Workshop Programme
for period 7-11 April
Combinatorial Identities and their Applications in Statistical Mechanics
7-11 April
Timetable
| Monday 07 April | ||
| 09:00-09:55 | Registration | CSM |
| 10:00-11:11 | Labelle, G, for Leroux, P (UQAM) | CSM |
| Introduction to species and combinatorial equations | Sem 1 | |
| 11:11-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Sokal, A (NYU/UCL) | CSM |
| An introduction to the Mayer expansion | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Viennot, X (Bordeaux) | CSM |
| Introduction to the theory of heaps of pieces with applications to statistical mechanics and quantum gravity | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:30 | Kotecky, R (Warwick/Prague) | CSM |
| Cluster expansions (a historical overview) | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:15 | Noy, M (Catalunya) | CSM |
| Graph classes with given 3-connected components: asymptotic counting and critical phenomena | Sem 1 | |
| 17:15-17:30 | Poster Presentation | CSM |
| 17:30-18:30 | Welcome Wine Reception | CSM |
| 18:45-19:30 | Dinner at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| Tuesday 08 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Procacci, A (UFMG) | CSM |
| Improved bounds on cluster expansion of the abstract polymer model (via the Penrose identity) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Brydges, D (UBC) | CSM |
| Counting with Gaussian integrals and cluster expansions | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Abdesselam, A (Virginia) | CSM |
| Field theoretic cluster expansions and the Brydges-Kennedy forest sum formula | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Varchenko, A (UNC Chapel Hill) | CSM |
| Determinant formulas for pairing matrices of arrangements of hyperplanes | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:15 | Bernardi, O (CNRS, Paris Sud) | CSM |
| A bijection between subgraphs and orientations based on the combinatorics of the Tutte polynomial | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-17:15 | Labelle, G (UQAM) | CSM |
| Mayer polytopes and divided differences | Sem 1 | |
| 18:45-19:30 | Dinner at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| Wednesday 09 April | ||
| 09:30-10:15 | Fernandez, R (Rouen) | CSM |
| Analyticity of the pressure of the hard-sphere gas | Sem 1 | |
| 10:15-11:00 | Zahradnik, M (Prague) | CSM |
| Integral equations for cluster expansion sums of polymer models with (soft) repulsion | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Rivasseau, V (Paris Sud) | CSM |
| Introduction to non commutative field theory | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Sportiello, A (Milano) | CSM |
| Potts model, O(n) non-linear sigma-models and spanning forests | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:15 | Chaiken, S (Albany) | CSM |
| An extensor tree theorem and a Tutte identity for graphs with distinguished port edges | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Gurau, R (Paris Sud) | CSM |
| Parametric representation of non commutative quantum field theory | Sem 1 | |
| 18:45-19:30 | Dinner at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| Thursday 10 April | ||
| 09:30-10:15 | Loebl, M (Prague) | CSM |
| Enumeration of planar graphs by matrix integrals | Sem 1 | |
| 10:15-11:00 | Ellis-Monaghan, J (Saint Michael's College) | CSM |
| Multivariable Tutte and transition polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Masbaum, G (Jussieu) | CSM |
| Alexander-Conway polynomial, milnor numbers, and the Pfaffian matrix-tree theorem | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:15 | Ebrahimi-Fard, K (Haute Alsace) | CSM |
| Solving Bogoliubov's recursion in renormalisation using a simple algebraic identity | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Tanasa, A (Max-Planck) | CSM |
| Connes-Kreimer Hopf algabra for non-commutative field theory | Sem 1 | |
| 17:00-17:45 | Ciucu, M (Indiana) | CSM |
| Combinatorial identities and the correlation function gaps in dimer packings | Sem 1 | |
| 19:30-23:00 | Conference Dinner at Christ's College (The Dining Hall) | CSM |
| Friday 11 April | ||
| 09:30-10:15 | Imbrie, J (Virginia) | CSM |
| Forest-root formulas in statistical physics | Sem 1 | |
| 10:15-11:00 | Magnen, J (Ecole Polytechnique) | CSM |
| Constructive field theory without tears | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Krattenthaler, C (Wien) | CSM |
| Identities for fully packed loop configurations and semistandard tableaux | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| 14:15-15:00 | Prellberg, T (QMUL) | CSM |
| Counting partially directed walks in a symmetric wedge | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:15 | Banderier, C (Paris 13) | CSM |
| Enumeration and asymptotics of random walks and maps | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Faris, W (Arizona) | CSM |
| A rosetta stone: combinatorics, physics, probability | Sem 1 | |
| 18:45-19:30 | Dinner at Wolfson Court | CSM |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |