Applications of Conformal Field Theory - IPAM Applications of Conformal Field Theory - IPAM

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

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-09:30
Welcoming Address by IPAM Director Mark Green
Conformal Field Theory and Lattice Models
09:30-10:30
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Integrable Systems
14:00-15:00
Nicholas Read (Yale University)
Exact spectra of conformal supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models in two dimensions
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
Fabian Essler (University of Warwick)
Spectral Function of one dimensional Mott and CDW Insulators
17:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Morning Session

09:00-09:30
Continental Breakfast
Percolation and Related Critical Points in Random Systems
09:30-10:30
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 (Université de Genève)
Conformal invariance of critical percolation

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Jesper Jacobsen (Université Paris-Sud 11)
Conformal field theory of the Flory model of polymer melting
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
John Imbrie (University of Virginia)
Branched Polymers and Dimensional Reduction

Wednesday, October 17, 2001

Morning Session

09:00-09:30
Continental Breakfast
Disordered Electron Systems
09:30-10:30
Thomas Spencer (Institute for Advanced Study)
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
André LeClair (Cornell University)
Renormalization Group for Disordered Dirac Fermions
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Hiroshi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology)
Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model
16:00-17:00
Andreas Ludwig (UCSB)
Localization in Two-Dimensional Random Superconductors: Symmetry Class D and Random Ising Models

Thursday, October 18, 2001

Morning Session

09:00-09:30
Continental Breakfast
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
09:30-10:30
Kareljan Schoutens (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Quantum Hall States: The Parafermion Connection
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)
Noncommutative Chern Simons Theory and the Quantum Hall System
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Zhenghan Wang (University of Indiana)
Topological Quantum Computation
16:00-17:00
Panel Discussion
17:00-18:00
Break
18:00
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)
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