ENRAGE Network Conference

14 India Street, Edinburgh, 3-7 April 2006


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Scientific Programme


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Invited Speakers

Gernot Akemann, (Brunel University)
John Barrett (University of Nottingham)
Sergey Dorogovtsev (Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg/Aveiro University)
Alistair Hart (University of Edinburgh)
Ralph Kenna (Coventry University)
Gâbor Papp (Eotvos University, Budapest)
Gilles Schaeffer (L'École Polytechnique)

Programme

Monday 3 April
09.00-10.15 Registration/Coffee
10.15-12.30 CHAIR: Des Johnston
10.15-11.15 George Savvidy
Non-Abelian tensor gauge fields and higher-spin extension of standard model
11.30-12.30 Renate Loll
Recent developments in causal dynamical triangulations
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-17.30 CHAIR: George Savvidy
14.00-15.00 John Barrett
3d gravity coupled to particles
15.15-16.15 Bernd Schroers
3d gravity coupled to particles
16.30-17.00 David Rideout
Spatial hypersurfaces in causal set quantum gravity
17.00-17.30 Charlotte Kristjansen
Spin chains and string theory
17.30-19.00 Reception
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Tuesday 4 April
09.00-12.30 CHAIR: Bergfinnur Durhuus
09.00-10.00 Richard Szabo
Black holes, topological strings and phase transitions
10.15-11.15 Gernot Akemann
Matrix models and finite density QCD
11.30-12.30 Alistair Hart
Random matrix theory and staggered fermions in lattice QCD
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-16.15 CHAIR: Renate Loll
14.00-15.00 Sergey Dorogovtsev
New critical phenomena in complex networks
15.15-15.45 Dario Benedetti
Ising model on causal dynamical triangulations
15.45-16.15 Bengt Petersson
Dimensional reduction in a 2+1 dimensional gauge theory
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Wednesday 5 April
09.00-12.30 CHAIR: John Wheater
09.00-10.00 Gâbor Papp
Random matrix filtering of correlation matrices
10.15-11.15 Bartlomiej Waclaw
Spectral properties of empirical covariance for Wishart-Student random matrices
11.30-12.00 Romuald Janik
The AdS5 x  S5 superstring worldsheet S-matrix and crossing symmetry
12.00-12.30 Teresia Mansson
The Leigh-Strassler deformation and integrability
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 CHAIR: François David
14.00-14.30 Pierre-Yves Casteill
Spin chain and coherent states
14.30-15.00 Nicolas Orantin
Hermitian 2-Matrix Model: a formula for the topological expansion of the free energy
15.00-17.00Meeting of Scientists-in-Charge
19.00 Workshop Dinner at Howies Restaurant
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Thursday 6 April
10.15-12.30 CHAIR: Thordur Jonsson
10.15-11.15 Gilles Schaeffer
Distances in random surfaces with fixed genus
11.30-12.30 Philippe Di Francesco
Physics and combinatorics: the miracles of integrability
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-17.30 CHAIR: Fay Dowker
14.00-14.30 Tanya Elliot
Biased random walks on combs
14.30-15.00 Martin Weigel
Ground states and defect energies of the two-dimensional XY spin glass
15.15-16.15 François David
Trees, random walks and the freezing of random RNA
16.30-17.30 Bergfinnur Durhuus
On the spectral dimension of branched polymers and other random graphs
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Friday 7 April
10.15-12.30 CHAIR: TBA
10.15-11.15 Ralph Kenna
Scaling relations for logarithic corrections
11.30-12.30 Wolfhard Janke
Picturing phase transitions geometrically
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 CHAIR: Wolfhard Janke
14.00-14.30 Elmar Bittner
On the overlap probability distribution in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
14.30-15.00 Stefan Zohren
Evidence for an entropy bound in fundamentally discrete gravity
15.00 Close
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Participants

21 March
Name Institution
Akemann, Gernot Brunel University
Barrett, John University of Nottingham
Benedetti, Dario Utrecht University
Bittner, Elmar University of Leipzig
Casteill, Pierre-Yves Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
David, François CEA/SPhT, Saclay
Di Francesco, Philippe CEA/SPhT, Saclay
Dorogovtsev, Sergey Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg/Aveiro University
Dowker, Fay Imperial College London
Durhuus, Bergfinnur University of Copenhagen
Elliott, Tanya University of Oxford
Hart, Alistair University of Edinburgh
Janik, Romauld Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Janke, Wolfhard University of Leipzig
Johnston, Des Heriot-Watt University
Jonsson, Thordur University of Iceland
Kadar, Zoltan Heriot-Watt University
Kawamoto, Shoichi University of Oxford
Kenna, Ralph Coventry University
Kristjansen, Charlotte University of Copenhagen
Loll, Renate Utrecht University
Machado, Pedro Utrecht University
Mansson, Teresia Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Orantin, Nicolas CEA/SPhT, Saclay
Papageorgiou, Georgios Heriot-Watt University
Papp, Gâbor Eotvos University, Budapest
Petersson, Bengt Bielefeld University
Rideout, David Imperial College London
Sahlmann, Hanno Utrecht University
Savvidy, George NCSR, Demokritos, Athens
Schaeffer, Gilles L'École Polytechnique
Schroers, Bernd Heriot-Watt University
Szabo, Richard Heriot-Watt University
Waclaw, Bartlomiej Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Weigel, Martin Heriot-Watt University
Westra, Willem Utrecht University
Wheater, John University of Oxford
Zohren, Stefan Imperial College London
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