Bristol Mathematical Physics Seminar



The seminar takes place Friday at 1pm in room SM4 in the Department of Mathematics.

Directions to the department can be found here and to the University here.


Programme 2005/2006


Summer 2006
Date
Speaker
University
Title
Friday April 28
Michael Kendall
Bristol
Modelling seismic wave propagation in the Earth using Maslov asymptotic theory
Wednesday May 3
2pm in SM4
Alain Joye
Grenoble
informal seminar:
Spectral Properties of Random Unitary Matrices
Thursday May 4
3pm in SM2
Alain Joye
Grenoble
 informal seminar:
Semi-classical Determination of Exponentially Small Intermode Transitions for
1+1 Space-time Scattering Systems
Friday May 5
Panos Karageorge
Bristol
The geometric context of the nodal sequence
Friday May 12
Gregory Berkolaiko
Texas A&M
A lower bound for nodal count on discrete and metric graphs
Friday May 19
Donald Sprung
McMaster, Canada
Electron Transmission and Time Delay in Semiconductor Superlattices
Friday May 26
Marcel Novaes
Bristol
Quantum ergoditicy for open systems
Friday June 2
no seminar


Friday June 9
Holger Dullin
Loughborough
Another look at the Saddle-Centre bifurcation: Vanishing Twist
Friday June 16
Hung Bui
Bristol
On the mean values of Dirichlet L-functions
Monday June 19
3-4pm in SM2
Thomas Seligmann
Cuernavaca,
Mexico
Random Matrix description of fidelity decay and decoherence
Tuesday June 20
10-12am in SM2
M.Y. Mo,
Marco Bertola,
Montreal
Commuting difference operators, spinors on hyperelliptic curves and
asymptotics of generalized orthogonal polynomials: Part I  and Part II
Thursday June 22
3-4pm in SM2
Melanie Lebental
ENS Cachan
Quantum chaos and plastic lasers
Friday June 23
Duc Khiem Huynh


Teil Howard

Bristol


Bristol
Finding an RMT-Model for the higher order vanishing of elliptic curve L-functions

Asymptotic expansions for the escape rate of stochastically perturbed dynamical systems.
Wednesday June 28
11 am in SM2

Astrid de Wijn
Dresden
Analytical calculations of Lyapunov spectra of high-dimensional billiards




Winter/Spring 2006
Date
Speaker
University
Title
Friday Jan 20
Fran Burstall
Bath
The Willmore functional and integrable systems
Friday Jan 27
Jack Kuipers
Bristol
Periodic orbits: action correlation and homoclinic motion
Friday Feb 3
Gregory Berkolaiko
Texas A&M
Form factor expansion for large graphs: a diagrammatic approach
Friday Feb 10
Uzy Smilansky
Weizman Institute,
Rehovot
A Trace formula for counting nodal domains in integrable systems
Friday Feb 17
Ben Odgers
Bristol On the Moments of L-functions and Characteristic Polynomials of Random Matrices
Friday Feb 24
Rudolf Römer Warwick
Electronic Transport in DNA
Thursday Mar 2
Daphne Zelig
Technion, Haifa
Properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Schrodinger operator defined on infinite n-dim trees.
        Attention, different time and room:  3pm in SM3
Friday March 10
Gregory Morozov
Bristol
Semiclassical Coupled Wave Theory for 1D Photonic Crystals
Friday March 17


no seminar
Friday March 24
Tim Sluckin
Southampton
Biaxial nematic liquid crystals

Wednesday
Mar  29

joint seminars wih quantum information
theory
Bill Wootters



 
Wim van Dam
Williams College, USA



University of California, USA
Optimal discrimination among product states
       
        Attention, different time and room: 
2.30pm in SM3


Quantum Computing and Zeroes of Zeta Functions

        Attention, different time and room:  4pm in SM3
Friday March 31
Lawrence Gray
Minneapolis, USA
Traffic jams, phase separation, and condensation



Fall 2005
Date
Speaker
University
Title
Friday Sep  23
Valerio Cappellini
Trieste
Algebraic framework for discrete classical systems and their quantum
dynamical entropy production

Friday Oct 7
Marcel Novaes
Bristol
Semiclassical propagation of coherent states
Friday Oct 14
Rudolf Römer
Warwick
CANCELLED,  will be shifted to a another date
Friday Oct 21
Rainer Klages
Queen Mary, London
Deterministic chaos and diffusion in maps and billiards
Friday  Oct 28
Bernhard Mehlig
Chalmers
Dynamics of inertial particles in random flows
Friday Nov 4


NO SEMINAR, RMT workshop in Brunel
Friday Nov 11


NO SEMINAR, shifted to next week
Friday Nov 18
Lech Wolowski
Bristol
Lyapunov exponents and invariant measures for products of random matrices
Friday Nov 25
Roman Schubert
Bristol
On the rate of quantum ergodicity for quantized maps
Friday Dec 2
Henning Schomerus
Lancaster
Quantum-to-classical crossover of quasi-bound states and fractal Weyl laws in ballistic open systems
Friday Dec 9
Andreas Winter
Bristol
Entropic uncertainty relations - with applications in information theory
Friday Dec 16
Holger Waalkens
Bristol
TBA





The programme of last year can be found here.

Contact Roman Schubert for further details, roman.schubert@bristol.ac.uk, Tel: 0117-33-11665. Office: sm2.2.