Workshop: Noncommutative Geometry and the fractional quantum Hall effect
- Date: Fri, 2 - Tue, 6 Aug 2002
- Location: Engineering & Maths Building, Room EM117, North Terrace campus
- Contact: Peter Bouwknegt Organiser
- Mathai Varghese Organiser
Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry and the fractional quantum Hall effect at the Institute for Geometry and its Applications on 2, 5 and 6 August, 2002.
Speakers
- Keith Hannabuss (University of Oxford, UK)
- Bernard Helffer (Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France)
- Ahmed Jellal (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany)
- Yuri Kordyukov (Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia)
- Takashi Yamamoto (University of Adelaide)
- Sam Yates (University of Adelaide)
- Andrej Zuk (CRNS - ENS Lyon, France, and University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Schedule
| Friday 2nd August 2002 | |
| 13:45-14:00 | Opening |
| 14:00-15:00 | Bernard Helffer (University of Paris, Orsay, Paris) On spectral questions for the Schrodinger operator with magnetic field coming from the superconductivity |
| 15:00-15:30 | Refreshments |
| 15:30-16:30 | Bernard Helffer (University of Paris, Orsay, Paris) Tunnelling and the fine structure of spectrum of magnetic Schrodinger operators |
| 17:30 | Drinks and Workshop dinner |
| Saturday 3rd August 2002 | |
| 11:00-17:00 (approx) |
Wine tour (MacLaren Vale) |
| Monday 5th August 2002 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Yuri Kordyukov (Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia) Refined semiclassical asymptotics and vanishing theorems I |
| 11:00-12:00 | Andrej Zuk (CRNS - ENS Lyon, France, and University of Chicago, Chicago, USA) Spectral theory of automata groups I |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-15:00 | Takashi Yamamoto (Adelaide University) Dynamics of spin chains with an odd number of sites |
| 15:00-15:15 | Refreshments |
| 15:15-16:15 | Ahmed Jellal (Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany) Hall Effect in Noncommutative Coordinates |
| 16:15-17:15 | Keith Hannabuss (University of Oxford, UK) The quantum Hall effect in non-commutative hyperbolic space |
| Tuesday 6th August 2002 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Andrej Zuk (CRNS - ENS Lyon, France, and University of Chicago, Chicago, USA) Spectral theory of automata groups II |
| 11:00-12:00 | Yuri Kordyukov (Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia) Refined semiclassical asymptotics and vanishing theorems II |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-15:00 | Ahmed Jellal (Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany) A Matrix Model for ${\nu_{k_1k_2}={k_1+k_2 \over k_1 k_2}}$ Fractional Quantum Hall States |
| 15:00-15:15 | Refreshments |
| 15:15-16:15 | Keith Hannabuss (University of Oxford, UK) The non-commutative twistor transform |
| 16:15-17:15 | Sam Yates (University of Adelaide) A vector-valued Harper operator |
Participant information
Venue
Engineering & Maths Building, Room EM117, North Terrace Campus (see campus map).
Registration
To express interest in attending the conference Noncommutative Geometry and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, and to be included in the mailing list for any future notices regarding it, please contact one of the organisers at the address below.
Organisers
A/Prof Peter Bouwknegt
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics
and Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia
Phone: (08) 8303-5308
Fax: (08) 8303-4380
E-mail: pbouwkne@physics.adelaide.edu.au
A/Prof Mathai Varghese
School of Pure Mathematics
University of Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia
Phone: (08) 8303-4173
Fax: (08) 8303-3696
E-mail: mathai.varghese@adelaide.edu.au