Mathematical Physics Seminars

Department of Mathematics
Seminars

Address: Mathematics 253-37 | Caltech | Pasadena, CA 91125
Telephone: (626) 395-4335 | Fax: (626) 585-1728

Mathematical Physics Seminars
2011 - 2012

SimonFest
March 27–31, 2006

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Since 1982, Barry Simon has run the annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting for two (or initially 2.5) days in the Winter. "Mathematical Physics" is interpreted in the broad sense (closer to the union than the intersection).
Click for programs of previous meetings:
2010 2011
2008 2009
2005 2007
2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996

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Math Physics
Seminars 2010-11

REGULAR SEMINARS

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - No meeting

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - No meeting

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Helge Krüger (Caltech)
A special class of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Hrushikesh Mhaskar (Cal State Los Angeles; Caltech visiting associate)
A new look at some old problems Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Rowan Killip (UCLA)
(Non)linear Schrödinger equation outside convex obstacles Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Igor Kukavica (USC)
On the size of the nodal sets of solutions of elliptic and parabolic PDEs Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Fritz Gesztesy (University of Missouri, Columbia)
On heat kernel bounds for Schrödinger operators on bounded Lipschitz domains with Robin-type boundary conditions Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Monday and Tuesday, February 20 and 21, 2012
30th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. // 151 Sloan

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Jonathan Breuer (Hebrew University)
Title TBA
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

WORKING SEMINARS

January 18, 25; February 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2012
Brown bag meeting

SEMINARS IN THE FIRST TERM

Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tom Alberts (Caltech)
Intermediate disorder for polymers on trees     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Helen Lei (Caltech)
Hamiltonian ODEs on a space of deficient measures     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Sergei Gukov (Caltech)
Knots and partitions
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Brian Simanek (Caltech)
Asymptotic properties of extremal polynomials     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - No meeting

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Abel Klein (UC Irvine)
Bounds on the density of states for Schrödinger operators     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Friday, November 11, 2011 - Special Mathematical Physics Seminar
Rupert Frank (Princeton)
How much energy does it cost to make a hole in the Fermi sea?     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Monday, November 14, 2011 - Special Mathematical Physics Seminar
Alexander Sodin (Institute for Advanced Study)
A supersymmetric transfer matrix approach to random band matrices     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
F. Alberto Grünbaum (UC Berkeley)
Quantum walks and orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein (Univ. de Almeria, Spain, visiting Caltech)
Dynamics of the support of the equilibrium measure in a quartic field     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Maxim Derevyagin (TU Berlin)
Jacobi matrices and their generalizations in Padé approximation     Abstract
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. // 351 Sloan (Lounge)