Baxter2025 Exactly Solved Models and Beyond: Celebrating the life and achievements of Rodney James Baxter
This conference celebrates the life and achievements of Emeritus Professor Rodney James Baxter 1940-2025. It will highlight Professor Baxter's extraordinary career and pioneering contributions to exactly solved models in statistical mechanics, which continue to inspire profound developments in key areas of mathematics and physics.
About
This event will be hosted in hybrid online and face-to-face mode by the Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, with a mixture of local and international participants from Europe, the UK, USA, China and Japan.
There is no registration fee but participants are asked to register on the website.
Program
Speakers List
Francisco Alcaraz (Universidade de São Paulo) Recording
Natan Andrei (Rutgers University) Recording
Thermodynamics in a split Hilbert Space Andrei
Murray Batchelor MSI (Australian National University) Recording
Vladimir Bazhanov RPhys (Australian National University) Recording
Alexander Belavin (Independent University of Moscow) Recording
Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin) Recording
Herman Boos (University of Wuppertal) Recording
Geoff Campbell (Australian National University) Recording
Fabian Essler (University of Oxford) Recording
Paul Fendley (University of Oxford) Recording
Angela Foerster (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Recording
Peter Forrester (University of Melbourne) Recording
Jan de Gier (University of Melbourne) Recording
Xiwen Guan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan) Recording
Quantum transport in 1D Hubbard model Xi-Wen Guan
Tony Guttmann (University of Melbourne) Recording
Jesper Jacobsen (Sorbonne University, Paris) Recording
Nalini Joshi (University of Sydney) Recording
Rinat Kashaev (Universite de Geneve) Recording
Andreas Klumper (University of Wuppertal) Recording
Vladimir Korepin (Stony Brook University) Recording
Charlotte Kristjansen (Niels Bohr Institute) Recording
Atsuo Kuniba (University of Tokyo) Recording
Jon Links (University of Queensland) Recording
Alexey Litvinov (Skoltech, Moscow) Recording
Sergei Lukyanov (Rutgers University) Recording
Jean-Marie Maillard (Sorbonne University) Recording
Andrei Marshakov (Moscow, Dept. Math. HSE) Recording
Guiseppe Mussardo (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy) Recording
Statistical signature of integrable and chaotic quantum hamiltonians Giuseppe Mussardo
Bernard Nienhuis (Universiteit Leiden) Recording
Rafael Nepomechie (University of Miami) Recording
Aleks Owczarek (University of Melbourne) Recording
Vincent Pasquier (Université Paris-Saclay) Recording
Paul Pearce (University of Queensland) Recording
Jacques Perk (Oklahoma State University) Recording
Balazs Pozsgay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Recording
Tomaz Prosen (University of Ljubljana) Recording
Reinout Quispel (La Trobe University) Recording
Nicolai Reshetikhin (Tsinghua University) Recording
Ana Retore (DESY Hamburg) Recording
Novel techniques for constructing and deforming integrable models Ana Retore
Hubert Saleur (Université Paris-Saclay) Recording
Tomohiro Sasamoto (Chiba University) Recording
Sergey Sergeev (University of Canberra) Recording
Feodor Smirnov (Sorbonne University) Recording
Leon Takhtajan (Stony Brook University) Recording
Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli (University of Queensland) Recording
Yupeng Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) Recording
Ole Warnaar (University of Queensland) Recording
Michael Wheeler (University of Melbourne) Recording
Paul Wiegmann (University of Chicago) Recording
Ed Witten (Princeton University) Recording
Masahito Yamazaki (University of Tokyo) Recording
Generalised chiral potts models and hyperbolic monopoles from chern-simons theory Masahito Yamazaki
Konstantin Zarembo (Nordita, Sweden) Recording
Scientific organisers
Murray Batchelor MSI (Australian National University)
Vladimir Bazhanov RPhys (Australian National University)
Registration as a participant
Registrations for participants are open. Zoom link will be provided to registered participants closer to the event.
