Program; List of Abstracts

"SHELLYFEST": A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF SHELLY GOLDSTEIN ON OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY

Note: This conference overlaps with the AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, in the sense that some lectures belong to both conferences. If you are interested in other lectures of the AMS Meeting as well, check out the AMS website.

Saturday 6 October 2007:

The AMS Public Einstein Lecture
20:00-20:50 Scott Hall, room 123, College Avenue Campus
Roger Penrose, Oxford University
"Space time conformal geometry, and a new extended cosmology"

Sunday 7 October 2007: (Map of hotels and campus parking)

Session Mathematical Physics I
(= AMS Special session "Partial differential equations of mathematical physics, III")
08:00-10:50 Scott Hall, room 204, College Avenue Campus

08:00-08:40 Ovidiu Costin, Ohio State University
"Borel summation techniques in PDEs and the Navier-Stokes equation in R³" (abstract) (slides)
08:40-09:20 Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
"Some Limit Theorems in Ergodic Theory" (abstract)
09:20-09:30 break
09:30-10:10 Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University
"Regularity criteria for asymmetric Navier-Stokes equations"
10:10-10:50 Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
"Carleman estimates and uniqueness of Kerr" (abstract)

11:10-12:00 AMS talk (see AMS website)
12:00-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:50 AMS talk (see AMS website)

Session Foundations of Quantum Mechanics I
(= AMS Special session "Mathematical and Physical Problems in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics")
15:00-18:20 Scott Hall, room 203, College Avenue Campus

15:00-15:30 opening of session by Detlef Dürr, LMU München
"The physicist Sheldon Goldstein" (abstract) (notes)
15:30-16:10 Roger Penrose, Oxford University
"Cosmology and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics" (abstract)
16:10-16:50 GianCarlo Ghirardi, ICTP Trieste
"The debate about the quantum theory: where do we stand?" (abstract) (slides)
16:50-17:00 break
17:00-17:40 Robert Wyatt, University of Texas
"Quantum dynamics with trajectories: Bohmian, post-Bohmian, adaptive, and un-real dynamics" (abstract)
17:40-18:20 Fay Dowker, Imperial College
"Typicality, preclusion, and quantum measure theory" (abstract) (slides)

Cocktails and Banquet
18:30-22:30 in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, nearby Scott Hall
in honor of Shelly Goldstein's 60th birthday.
For participating in the banquet, please register online in advance.

Monday 8 October 2007:

08:00-08:30 Coffee and rolls, 7th floor lounge, Hill Center, Busch Campus

Session Statistical Mechanics
08:30-12:30 Hill Center, room 705, Busch Campus

08:30-09:05 Pedro L. Garrido, Granada
"Some results on heat conductivity for low dimensional systems" (abstract)
09:05-09:40 Anna DeMasi, Rome
"Phase Transition in continuum Potts models" (abstract) (slides)
09:40-10:15 Pablo Ferrari, Sao Paulo
"Crossing probabilities in TASEP" (abstract) (slides)
10:15-10:45 coffee break
10:45-11:20 Herbert Spohn, TU München
"Correlation decay for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with random initial data" (abstract) (slides)
11:20-11:55 Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
"Spectra and Dynamics of Operators with Disorder; a Statistical Mechanics Perspective" (slides)
11:55-12:30 Christian Maes, Kat. Univ. Leuven
"Thermodynamics of dynamical fluctuation functionals" (abstract) (notes)

12:30-14:00 lunch break

Session Foundations of Quantum Mechanics II
14:00-19:00 Hill Center, room 705, Busch Campus

14:00-14:40 Brian Greene, Columbia University
"Who's Afraid of Spacetime Singularities?" (abstract)
14:40-15:20 Roderich Tumulka, Rutgers University
"The empirical predictions of Bohmian mechanics and GRW theory" (abstract) (slides)
15:20-16:00 Valia Allori, Northern Illinois University
"Primitive Ontology and the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theories" (abstract) (slides)
16:00-16:20 coffee break
16:20-17:00 Travis Norsen, Marlboro College
"Experimental metaphysics" (abstract) (slides)
17:00-17:40 David Albert, Columbia University
"The Technique of Significables"
17:40-18:00 break
18:00-18:15 Sarah Römer, LMU München
"Classical Limit of Bohmian mechanics" (slides)
18:15-18:30 Dirk Deckert, LMU München
"Maxwell-Lorentz Mechanics" (slides)
18:30-18:45 Peter Pickl, Vienna
"A simple derivation of Gross-Pitaevski dynamics" (slides)
18:45-19:00 Angelo Bassi, LMU München
"Existence, uniqueness, and long time asymptotics of a CSL equation" (slides)

Tuesday 9 October 2007:

08:00-08:30 Coffee and rolls, 7th floor lounge, Hill Center, Busch Campus

Session Mathematical Physics II
08:30-09:45 Hill Center, room 705, Busch Campus

08:30-09:05 Stefan Teufel, Tübingen
"Effective dynamics for constrained quantum systems" (abstract) (slides)
09:05-09:45 Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zürich
"Atomism and quantum theory" (abstract)

09:45-10:20 coffee break

Session Foundations of Quantum Mechanics III
10:20-13:00 Hill Center, room 705, Busch Campus

10:20-11:00 Ward Struyve, Perimeter Institute
"Recent developments in the de Broglie-Bohm approach to quantum field theory" (abstract) (slides)
11:00-11:40 Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University
"Remarks on Flat-Footed Ontology" (abstract) (slides)
11:40-12:20 Barry Loewer, Rutgers University
"Goldstein on objective probability in deterministic theories" (abstract) (slides)
12:20-13:00 Nino Zanghi, Genoa
"Closing remarks"

13:00-14:00 lunch break

Informal Discussion
14:00-16:00 Hill Center, room 705, Busch Campus

16:00 end of conference