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Applications of Conformal Field Theory

October 15 - 19, 2001

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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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

Fabian Essler (University of Warwick)

"Spectral Function of one dimensional Mott and CDW Insulators"

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

John Cardy (Oxford University)

"Exact Scaling Functions for Self-Avoiding Loops and Branched Polymers"

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

Jesper Jacobsen (Universite de Paris-Sud)

"Conformal field theory of the Flory model of polymer melting "

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 Discussion (all)
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

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