Exact Solvability and Symmetry Avatars. Conference held on the occasion of Luc Vinet's 60th birthday.

August 25-29, 2014

Program
 

Monday, August 25, 2014
08:30 - 08:50
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

08:50 - 09:00
A word from the president of the Université de Montréal, Mr Guy Breton
Room(s) 6214


Chair : Yvan Saint-Aubin
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Erik Koelink
(Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Recurrences and spectral decomposition
Abstract
09:35 - 10:05
Keti Tenenblat
(Universidade de Brasilia)
On differential equations which describe pseudo-spherical surfaces
Abstract
10:10 - 10:40
Paul M. Terwilliger
(University of Wisconsin)
Billiard arrays and finite-dimensional irreducible $\mathrm{U}q(s\ell \ 2)$-modules
Abstract
10:45 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:45
Eric D'Hoker
(UCLA)
M-theory solutions, branes, and superalgebras
Abstract
11:45 - 12:15
Luc Lapointe
(Universidad de Talca)
Supersymmetry and multi-Jack polynomials
Abstract

12:20 - 14:00
Lunch break


Chair : Willard Miller Jr.
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Alexi Morin-Duchesne
(Université Catholique de Louvain)
On the reality of spectra of ${U_q(sl_2)}$-invariant XXZ Hamiltonians
Abstract
14:35 - 15:05
Alexander R. Its
(IUPUI)
A conformal block approach to the connection problem of the third Painlevé equation
Abstract
15:10 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:00
George Pogosyan
(Universidad de Guadalajara)
The anisotropic Coulomb-oscillator system in the two-dimensional Euclidean space
Abstract
16:05 - 16:35
Alexei Morozov
(ITEP)
TBA

18:00 - 19:00
Musical offering
Room(s) 6245

 

Tuesday, August 26, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : Eric D’Hoker
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Charles F. Dunkl
(University of Virginia)
Vector-valued wave functions on the torus and Jack polynomials
Abstract
09:35 - 10:05
Hideaki Ujino
(Gunma National College of Techno.)
An ultradiscretizable hybrid of the slow-to-start and the optimal velocity models and its flow-density relation
Abstract
10:10 - 10:40
Willard Miller Jr.
(University of Minnesota)
Quadratic algebra contractions and 2nd order superintegrable systems
Abstract
10:45 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:40
Roman W. Jackiw
(MIT)
Majorana multiplicities in topological insulators
Abstract
11:45 - 12:15
Dennis W. Stanton
(University of Minnesota)
Beyond the Askey tableau
Abstract

12:20 - 14:00
Lunch break


Chair : Sarah Post
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Roberto Floreanini
(University of Trieste)
Sensing the tiniest
Abstract
14:35 - 15:05
Jan Felipe van Diejen
(Universidad de Talca)
Integrable boundary interactions for Ruijsenaars' difference Toda chain
Abstract
15:10 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:00
Adrian Mauricio Escobar Ruiz
(UNAM, Mexico)
Two charges on a plane in magnetic field: particular integrability
16:05 - 16:35
F. Alberto Grünbaum
(University of California, Berkeley)
Return time properties for discrete time quantum walks
Abstract

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : John Harnad
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Francisco Marcellán
(Univ. Carlos III de Madrid)
Spectral transformations, CMV matrices and integrable systems
Abstract
09:35 - 10:05
Alexei V. Penskoi
(Moscow State University)
Symmetry reduction and spectral geometry
Abstract
10:10 - 10:40
Sarah Post
(University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Superintegrability and orthogonal polynomials
Abstract
10:45 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:40
Pierre Mathieu
(Université Laval)
The supersymmetric Ruijsenaars-Schneider model
Abstract
11:45 - 12:15
Oleksiy Zhedanov
(Donetsk Inst. for Physics & Techno.)
Classical orthogonal polynomials: new perspectives
Abstract

 

Thursday, August 28, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : Francisco Marcellán
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Tom H. Koornwinder
(University of Amsterdam)
Okounkov's BC-type interpolation Macdonald polynomials and their q=1 limit
Abstract
09:35 - 10:05
Yves Grandati
(Université de Lorraine-Site de Metz)
Confluent chains of DBT and exceptional orthogonal polynomials
Abstract
10:10 - 10:40
Wojciech Zakrzewski
(Durham University)
Quasi-integrability-recent progress in defining this concept
Abstract
10:45 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:40
Duong H. Phong
(Columbia University)
The vacuum energy at two-loops for heterotic orbifold models
Abstract
11:45 - 12:15
Libor Šnobl
(Czech Technical University in Prague)
Classification and identification of Lie algebras
Abstract

12:20 - 14:00
Lunch break


Chair : Matthias Christandl
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Erdal Emsiz
(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
The semi-infinite $q$-boson system with boundary interaction and hyperoctahedral Hall-Littlewood polynomials
Abstract
14:35 - 15:05
Aleksander Strasburger
(Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW)
On a construction of the $\mathbb{C}P^N$ sigma models by means of $\mathbf{SU}(2)$ coherent states and Veronese surfaces
Abstract
15:10 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:00
Gabriel Coutinho
(University of Waterloo)
Perfect state transfer on trees
Abstract
16:05 - 16:35
Edward Farhi
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Physics based approaches to quantum computing
Abstract

19:00
Banquet - Restaurant Chez Queux (Tickets available before August 27, Room 5345)

 

Friday, August 29, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : Decio Levi
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Philippe R. Di Francesco
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The combinatorics of discrete non-commutative integrable systems
Abstract
09:35 - 10:05
Alexander Turbiner
(UNAM)
Integrability, solvability, discrete symmetry in planar quantum dynamics
Abstract
10:10 - 10:40
John Harnad
(Concordia University)
Integrable hierarchies, enumerative geometry and the combinatorics of Hurwitz numbers
Abstract
10:45 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:40
Niky Kamran
(McGill University)
Inverse scattering at fixed energy for asymptotically hyperbolic Liouville surfaces
Abstract
11:45 - 12:15
Mourad E. H. Ismail
(University of Central Florida)
A new class of bivariate orthogonal polynomials
Abstract

12:20 - 14:00
Lunch break


Chair : Pavel Winternitz
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Vincent Genest
(Université de Montréal)
Multivariate hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, group representations and applications
Abstract
14:35 - 15:05
Decio Levi
(Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Discretizing the Liouville equation
Abstract
15:10 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:00
Patrick Desrosiers
(Université Laval)
Clustering properties of Jack's and Macdonald's polynomials with prescribed symmetry
Abstract
16:05 - 16:35
Matthias Christandl
(University of Copenhagen)
Entanglement, entropy and representation theory
Abstract

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