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Program, Titles, & Abstracts |
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Program, Titles, and Abstracts
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
Click title for an abstract, or click here for all abstracts.
| Sunday, March 26 | |||
| 4:00 – 7:00 |
Registration Room 151 Sloan (Bldg. #37) |
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| Monday, March 27 | ||||
| 8:00 – 8:45 |
Registration (at Ramo) |
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| 8:45 – 9:00 | Welcome | Opening remarks by Thomas A. Tombrello, Division Chair, Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, Caltech | ||
| 9:00 – 9:50 | L. Rosen | Barry Simon's contributions to quantum field theory | ||
| 10:00 – 10:50 | M. Aizenman | Critical phenomena via random walk representations: Selected classics and some recent results | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:20 | J. Fröhlich | Atomism and quantization | ||
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 – 2:50 | V. Jaksic | Fermi Golden Rule in quantum statistical mechanics | ||
| 3:00 – 3:50 | P. Deift | Riemann–Hilbert methods in the theory of orthogonal polynomials | ||
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Break | |||
| 4:30 – 5:20 | A. Borodin | Schur processes | ||
| Tuesday, March 28 | ||||
| 9:00 – 9:50 | R. Froese | Two- and N-body Schrödinger operators and resonances: Barry Simon's legacy (so far!) | ||
| 10:00 – 10:50 | C. Gerard | N-body quantum scattering and quantum resonances: An overview | ||
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Break | |||
| 11:20 – 12:10 | G. Hagedorn | Molecular quantum mechanics in the Born–Oppenheimer limit | ||
| 12:20 – 1:40 | Lunch | |||
| 1:40 – 2:30 | G. M. Graf | Geometric scattering theory: From particles to fields | ||
| 2:40 – 3:30 | P. Perry | Selberg's zeta function and its children | ||
| 3:40 – 4:00 | Break | |||
| 4:00 – 4:50 | W. Reinhardt | Complex scaling in atomic physics: In and out of external fields | ||
| 6:30 | Banquet | Citrus Bistro at Avery House (Bldg. #99) | ||
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Wednesday, March 29
Note: Times unusual this day to accommodate the group photo |
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| 9:00 – 9:50 | I. Herbst | Barry Simon's contribution to magnetic and electric fields and the semiclassical limit | ||
| 10:00 – 10:50 | E. Harrell | Perturbation theory and atomic resonances since Schrödinger's time | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:20 | L. Erdös | Recent developments in quantum mechanics with magnetic fields | ||
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Group Photo | Beckman Auditorium steps (Bldg. #91) | ||
| 12:50 – 2:20 | Lunch | |||
| 2:20 – 3:10 | D. Hundertmark | Bound state problems in quantum mechanics | ||
| 3:20 – 4:10 | Y. Avron | Barry and the quantum Hall effect: An argument with the Laughlin argument | ||
| 4:20 – 4:50 | Break | |||
| 4:50 – 5:40 | W. Schlag | On the formation of gaps in the spectrum of Schrödinger operators with quasi-periodic potentials | ||
| Thursday, March 30 | ||||
| 9:00 – 9:50 | Y. Last | Exotic spectra: A review of Barry's central contributions | ||
| 10:00 – 10:50 | S. Jitomirskaya | Ergodic Schrödinger operators: Recent advances | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:20 | J. Bourgain | A new approach to spectral gap problems | ||
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 – 2:50 | D. Damanik | Lyapunov exponents and spectral analysis of ergodic Schrödinger operators | ||
| 3:00 – 3:50 | R. Killip | Some sum rules | ||
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Break | |||
| 4:30 – 5:20 | A. Kiselev | Imbedded singular spectrum for Schrödinger operators | ||
| Friday, March 31 | ||||
| 9:00 – 9:50 | V. Totik | Orthogonal polynomials from Jacobi to Simon | ||
| 10:00 – 10:50 | L. Golinskii | Orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle: From Szegö to Simon | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:20 | S. Khrushchev | Orthogonal polynomials: First minutes | ||
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 – 2:50 | E. B. Davies | Non-self-adjoint operators and pseudospectra | ||
| 3:00 – 3:50 | C. Fefferman | Fitting a Cm smooth function to data | ||
| 4:00 – 6:00 | Something for the road | Dabney Garden | ||
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