Conference "Geometry and Combinatorics in Physics"

March 2-7, 2004

The main topics of the conference were:

1. Growth processes (with emphasis on discrete models and random walks).
2. Loop models, alternating sign matrices and spin chains.
3. Geometry of space-time and conformal geometry

List of participants and titles of contributions

1. Thierry Barbot, Spacetimes with constant curvature <Thierry.Barbot AT umpa.ens-lyon.fr>
2. Eric Brunet, Growth models from the point of view of disordered systems. Exact cumulants for the average height of the KPZ equation <Eric.Brunet AT lps.ens.fr>
3. Leonid Chekhov, Quantum Thurston theory and dynamics of laminations <chekhov AT mi.ras.ru>
4. Alessandra Frabetti, Noncommutative Lagrange formula <frabetti AT igd.univ-lyon1.fr>
5. Charles Frances, Geometry and dynamics on EinsteinÒs universe <Charles.FRANCES AT umpa.ens-lyon.fr>
6. Alexander Gorsky, Spin chains and RG flows <gorsky AT itep.ru>
7. Daniel Grunberg, Automorphic forms in string theory <grunberg AT mccme.ru>
8. Florent Hivert, Piles, Eulerian numbers, and generating series <florent.hivert AT univ-mlv.fr>
9. Sergei Kozyrev, p-adic wavelet transforms and ultrametric diffusion <sergei_kozyrev AT mail.ru>
10. Grigori Litvinov, Dequantization of mathematics, mathematical physics, and computer applications <islc AT dol.ru>
11. Jean Mairesse, Traces, braids, and random walks <Jean.Mairesse AT liafa.jussieu.fr>
12. Sergei Nechaev, Topological percolation on a square lattice <nechaev AT free.fr>
13. Grigori Olshanski, Continuous time Markov chains related to Plancherel measure on Young diagrams <olsh AT online.ru>
14. Michael Praehofer, Fluctuations in one-dimensional stochastic growth <praehofe AT ma.tum.de>
15. Alexander Razumov, Square ice model and alternating-sign matrices: old and new results <Alexander.Razumov AT ihep.ru>
16. Senya Shlosman, On a statistiacl model if Ising type <shlosman AT cpt.univ-mrs.fr>
17. Nikita Slavnov, Correlation functions of XXZ-chains <nslavnov AT mi.ras.ru>
18. Yuri Stroganov, Finite integrable spin chains (and combinatorics), <stroganov AT mx.ihep.su>
19. Michael Tamm, Randomly branched polymers in a half-space <tamm AT polly.phys.msu.ru>
20. Paul Zinn-Justin, Fully Packed Loops and Plane Partitions <pzinn AT ipno.in2p3.fr>