Workshop and Summer School:
From Statistical Mechanics to Conformal and Quantum Field Theory
8 January - 8 February, 2007

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Social Program

Reception: A reception with wine and nibbles will be held starting at 4.15 p.m. on Thursday 11 January.

Drinks at AMSI: Drinks will be provided by our hosts at AMSI starting at 4.30 p.m. on Monday 22 January.

Workshop Dinner: The workshop dinner will be at Jims Greek Tavern, 32 Johnston St. Collingwood at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday 23 January. The dinner will include dips and bread, prawns, fish, lamb, Greek salad, dessert and coffee. The subsidized cost is $20 per person for workshop participants and the full cost for accompanying persons is $40. Partners are welcome and vegetarian meals can be arranged if requested in advance. The restaurant is BYO (bring your own alcohol) and a bottle shop is located opposite at a nearby hotel.

The restaurant is within walking distance. A map with zooming can be found by clicking here.

"Aussie Pub Crawl": An informal group walking tour of Brunswick Street and environs taking in the local pubs and watering holes will take place on Saturday 27 January. Meet in the main foyer in International House at 8.30 p.m.

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Public Lectures

Prof. Giuseppe Mussardo, "Ludwig Boltzmann, the genius of disorder"
6:00 p.m. Wednesday 17 January, J. H. Michell Theatre, Richard Berry Building.
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The 19th-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann stirred up controversy by proposing that scientists could make intelligent guesses about the behavior of atoms, which, though they moved randomly, could be described by certain probabilistic generalizations. His suggestion, to explain thermodynamics by using statistical methods, went against the longstanding trend of assuming absolute fixed laws. These were profound and disturbing changes. This lecture discusses this enganging story of science and personal struggle of Ludwig Boltzmann, set against the intellectual climate of nineteenth-century Vienna, and shows how science has come to accept the reality of the invisible world.

CANCELLED  Prof. Ed Corrigan, "Particles - a point of view"
6:00 p.m. Monday 5 February, J. H. Michell Theatre, Richard Berry Building.
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CANCELLED  Over the centuries ideas have evolved concerning the nature of matter, its constituents, and how they interact with one another. Even today, the elementary particles of matter are objects of intense study yet basic questions such as 'What is mass?' or 'What is charge?' are only partially answered and await experimental test. The purpose of this talk will be to provide a survey of some of the main ideas that provide the framework within which such questions can be asked.

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Lecture Series

Each mini-series consists of several lectures specifically pitched to be accessible to graduate students as part of the summer school activities:

Zoltan Bajnok	Bulk and Boundary Form Factors in QFT
Murray Batchelor	Bethe Ansatz I
Denis Bernard	SLE
Tony Bracken	Phase-Space Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
Jan de Gier	Diagram Algebras, Bilinear Recurrences and Alternating Sign Matrices
Nikolai Kitanine	Inverse Scattering and the Correlation Functions of the XXZ Model
Jon Links	Quantum Tunneling of Bosons
Tetsuji Miwa	Algebraic Formulas for the Correlation Functions for the XXZ Models
Rafael Nepomechie	Bethe Ansatz II
Chaiho Rim	Sinh-Gordon Boundary TBA and Boundary Liouville Reflection Amplitude
Vladimir Rittenberg	Phase Transitions in Non-Equilibrium Systems
Philippe Ruelle	The Sandpile Model: A Lattice Realization of a Logarithmic CFT
Sergey Sergeev	Multidimensional Quantum Integrable Systems

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Lecture Schedule

Lectures/Seminars.html      LectureSchedule.pdf