Workshop on Semiclassical Approximation
and Vacuum Energy

Texas A&M University January 12th through 16th, 2005


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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Some conference abstracts are available.


Wednesday, January 12, 2005

2:00-2:45: Stephen Fulling, Some Mathematical and Physical Background
Blocker 153

2:45-3:15: Questions and break
Blocker 155

3:15-4:15: Ricardo Estrada, Distributions and Summability Applied to Eigenfunction Expansions
Blocker 153

4:15-4:30: Questions and break
Blocker 155

4:45-5:30: Stephen Fulling, The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation, Semiclassical Asymptotics, and Stationary Phase
Blocker 153

5:30-7:30: Barbecue supper
Blocker, Room 628

7:30-8:30: Peter Kuchment, Survey of Quantum Graphs
Blocker 153

Thursday, January 13, 2005

8:45-9:00: Welcome by Albert Boggess, Head of the Mathematics Department; Announcements
Blocker 153

9:00-10:00: Jens Bolte, Trace Formulas I
Blocker 153

10:00-10:30: Discussion and break
Blocker 155

10:30-11:15: Martin Schaden, Semiclassical Approach to Nonholonomic Constraints and Diffraction
Blocker 153

11:15-11:30: Discussion
Blocker 153

11:30-1:30: Lunch

1:30-3:00: Tour of the Offshore Technology Research Center Wavetank
Offshore Technology Research Center

3:00-3:45: Stephen Fulling, What is Vacuum Energy, that Mathematicians Should Be Mindful of It?
Blocker 153

3:45-4:15: Discussion and break
Blocker 155

4:15-5:00: Kimball Milton, Surface Divergences and Boundary Energies in the Casimir Effect
Blocker 153

5:00-5:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

5:15-6:00: Antonello Scardicchio, Optical Approach to the Casimir Effect
Blocker 153

6:00-6:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

Friday, January 14, 2005

8:45-9:45: Jens Bolte, Trace Formulas II
Blocker 153

9:45-10:15: Discussion and break
Blocker 155

10:15-11:00: Brian Winn, Spectral Statistics of Quantum Maps
Blocker 153

11:00-11:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

11:15-12:00: Ricardo Estrada, Distributional Asymptotic Expansions of Spectral Functions and of the Associated Green Kernels
Blocker 153

12:00-12:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

12:15-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Uzy Smilansky, Nodal Domains, Quantum Chaos, and Percolation
Blocker 153

3:00-3:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

3:15-4:00: Klaus Kirsten, Spectral Functions and Bose Condensation
Blocker 153

4:00-4:30: Discussion and break
Blocker 155

4:30-5:15: Kishore Kapale, Bose Condensation and Generalized Zeta Functions
Blocker 153

5:15-5:30: Discussion
Blocker 153

5:30-6:00: Gerald Dunne, Mass Dependence of the Fermion Determinant in an Instanton Background I
Blocker 153

6:00-6:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

7:00: Banquet at Imperial Chinese Restaurant
Directions to the Imperial will be provided at the conference

Saturday, January 15, 2005

8:45-9:45: Jens Bolte, Trace Formulas III
Blocker 153

9:45-10:15: Discussion and break
Blocker 155

10:15-11:00: Lev Kaplan, Semiclassical Accuracy at Large Times
Blocker 153

11:00-11:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

11:15-12:00: Robert Littlejohn, Quantum Normal Forms, Moyal Star Product, and Torus Quantization
Blocker 153

12:00-12:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

12:15-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Uzy Smilansky, Isospectrality and Nodal Counts: Can One Count the Shape of a Drum?
Blocker 153

3:00-3:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

3:15-4:00: Christian Schubert, Worldline Instantons and WKB
Blocker 153

4:00-4:30: Discussion and break
Blocker 155

4:30-5:00: Hyunsoo Min, Mass Dependence of the Fermion Determinant in an Instanton Background II
Blocker 153

5:00-5:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

5:15-6:00: Ruth Gornet, Isospectrality of Eigenvalues and Lengths
Blocker 153

6:00-6:15: Discussion
Blocker 153

Sunday, January 16, 2005

8:45-9:30: Gregory Berkolaiko, Application of Trace Formulae to Spectral Statistics of Billiards
Blocker 153

9:30-10:00: Discussion and break
Blocker 155

10:00-10:45: Jonathan Harrison, Spectral Statistics in Quantum Graphs
Blocker 153

10:45-11:00: Discussion
Blocker 153


Last updated: January 10, 2005