STABILITY MATTERS

A Symposium on Mathematical Physics

in honor of Elliott H. Lieb on the occasion of his 70th birthday,

Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics (ESI),
Vienna, July 28 - August 2, 2002

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The scientific program starts on Monday, July 29. All lectures of the Scientific program take place in the Aula of the University of Vienna, on the University Campus, Hof 1. Main entrances to the Campus: Garnisongasse 13, Alserstraße 4, Spitalgasse 2-4.

PROGRAM
Sunday, July 28.
17 - 21 Welcome party and registration at ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9.
Monday, July 29.
9:15-9:30 Opening
9:30-10:15 J. Yngvason: Elliott Lieb's Contributions to Mathematical Physics
10:15-11:15 J.P. Solovej: The Matter of Instability
11:45-12:45 R. Seiringer: Proof of Bose-Einstein Condensation for Dilute Trapped Gases
14:30-15:30 J. Fröhlich: The KMS condition
17:00 Decoration ceremony for Elliott H. Lieb in the Audienzsaal of the Ministry for Science, Culture and Education, Minoritenplatz 5
18:30 "Wiener Hausmusik" in the Theatersaal of the Academy of Sciences, Dr.Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, followed by a reception sponsored by the Springer Verlag and the Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, July 30
9:15-10:15 K. Hepp: On the Continuum Limit in the Lovely Happy Laser
10:15-11:15 M. Loss: A Bound on Binding Energies and Mass Renormalization in some Models of Quantum Electrodynamics
11:45-12:45 H. Siedentop: The Hartree-Fock Equations of the Relativistic Electron-Positron Field
14:30-15:30 P. Choquard: New Results in the Theory of One-Dimensional Conservative Liquids
15:45-16:45 D. Szasz: Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Process
16:45-- 17:45 M. Aizenman: On the Spectral and Dynamical Properties of Schrödinger Operators with Random Potentials
Wednesday, July 31
8:00- ca 23:30 Excursion and conference dinner in the Wachau. Busses will leave Arcotel Hotel Boltzmann, Boltzmanngasse 4, at 8 00.
Thursday, August 1
9:15-10:15 Y. Sinai: (3x+1) and Other Number-Theoretic Dynamical Systems
10:15-11:15 J. Chayes: Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization
11:45-12:45 B. Jancovici: Two-Dimensional Coulomb Systems: A Minireview of Exact Results
14:30-15:30 R. McCann: Fast-Diffusion to Self-Similarity: Complete Spectrum, Long-Time Asymptotics, and Numerology
15:45-16:45 H.-T. Yau: Classification of Asymptotic Dynamics for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with Small Initial Data
17:00-18:00 Session on human rights and the responsibility of scientists, organized by J. Lebowitz
Friday, August 2
9:15-10:15 A. Jaffe: Twisting Supersymmetry
10:15-11:15 E. Carlen: A Spherical analog of the Sharp Young's inequality and Related Topics
11:45-12:45 R. Benguria: Speed of Propagation of Travelling Fronts for Reaction-Diffusion Equations
14:30-15:30 L. Erdös: Derivation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger equation from a Many Body Coulomb System
15:45-16:45 J. Lebowitz: Stationary Nonequilibrium States and the Continuing Quest for a Proof of Fourier's Law

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Thomas Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Harald Grosse, Heide Narnhofer, Klaus Schmidt, Walter Thirring, Jakob Yngvason

Registration Form


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