17th ANNUAL WESTERN STATES
MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS MEETING

February 16 and 17, 1998
Room 151 Sloan
California Institute of Technology

Program

Monday, February 16

• 9:00 - 9:05 Welcome
• 9:05 - 9:30 On moments of negative eigenvalues for the Pauli operator, Zhongwei Shen (Kentucky)
• 9:35 - 10:00 Frobenius manifolds, Jan Segert (Missouri)
• 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
• 10:30 - 11:20 Symmetries of hierarchical structures, Charles Radin (Austin)
• 11:30 - 11:55 Weakly mixing invariant tori of Hamiltonian systems, Oliver Knill (Austin)
• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
• 1:00 - 1:50 Discriminants and electrostatic models for orthogonal polynomials, or
  How Stieltjes and Hilbert met Dyson and Freud, Mourad Ismail (South Florida)
• 2:00 - 2:50 Propagation of singularities in three-body scattering, Andras Vasy (UC Berkeley)
• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
• 3:30 - 4:20 Localization of light and other classical waves, Abel Klein (UC Irvine)
• 4:30 - 4:55 Localization of classical waves: A general framework, Andrew Koines (UC Irvine)
• 5:00 - 5:25 Ground states of the two-dimensional neutral Falicov-Kimball model: Periodicity vs. phase separation, Karl Haller (Arizona)

Tuesday, February 17

• 9:00 - 9:50 Spectral and ergodic theory of nonrelativistic QED, Vojkan Jaksic (Ottawa)
• 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
• 10:30 - 11:20 Some applications of operator-valued Herglotz functions, Fritz Gesztesy (Missouri)
• 11:30 - 11:55 Discontinuity of the spin-wave stiffness in the two-dimensional XY model, Lincoln Chayes (UCLA)
• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
• 1:00 - 1:50 The quantum Hall effect, Ruedi Seiler (Berlin)
• 2:00 - 2:50 Variational integrators and collision algorithms, Jerrold Marsden (Caltech)
• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
• 3:30 - 4:20 Gaussian beams vs. Fourier integral operators, James Ralston (UCLA)
• 4:30 - 4:55 Dynamics of random spin systems in the Griffiths regime, Filippo Cesi (Rome "La Sapienza" visiting UCLA)
  

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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