Workshop on Geometry of Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions

June 4-8, 2012

Program

 

Monday, June 4, 2012

09:30 - 10:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

10:00 - 10:10
Opening remarks
10:10 - 10:50
Rafael D. Benguria
(P. Universidad Católica de Chile)
A new estimate on the two-dimensional indirect Coulomb energy
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:20 - 12:00
Suresh Eswarathasan
(McGill University)
Averaged pointwise bounds for deformations of Schrodinger eigenfunctions
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Alexandre Girouard
(Institut de Mathématiques de Neuchâtel)
Upper bounds for eigenvalues of geometric operators and metric geometry
Abstract
14:50 - 15:30
Vladimir Kozlov
(Linköping University)
Domain dependence of eigenvalues of elliptic type operators
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Elon Lindenstrauss
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Entropy and quantum unique ergodicity
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Peter A. Perry
(University of Kentucky)
Solving dispersive nonlinear equations in dimension two by the method of inverse scattering
Abstract
10:20 - 11:00
Ram Band
(The University of Bristol)
The number of nodal points on quantum graphs as a stability index of graph partitions
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break & Poster Session
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Alexei V. Penskoi
(Moscow State University)
Extremal metrics for Laplace eigenvalues on tori
Abstract
12:10 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Éveline Legendre
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Kähler metrics with simple spectrum and the equivariant case
Abstract
14:50 - 15:30
Hans Christianson
(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Quantum ergodicity of Cauchy data
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break & Poster Session
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Elon Lindenstrauss
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Arithmetic quantum unique ergodicity - I
Abstract

 

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Dan Mangoubi
(Hebrew University)
The Donnelly-Fefferman growth bound on eigenfunctions - an elementary proof
Abstract
10:20 - 11:00
Yaiza Canzani
(McGill University)
On the distribution of perturbations of propagated Schrödinger eigenfunctions
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break & Poster Session
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Grigori Rozenblioum
(Chalmers University of Technology)
Eigenvalues of the Schrödinger operator on infinite combinatorial and metric graphs
Abstract
12:10 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Achim Kempf
(University of Waterloo)
Interest in spectral geometry from physics and new potential avenues to explore
Abstract
14:50 - 15:30
Shimon Brooks
(Stony Brook University)
Quasimodes and QUE
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break & Poster Session
Room(s) 6245

 

Thursday, June 7, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Yiannis Petridis
(University College London)
Quantum limits of Eisenstein series and scattering states
10:20 - 11:00
Alex Barnett
(Dartmouth College)
Fast computation of high-frequency Dirichlet eigenmodes via the spectrum of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break & Poster Session
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Alexander Strohmaier
(Loughborough University)
Computations of eigenvalues and spectral zeta functions on Riemann surfaces
Abstract
12:10 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Victor Ivrii
(University of Toronto)
100 years of Weyl's law
Abstract
14:50 - 15:40
Open Problem Session

15:40 - 16:00
Coffee break & Poster Session
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Elon Lindenstrauss
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Arithmetic quantum unique ergodicity - II
Abstract

 

Friday, June 8, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Yuri Safarov
(King’s College London)
Symbolic calculus for Fourier integral operators
Abstract
10:20 - 11:00
Christopher Judge
(Indiana University)
The spectra of hyperbolic triangles with one cusp
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Almut Burchard
(University of Toronto)
Steiner symmetrization: Some new twists on an old tool
Abstract