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Fall 2005
Renormalization and Universality in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics

October 18-22, 2005
Renormalization and Universality in Mathematical Physics Workshop

Organizing Committee:

Pavel Bleher (IUPUI), Dirk Kreimer (CNRS-IHES & Boston)

Schedule:
View speakers' abstracts here.

Tuesday, October 18
9:00 - 9:30

MORNING COFFEE

9:30 - 10:40
Michael Fisher (Maryland)
Exploring critical singularities via spherical models: Beguiling but wayward
10:40 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:10
Robert MacKay (Warwick)
Quantum statistical mechanics of Frenkel-Kontorova chains
12:10 - 2:00

BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 - 3:10
David Brydges (UBC)
The Renormalisation Group and Self Avoiding Walk
3:10 - 3:30

TEA BREAK

3:30 - 4:40
Pavel Bleher (IUPUI)
Exact Solution of the Six-Vertex Model with Domain Wall Boundary Condition
4:40 - 6:00

RECEPTION IN ATRIUM

Wednesday, October 19
9:00 - 9:30

MORNING COFFEE

9:30 - 10:40
Vladimir Korepin (YITP, Stony Brook)
Universality of Entropy Scaling in One-Dimensional Gap-less Models
10:40 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:10
Tim Morris (Southampton)
Manifestly gauge invariant exact renormalization group
12:10 - 2:00

BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 - 3:10
John Palmer (Arizona)
Short distance behavior of the subcritical scaling functions for the 2d Ising model
3:10 - 3:30

TEA BREAK

3:30 - 4:40
Tom Spencer (IAS)
Supersymmetric models of random matrices and convexity
Thursday, October 20
9:00 - 9:30

MORNING COFFEE

9:30 - 10:40
Jean Zinn-Justin (CEA/Saclay)
The critical temperature of the weakly interacting Bose gas
10:40 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:10
John Gracey (Liverpool)
Practicalities of renormalizing quantum field theories
12:10 - 2:00

BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 - 3:10
Stefan Hollands (Gottingen)
Quantum fields in curved space
3:10 - 3:30

TEA BREAK

3:30 - 4:40

General discussion

Friday, October 21
9:00 - 9:30

MORNING COFFEE

9:30 - 10:40
Ivan Todorov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The role of conformal invariance in quantum field theory
10:40 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:10
Dirk Kreimer (CNRS-IHES & Boston)
Renormalization: from Hopf algebras to number theory
12:10 - 2:00

BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 - 3:10
Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz)
The Art of Computing Loop Integrals
3:10 - 3:30

TEA BREAK

3:30 - 4:40
Li Guo (Rutgers)
Rota-Baxter algebra method in the Hopf algebra approach of pQFT renormalization
Saturday, October 22
9:00 - 9:30

MORNING COFFEE

9:30 - 10:40
Jean Zinn-Justin (CEA/Saclay)
Precise determination of critical exponents by QFT methods
10:40 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:10
Gerry McKeon (UWO)
Using the Renormalization Group

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