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EVENTS 2006

Thursday 14th and Friday 15th December 2006

Winter Symposium

Notices concerning the Symposium will be sent by Electronic Mail only.

Venue: DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Lecture Room, Floor 1

In conjunction with the Irish Mathematical Society
Wednesday 22nd November 2006 at 3.30 p.m.
Specialist Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics

Gauge Theories and Free Fermions

By Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf (University of Amsterdam)

Venue: Lecture Room, Floor One
School of Theoretical Physics
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
10 Burlington Road - Dublin 4

All are welcome -- Admission Free
Monday 13 Novenber 2006 at 7.30 p.m.
Talk of the School of Theoretical Physics - Science Week

How to solve Sudoku by computer

by Professor Tony Dorlas (Director of School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS)

Venue:Dunsink Observatory, see instructions
All are welcome -- Admission Free
Wednesday 17 May 2006 at 5.30 p.m.
Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics (Poster)

Randomness, Chance and Probability by Professor S. R. S. Varadhan (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York)

Venue: Room A004, Health Sciences Building (building 16 on map), Clonskeagh Gate, UCD, Belfield
Reception Afterwards
All are welcome -- Admission Free
15th to 18th of May 2006

The second series of John Lewis Lectures will be given by Professor S. R. S. Varadhan, Courant Institute (New York)

The lecture series is jointly organised between the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the Hamilton Mathematics Institute at Trinity College.
With generous donation by Corvil Networks.

This set of lectures will focus on "Random Walks and Diffusions in a Random Environment"
Date & Time Title Venue
15th May - 11:00am Random Walks in a Random Environment. Basic Issues Salmon Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College
16th May - 3:00pm Issues related to Large Deviations Synge Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College
18th May - 11:00am Connections to homogenization Salmon Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College

All are welcome
12th & 13th of May 2006

13th Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting


Venue: School of Theoretical Physics
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
10 Burlington Road - Dublin 4
Friday 27 January 2006

Seminars

Speakers include:
13:30 - 14:00 Toby Wiseman (Harvard Univ.) Super Yang-Mills and black holes.
14:05 - 14:35 Eric Sharpe (Utah Univ.) Compactifications of string theories.
14:40 - 15:10 Anatoly Konechny (Rutgers Univ.) On boundary renormalization group flows in two dimensions.
15:15 - 15:45 Stefan Fredenhagen (ETH, Zurich) Permutation D-branes.

All are welcome

EVENTS 2005

Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th December 2005

Winter Symposium

Notices concerning the Symposium will be sent by Electronic Mail only.

Venue: DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Lecture Room, Floor 1

In collaboration with the Irish Mathematical Society

Monday 21st to Friday 25th November 2005

John T. Lewis Lectures by Professor J. Fröhlich, from E. T. H., Zurich

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and the Hamilton Mathematics Institute at Trinity College (HMI) recently jointly established a distinguished lecture series dedicated to the late Professor John T. Lewis, former Director of the School of Theoretical Physics at DIAS and formerly one of the patrons of HMI.
The first John Lewis lectures will be given by Prof. J. Fröhlich and are sponsored by DIAS and by Dr. Raymond Russell at Corvil Networks with a donation to HMI.
Lectures are aimed at an audience of graduate students and active researchers, not necessarily experts.

Monday, 21st November 11:30

Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Abstract:    I review recent results in the quantum theory of open systems that represent encouraging progress towards understanding origins of irreversible behaviour and transport phenomena. In particular, I sketch how thermodynamic processes can be understood from the point of view of nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. As an application, I present derivations of the 0th, 1st and 2nd Law of thermodynamics from results in nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. (A tribute to the "Einstein Year")

