15th ANNUAL WESTERN STATES
MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS MEETING
March 4 and 5, 1996
Room 151 Sloan
California Institute of Technology
Program
Monday, March 4
- 9:00 - 9:05 Welcome
- 9:05 - 9:55 Shadowing: When are numerical trajectories representative of nature?
James Yorke (U. Maryland)
- 10:00 - 10:25 Inequalities for the first eigenvalue of the clamped plate and buckling
problems,
Mark Ashbaugh (U. Missouri)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
- 11:00 - 11:50 Billiard ball problem: A survey, Eugene Gutkin (USC)
- 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 - 1:50 Homogenization, renormalization and central limit theorems in statistical
mechanics,
Thomas Spencer (IAS)
- 2:00 - 2:25 When is a lattice uniformly distributed in a subspace? Albertus
Hof (Caltech)
- 2:30 - 2:55 Discrete time quantum dynamics, Oliver Knill (Caltech)
- 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
- 3:30 - 4:20 Symmetries of tilings of Euclidean spaces, Charles Radin (U.
Texas, Austin)
Tuesday, March 5
- 9:00 - 9:25 The speed of propagation of fronts of the reaction-diffusion equation,
Rafael Benguria (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile)
- 9:30 - 9:55 Absence of renormalization group pathologies at T_c, Thomas
Kennedy (U. Arizona)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
- 10:30 - 10:55 The phase diagram of the extended Hubbard model, Christian Borgs
(UCLA)
- 11:00 - 11:50 On the geometry of Wiener spaces, Bruce Driver (UC San
Diego)
- 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 - 1:50 Branching random walks and the contact process on trees, Thomas
Liggett (UCLA)
- 2:00 - 2:50 Dynamics, stability and control of mechanical systems with symmetry,
Jerrold Marsden (Caltech)
- 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
- 3:30 - 3:55 High temperature and large magnetic field expansions for long-range
random Ising models,
Sherry Masooman (UC Irvine)
- 4:00 - 4:50 Adiabatic curvature and the S-matrix, Lorenzo Sadun (U.
Texas, Austin)
For information and registration, please contact
Cherie Galvez at (626) 395-3744 or cgalvez@cco.caltech.edu.
Registration fee is $20 (graduate students exempt).
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