12. Mathematical Physics

Quantum mechanics. Quantum field theory. General relativity. Statistical mechanics and random media. Integrable systems. Electromagnetism. String theory, condensed matter.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Alberto S. Cattaneo      
Universität  Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Superformality and quantization
Wednesday, August 23, 16:00-16:45

Bernard Derrida
        
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Matrix ansatz and  large deviations  in exclusion processes
Monday, August 28, 15:00-15:45

Gian Michele Graf  
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Aspects of the integer quantum Hall effect
Wednesday, August 23, 17:00-17:45

Jean-Michel Maillet
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
Correlation functions of the XXZ Heisenberg spin chain
Thursday, August 24, 16:00-16:45

Marcos Marino
CERN, Genève, Switzerland
Topological strings and Gromov-Witten invariants: a progress report
Thursday, August 24, 15:00-15:45

Igor Rodnianski    
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Cauchy problem in general relativity
Wednesday, August 23, 15:00-15:45

Hubert Saleur
Centre d' Études Nucléaires de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Wess Zumino field theories on supergroups
Friday, August 25, 18:00-18:45

Christoph Schweigert   
Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Categorification and correlation functions in conformal field theory
Saturday, August 26, 16:00-16:45

Avraham Soffer
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Soliton dynamics and scattering
Saturday, August 26, 15:00-15:45

Cédric Villani 
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
Hypocoercive diffusion operators
Monday, August 28, 16:00-16:45

Paul  Wiegmann    
The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Mathematical aspects of Laplacian Growth: evolution of conformal maps, taming singularities of growing patterns and universal Whitham hierarchy
Friday, August 25, 17:00-17:45