Monday, 21st November 14:00

Bose gases and boson stars

Abstract:   I discuss the dynamics of gases of very many weakly coupled bosonic atoms. For this purpose, I analyze the mean-field limit of such systems. In this limit, the effective dynamics is given by a Hartree- or a Gross-Pitaevsky equation. I discuss recent results on these equations, mainly for systems with attractive two-body interactions. When the kinematics of the bosons is relativistic and the two-body interaction is given by the Newtonian gravitational potential I obtain an effective description of boson stars made from dark, bosonic matter. I study the gravitational collapse of heavy boson stars and the motion of light boson stars in the gravitational field of another object.
This analysis has some conceptual upshots: It shows that the passage from a continuum theory of matter (the theory obtained in the mean field limit) to atomism (N-body quantum mechanics) can be understood as a "deformation". (A tribute to John Lewis, who had a life-long interest in Bose gases and Bose-Einstein condensation)

Wednesday, 23rd November 17:00

CFT, TFT and others

Abstract:   I review recent results on the connections between 2D conformal field theory, in particular boundary CFT, and 3D topological field theory. (This is work in collaboration with or by Felder, Fuchs, Runkel and Schweigert.) I then outline some applications including a general formulation of Kramers-Wannier duality. If time permits it I will sketch applications to the quantum Hall effect, which displays some of these connections in a pure form and has motivated some of our general results. (A tribute to the "Zeitgeist" at DIAS)

Friday, 25th November 11:30

Theory of atoms and molecules coupled to the quantized radiation field

Abstract:   I review recent progress in our understanding of a non-perturbative, mathematically precise description of the radiation theory (spectroscopy) of atoms and molecules. I present results on how to overcome infrared divergencies in processes such as Rayleigh scattering. I outline applications of some of these results to processes such as "Sisyphos cooling".
(A tribute to analysis-driven mathematical physics and hard work)

Venue:
Lecture Room Floor 1
DIAS, School of Theoretical Physics
10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4

All are welcome

1 - 30 June 2005

International Workshop on Fuzzy Physics and Noncommutative Geometry

Cinvestav, Mexico City


From Tuesday 14th to Friday 17th June 2005

J. T. Lewis Memorial Conference

A conference will be held in memory of the late Prof. John T. Lewis, former Director of the School, who died on January 21st 2004.

Speaker's Titles.
Conference Timetable. (PDF)
Conference Poster. (PDF)


Thursday 3rd March 2005, 5:30 p.m.
Room 129, Experimental Physics Department, Science Building, UCD, Belfield.

The Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics

Bose-Einstein Condensation: A journey to ultracold matter

Professor Ph. A. Martin, L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.


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EVENTS 2004

Sunday 12th to Friday 17th December 2004

Workshop on Causal Sets


Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th December 2004

Winter Symposium

In collaboration with the Irish Mathematical Society
Monday 15th to Friday 19th November 2004

Quantum Spaces - Noncommutative Geometry Network Meeting


A group photograph was taken 19/11/2004 on the front steps:

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29th October 2004

Hamilton Scholarship Awards Ceremony

Lecture Theatre, 3.00 p.m.
Awards presented by Dr. Whitaker, former Chairman of Council.

29th September to 1st October 2004

Meeting on Mathematical Analysis of Quantum Systems IV

Programme

Confirmed Participants:
A. Aftalion (Paris)
S. Adams (DIAS)
J.-B. Bru (DIAS)
W. Cegla (Wroclaw, Poland)
Ch. Dobrovolny (Marseille)
P. Exner (Prague)
F. Koukiou (Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Y. Kozitsky (Lublin, Poland)
B. Nachtergaele (U. C. Davis)
      R. Olkiewicz (Wroclaw)
D. Petritis (Rennes, France)
V. P. Priezzhev (JINR, Dubna, Russia)
J. V. Pule (UCD)
W. Skrypnik (Kiev)
A. Suto (Budapest)
D. Yarotskiy (UCD)
J. Yngvason (Vienna)

A group photograph was taken 30/09/2004 on the front steps:

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Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th July 2004
Wednesday 11th and Wednesday 18th August 2004

Series of Seminars by Wolfgang Koenig (T.U., Berlin)

7 July 10:00 - 11:30 Random Matrix Theory I
8 July 10:00 - 11:30 Random Matrix Theory II
11 August 10:00 - 11:30 Random Growth Models
18 August 10:00 - 11:30 Non-colliding Random Processes

Full Abstract

EVENTS 2003

Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th December 2003

Winter Symposium

Programme(pdf).

