MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARS



REGULAR SEMINARS
12:00 - 1:00 // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, May 6, 1998
Shinichi Kotani (Osaka University, visiting Caltech)
Absolutely continuous spectrum and power spectrum
in the study of random Schrödinger operators

Wednesday, May 13, 1998
Abderrahman Boukricha (University of Tunis)
Harnack inequality in nonlinear potential theory

Wednesday, May 20, 1998 - No meeting

Wednesday, May 27, 1998 - No meeting

Wednesday, June 3, 1998 (last seminar for AY 1997–98)
Barry Simon (Caltech)
The A-amplitude approach to inverse spectral theory


WORKING SEMINARS
1:30 - 2:30 // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

May 6, 13, and June 3, 1998
Brown bag camp meeting
A camp meeting is an informal get-together
where people can discuss their work and the work of others.

 

SEMINARS IN APRIL

Wednesday, April 1, 1998
Eugene Gutkin (USC)
Order and chaos in billiards in polygons

Wednesday, April 8, 1998
Huaizhong Zhao (UC Irvine)
WKB-Langer asymptotic expansions and semi-classical limits

Special Seminar
Monday, April 13, 1998
Sergey Naboko (University of St. Petersburg, Russia)
The boundary behavior of the operator valued Herglotz functions
and related problems of perturbation theory and Volterra operators

Wednesday, April 15, 1998
Italo Guarneri (University of Como, visiting Caltech)
Quantum transport in Jacobi matrices with self-similar spectra

Wednesday, April 22, 1998
No meeting

Wednesday, April 29, 1998
Percy Deift (Courant Institute)
Universality in random matrix theory


SEMINARS IN MARCH

Wednesday, March 4, 1998
Alberto Candel (Caltech)
Aubry-Mather theory

Wednesday, March 11, 1998
Maxim Zyskin (UC Riverside)
Perturbative solutions of integrable equations

Wednesday, March 18, 1998
Martin Bazant (Harvard)
Möbius series inversion rediscovered

Wednesday, March 25, 1998
Volker Bach (TU Berlin)
Ground states and resonances in nonrelativistic QED

 

SEMINARS IN FEBRUARY

Wednesday, February 4, 1998
Jacek Polewczak (Cal State Univ., Northridge)
On differential equations, weakly inward mappings,
and support points of closed subsets of topological vector spaces

Wednesday, February 11, 1998
Walter Craig (Brown University)
Microlocal dispersive smoothing for Schrödinger's equation

Monday and Tuesday, February 16 - 17, 1998
17th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Wednesday, February 18, 1998
Ruedi Seiler (TU Berlin)
The Bethe Ansatz for quantum integrals of the discrete pendulum

Wednesday, February 25, 1998
Michel Lapidus (UC Riverside)
Complex dimensions of fractal strings and oscillatory phenomena
in fractal geometry and arithmetic


SEMINARS IN JANUARY

Wednesday, January 14, 1998
Alexander Soshnikov (Caltech)
Universality of the local distribution of eigenvalues
of large random hermitian matrices

Wednesday, January 21, 1998
Thomas Erber (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Complex systems: Equilibrium configurations of N charges
on a sphere
2<N<112

Wednesday, January 28, 1998
Uri Keich (Caltech)
On Lp bounds for Kakeya maximal functions
and the Minkowsky dimension in
R2


SEMINARS IN NOVEMBER

Wednesday, November 5, 1997
Thomas Wolff (Caltech)
An analog of Furstenburg's theorem for representations of SL(2)

Wednesday, November 12, 1997
Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis)
The complete set of ground states of the XXZ ferromagnets

Wednesday, November 19, 1997 - No Meeting

Wednesday, November 26, 1997
Maximilian Seifert (UC Irvine)
Stability and bound states of the hydrogen molecule


SEMINARS IN OCTOBER

Wednesday, October 8, 1997
Rowan Killip (Caltech)
Rajchman measures in spectral theory

Wednesday, October 15, 1997
No meeting

Wednesday, October 22, 1997
Ron Lifshitz (Caltech)
Symmetry of quasicrystals

Wednesday, October 29, 1997
Yoram Last (Caltech)
Approximate eigenvectors and spectral theory


For more information about the schedule, please contact Cherie Galvez at (626) 395-3744 or send e-mail to cgalvez@cco.caltech.edu

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