Fields, Lattices and Condensed Matter

A symposium in honour of John Cardy's 60th birthday

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
Oxford University
December 14-15, 2007

Preliminary Schedule:

Friday, December 14:
Time Speaker Title
09:00-09:50
Ian Affleck (UBC)
Quantum Impurity Entanglement Entropy
09:50-10:40
Giuseppe Mussardo (Trieste)
Non-integrable QFT, Kink Confinement and Supersymmetry
10:40-11:10
Coffee Break

11:10-12:00
Hubert Saleur (Saclay)
Valence bond entanglement entropy: exact results in 1D
12:00-12:50
Jean-Bernard Zuber (LPTHE)
TBA



14:00-14:50
Bernard Nienhuis (Amsterdam)
Correlations in site and bond percolation on random rhombus tilings
14:50-15:40
Krzysztof Gawedzki (Lyon) Revisiting orbifolds of boundary CFT's
15:40-16:10
Coffee Break

16:10-17:00
Alexei Tsvelik (BNL)
Evidence  for  the PSL(2|2) Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model
as a model for the Quantum Hall plateau transition
17:00-17:50
Duncan Haldane (Princeton)
Polynomial Wavefunctions for Fractional Quantum Hall States:
Dominance, Exclusion Statistics, and Connections to Topological
and  Conformal Field theories




Saturday, December 15:

Time Speaker Title
09:00-09:50
Robert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam)
TBA
09:50-10:40
Nicholas Read (Yale)
TBA
10:40-11:10
Coffee Break

11:10-12:00
Patrick Dorey (Durham) Differential equations, and integrability
12:00-12:50
Bertrand Duplantier (Saclay)
Large Deviations and KPZ Relation in Quantum Gravity



14:00-14:50
Wendelin Werner (Orsay)
Some properties of near-critical percolation
14:50-15:40
Austen Lamacraft (Virginia) Order parameter statistics at a quantum phase transition
15:40-16:10
Coffee Break

16:10-17:00
Masaki Oshikawa* (ISSP Tokyo)
TBA