Speakers include:
K. Duffy (CNRI,Dublin)
The Functional Large Deviation Principle.
R. Harte (TCD, Dublin)
Polaroid operators and Weyl's theorem.
W. Kaup (Uni. Tuebingen)
Bounded symmetric domains and Cauchy-Reimann geometry.
A. Solomon (OU + Paris)
Combinatorial physics, normal order and model Feynman graphs. (abstract)
A. Detinko (NUIG + Belarus)
Algorithms for computing in matrix groups.(abstract)
A. Zuevskiy (Max Planck)
Continual Lie algebras and solvable models.(abstract)
J. Murray (NUI Maynooth)
Branching rules for Specht modules.(abstract)

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Friday 17th October 2003 at 7.30 p.m.
The Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics:

Quantum Information: An Emerging Technology?

By Professor P.L. Knight FRS

Head of Department of Physics, Blackett Lab., Imperial College, London.

Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College (Pearse St. Entrance), Dublin 2.

Thursday 2nd to Saturday 4th October 2003.
International Meeting at the School of Theoretical Physics on


"Mathematical Analysis of Quantum Systems"

Speakers include:
    L. Amico (Pisa)
    F. Bardou (Strasbourg)
    M. Cassandro (Rome)
    P. Exner (Prague)
    C. Fuchs (Bell Labs & CNRI, Dublin)
    Y. Kozitsky (Lublin)
    H. Maassen (Nijmegen)
    Ph.-A. Martin (Lausanne)
    V. Priezzhev (Dubna, Russia)
    W. Skrypnik (Kiev)
    A. Suto (Budapest)
    B. Toth (Budapest)
    J. Yngvason (Vienna)
For a provisional programme click here.

EVENTS 2002

Wednesday 20th November 2002 in the discussion room.
Dr. Stefan Adams (Mathematisches Institut TU-Berlin) will present a seminar entitled:

"About large deviations of the field of gradients and their thermodynamic properties"

Monday 11th - Friday 15th November 2002.
Science Week Ireland Lecture Series.
Details are available here
Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th September.
Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Memorial Conference.

Details can be found here.

Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st September.
International Meeting at the School of Theoretical Physics on


"Mathematical Analysis of Quantum Systems"

Speakers include:
    Prof. Pavel Exner (Prague)
    Prof. Philippe Martin (Lausanne)
    Prof. Robert Minlos (Moscow)
    Prof. Bruno Nachtergaele (Univ. California, Davis)
    Prof. Yurii Sukhov (Cambridge)
    Prof. Andre Verbeure (Leuven)
    Prof. Zagrebnov (Marseille)

For a provisional programme click here.

Friday 1st February 2002 in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Neil O'Connell (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) will give a seminar entitled

"Random Walk in a Weyl Chamber: conditioning by reflections"


Monday, 28th January 2002 at 8.00pm in Lecture Theatre L, John Henry Newman Building, University College Dublin.
Professor Gerard't Hooft (University of Utrecht), Nobel Laureate of Physics, 1999 will give the Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics entitled

"Asking Fundamental Questions in Elementary Particle Physics"


Monday 28th January 2002 in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
There will be a series of seminars at the following times. All are welcome.

13:30 Dr. Alon Faraggi (Oxford University) "Aspects of String Unification"
14:00 Prof. Michael Baake (Greifswald University) "Mathematical Diffraction Theory - A Survey"
14:30 Prof. Werner Nahm (Bonn University) "Boundary States and Duality for Conformal Field Theories"
15:00 Prof. Christopher Pope (Texas A+M University) "Superstrings, M-Theory and Special Holonomy"
15:30 Tea
16:00 Prof. Frans Klinkhamer (Karlsruhe University) "CPT Anomaly: The Basic Idea and One Application"
16:30 Prof. Edward Corrigan (York University) "Integrability with Boundary Conditions"
17:00 Prof. Alexander Loskutov (Moscow State University) "Some Problems of Billiard-Like Chaotic Dynamical Systems"


