Frontiers in Mathematical Physics. In honour of Barry Simon's 70th birthday

August 28 - September 1, 2016

Program

 

Sunday, August 28, 2016

13:00 - 14:30
Registration and Coffee
Room(s) Hall d’honneur


Meeting room(s) : G-415

14:30 - 14:40
Opening Remarks
14:40 - 15:40
Joseph Avron
(Technion)
Vignettes
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:40 - 16:40
Fritz Gesztesy
(Baylor University)
Eigenvalue counting function bounds for the Krein-von Neumann extension associated with uniformly elliptic PDEs
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

16:40 - 19:00
Reception
Room(s) Hall d’honneur

 

Monday, August 29, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : G-415

09:00 - 10:00
Jürg Fröhlich
(ETH - Honggerberg)
The arrow of time
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Israel Michael Sigal
(University of Toronto)
Existence and stability of magnetic vortex lattices
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Rupert L. Frank
(California Institute of Technology)
Recent results on the ionization problem
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein
(Universidad de Almería)
Do polynomials dream of quadratic differentials?
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:30 - 16:30
Horng-Tzer Yau
(Harvard University)
Spectral statistics of random graphs

 

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : G-415

09:00 - 10:00
Percy Deift
(Courant Institute of Math. Sciences, NYU)
Universality for the Toda algorithm to compute the eigenvalues of a random matrix
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
(University of California, Irvine)
Some long-term effects of the almost periodic flu
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Doron Lubinsky
(Georgia Tech)
Barrycentric asymptotics for orthonormal polynomials and their progeny
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Michael Aizenman
(Princeton University)
15:30 - 16:30
László Erdös
(Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
The matrix Dyson equation in random matrix theory
Abstract

17:30
Banquet - Ernie and Ellie's Restaurant (6900 Décarie Blvd.)

 

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : G-415

09:00 - 10:00
Martin Hairer
(The University of Warwick)
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Alexei Borodin
(MIT)
11:30 - 12:30
Herbert Spohn
(Technische Universität München)
Directed polymers in a two-dimensional random medium with complex weights
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Thomas Spencer
(Institute for Advanced Study)
Statistical mechanics and random band matrices
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Abel Klein
(University of California, Irvine )
Eigensystem multiscale analysis for Anderson localization in energy intervals
Abstract

 

Thursday, September 1, 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : M-415

09:30 - 10:30
Elliott H. Lieb
(Princeton University)
A `liquid-solid'phase transition in a simple model for swarming
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00
Robert Seiringer
(Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Periodic striped ground states in Ising models with competing interactions
Abstract

Diapos / Slides