All talks take place in Seminar Room 501 of the Denys Wilkinson Building at 11.30 on Wednesday

Michaelamas Term 2006

October 18
Dirk Schuricht, University of Oxford
Exact results for SU(3) spin chains:
trimer states, valence bond solids, and their parent Hamiltonians

November 1
Claudio Castelnovo, University of Oxford

Topological order and topological entropy in classical systems

November 15
Heiko Bauke, University of Oxford
Message passing in statistical physics and optimisation

November 29
Holger Benthein, University of Oxford
The dynamical density-matrix renormalisation group. A numerical approach to dynamical properties of one-dimensional correlated electron systems