Transition to Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics

The Session was intended to give a broad survey of the mathematical problems arising in the chaotic transition of deterministic dynamical systems, both in classical and quantum mechanics.The lectures of Mather and Forni thoroughly cover the area- preserving twist maps, and include an up-to-date version of the Aubry-Mather theory.The lectures of Bellissard describe the quantum aspects: classical limit, localization, spectral properties of the relevant Schrodinger operators and thus represent an exhaus- tive introduction to the mathematics of "e;quantum chaos"e;. The lectures of Degli Esposti et al. reviews equidistribu- tion of unstable periodic orbits and classical limit of quantized toral symplectomorphisms.