28th Annual Western States
Mathematical Physics Meeting

February 15 – 16, 2010
151 Sloan

PROGRAM
(updated February 11, 2010)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15

• 9:00 – 9:05
  Welcome

• 9:05 – 9:30
  Dean Baskin (Stanford University)
  The Klein-Gordon equation on asymptotically de Sitter spaces     Abstract

• 9:35 – 10:00
  Milivoje Lukic (Caltech)
  Orthogonal polynomials with recursion coefficients of generalized bounded variation     Abstract

• 10:05 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Dan Romik (UC Davis)
  Arctic circles, domino tilings and square Young tableaux     Abstract  

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Rowan Killip (UCLA)
  The energy super-critical nonlinear wave equation     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:25
  Christian Sadel (UC Irvine)
  Random phase property for the Wegner L-orbital model     Abstract

• 1:30 – 1:55
  Matthew Hastings (Microsoft Research)
  Quasi-adiabatic continuation: A tool for quantum many-body systems    Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:50
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine)
  Local distribution of quasiperiodic eigenvalues     Abstract

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee

• 3:30 – 4:20
  Bálint Virág (University of Toronto)
  Random Schrödinger operators and random matrices     Abstract

• 4:30 – 5:20
  Gregory Eskin (UCLA)
  Optical and acoustic black holes     Abstract    

   

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

• 9:00 – 9:25
  Anna Maltsev (Caltech)
  Universality limits of a reproducing kernel for a half-line Schrödinger operator and clock behavior of eigenvalues     Abstract

• 9:30 – 9:55
  Seung Yeop Lee (Caltech)
  Random hermitian matrices with a small rank external source     Abstract

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Chris Marx (UC Irvine)
  On the Lyapunov exponent of extended Harper's equation     Abstract

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Jeffrey Schenker (Michigan State University)
  Diffusion of waves in a random environment: Problems and results     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:25
  Rostyslav Kozhan (Caltech)
  Meromorphic continuations of finite gap Herglotz functions     Abstract

• 1:30 – 1:55
  Zheng Gan (Rice University)
  Cantor groups and limit-periodic Schrödinger operators     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:50
  Alexei Borodin (Caltech)     Abstract
  Growth of random surfaces  

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee  

• 3:30 – 3:55
  Ivan Corwin (Courant Institute)
  Probability distribution of the free energy of the continuum directed random polymer in 1+1 dimensions     Abstract

• 4:00 – 4:25
  Alessandro Pizzo (UC Davis)
  Multi-scale methods in atomic physics     Abstract

• 4:30 – 5:20
  Janek Wehr (University of Arizona)
  Not only Ito and Stratonovitch    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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