Workshop Schedule

The workshop schedule is linked to the list of abstracts arranged into virtual topical sessions. Alternatively, you may download the workshop schedule as a PDF file .

March 25, 2009  |  Wednesday

         16:30 − 18:50    Registration

         19:00 − 19:30    Get-together

         19:30 − 20:30     Dinner

March 26, 2009  |  Thursday

         07:00 − 08:30    Breakfast

         08:00 − 08:50    Registration

         08:50 − 09:00    Workshop opening

         09:00 − 09:40  |  Alexander R. Its|   Painlevé transcendents and their appearance in physics and random matrices  [abstract]

         09:40 − 10:20  |  Mark Adler  |   The function theory of matrix integrals, with applications  [abstract]

         10:20 − 10:50     Coffee break

         10:50 − 11:30  |  Nicholas Witte  |   The Sakai scheme−Askey table correspondence and determinantal point processes  [abstract]

         11:30 − 12:10  |  Eugene Bogomolny  |   Integrability and random matrices  [abstract]

         12:10 − 12:50  |  Vladimir Al. Osipov  |   Integrable theory of characteristic polynomials, with applications  [abstract]

         13:00 − 15:00     Lunch

         15:00 − 15:40  |  Shinobu Hikami  |   Intersection theory from duality and replica  [abstract]

         15:40 − 16:20  |  Jac Verbaarschot  |   Replicas, Toda lattice equations, and QCD  [abstract]

         16:20 − 16:50     Coffee break

         16:50 − 17:30  |  Kim Splittorff  |   Replica quarks  [abstract]

         17:30 − 18:10  |  Eugene Kanzieper  |   Painlevé transcendents and quantum transport  [abstract]

         18:10 − 19:00  |  Poster Session A  |    [details]

         19:00 − 20:00     Dinner

March 27, 2009  |  Friday

         07:00 − 08:45    Breakfast

         09:00 − 09:40  |  Martin Zirnbauer  |   Superbosonisation meets free probability  [abstract]

         09:40 − 10:20  |  Konstantin Efetov  |   Bosonisation for random matrices and electron systems in arbitrary dimensions  [abstract]

         10:20 − 11:00  |  Alexander Finkelstein  |   Propagation of a wave packet in the presense of non-linearity and random scatterers  [abstract]

         11:00 − 11:30     Coffee break

         11:30 − 12:10  |  Yan Fyodorov  |   Extreme value statistics in models with logarithmic correlations  [abstract]

         12:10 − 12:50  |  Alex Kamenev  |   Dynamic correlation functions of 1D quantum liquids  [abstract]

         13:00 − 15:00     Lunch

         15:00 − 16:00     Walking tour in the Biblical Village in Yad Hashmona

         18:00      Departure to Jerusalem

         19:30 − 21:00     Concert in The Church of Augusta Victoria  [details]

         21:30 − 22:30     Dinner

March 28, 2009  |  Saturday

         07:00 − 08:45     Breakfast

         09:00 − 18:00     Full day excursion in Jerusalem

         20:00      Workshop dinner

March 29, 2009  |  Sunday

         07:00 − 08:45     Breakfast

         09:00 − 09:40  |  Pierre van Moerbeke  |   Dyson's non-intersecting Brownian motions and multi-component KP-hierarchy  [abstract]

         09:40 − 10:20  |  Craig A. Tracy  |   The asymmetric simple exclusion process: Integrable structure and limit theorems  [abstract]

         10:20 − 10:50     Coffee break

         10:50 − 11:30  |  Herbert Spohn  |   Stochastic growth models and matrix-valued diffusions  [abstract]

         11:30 − 12:10  |  Oded Agam  |   From random matrices to evaporating droplets  [abstract]

         12:10 − 12:50  |  Anton Zabrodin  |   Dyson gas simulation of growing patterns: Geometry and integrability  [abstract]

         13:00 − 15:00     Lunch

         15:00 − 15:40  |  Paul Wiegmann  |   2D Dyson diffusion and growing patterns  [abstract]

         15:40 − 16:20  |  Eldad Bettelheim  |   Multifractal spectra of critical curves  [abstract]

         16:20 − 16:50     Coffee break

         16:50 − 17:30  |  Hans-Jürgen Sommers  |   The real Ginibre ensemble: An integrable structure  [abstract]

         17:30 − 18:10  |  Gernot Akemann  |   Gap probabilities in non-Hermitean random matrix theory  [abstract]

         18:10 − 19:00  |  Poster Session B  |   [details]

         19:00 − 20:00     Dinner

March 30, 2009  |  Monday

         07:00 − 08:45     Breakfast

         09:00 − 09:40  |  Vladimir Kravtsov  |   Almost diagonal random matrices: Application to multifractal metal and insulator  [abstract]

         09:40 − 10:20  |  Georg Schwiete  |   Supersymmetry for disordered systems with interaction  [abstract]

         10:20 − 10:40     Coffee break

         10:40 − 11:20  |  Reinhold Oppermann  |   Universality class of replica symmetry breaking and its relation to growth phenomena  [abstract]

         11:20 − 12:00  |  Fabio Franchini  |   Horizons in random matrix theory, Hawking radiation, and flow of cold atoms  [abstract]

         12:00 − 12:05     Workshop closing

         13:00 − 15:00     Lunch and departures

     Last updated: March 22, 2009
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