The Painlevé Equations and Monodromy Problems : Recent Developments

18 - 22 September 2006, The Isaac Newton Institute

18th (Mon)
10:00--11:00 Alexander Bobenko (Berlin)
"Linear and nonlinear theories of discrete analytic functions. Integrable structure and isomonodromic Green's function"
11:30--11:30 Coffee
11:30--12:30 Frank Nijhoff (Leeds)
TBA
14:00--15:00 Hidetaka Sakai (Tokyo)
TBA
15:30--16:30Rod Halburd (Loughborough)
"Diophantine Integrability"
16:30--17:30 Walter Van Assche (Leuven)
"Discrete Painlevé equations for recurrence coefficients of orthogonal polynomials"
18:00--19:00Wine reception and poster session
19th (Tue)
09:00--10:00 Pierre van Moerbeke (Louvain)
"Critical infinite-dimensional diffusions and non-linear equations for their transition probabilities"
10:00--11:00 Arno Kuijlaars (Leuven)
"Universality of Painlevé functions in random matrix models"
11:30--11:30 Coffee
11:30--12:30 Contributed talks I
14:00--15:00 Ilpo Laine (Joensuu)
"Value distribution of solutions of Painlevˇ­e differential equations"
15:30--16:30Shun Shimomura (Keio)
"A family of solutions of a degenerate Garnier system near a singularity"
16:30--17:30Katsunori Iwasaki (Kyushu)
"The sixth Painlevé equation: moduli spaces, singularities, and dynamical systems"
20th (Wed)
09:00--10:00 Benjamin Doyon (Oxford)
"Solving Painleve connection problems using 2-dimensional integrable quantum field theory"
10:00--11:00 Jean-Pierre Ramis (Toulouse)
"Wild fundamental groups for linear differential and q-difference equations: a parallelism"
11:30--11:30 Coffee
11:30--12:30 Contributed talks II
14:00--17:00 Informal discussions
21st (Thu)
09:00--10:00 John Harnad (Montreal)
"Isomonodromic deformation equations, R-matrix theory and duality"
10:00--11:00 Peter Clarkson (Kent)
"Rational solutions and associated special polynomials associated for the Painlevé equations"
11:30--11:30 Coffee
11:30--12:30 Contributed talks III
14:00--15:00 Dimitri Korotkin (Concordia)
"Bergman tau-function and determinants of Laplacians in flat conical metrics over Riemann surfaces"
15:30--16:30Marta Mazzocco (Manchester)
"The Hamiltonian structure of the second Painlevé hierarchy"
16:30--17:30Nick Woodhouse (Oxford)
"Twistors and monodromy"
19:30--Conference dinner (Old Library, Emmanuel College)
22nd (Fri)
09:00--10:00 Boris Dubrovin (SISSA)
TBA
10:00--11:00 Bernard Mangrange (Grenoble)
"Non-linear differential Galois theory"
11:30--11:30 Coffee
11:30--12:30 Contributed talks IV
14:00--15:00 Masatoshi Noumi (Kobe)
"Painlevé systems arising from integrable hierarchies"
15:30--16:30Alexander Veselov (Loughborough)
"Monodromy-free Schrödinger equations and Painlevé transcendents"
16:30--16:45Closing

09:00-10:00 10:00-11:00 11:30-12:30 14:00-15:00 15:30-16:30 16:30-17:30
18th A. Bobenko F. Niihoff H. Sakai R. Halburd W. Van Assche
19th P. van Moerbeke A. Kuijlaars Talks I. Laine S. Shimomura K. Iwasaki
20th B. Doyon J.-P. Ramis Talks II Y. Ohyama Discuss
21st J. Harnad P. Clarkson Talks III D. Korotkin M. Mazzocco N. Woodhouse
22nd B. Dubrovin B. Mangrange Talks IV M. Noumi A. Veselov

* 18th 8:30--09:45: Registration

Contributed talks (30 minutes)

Misha Feigin (Glasgow)
Degenerate Gaussian Unitary ensembles and Painlevé IV
 
Saburo Kakei (Tokyo)
From the KP hierarchy to the Painlevé equations
 
Hironobu Kimura (Kumamoto)
Degeneration and symmetry of the Schlesinger system from the point of view of Twistor theory
 
Christian Klein (Leipzig)
Dissipationless shocks and Painlevé equations
 
Risto Korhonen (Joensuu)
Finite order meromorphic solutions and the discrete Painlevé equations
 
Yoshihiro Murata (Nagasaki)
On matrix Painlevé equations
 
Vasilisa Shramchenko (Oxford)
Riemann-Hilbert problems associated with Hurwitz Frobenious manifolds
 
Mo Man Yue (Montreal)
The Riemann-Hilbert approach to the asymptotics of isomonodromic problems
 

Poster session

Duits, M [2]
Painlevé I asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials with respect to a varying quartic weight
 
Grahovski, G [2]
New integrable multi-component NLS type equations on symmetric spaces
 
Gromak, V [1][2]
On properties of the higher order Painleve equations
 
Kaneko, K [1][2]
Painleve VI transcendents which are meromorphic at a fixed singularity
 
Kikuchi, T [1][2]
A q-analogue of gl_3 hierarchy and q-Painleve VI
 
Lisovyy, O [1][2]
Aharonov-Bohm scattering on the poincare disk and the Painleve VI equation
 
Mano, T [2]
Monodromy preserving deformations of the linear differential equations on elliptic curves and the sixth Painleve equation
 
Matsuda, K [1][2]
Tau function in the confluent case
 
Morgan, W [2]
Diophantine integrability and the QRT map
 
Murata, M [1][2]
Two-component soliton systems and the Painleve equations
 
Nagoya, H [1][2]
Quantum Painleve systems
 
Okumura, S [1][2]
Symmetric solutions of the Painleve equations and mod three reduction
 
Sasaki, Y [2]
Value distribution of the fifth Painleve transcendents
 
Suzuki, M [1][2]
Spaces of initial conditions of Garnier system and its degenerate systems in two variables
 
Suzuki, T [2]
Coupled Painlevé VI system arising from Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchy (joint work with K. Fuji)
 
Tahara, N [1]
A Symmetries and group invariant reductions of integrable equations on quadgraphs to discrete Painlevé equations
 
Takenawa, T [2]
Integrability of discrete dynamical systems from the point of view of algebraic varieties
 
Tongas, A [1]
Symmetries and group invariant reductions of integrable equations on quadgraphs to discrete Painleve equations
 
Treharne, P [1]
Reduction of the associated scattering problem for the resonant three wave interaction system to an associated monodromy problem for the fifth Painleve equation
 
 
[1] for the first week, [2] for the second week.
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