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CONFERENCE ON
NUMBER THEORY AND COMBINATORICS IN PHYSICS

March 21-23, 2003

University of Florida, Gainesville

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THEME

The aim of the conference is bring mathematicians and physicists together working in the topics below, to discuss, learn and communicate different view-points.

Provisional list of topics:

q-hypergeometric functions, Rogers-Ramanujan identities, Exact Integrable Models and Conformal Field Theory
Enumerative Combinatorics and Lattice Models
Alternating Sign Matrices and Determinants
Quantum Computing
Riemann zeta-function, Random matrices and Quantum Correlators

ADVISORY BOARD

George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
Michael Fisher, University of Maryland
Steven Girvin, Yale
Michio Jimbo, University of Tokyo
Barry McCoy, Stony Brook
Tetsuji Miwa, RIMS, Kyoto
Leonard Susskind, Stanford
Edward Witten, IAS, Princeton

PLENARY SPEAKERS

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George E. Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
Robert Calderbank, AT+T Labs
Philippe Di Francesco, CEA Saclay
Daniel Gottesman, Berkeley and Perimeter Institute, Waterloo
Michio Jimbo, University of Tokyo
Barry McCoy, Stony Brook
Tetsuji Miwa, RIMS, Kyoto
James Propp, University of Wisconsin
Michael Rubinstein, AIM, Palo Alto
Xavier G. Viennot, Universite Bordeaux 1
F.Y.Wu, Northeastern University

OTHER SPEAKERS

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Jinho Baik, Princeton University
Murray Batchelor, ANU, Canberra
Hilary Carteret, University of Waterloo
Tony Guttmann, University of Melbourne
Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of South Florida
Pierre Mathieu, Laval University, Quebec
Steve Milne, Ohio State
Thomas Prellberg, Technische Universitat Clausthal
Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky
Anne Schilling, UC Davis
Vyacheslav Spiridonov, JINR, Dubna
Ole Warnaar, University of Melbourne

OTHER PARTICIPANTS

Tewodros Amdeberhan, DeVry Institute of Technology
Kheira Ameur, University of South Florida
Gokarna Raj Aryal, University of South Florida
Stephanie Bourque, Laval University, Quebec
Jennifer Buxe, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia
Sylvie Corteel, Universite Versailles
Hasan Coskun, Texas A and M
Jan de Gier, University of Melbourne
Tina Garrett, Carleton College
Jemal Emina Gishe, University of South Florida
John Hall, University of Minnesota
Patrick Jacob, Laval University, Quebec
Jeremy Lovejoy, University of Wisconsin
Mario Marshall, University of South Florida
Eugene Mukhin, IUPUI
Shinsuke M. Nishigaki, University of Connecticut
Sinai Robins, Temple University
Andrew V. Sills, Pennsylvania State University
Alexander Soshnikov, UC Davis
Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota
Sergei Suslov, Arizona State University
Ferenc Tookos, University of South Florida

FUNDING

We have some basic funding for the conference from the Math Department and the Institute for Fundamental Theory at the University of Florida. We have outside support from The Number Theory Foundation and the NSF.

ORGANIZERS

Alexander Berkovich, University of Florida (technical advisor)
Frank Garvan, University of Florida
K.A. Muttalib, University of Florida

OTHER LOCAL MATH CONFERENCES

There are three other math conferences being held here in Gainesville around the same time:

March 1-2, 2003, 9th SouthEastern Logic Symposium, organized by Jindrich Zapletal.
March 6-12, 2003, Finite Groups 2003, an international conference on Finite Groups and Related Topics, organized by C. Y. Ho, P. Sin, P. H. Tiep and A. Turull.
March 3-7, 2003, Workshop on Computational Aspects of Algebraic Curves, and Cryptography, organized by G. Frey and H. Voelklein.

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