23rd Western States
Mathematical Physics Meeting

February 16 – 17, 2004
151 Sloan

PROGRAM
 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

  • 9:00 – 9:05
    Welcome

  • 9:05 – 9:55
    Michael I. Weinstein     (Columbia University and Bell Laboratories)
    Resonance problems in photonics

  • 10:05 – 10:30
    Coffee

  • 10:30 – 10:55
    Plamen Iliev     (Georgia Tech)
    Askey-Wilson functions and bispectrality

  • 11:00 – 11:50
    Craig Tracy     (UC Davis)
    Differential equations for Dyson diffusion

  • 12:00 – 1:00
    Lunch

  • 1:00 – 1:50
    Sandro Graffi     (Universita di Bologna, visiting Emory University)
    A local quantum version of the Kolmogorov theorem

  • 2:00 – 2:25
    Michael Goldberg     (Caltech)
    Dispersive and scaling-invariant smoothing estimates for the Schrödinger equation in small odd dimensions

  • 2:30 – 2:55
    Evgeny Strahov     (Caltech)
    Pfaffian processes related to orthogonal and symplectic ensembles, and to random partitions

  • 3:00 – 3:30
    Coffee

  • 3:30 – 3:55
    Michael Hitrik     (UCLA)
    Boundary spectral behavior of semiclassical operators in dimension one

  • 4:00 – 4:50
    Konstantin Makarov     (University of Missouri at Columbia)
    Perturbation of spectra and spectral subspaces

  • 5:00 – 5:25
    Oleg Safronov     (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
    Absolutely continuous spectrum of multidimensional Schrödinger operators

 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

  • 9:00 – 9:25
    Qi Zhang     (UC Riverside)
    Local estimates on two linear parabolic equations with singular coefficients

  • 9:30 – 9:55
    Shannon Starr     (McGill University)
    Ferromagnetic ordering of energy levels for spin chains

  • 10:00 – 10:30
    Coffee

  • 10:30 – 10:55
    Serguei Denissov     (Caltech)
    Continuous analog of Schur's algorithm

  • 11:00 – 11:50
    David Brydges     (University of British Columbia)
    Finite range decompositions of Gaussian processes

  • 12:00 – 1:00
    Lunch

  • 1:00 – 1:50
    Eric Rains     (UC Davis)
    Asymptotics of polynuclear growth processes

  • 2:00 – 2:50
    Wilhelm Schlag     (Caltech)
    Some remarks on discrete quasiperiodic Schrödinger equations

  • 3:00 – 3:30
    Coffee

  • 3:30 – 3:55
    Evans Harrell     (Georgia Tech)
    Lower bounds for the widths of the spectral bands of Hill's equation

  • 4:00 – 4:50
    Ken McLaughlin     (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    Discrete orthogonal polynomial asymptotics, random tilings, and random matrices

 
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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