Program
| Sunday, May 17 | |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome Dinner at MPI PKS |
| Monday, May 18 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening |
| Jan-Michael Rost (Executive Director MPIPKS) and Wolfhard Janke |
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| 09:00 - 09:40 | Stephen Boughn (Haverford, USA) |
| Nonquantum gravity | |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Andrzej Görlich (Krakow, Poland) |
| Matter fields in 4D causal dynamical triangulations | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Adriaan Schakel (Berlin/Leipzig, Germany) |
| Proliferating geometrical objects driving phase transitions | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Bernd A. Berg (Tallahassee, USA) |
| Simulations on a double-layered torus | |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Elmar Bittner (Leipzig, Germany) |
| Droplet condensation at first-order phase transitions | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | David H. Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) |
| High precision arithmetic and mathematical physics | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Dmytro Volin (Antony, France) |
| Mass gap in the O (N) sigma models | |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Steven Johnston (London, UK) |
| Path integrals on causal sets | |
| 15:40 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | MPI PKS Colloquium: Jean Zinn-Justin (Saclay, France) |
| Renormalization group approach to matrix models | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday, May 19 | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Tilo Wettig (Regensburg, Germany) |
| QCD at nonzero density and non-hermitian chiral RMT | |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Jacques Bloch (Regensburg, Germany) |
| Random matrix analysis of the QCD sign problem | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Jean-Emile Bourgine (Saclay, France) |
| The O (n) matrix model with boundaries | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | George Savvidy (Athens, Greece) |
| Non-Abelian tensor gauge fields and open strings | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Willem Westra (Reykjavik, Iceland) |
| Causal random surfaces from ordinary integrals | |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | David Saad (Aston, UK) |
| Statistical pyhsics of sparse random matrices over finite fields | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Gernot Akemann (London, UK) |
| Random matrices with heavy tails and applications to finance | |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Petr Jizba (Berlin, Germany) |
| Connection between path-integral representation of relativistic particle and financial markets | |
| 15:40 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Poster oral announcements |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Poster session |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Poster session and Discussions |
| Wednesday, May 20 | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Martin Evans (Edinburgh, UK) |
| Condensation phenomena in nonequilibrium systems | |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Bartomiej Waclaw (Leipzig, Germany) |
| Condensation in pair-factorized steady states on graphs | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Des Johnston (Edinburgh, UK) |
| Continued fractions and the PASEP | |
| 10:40 - 10:45 | Group photo (to be published on the web) |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Rudolf Hilfer (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| Random geometries and porous media | |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Martin Weigel (Mainz, Germany) |
| Optimization algorithms for discrete and continuous spin systems | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Excursion and Conference Dinner |
| Thursday, May 21 | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Zdzislaw Burda (Krakow, Poland) |
| Localization of maximal entropy random walk | |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | John Wheater (Oxford, UK) |
| The spectral dimension of random graph ensembles | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Thordur Jonsson (Reykjavik, Iceland) |
| Appearance of vertices of infinite order in a model of random trees | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Martin Reuter (Mainz, Germany) |
| Asymptotic safety in quantum Einstein gravity | |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Francois David (Saclay, France) |
| The KPZ relations revisited | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Renate Loll (Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
| Looking for fundamental discreteness in 3d quantum gravity | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Tiago Fonseca (Paris, France) |
| Quantum integrability and combinatorics: The ground state of the 0(1) loop model | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Nikos Irges (Universität Wuppertal) |
| Mean-field gauge interactions in five dimensions | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Graziano Vernizzi (Northwestern, USA) |
| Symmetries in self-assembled ionic nanostructures | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | PI Meeting |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Friday, May 22 | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Ralph Kenna (Coventry, UK) |
| The site-diluted Ising model in two and four dimensions | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Richard Blythe (Edingburgh, UK) |
| Dynamically-selected metastable states in mean-field models of spin glasses | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Michael Moore (Manchester, UK) |
| The glass and jamming transitions as a spin glass problem | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Closing remarks |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Departure |
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