27th Annual Western States
Mathematical Physics Meeting

February 16 – 17, 2009
151 Sloan

PROGRAM
(updated February 10, 2009)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

• 9:00 – 9:05
  Welcome

• 9:05 – 9:30
  Manwah Lilian Wong (Caltech)
  Kooman's theorem and point perturbation     Abstract

• 9:35 – 10:00
  Maurice Duits (Caltech)
  Coupled random matrices and biorthogonal polynomials     Abstract

• 10:05 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Mihai Stoiciu (Williams College, visiting UC Irvine)
  Random matrices with Poisson eigenvalue statistics     Abstract  

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Alexander Aptekarev (Russian Academy of Sciences, visiting Caltech)
  Random matrices with external source

• 12:00 – 1:30
  Lunch

• 1:30 – 1:55
  Helge Krüger (Rice University)
  A family of Schrödinger operators     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:50
  Robert Seiringer (Princeton University)
  Vortices and spontaneous symmetry breaking in rotating Bose gases     Abstract

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee

• 3:30 – 3:55
  Eugene Kritchevski (University of British Columbia)
  Localization of the eigenfunctions of the one-dimensional Schrödinger operator in the presence of random potentials     Abstract  

• 4:00 – 4:25
  Zhiqin Lu (University of California, Irvine)
  The fundamental gap conjecture on a triangle     Abstract

• 4:30 – 5:20
  Roman Shterenberg (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
  Asymptotic expansion of the integrated density of states of a two-dimensional periodic Schrödinger operator     Abstract    

   

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

• 9:00 – 9:50
  William Faris (University of Arizona)
  Combinatorics and cluster expansions     Abstract

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Barry Simon (Caltech)
  Equality of dynamic and spectrally reflectionless Jacobi matrices    

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Fritz Gesztesy (University of Missouri)
  Spectral theory and Weyl asymptotics for perturbed Krein Laplacians     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:50
  Yoram Last (Hebrew University)
  On the structure of Hofstadter's butterfly     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:25
  Eric Ryckman (Caltech)
  Right limits and reflectionless measures for CMV matrices     Abstract

• 2:30 – 3:20
  Matilde Marcolli (Caltech)
  Noncommutative geometry models for particle physics     Abstract

• 3:30 – 4:15
  Coffee

• 4:15 – 5:15 [This talk is also the Math Colloquium]
  Zeev Dvir (Institute for Advanced Study)
  The finite field Kakeya problem     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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