Conference in honour of H.O. Georgii
Conference in honour of Hans-Otto Georgii at Ludwig-Maximilans Universität München, Munich, Germany, 17th-18th July 2009. Prof. H.-O. Georgii is turning 65 in 2009. He is the author of several fundamental contributions to mathematical statistical mechanics, Gibbs measures, large deviations, and point processes. The Mathematics Institute of LMU Munich is organizing a conference with contributions in his field of expertise.
Speakers: E. Baake (Bielefeld), G. Grimmett (Cambridge), A. Klenke (Mainz), R. Kotecký (Warwick), Errico Presutti (Rome), T. Richthammer (Los Angeles), H. Spohn (Munich), V. Zagrebnov (Marseille), H. Zessin (Bielefeld).
Organizers: S. Adams (Warwick/Munich) and F. Merkl (Munich)
Venue: Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Mathematisches Institut, Theresienstrasse 39, D-80333 München, Germany
Programme (Abstracts)
Friday, 17th July; the first two talks are in room C 111, the last talk in room A 027
14:00 h - 14:40 h R. Kotecký (Warwick), Potts antiferromagnet: a case of purely entropic order at zero temperature
14:50 h - 15:30 h H. Zessin (Bielefeld), The Papangelou process
15:30 h - 16:15 h Coffee break
16:15 h - 17:15 h E. Presutti (Rome), Stationary non equilibrium states: from microscopic to macroscopic descriptions
17:15 h - 18:00 h wine and cheese reception
19:00 h Dinner at the restaurant Alter Hof in München
Saturday, 18 th July; all talks are in room A 027
10:00 h - 10:40 h E. Baake (Bielefeld), Ancestral processes for mutation-selection models of population genetics
10:50 h - 11:30 h H. Spohn (Munich), TASEP and directed last passage percolation
11:30 h - 12:00 h Coffee break
12:00 h - 12:40 h G. Grimmett (Cambridge), Sharp-thresholds and the 2d Ising model
12:50 h - 14:40 h lunch break
14:40 h - 15:20 h V. Zagrebnov (Marseille), Boson Random Point Fields
15:30 h - 16:00 h Coffee break
16:00 h - 16:40 h A. Klenke (Mainz), Multiple Non-Intersection Exponents of Planar Brownian Motion
16:50 h - 17:30 h T. Richthammer (Los Angeles), A proof of Aldous' spectral gap conjecture
18:30 h closing Dinner