23 November 2009

Lectures and Seminars

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Week 1

All lectures are in Old Geology Theatres 1,2 (Geology 1,2) [G19], Architecture-103 (Archi-103) [F18] or Physics Hercus Theatre (Hercus) [E20].
Morning tea and coffee will be served each day in the Tea Room from 9:30-10:00.

Tuesday 9 January
11:00 Geology 1	Xin Liu: "Gauge potential decomposition and geometric description for topological defects"
14:15 Geology 1	Philippe Ruelle: "The sandpile model: A lattice realization of a logarithmic CFT (1)"
Wednesday 10 January
11:00 Geology 1	Xi-Wen Guan: "Quantum phase transitions in the 1D imbalanced Fermi gas"
14:15 Geology 1	Philippe Ruelle: "The sandpile model: A lattice realization of a logarithmic CFT (2)"
15:15 Geology 1	Murray Batchelor: "Bethe ansatz (1)"
Thursday 11 January
10:00 Geology 1	Yao-Zhong Zhang: "Classical solutions of sigma models on supermanifolds"
14:15 Geology 1	Philippe Ruelle: "The sandpile model: A lattice realization of a logarithmic CFT (3)"
15:15 Geology 1	Murray Batchelor: "Bethe ansatz (2)"
16:15 Tea Room	Reception
Friday 12 January
10:00 Geology 1	Doochul Kim: "On spectral density of scale-free networks"
11:00 Geology 1	Junji Suzuki: "The density matrix elements of spin-1/2 XXZ chain"
14:15 Geology 1	Philippe Ruelle: "The sandpile model: A lattice realization of a logarithmic CFT (4)"
15:15 Geology 1	Murray Batchelor: "Bethe ansatz (3)"

Week 2

Monday 15 January
10:00 Geology 2	Jean-Marie Maillard: "Holonomy of the Ising model form factors"
11:00 Geology 2	Zoltan Bajnok: "Equivalences between spin models induced by defects"
14:15 Geology 2	Jon Links: "Quantum tunnelling of bosons (1)"
15:15 Geology 2	Rafael Nepomechie: "Bethe ansatz (4)"
Tuesday 16 January
10:00 Geology 2	Gesualdo Delfino: "From particles to operators in integrable quantum field theories"
14:15 Geology 2	Jon Links: "Quantum tunnelling of bosons (2)"
15:15 Geology 2	Rafael Nepomechie: "Bethe ansatz (5)"
Wednesday 17 January
10:00 Geology 2	Rafael Nepomechie: "Exact solution of the open XXZ chain with general integrable boundary conditions at roots of unity"
14:15 Archi-103	Jon Links: "Quantum tunnelling of bosons (3)"
15:15 Archi-103	Rafael Nepomechie: "Bethe ansatz (6)"
18:00 Michell Th	Public Lecture: Giuseppe Mussardo "Ludwig Boltzmann, the genius of disorder"
Thursday 18 January
10:00 Geology 2	Jean-Marie Maillard: "Fuchs versus Painleve: the anisotropic Ising model"
11:00 Geology 2	Chongoh Lee: "Decay of an unstable D-brane"
14:15 Archi-103	Zoltan Bajnok: "Bulk and boundary form factors in QFT (1)"
15:15 Archi-103	Sergey Sergeev: "Multidimensional quantum integrable systems (1)"
Friday 19 January
10:00 Archi-103	Patrick Dorey: "Reality and integrability in (PT-symmetric) quantum mechanics"
11:00 Archi-103	Yacine Ikhlef: "Antiferromagnetic Potts model on the square lattice: integrable structure and numerical results"
14:15 Geology 1	Zoltan Bajnok: "Bulk and boundary form factors in QFT (2)"
15:15 Geology 1	Sergey Sergeev: "Multidimensional quantum integrable systems (2)"

