SCHEDULE

Friday, March 21, 2003

Location. All Friday lectures are in NPB 2205 (New Physics Building) except Andrews's 4:05pm lecture which is in NPB 1001.

7:30 - 4:00pm
Registration in front of NPB 2205

8:20 - 8:30am
Pierre Ramond and Krishnaswami Alladi
Opening remarks

8:30 - 9:20am
Barry McCoy, Stony Brook
The 8 vertex-chiral Potts analogy

9:35 - 9:50am
BREAK

9:50 - 10:40am
Daniel Gottesman, Berkeley and Perimeter Institute, Waterloo
Private Key and Public Key Quantum Cryptography

10:50 - 11:40am
Philippe Di Francesco, CEA Saclay
Geometrically constrained statistical models on fixed and random lattice: from hard squares to meanders

11:45 - 1:30pm
LUNCH

1:30 - 1:50pm
Murray Batchelor, ANU, Canberra
The XXZ spin chain and combinatorics

2:00 - 2:20pm
Tony Guttmann, University of Melbourne
Self-avoiding walks on non-Euclidean, irregular and quasiperiodic lattices

2:30 - 2:50pm
Hilary Carteret, University of Waterloo
The discrete quantum walk on the infinite line

3:00 - 3:20pm
Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky
The pre-WDVV ring of physics and its topology

3:30 - 4:00pm
BREAK

4:05 - 4:55pm
George E. Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
Reflections on the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities in Statistical Mechanics

7:00 - 10:00pm
BANQUET at the Doubletree Hotel

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Saturday, March 22, 2003

Location. All Saturday and Sunday lectures are in Little Hall Room 339, also known as the Atrium.

9:00 - 9:50am
F.Y.Wu, Northeastern University
Some recent results in dimer statistics

9:55 - 10:20am
BREAK

10:20 - 11:10am
Xavier G. Viennot, Universite Bordeaux 1
Heaps of pieces in physics

11:15 - 11:30am
BREAK

11:30 - 12:20pm
James Propp, University of Wisconsin
q versus lambda: plane partitions, alternating sign matrices, and lattice models

12:30 - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00 - 2:50pm
Tetsuji Miwa, RIMS, Kyoto
Physical Combinatorics I: CFT and restricted Kostka polynomials

3:00 - 3:20pm
Stephen Milne, Ohio State University
New formulas for Ramanujan's tau function and other classical cusp forms

3:30 - 3:50pm
Jinho Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Limiting distribution of random growth models

4:00 - 4:30pm
BREAK

4:30 - 5:20pm
Robert Calderbank, AT&T Labs
Combinatorics, Quantum Computers and Cellular Phones

8:00 - 10:00pm
PARTY at the home of Krishna and Mathura Alladi

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Sunday, March 23, 2003

9:00 - 9:50am
Michio Jimbo, University of Tokyo
Physical Combinatorics II: Counting form factors

9:55 - 10:20am
BREAK

10:20 - 11:10am
Michael Rubinstein, AIM, Palo Alto
The Riemann Hypothesis and Random Matrix Theory

11:15 - 11:30am
BREAK

11:30 - 11:50am
Vyacheslav P. Spiridonov, JINR, Dubna
Theta Hypergeometric Series and Integrals

12:00 - 12:20pm
Ole Warnaar, University of Melbourne
Integral representations of multivariable elliptic hypergeometric series

12:30 - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00 - 2:20pm
Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of South Florida
Bethe Ansatz Equation of XXZ Model

2:30 - 2:50pm
Anne Schilling, University of California at Davis
Virtual Kleber algorithm

3:00 - 3:20pm
Pierre Mathieu, Laval University, Quebec
Summing `jagged partitions' with exclusion

3:30 - 3:50pm
Thomas Prellberg, Technische Universität Clausthal
A proof of the Monotonicity Conjecture by Friedman, Joichi, and Stanton


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