Quantum Mechanics and Randomness

BEC

UCD Dublin, Friday 20th & Saturday 21st March, 2009


A conference in honour of the 65th birthday of Joe Pulé

to celebrate Joe’s enormous contribution to Mathematical Physics,
the School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin
and the School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Speakers include

Pierluigi Contucci
(University of Bologna, Italy)
Tony Dorlas
(Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland)
John Gough
(Aberystwyth University, Wales)
Nicolas Macris
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Philippe-André Martin
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Michiel van den Berg
(University of Bristol, England)
André Verbeure
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Valentin Zagrebnov
(Université de la Méditerranée AixMarseille II, France)

Venue: School of Mathematical Sciences (UCD) –  Campus map here
                                         
How to get to UCD - Directions here

Conference Poster

 

 

 

 

Programme  

Friday 20th  March
 

11.30am :

COFFEE & REGISTRATION

 

 

 

Session Chair: T. Dorlas

 

 

 

 

11.50-12.00 :

Welcome Address

 

 

 

12.00-12.45

P.-A. Martin

An application of the Feynman-Kac formula to retarded interactions

 

 

 

12.45-14.15

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

Session Chair : E. Buffet

 

 

 

 

14.15-15.00

J. Gough

 

 

 

 

15.00-15.45

N. Macris

Random graph codes: a statistical mechanics perspective

 

 

 

15.45-16.15

COFFEE/TEA

 

 

 

 

16.15-17.30

V. A. Zagrebnov

How the generalized van den Berg-Lewis-Pulé condensation has been observed in cold gases

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 21st March

 

 

 

 

 

Session Chair :

 

 

 

 

9.00-9.45

A. Verbeure

 

 

 

 

9.45-10.15

COFFEE

 

 

 

 

10.15-11.30

M. van den Berg

Minimization of Dirichlet eigenvalues with geometric constraints

 

 

 

11.30-12.15

P.-L. Contucci

Correlation Inequalities for Random Systems

 

 

 

12.15-13.00

T. C. Dorlas

Large Deviations and the Bethe Ansatz

 

 

 

13.00-14.30

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

Conference Ends

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no registration fee but participants are requested to register in advance with Rhona.Preston@ucd.ie

 

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Conference Organisers 

          Tony Dorlas (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

 Adrian Ottewill (University College Dublin)

 

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