26th Annual Western States
Mathematical Physics Meeting

February 18 – 19, 2008
151 Sloan

PROGRAM
(updated February 14, 2008)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18

• 9:00 – 9:05
  Welcome

• 9:05 – 9:30
  Konstantin Makarov (University of Missouri, Columbia)
  The generalized Weyl commutation relations and unitarily affine invariant operators     Abstract

• 9:35 – 10:00
  Erwin Miña-Diaz (Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
  Asymptotics and zero location of Carleman orthogonal polynomials   Abstract

• 10:05 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Alexander Eremenko (Purdue University)
  Analytic continuation of eigenvalues of a quartic oscillator     Abstract

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)
  Reflectionless measures and uniqueness of the Cauchy potential    Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:50
  Doug Hardin (Vanderbilt University)
  Discrete minimum energy problems on d-rectifiable sets     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:50
  Serguei Denissov (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  Infinite superlinear growth of the gradient for the two-dimensional Euler equation     Abstract

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee

• 3:30 – 4:20
  Rowan Killip (UCLA / Institute for Advanced Study)
  The cubic non-linear Schrödinger equation in two dimensions     Abstract

• 4:30 – 5:20
  Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein (Universidad de Almeria, visiting Caltech)
  Non-intersecting random paths and multiple orthogonal polynomials     Abstract

  
   

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

• 9:00 – 9:50
  Thomas Chen (University of Texas, Austin)
  On the dynamics of fermions in a random medium     Abstract

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Jonathan Breuer (Caltech)
  Eigenvalue clustering and dynamics for one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operators     Abstract

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine)
  Cantor spectra of quasiperiodic operators     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:50
  Maxim Zinchenko (Caltech)
  Szegö asymptotics for finite gap Jacobi matrices     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:25
  Peter Perry (University of Kentucky)
  The Miura map, inverse scattering, and KdV   Abstract

• 2:30 – 3:20
  Abel Klein (UC Irvine)
  Universal occurrence of localization in continuum random Schrödinger operators      Abstract

• 3:30 – 4:15
  Coffee

• 4:15 – 5:15 [This talk is also the Math Colloquium and the first (overview) lecture in the Wolff Memorial Lecture Series.]
  Artur Avila (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, visiting Caltech)
  Glances at the renormalization of low-dimensional dynamical systems     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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