20th ANNUAL WESTERN STATES
MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS MEETING

February 19 and 20, 2001
Room 151 Sloan
California Institute of Technology

P R O G R A M
(Updated 2/19/01)

Monday, February 19

• 9:00 - 9:05 Welcome
• 9:05 - 9:30  Thermal nonequilibrium stationary states for a chain of anharmonic oscillators, Larry Thomas (University of Virginia)
• 9:35 - 10:00  Properties of nontranslation invariant states for the quantum XXZ model, Shannon Starr (UC Davis)
• 10:00 - 10:30  Coffee
• 10:30 - 11:20  Transport properties of random polymer models, Hermann Schulz-Baldes (UC Irvine)
• 11:30 - 1:00  Lunch
• 1:00 - 1:50  A new proof of the Scott correction for molecules, Wolfgang Spitzer (UC Davis)
• 2:00 - 2:50  The inverse spectral problem for analytic plane domains, Steve Zelditch (Johns Hopkins University)
• 3:00 - 3:30  Coffee
• 3:30 - 3:55  Laplacian on fractals, Alexander Teplyaev (UC Riverside)
• 4:00 - 4:50  Wave turbulence is nearly always intermittent at small or large scales, Alan Newell (University of Arizona)

Tuesday, February 20

• 9:00 - 9:25  On L_p-solutions of some boundary value problems, Shavkat Alimov (Univ. of World Economy & Diplomacy, Tashkent, visiting Caltech)
• 9:30 - 10:20  Schrödinger operators with potentials containing curvature, Evans Harrell (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• 10:30 - 11:00  Coffee
• 11:00 - 11:50  Entropy, pressure and Hausdorff dimension of Z-d subshifts, Shmuel Friedland (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
• 1:00 - 1:25  Localization for one-dimensional, continuum, Bernoulli-Anderson models, Robert Sims (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
• 1:30 - 1:55  Heat kernel analysis and holomorphic functions in infinite dimensions, Maria Gordina (UC San Diego)
• 2:00 - 2:50  L^p-bounds on the Krein spectral shift, Barry Simon (Caltech)
• 3:00 - 3:30  Coffee
• 3:30 - 3:55  Survival probability in rank-one perturbation problems, Alexei Poltoratski (Texas A&M University)
• 4:00 - 4:50 Linearization of Loewner's equation, Nikolai Makarov (Caltech)

For information and registration, please contact
Cherie Galvez at (626) 395-3744 or cgalvez@its.caltech.edu.
Registration fee is $10 (graduate students exempt).

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