Spring 2011 seminar on integrable models in physics and combinatorics

This semester Marni is organizing a learning seminar on integrable models and related combinatorics.

We meet Wednesdays from 1 to 2:30 in K9509.

Schedule

February 2: Marni Mishna, An overview of relevant combinatorial models.
February 9: Nicolas Marie, Spin chains.
February 16: Spring Break, no seminar
February 23: Note, this week we are in the PIMS seminar room
Sophie Burrill, Plane partitions.
March 2: Cancelled
March 9: No seminar because Marni is in France
March 16: Marni Mishna, linking plane partitions and spin chains.
March 23: Note, we are in the PIMS seminar room
Nicolas Marie, More on plane partitions as a spin model
March 30: Karen Yeats, What is known towards a bijection between TSSCPP and ASM. Handout.
April 6: Nicolas Marie. Notes.

References

Luigi Cantini and Andrea Sportiello, Proof of the Razumov-Stroganov conjecture
Nicolas' notes on Spin chains, part 1.
N. M. Bogoliubov, "Four vertex model" Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 151, No. 2, 2008
N. M. Bogoliubov, Four vertex model and random tilings.
Nicolas' notes on the preceeding
Nicolas' notes on the 6-vertex model.

Previous seminars

In Fall 2010, Samson Black and I organied a learning seminar on knots and quantum field theory.
In late April and May 2010 I gave a series of 5 lectures on Renormalization Hopf Algebras, and the participants kindly took notes.
Spring 2010 workgroup on Random matrices, symmetric functions, and graph enumeration.

Older seminars on more motivic topics from when I was at Boston University. There are many broken links, but I consider these archived and so they will not be changed.

Fall 2006 seminar on motives with applications in physics
Spring 2006 Motives-Arithmetic-Physics Seminar (organized by Obi Rej).
Fall 2005 learning seminar on motives