Week 3

Monday 22 January
10:00 Archi-103	Barry McCoy: "The meaning of 'understanding' (1)"
11:00 Archi-103	Changrim Ahn: "Super sine Gordon with Diriclet boundary conditions"
14:15 Geology 1	Zoltan Bajnok: "Bulk and boundary form factors in QFT (3)"
15:15 Geology 1	Sergey Sergeev: "Multidimensional quantum integrable systems (3)"
16:30 AMSI	Drinks and tour of AMSI
Tuesday 23 January
10:00 Archi-103	Barry McCoy: "The meaning of 'understanding' (2)"
11:00 Archi-103	Jorgen Rasmussen: "Solvable critical dense polymers"
14:15 Geology 1	Denis Bernard: "SLE (1)"
15:15 Geology 1	Chaiho Rim: "Sinh-Gordon boundary TBA and boundary Liouville reflection amplitude (1)"
18:30 Jims Tavern	Workshop Dinner
Wednesday 24 January
10:00 Archi-103	Vladimir Bazhanov: "Analytic theory of the eight-vertex model"
11:00 Archi-103	Giuseppe Mussardo: "Neutral bound states in QFTs"
14:15 Geology 1	Denis Bernard: "SLE (2)"
15:15 Geology 1	Chaiho Rim: "Sinh-Gordon boundary TBA and boundary Liouville reflection amplitude (2)"
Thursday 25 January
10:00 Archi-103	Vladimir Bazhanov: "Quantum circle patterns"
11:00 Archi-103	Peter Forrester: "Aspects of matrix integrals"
14:15 Geology 1	Denis Bernard: "SLE (3)"
15:15 Geology 1	Chaiho Rim: "Sinh-Gordon boundary TBA and boundary Liouville reflection amplitude (3)"
Friday 26 January (Australia Day Holiday)

Week 4

Monday 29 January
10:00 Geology 2	Francesco Ravanini: "Non-Linear Integral Equations and S-matrices"
11:00 Geology 2	Nicholas Witte: "Ising correlations and isomonodromy"
14:15 Geology 1	Kolya Kitanine: "Inverse scattering and the correlations of the XXZ model (1)"
15:15 Geology 1	Tony Bracken: "Phase-space-formulation of quantum mechanics (1)"
Tuesday 30 January
10:00 Geology 1	Chin-Kun Hu: "Universality and scaling in critical systems"
11:00 Geology 1	Zengo Tsuboi: "Baxter Q-operators for U_q(hat_sl(2\|1))"
14:15 Geology 1	Kolya Kitanine: "Inverse scattering and the correlations of the XXZ model (2)"
15:15 Geology 1	Tony Bracken: "Phase-space-formulation of quantum mechanics (2)"
Wednesday 31 January
10:00 Geology 1	Clare Dunning: "Spectral equivalences from bosonic Hamiltonians"
11:00 Geology 1	Patrick Jacob: "From parafermionic CFT basis to RSOS lattice paths"
14:15 Geology 1	Kolya Kitanine: "Inverse scattering and the correlations of the XXZ model (3)"
15:15 Geology 1	Tony Bracken: "Phase-space-formulation of quantum mechanics (3)"
Thursday 1 February
10:00 Geology 1	Rodney Baxter: "Exactly solvable models in statistical mechanics - an overview"
11:00 Geology 1	Davide Fioravanti: "Integrability in SYM theory"
14:15 Geology 1	Jan de Gier: "Diagram algebras, bilinear recurrences and alternating sign matrices (1)"
15:15 Geology 1	Vladimir Rittenberg: "Phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems (1)"
Friday 2 February
10:00 Geology 1	Vladimir Mangazeev: "Analytic structure of Bethe Ansatz in the 8-vertex model"
11:00 Geology 1	Siamak Khademi: "Charge quantization in the phase space"
14:15 Geology 1	Jan de Gier: "Diagram algebras, bilinear recurrences and alternating sign matrices (2)"
15:15 Geology 1	Vladimir Rittenberg: "Phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems (2)"

Week 5

Monday 5 February
10:00 Geology 1	Shao-You Zhao: "On the construction of determinant representations of correlation functions of supersymmetric t-J model"
11:00 Geology 1	Tetsuji Miwa: "Algebraic formulas for the correlation functions for the XXZ models (1)"
14:15 Geology 1	Jan de Gier: "Diagram algebras, bilinear recurrences and alternating sign matrices (3)"
15:15 Geology 1	Vladimir Rittenberg: "Phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems (3)"
16:30 Tea Room	Informal Party
Tuesday 6 February
10:00 Geology 1	Chin-Kun Hu: "Finite-size corrections for critical lattice models"
11:00 Geology 1	Katrina Hibberd: "An exact solution for a model of Cooper pairs and condensed molecular bosons"
14:15 Geology 1	Tetsuji Miwa: "Algebraic formulas for the correlation functions for the XXZ models (2)"
15:15 Geology 1	Tetsuji Miwa: "Algebraic formulas for the correlation functions for the XXZ models (3)"
Wednesday 7 February
11:00 Geology 1	Omar Foda: "Domain wall boundary conditions, free fermions and plane partitions"
14:15 Hercus	Tetsuji Miwa: "Algebraic formulas for the correlation functions for the XXZ models (4)"
15:15 Hercus	Norm Frankel: "Spherical moments"

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