Mathematical Physics Seminar
Rutgers University
Hill Center, Room 705

October Schedule

Organized by: Joel L. Lebowitz
lebowitz@math.rutgers.edu




Please join us for coffee and cookies in the kitchen of Hill 705 at 11:45am.


Speaker: Y. Sinai, Princeton University
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, 12:00pm, Hill 705
Title: Limiting Distribution of Frobenius Distribution
Abstract: Please see file click here

Date/Time/Place: Thursday, Oct 9, 2008, 12:00pm, Hill 705
PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL NOT BE ANY SEMINAR IN OBSERVANCE OF YOM KIPPUR

Speaker: V. Mastropietro,
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, 12:00pm, Hill 705
Title: Extended scaling relations for planar lattice spin models
Abstract: The validity of several extended scaling relations has been conjectured in planar lattice models, like the Eight Vertex or the Ashkin-Teller models, or in quantum spin chains; in all such models the indices are continous functions of the Hamiltonian parameters. We prove, by using the methods of constructive Renormalization, the validity of some of them, including the well known relation $x_- x_+=1$ conjectured by Kadanoff (1977) about the energy and the crossover indices, and the relation $\n=(2-x_-^{-1})$ for the correlation length index conjectured by Luther and Poeschel (1975).

THERE WILL BE A BROWN BAG LUNCH BETWEEN THE TWO SEMINARS FROM 1-2PM
Speaker: F. Bonetto, Georgia Tech.
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, 2:00pm, Hill 705
Title: Heat conduction in crystals with self consistent reservoirs
Abstract: TBA


Speaker: G. Gallavotti, Rome I - INFN
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, 12:00pm, Hill 705
Title: Resonances in Chaotic Systems
Abstract: A few simple cases in which resonances occur in presence of chaotic motions and have a structure that can be analytically studied: these are examples of "synchronization".

PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL NOT BE A SEMINAT ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 30TH