16th ANNUAL WESTERN STATES
MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS MEETING

February 24 and 25, 1997
Room 151 Sloan
California Institute of Technology

Program

Monday, February 24

• 9:00 - 9:05 Welcome
• 9:05 - 9:30 Statistical mechanics of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Gordon Slade (McMaster)
• 9:35 - 10:00 Canonical commutation relations and representations of diffeomorphism groups,
  Paul Chernoff (UC Berkeley)
• 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
• 10:30 - 10:55 On absence of embedded eigenvalues in spectra of perturbed periodic
  Schrödinger operators, Peter Kuchment (Wichita State)
• 11:00-11:50 Return to equilibrium for semigroups of endomorphisms of B(H),
  William Arveson (UC Berkeley)
• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
• 1:00 - 1:50 "Arnold diffusion": Issues and known results, Steve Wiggins (Caltech)
• 2:00 - 2:50 Inverse problems and the zeros of entire functions, Barry Simon (Caltech)
• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
• 3:30 - 4:20 Symplectic topology and its mirror image, Alexander Givental (UC Berkeley)
  
• 4:30 - 4:55 Quantum interfaces, Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis)
• 5:00 - 5:50 Supersymmetric measures and maximum principles in the complex space,
  Wei-Min Wang (Paris-Sud visiting Caltech)

Tuesday, February 25

• 9:00 - 9:25 Schrödinger operators with dense pure point spectrum,
  Christian Remling (Osnabrück visiting Caltech)
• 9:30 - 9:55 On Schrödinger operators with potentials supported by sets with
  classical capacity zero, Johannes Brasche (Bonn visiting Caltech)
• 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
• 10:30 - 10:55 Ferromagnetic models with random paramters,
  Henrique von Dreifus (Sao Paulo visiting UC Irvine)
• 11:00 - 11:50 One-dimensional ergodic Schrödinger operators at high disorder,
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine)
• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
• 1:00 - 1:25 Gibbs description of the "non-Gibbs" fields, Senya Shlosman (UC Irvine)
• 1:30 - 1:55 How badly non-Gibbsian can measures on lattice systems be?,
  Aernout van Enter (Groningen visiting UC Irvine)
• 2:00 - 2:50 Some questions in harmonic analysis related to Anderson-Bernoulli models,
  Thomas Wolff (Caltech)
• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
• 3:30 - 4:20 Eigenfunctions, transfer matrices, and spectral theory for
  one-dimensional Schrödinger operators, Yoram Last (Caltech)
• 4:30 - 4:55 On the spectral properties of perturbed Stark operators,
  Alexander Kiselev (MSRI/Chicago)
  

For information and registration, please contact
Cherie Galvez at (626) 395-3744 or cgalvez@cco.caltech.edu.
Registration fee is $10 (graduate students exempt).

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