29th Annual Western States
Mathematical Physics Meeting

February 21 – 22, 2011
151 Sloan

PROGRAM
(updated January 27, 2011)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21

• 9:00 – 9:05
  Welcome

• 9:05 – 9:55
  Dirk Hundertmark (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Mathematical challenges from non-linear fiber optics    Abstract

• 10:05 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Rafael del Rio Castillo (IIMAS-UNAM)
  Spectral measures of Jacobi operators with random potentials     Abstract  

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Peter Perry (University of Kentucky)
  The resonance counting function for manifolds hyperbolic at infinity     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:30
  Lunch

• 1:30 – 2:20
  Sergey Denisov (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
  Generic behavior of evolution equations: Asymptotics and Sobolev norms     Abstract

• 2:30 – 2:55
  Rajinder Mavi (UC Irvine)
  Generic localization for the spatially inhomogeneous continuous time percolation model    Abstract

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee

• 3:30 – 4:20
  Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis)
  Frustration-free ground states of quantum spin systems    Abstract

• 4:30 – 4:55
  Roger Nichols (University of Missouri)
  On the infinite volume limit of spectral shift functions     Abstract 

• 5:00 – 5:25
  Sven Bachmann (UC Davis)
  The Nelson model and its mass shell without cutoffs     Abstract    

   

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

• 9:00 – 9:25
  Edward Waymire (Oregon State University)
  Some results and conjectures for tree polymers under weak/strong disorder     Abstract

• 9:30 – 9:55
  Eman Hamza (Cairo University, visiting University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  Diffusive propagation of wave packets in fluctuating periodic potential     Abstract

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Dirk-André Deckert (UC Davis)
  Wheeler–Feynman electrodynamics as an initial value problem      Abstract

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Alexander Sodin (Institute for Advanced Study)
  Spectral properties of random band matrices     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:50
  Leonid Parnovski (University College London)
  Integrated density of states of almost-periodic Schrödinger operators    Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:50
  Mira Shamis (Institute for Advanced Study)    
  Some connections between almost periodic and periodic discrete Schrödinger operators with trigonometric potentials       Abstract

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee  

• 3:30 – 4:20
  Valentin Zagrebnov (CPT, Université de Aix-Marseille II)
  Trotter–Kato product formula: From the strong to the trace-norm convergence     Abstract

• 4:30 – 4:55
  Eunghyun Lee (UC Davis)
  Some integral formulas for Bethe Ansatz solvable interacting particle systems on 1D     Abstract

• 5:00 – 5:25
  Greg Shinault (UC Davis)
  Asymptotics for the covariance of the Airy process    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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