Workshop I: Random Shapes, Representation Theory, and Conformal Field Theory

Part of the Long Program Random Shapes
March 26 - 30, 2007

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, March 26, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:10 - 9:50
Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)

Partition Functions and SLE
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
11:30 - 12:20
Kari Astala (University of Helsinki)

Random quasiconformal mappings
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Scott Sheffield (New York University)

 
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
5:00 - 6:30 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Denis Bernard (École Normale Supérieure)

SLE in 2d Turbulent systems
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
11:30 - 12:20
Hubert Saleur (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) - Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay (CENS))

Some geometrical problems related with non compact conformal field theories''
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Lincoln Chayes (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

 
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
David Wilson (Microsoft Research)

 
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Stanislav Smirnov (Université de Genève)

Conformal invariance in the Ising model
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50 Panel Discussion: Discussion Leader: Peter Jones. Panelists: to be selected

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Ilia Binder (University of Toronto)

Harmonic measure and rotation: Multifractal Analysis
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Dmitry Beliaev (Princeton University)

The title of my talk will be "Harmonic measure on random fractals

11:30 - 12:20
Jesper Jacobsen (Université d'Orsay)

 
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Nam-Gyu Kang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Makarov's law of the iterated logarithm for SLE
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Nicholas Read (Yale University)

 


Friday, March 30, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 10:00
Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington)

A particle representation for the heat equation solution
PDF Presentation
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Pierre LeDoussal (École Normale Supérieure)

interfaces in random media, shocks and field theory
PDF Presentation
11:30 - 12:20
Peter Jones (Yale University)

Laplacian Eigenfunctions and Local Coordinate Systems

12:30 Conclusion