Applications of Conformal Field Theory

Part of the Long Program Conformal Field Theory and Applications
October 15 - 19, 2001

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 15, 2001

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcoming Address by IPAM Director Mark Green

Conformal Field Theory and Lattice Models
9:30 - 10:30
Jane Kondev (Brandeis University)

Loops, heights, CFTs, and beyond

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Claudio Chamon (Boston University)

Reparametrization Invariance and the non-equilibrium dynamics of aging systems

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Integrable Systems
2:00 - 3:00
Nicholas Read (Yale University)

Exact spectra of conformal supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models in two dimensions

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
5:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast

Percolation and Related Critical Points in Random Systems
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Stanislav Smirnov (KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm)

Conformal invariance of critical percolation

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
John Imbrie (University of Virginia)

Branched Polymers and Dimensional Reduction


Wednesday, October 17, 2001

Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast

Disordered Electron Systems
9:30 - 10:30
Thomas Spencer (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)

A supersymmertic approach to Random Matrices

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Applications of Conformal Field Theory to models of Disorder

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
André LeClair (Cornell University)

Renormalization Group for Disordered Dirac Fermions

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00
Hiroshi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology)

Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model

4:00 - 5:00
Andreas Ludwig (UCSB)

Localization in Two-Dimensional Random Superconductors: Symmetry Class D and Random Ising Models


Thursday, October 18, 2001

Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
9:30 - 10:30
Kareljan Schoutens (University of Amsterdam)

Quantum Hall States: The Parafermion Connection

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University)

 

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)

Noncommutative Chern Simons Theory and the Quantum Hall System

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00
Zhenghan Wang (University of Indiana)

Topological Quantum Computation

4:00 - 5:00 Panel Discussion
5:00 - 6:00 Break
6:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, October 19, 2001

Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast

Topological Properties of Anyons
9:30 - 10:30
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research)

 

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Matthew Fisher (UCSB/Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Ring Exchange and Fractionalization in 2d strongly correlated systems

12:00 - 12:15 Closing Remarks