18:00: The Kondo effect - simplest example of a strong correlation effect in a quantum impurity system. Failure of the perturbative approach. Introduction to the Bethe-Ansatz approach. 2. Monday 14:00-17:00: The Bethe Ansatz approach - thermodynamics of the Kondo model 3. Tuesday 14:00-17:00: The quantum inverse scattering problem 4. Wednesday 09:00-12:00: The Bethe Ansatz approach (continued) 5. Wednesday 14:00-17:00: The Bethe Ansatz approach to Quantum Impurities out-of-equilibrium 6. Thursday 12:00-15:00: The Bethe Ansatz approach to Quantum Impurities out-of-equilibrium (continued) (lecture notes courtesy of Jan von Delft) Venue: The course will take place at the BGU Math Department seminar room, Building 58, room 201.  Literature: Natan Andrei, Integrable models in condensed matter physics, cond-mat/9408101 Pankaj Mehta and Natan Andrei, Nonequilibrium Transport in Quantum Impurity Models: The Bethe Ansatz for Open Systems, PRL 96, 216802 (2006) For additional information please contact Yigal Meir