Time and place: Tuesday, January 27th, 2026, 1:00 pm, room 403 IMI-BAS. Lecturer: Jean-Pierre Gazeau (Université Paris Cité, CNRS, and University of Białystok) Title: Spectral and angular variables for open qudit dynamics Abstract:  In this talk, I introduce a parametrization of finite-dimensional quantum states that is particularly adapted to the study of open qudit dynamics. Any generic density matrix in Cn can be described by separating spectral variables, which encode the eigenvalue content, from angular variables associated with the unitary degrees of freedom. These angular variables naturally live on the coset space SU(n)/T, in the spirit of the Tilma–Sudarshan construction. A key outcome of this parametrization is a partial decoupling of the GKLS evolution: while the angular variables are driven by both the Hamiltonian and [...]