25th Annual Western States
Mathematical Physics Meeting

February 19 – 20, 2007
151 Sloan

PROGRAM
 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19

• 9:00 – 9:05
  Welcome

• 9:05 – 9:30
  Alexander I. Bufetov (Rice University)
  Existence and uniqueness of the measure of maximal entropy for the Teichmueller flow on the moduli space of abelian differentials     Abstract

• 9:35 – 10:00
  Rafael del Rio (IIMAS-UNAM, visiting Caltech)
  Inverse spectral results for AKNS systems with partial information
  on the potentials     Abstract

• 10:05 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Charles Radin (University of Texas at Austin)
  A phase transition in sand     Abstract

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Marek Biskup (UCLA)
  Scaling limit for random walk on supercritical percolation cluster     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:50
  Barry Simon (Caltech)
  Fuchsian groups and the spectral theory of finite gap Jacobi matrices or Peherstorfer-Sodin-Yuditskii meet Killip-Simon     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:25
  Jacob Christiansen (Caltech)
  A Szegö theorem for finite gap Jacobi matrices     Abstract

• 2:30 – 2:55
  Eric Ryckman (UCLA)
  A strong Szegö theorem for Jacobi matrices     Abstract

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee

• 3:30 – 4:20
  Alexander Its (Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis)
  Generalized Fisher–Hartwig and Szegö–Widom asymptotics:
  The Riemann–Hilbert approach     Abstract

• 4:30 – 5:20
  Alexei Rybkin (University of Alaska at Fairbanks)
  How to compute the Weyl function     Abstract

  
   

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20

• 9:00 – 9:50
  Benjamin Schlein (UC Davis)
  Dynamics of Bose–Einstein condensates     Abstract

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Gunter Stolz (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  Simplicity of eigenvalues for Anderson-type models     Abstract

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Yoram Last (Hebrew University, visiting Caltech)
  On level spacings for one-dimensional Schrödinger operators     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:50
  Maciej Zworski (UC Berkeley)
  Soliton interaction with delta impurities     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:25
  Yang Kang (UC Irvine)
  Linear response theory for general ergodic magnetic
  Schrödinger operators     Abstract

• 2:30 – 3:00
  Coffee

• 3:00 – 3:50
  Andrew Childs (Caltech)
  Quantum algorithms for hidden quadratic structures     Abstract

• 4:00 – 4:50
  David Damanik (Rice University, visiting Caltech)
  The subcritical almost Mathieu operator      Abstract

  
   

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

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