Monday, October 15, 2001
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:15
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:15 - 9:30
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Welcoming Address by IPAM Director Mark Green
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9:30 - 10:30
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Jane Kondev (Brandeis University)
"Loops, heights, CFTs, and beyond"
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Claudio Chamon (Boston University)
"Reparametrization Invariance and the non-equilibrium dynamics of aging systems"
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Nicholas Read (Yale University)
"Exact spectra of conformal supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models in two dimensions "
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3:00 - 3:30
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Coffee Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Fabian Essler (University of Warwick)
"Spectral Function of one dimensional Mott and CDW Insulators"
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5:00
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Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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Tuesday, October 16, 2001
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Morning Session
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9:00 - 9:30
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Continental Breakfast
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9:30 - 10:30
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John Cardy (Oxford University)
"Exact Scaling Functions for Self-Avoiding Loops and Branched Polymers"
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Stanislav Smirnov (KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm)
"Conformal invariance of critical percolation"
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Jesper Jacobsen (Universite de Paris-Sud)
"Conformal field theory of the Flory model of polymer melting "
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3:00 - 3:30
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Coffee Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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John Imbrie (University of Virginia)
"Branched Polymers and Dimensional Reduction"
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Wednesday, October 17, 2001
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Morning Session
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9:00 - 9:30
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Continental Breakfast
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9:30 - 10:30
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Thomas Spencer (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)
"A supersymmertic approach to Random Matrices"
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Applications of Conformal Field Theory to models of Disorder"
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12:00 - 1:30
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:30 - 2:30
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André LeClair (Cornell University)
"Renormalization Group for Disordered Dirac Fermions"
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2:30 - 3:00
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Coffee Break
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3:00 - 4:00
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Hiroshi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology)
"Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model"
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4:00 - 5:00
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Andreas Ludwig (UCSB)
"Localization in Two-Dimensional Random Superconductors: Symmetry Class D and Random Ising Models"
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Thursday, October 18, 2001
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Morning Session
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9:00 - 9:30
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Continental Breakfast
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9:30 - 10:30
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Kareljan Schoutens (University of Amsterdam)
"Quantum Hall States: The Parafermion Connection"
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University)
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12:00 - 1:30
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:30 - 2:30
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Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)
"Noncommutative Chern Simons Theory and the Quantum Hall System"
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2:30 - 3:00
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Coffee Break
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3:00 - 4:00
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Zhenghan Wang (University of Indiana)
"Topological Quantum Computation"
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4:00 - 5:00
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Discussion (all)
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5:00 - 6:00
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Break
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6:00
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Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)
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Friday, October 19, 2001
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Morning Session
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9:00 - 9:30
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Continental Breakfast
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9:30 - 10:30
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Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research)
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Matthew Fisher (UCSB/Institute for Theoretical Physics)
"Ring Exchange and Fractionalization in 2d strongly correlated systems"
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12:00 - 12:15
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Closing Remarks
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