Workshop “Laplacian growth and related topics”

August 18-23, 2008

Program
 

Monday, August 18, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room : 6214

08:55 - 09:00
Welcoming addresses
09:00 - 09:50
Gregory Lawler
(University of Chicago)
Schramm-Loewner evolution and Laplacian walks
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Yuval Peres
(UC Berkeley)
TBA
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Lionel Levine
(University of California at Berkeley)
Lattice Models of Laplacian Growth
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:50
Dmitry Khavinson
(University of South Florida)
From the fundamental theorem of algebra to astrophysics: a ``Harmonious" path
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:20
Bjorn Gustafsson
(Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
On weak solutions for Laplacian growth in the ill-posed direction
Abstract
16:30 - 17:20
Mihai Putinar
(University of California at Santa Barbara)
Multivariate determinateness
Abstract

17:30
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Darren Crowdy
(Imperial College London)
Interacting interfaces in Laplacian growth problems
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Haakan Hedenmalm
(KTH)
Random normal matrices and Bergman kernels
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Yacin Ameur
(KTH)
Fluctuations of eigenvalues of random normal matrices
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:50
Mikhail Sodin
(Tel-Aviv University)
TBA
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:20
John Harnad
(Université de Montréal & Concordia University)
Perturbed Gaussian measures in the plane and orthogonal polynomials
Abstract
16:30 - 17:20
Kenneth McLaughlin
(University of Arizona)
Asymptotic analysis of Riemann-Hilbert problems via dbar methods
Abstract

 

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Dmitri Beliaev
(Princeton University)
Random Conformal Snowflakes
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Michel Zinsmeister
(Université d’Orléans)
Regularized Growth processes
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Steffen Rohde
(University of Washington)
Continuity properties of Loewner traces
Abstract

12:30
Lunch break and free afternoon

 

Thursday, August 21, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Alexander Vasiliev
(Universitetet i Bergen)
Singular solutions to the Loewner equation
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Razvan Teodorescu
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Orthogonal polynomials and weak solutions for Laplacian Growth
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Anton Zabrodin
(Institute of Theoretical and Experimantal Physics)
Contour dynamics of Laplacian type from dispersionless Lax equations
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:50
Takashi Takebe
(Ochanomizu University)
TBA
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:20
Kanhehisa Takasaki
(Kyoto University)
Dispersionless Hirota equations and reductions of universal Whitham hierarchy
Abstract
16:30 - 17:20
Irina Markina
(Universitetet i Bergen)
Groups SU(2) and SU(1,1) from the non-holonomic point of view
Abstract

 

Friday, August 22, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Ferenc Balogh
(Concordia University)
Localization phenomena for orthogonal polynomials in the plane
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Ilya Gruzberg
(University of Chicago)
TBA
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Oded Agam
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Viscous fingering in thin volatile films
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:50
Mark Mineev-Weinstein
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
TBA
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:20
Igor Loutsenko
(SISSA)
Laplacian Growth: Linear Stability vs Fractal Formation
Abstract

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