19th Western States Mathematical Physics
Meeting
February 21 – 22,
2000
151 Sloan
PROGRAM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21
9:00 – 9:05
Welcome9:05 – 9:30
Oliver Knill (University of Texas, Austin)
On fluctuations of subharmonic functions and
an application to spectral theory9:35 – 10:00
Jan Segert (University of Missouri, Columbia)
Global quantum cohomology10:00 – 10:30
Coffee10:30 – 10:55
Dror Bar-Natan (Hebrew University visiting MSRI)
A 3-dimensional perspective on Drinfeld's theory of quasi-Hopf algebras11:00 – 11:50
Werner Kirsch (Ruhr Universität-Bochum)
Scattering theoretic methods for random Schrödinger operators12:00 – 1:00
Lunch1:00 – 1:50
Terence Tao (UCLA)
Global well-posedness of nonlinear wave equations
beyond the finite energy case
2:00 – 2:50
Alexander Givental (Caltech)
Contact topology, holomorphic curves, and quantum mechanics3:00 – 3:30
Coffee3:30 – 4:20
Laszlo Erdos (Georgia Tech)
Derivation of Boltzmann equations from microscopic quantum mechanics
4:30 – 5:20
Ken McLaughlin (University of Arizona)
On the semiclassical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
9:00 – 9:50
Charles Radin (University of Texas, Austin)
Topological aspects of "crystals"10:00 – 10:30
Coffee10:30 – 10:55
Abel Klein (UC Irvine)
Generalized eigenfunctions for waves in inhomogeneous media11:00 – 11:50
Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine)
On localization for quasiperiodic operators12:00 – 1:00
Lunch1:00 – 1:50
Stanislav Molchanov (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
On the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators
with sparse or slowly decaying potentials2:00 – 2:25
William Arveson (UC Berkeley)
Interactions in noncommutative dynamics2:30 – 2:55
Dirk Hundertmark (Caltech)
New bounds on the Lieb-Thirring constants3:00 – 3:30
Coffee3:30 – 4:20
Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study visiting Caltech)
Quantum self-duality of p-form fields
4:30 – 4:55
David Damanik (University of Frankfurt visiting Caltech)
Multiscale analysis implies strong dynamical localization