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

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

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:10
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:10-09:50
Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
Partition Functions and SLE
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
Ilya Gruzberg (University of Chicago)
Harmonic measure of critical curves and conformal field theory
11:30-12:20
Kari Astala (Aalto University)
Random quasiconformal mappings

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
A. Middleton (Syracuse University)
The Geometry of Spin Glasses
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Scott Sheffield (New York University)
Title not available
17:00-18:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Denis Bernard (École Normale Supérieure)
SLE in 2d Turbulent systems
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
Yair Bartal (Hebrew University)
Advances in Metric Embedding Theory
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''

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Steffen Rohde (University of Washington)
Some properties of the Loewner equation
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Lincoln Chayes (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Title not available

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Bernard Nienhuis (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Unversality and scale invariance in static granular matter
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
David Wilson (Microsoft Research)
Title not available
11:30-12:20
Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University)
On the number of nodal domains of random spherical harmonics

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Stanislav Smirnov (Université de Genève)
Conformal invariance in the Ising model
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Panel Discussion: Discussion Leader: Peter Jones. Panelists: to be selected

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Ilia Binder (University of Toronto)
Harmonic measure and rotation: Multifractal Analysis
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)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Nam-Gyu Kang (California Institute of Technology)
Makarov's law of the iterated logarithm for SLE
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Nicholas Read (Yale University)
Title not available
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