July 29 - 30, 2010

 

Location: ETH Hönggerberg, building HIT, lecture room E 41.1

For information about how to get to the ETH Hönggerberg, please consult the site information page of ETH Zürich.

 

Program

Thursday, July 29, 2010

9.30 – 10.30 h
Renato Renner (ETH Zürich): On the non-extendibility of quantum theory

10.30 – 11.00 h
Tea & Coffee

11.00 – 12.00 h
Joel Feldman (University of British Colombia, Canada): The Temporal Ultraviolet Limit for Bosonic Many-body Models

15.00 – 16.00 h
Tom Spencer (IAS, Princeton, USA): Fluctuations of 2D random surfaces and singular integral operators

16.30 – 17.30 h
Michael Marc Wolf (Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, Denmark): Some inverse problems for quantum channels

 

Friday, July 30, 2010

9.30 – 10.30 h
Alessandro Pizzo (University of California, USA): Absence of Embedded Mass Shells: Cerenkov Radiation and Quantum Friction

10.30 – 11.00 h
Tea & Coffee

11.00 – 12.00 h
John Imbrie (University of Virginia, USA): A phase-space model for ice-age response to orbital forcing

15.30 – 16.30 h
Israel Michael Sigal (University of Toronto, Canada): On Statics and Dynamics of Magnetic Vortices

 

Organization: Jürg Fröhlich