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