30th Annual Western States
Mathematical Physics Meeting

February 20 – 21, 2012
151 Sloan

PROGRAM
(updated February 21, 2012)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20

• 9:00 – 9:05
  Welcome

• 9:05 – 9:30
  Constanze Liaw (Texas A&M University)
  A geometric approach to finite rank unitary perturbations     Abstract

• 9:35 – 10:00
  Gregory Eskin (UCLA)
  Aharonov-Bohm effect revisited     Abstract

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  Yiqian Wang (Nanjing University, visiting UC Irvine)
  Continuity of Lyapunov exponent in quasi-periodic cocyles     Abstract  

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine)
  Quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators and their rational frequency approximants

• 12:00 – 1:30
  Lunch

• 1:30 – 2:20
  Abel Klein (UC Irvine)
  Local behavior of solutions of Schrödinger equations and bounds on the density of states for Schrödinger operators     Abstract

• 2:30 – 2:55
  Chris Marx (UC Irvine)
  Continuity of the Lyapunov exponent for analytic, quasi-periodic M(2,C)-cocyles     Abstract    

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee

• 3:30 – 4:20
  F. Alberto Grunbaum (UC Berkeley)
  Spectral methods for quantum walks    Abstract

• 4:30 – 5:20
  Christian Remling (University of Oklahoma)
  Reflectionless Jacobi matrices     Abstract  

   

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

• 9:00 – 9:25
  Brian Simanek (Caltech)
  Ratio asymptotics for general orthogonal polynomials      Abstract

• 9:30 – 9:55
  Stephen A. Fulling (Texas A&M University)
  Quantum vacuum energy as a mathematical problem     Abstract

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Coffee

• 10:30 – 10:55
  H. N. Mhaskar (Cal State Los Angeles; Caltech visiting associate)
  Learning functions on data defined manifolds     Abstract

• 11:00 – 11:50
  Jonathan Breuer (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  Universality for ratios of random characteristic polynomials     Abstract

• 12:00 – 1:00
  Lunch

• 1:00 – 1:50
  Fritz Gesztesy (University of Missouri, Columbia)
  A trace formula and square root domains for non-self-adjoint operators     Abstract

• 2:00 – 2:50
  Craig Tracy (UC Davis)    
  Recent results and open problems for the asymmetric simple exclusion process       Abstract

• 3:00 – 3:30
  Coffee  

• 3:30 – 4:20
  Yoram Last (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  On level spacings for Jacobi operators     Abstract

• 4:30 – 4:55
  Helge Krüger (Caltech)
  A picture book of orthogonal polynomials on Cantor sets     Abstract

• 5:00 – 5:25
  Tom Alberts (Caltech)
  Stochastic flows of multiplicative cascades      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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