EVENTS 2001

Thursday 20th December 2001, 12pm in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Paul Upton (The Open University) will give a seminar entitled

"Surface Critical Phenomena in Continuous Classical Fluids"


Thursday 20th December 2001, 2:30pm in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Oliver Jahn (Zurich) will give an informal seminar entitled

"SO(3) Versus SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory"


Tuesday and Wednesday 18/19th December 2001 in Lecture Room (Floor 1)


D.I.A.S. Winter Symposium

Final Programme


Thursday 13th December 2001, 4pm in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Jan Pawlowski (Univ. Erlanglen) will give a seminar entitled

"On Wilsonian Flows in Gauge Theories"


Tuesday 11th December 2001, 10:30am in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Rafael Sorkin (Syracuse University) will give a seminar entitled

"A cyclically expanding universe in a toy quantum gravity model"


Monday 10th December 2001, 4pm in the Discussion Room (Floor 3)
Dr. Paul Watts will give a seminar entitled

"A Possible Minimal Supersymmetric Extension to the W_3 Algebra"


Tuesday 4th December 2001, 2:30pm in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Prof. W. Skrypnik (Kiev) will give a seminar entitled

"Brownian dynamics of interacting oscillators and associated Gibbs path systems in the thermodynamic limit"


Monday 3rd December 2001, 12:30pm in the Discussion Room (Floor 3)
Dr. John Tighe will give a seminar entitled

"Gauge Invariant Regularisation Using SU(N/N)"


Monday 26th November 2001, 1pm in the Discussion Room (Floor 3)
Dr. Subrata Bal will give a seminar entitled

"Interaction between two Fuzzy Spheres"


Tuesday 27th November 2001, 2:30pm in the Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Luigi Amico will give a seminar entitled

"Exact results for the physics of small metallic grains"


Wednesday 19 to Friday 21 September 2001

Workshop on Quantum Many-Body Systems

School of Theoretical Physics Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Preliminary Programme.

Participants:
N. Angelescu (Bucharest)
F. Bardou (Strassbourg)
M. Cassandro (Rome)
N. Datta (Cambridge)
P. Exner (Prague)
M. Fannes (Leuven)
R. Graham (Essen)
J. Lorinczi (Munich)
Ph. Martin (Lausanne)
R. Minlos (Moscow)
B. Nachtergaele (UC Davis, California)
E. Pechersky (Moscow)
J. Pulé (UCD, Dublin)
M. Requardt (Goettingen)
A. Sütö (Hungary)


Orgranisers:
T.C. Dorlas (DIAS, Dublin)
A. Verbeure (Leuven)
V. Zagrebnov (Marseille)

Wednesday 18 July 2001, 2:30pm in DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Filipe Freire will give a seminar entitled

"Monopoles and confinement in the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory"


Monday 16 July 2001, 4:15pm in DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Jan Pawlowski (Erlangen) will give a seminar entitled

"Gauge fixing, topological defects and instantons on the torus"


Tuesday 26 June 2001, 3pm in DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Prof. L.C.R. Wijewardhana (University of Cincinnati, USA) will give a seminar entitled

"Aspects of Colour Superconductivity"


Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 June 2001. The Easter Mathematical Symposium (previously postponed) will be held in the DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1).

Friday 8 June 2001, 2:30pm in DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Nicolas Macris (Lausanne, Switzerland) will give a seminar entitled

"Edge states in finite quantum Hall systems"


Friday 1 June 2001, 2:30pm in DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. P. McGill (UCB Lyon) will give a seminar entitled

"Best Constants in Maximal Martingale Inequalities"


Thursday 31 May 2001, 11 am in DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Prof. John Ellis (CERN, Theory Division) will give a seminar entitled

"Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics"


Thursday 19 April 2001, 4.30pm in DIAS Lecture Room (Floor 1)
Dr. Y. Suhov (Cambridge) will give a seminar entitled

"Entropy and complexity in modern manufacturing"


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