homage to professor sir michael berry

PHYSICS AND
MATHEMATICS: A MARRIAGE
MADE IN HEAVEN OR UNHOLY
ALLIANCE?
“A mathematician, like a painter or
poet, is a maker of patterns. If his
patterns are more permanent than
theirs, it is because they are made
with ideas”.
HOMAGE TO
PROFESSOR
SIR MICHAEL BERRY
CENTRO DE
INNOVACIÓN
MATEMÁTICA
G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 1940.
We have the pleasure of inviting you to
the One-Day Symposium on Professor Sir
M.V. Berry Homage. This event aims at
nomination of Sir Berry as the First
Foreign
Member
of
Mexican
Mathematical Society. We want to use
this opportunity in order to exchange our
progress in some still unsolved generic
theoretical
problems.
In
2008
Nonlinearity Journal paper (21:T19-T26),
Professor Sir M.V. Berry has identified
three quantum obsessions in theoretical
physics to which he has returned
repeatedly over several decades: “Is there
a connection between the Riemann zeros
and quantum physics of classical chaos?
Can the relation between spin and
statistics
be
understood
within
elementary quantum mechanics? How are
the phase singularities in classical optics
smoothed by quantum effects?” (Berry,
2008). These problems as well as the
concept of randomness controlled by
space geometry (Mandelbrot, 2003) will
be the subjects for free discussion in this
event.
Date: 3 of March, 2010
Venue: Centro de Geociencias, UNAM
UNAM, Blvd. Juriquilla 3001, Qro.
Room: Centro Académico Cultural (CAC)
Program
10:00 a.m. Welcome Ceremony by Dr. Raúl Paredes
Guerrero, President of Campus Juriquilla, UNAM.
10:10 a.m. Opening Speech of the Dr. Fernando Brambila
Páz, Former President of the Mexican Society of
Mathematics: Where Physics and Mathematics meet… The
official Ceremony of Professor Sir Michael V. Berry
nomination as the Foreigh Honorary Member of Mexican
Mathematical Society (Number 1).
10:40 a.m. Prof. Sir Michael V. Berry, Bristol University, U.K.
Emergence and asymptotics in physics: how one theory can
live inside another (¥)
11:40 a.m. Dr. Alfonso Mondragón Ballesteros, Institute of
Physics, UNAM, The Berry Phase of a Resonant State. (ӝ)
12:10 p.m. Dr. Alexander Balankin, IPN, Mathematics and
Physics of thin sheet folding. (£)
12:40 p.m. Coffee Break
13:10 p.m. Dr. Thomas Seligman Schurch, Institute of
Physical Sciences, UNAM. The Quantum Chaos Conjecture.
(ӝ )
13:40 p.m. Dr. José Antonio de la Peña Mena, Director
Adjunto de Desarrollo Científico y Académico, CONACYT;
Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Growth of networks: an
algebraic approach. (¥)
14:10 p.m. Dinner time
16:10 p.m. Dr. Mauricio Santillana, Henson Environmental
Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment,
Challenges in global atmospheric chemistry modeling. An
interplay of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. (¥)
16:40 p.m. Prof. Gunther Uhlmann, University of
Washington, Department of Mathematics, Visibility and
Invisibility. (£)
17:10 p.m. Dr. Moisés Herch Nussenzveig, Universidad
Federal de Río de Janeiro, Cell Nanotubes.
17:40 p.m. Dr. Ernesto A. Lacomba Zamora, Mathematics
Department, UAM. Point sources for incompressible planar
fluids, blow up of collisions. (ψ)
18:10 p.m. Dra. Klavdia Oleschko, Centro de Geociencias,
UNAM and Beatriz Fujii O., Fellowship of RAE and SMM.
Moonlight and prime numbers distribution: Where Nature,
Physics and Mathematics meet…(£)
18:40 p.m. Closing Ceremony
Chairman:
(¥) Dr. Luis Montejano
(£) Dr. Fernando Brambila Paz
(ψ) Dr. Manuel Falconi
(ӝ) Dr. Victor Castaño