Conference photo
Venue
Mathematical Sciences Institute
ANU College of Systems and Society
Seminar Rooms 1.33 & 1.37
Hanna Neumann Building #145, Science Road
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2600
Schedule
14:00-14:30
Rodney J Baxter - Life and Career
- Speaker: Murray Batchelor
In-person/Online
14:30-15:00
Rodney J Baxter -- Research Achievements
- Speaker: Vladimir Bazhanov
In-person/Online
15:00-15:30
Ocneanu Algebra of Seams: E_6 RSOS Lattice Model
- Speaker: Paul Pearce
In-person/Online
15:30-16:00
From Baxter’s model to diagonals of rational functions and differentially algebraic globally bounded series
- Speaker: Jean-Marie Maillard
In-person/Online
16:30-17:00
Free field construction of Heterotic string compactied on Calabi-Yau manifolds of Berglund-Hubsch type in Batyrev-Borisov combinatorial approach
- Speaker: Alexander Belavin
Online
17:00-17:30
Algebraic formula for correlation function of XYZ model
- Speaker: Fedor Smirnov
Online
17:30-18:00
Integrable spin chains with medium range interactions
- Speaker: Balázs Pozsgay
Online
18:00-18:30
Orthogonal ring patterns, discrete integrable systems and discrete surfaces
- Speaker: Alexander Bobenko
Online
18:30-19:00
O(3) sigma model, XXX spin chains and t’Hooft anomalies
- Speaker: Hubert Saleur
Online
09:00-09:45
Integrability from four dimensions
- Speaker: Edward Witten
Online
09:45-10:15
Baxter’s work – a guiding star to quantum integrability
- Speaker: Leon Takhatajan
Online
10:15-10:45
Yang-Baxter equations and Clifford algebras
- Speaker: Vladimir Korepin
Online
11:30-12.00
Reminiscences relating to Rodney’s work in 1983 and 1984
- Speaker: Peter Forrester
Online
12:00-12:30
Rodney Baxter's 398th solution of the Ising model
- Speaker: Tony Guttmann
Online
14:00-14:30
On algebraic structures underlying the rational Kashiwara-Miwa model
- Speaker: Sergey Sergeev
In-person/Online
14:30-15:00
Quantized six-vertex model on a torus
- Speaker: Atsuo Kuniba
In-person/Online
15:00-15:30
On the XXX spin-1/2 quantum chain with non-diagonal boundary fields
- Speaker: Andreas Klumper
In-person/Online
16:30-17:00
On correlation numbers in Virasoro Minimal String Theory
- Speaker: Alexey Litvinov
Online
17:00-17:30
Decorated Newton polygons and cluster reductions
- Speaker: Andrei Marshakov
Online
17:30-18:00
R-matrices from exterior algebras with braided Hopf structures
- Speaker: Rinat Kashaev
Online
18:00-18:30
Novel Techniques for constructing and deforming Integrable Models
- Speaker: Ana Retore
Online
18:30-19:00
On time discretization of classical integrable models
- Speaker: Vincent Pasquier
Online
09:00-09:30
Remembering Rodney
- Speaker: Jacques Perk
Online
10:00-10:30
Exact density profile and current fluctuations in a tight-binding chain with dephasing noise
- Speaker: Tomohiro Sasamoto
Online
10:30-11:00
Quantum transport in 1D Hubbard model: Drude weights and Seebeck effect
- Speaker: Xiwen Guan
Online
11:30-12.00
How I learnt to stop worrying and love elliptic curves
- Speaker: Nalini Joshi
Online
12:00-12:30
The factorizability of integrable ODEs
- Speaker: Reinout Quispel
Online
14:00-14:30
On a conjecture in need of a Baxter
- Speaker: Ole Warnaar
Online
14:30-15:00
Solvable lattice models: Yang-Baxter, Hecke and Macdonald
- Speaker: Jan de Gier
Online
15:00-15:30
On Baxter's T-Q relation
- Speaker: Yupeng Wang
Online
16:00-16:30
Integrable 1/2 BPS Nahm pole defects in N=4 SYM
- Speaker: Charlotte Kristjansen
Online
16:30-17:00
Exactly Solved Models in the Design of Quantum Architectures
- Speaker: Angela Foerster
Online
17:00-17:30
Algebraic approach to interfaces in the three-state Potts model
- Speaker: Jesper Jacobsen
Online
17:30-18:00
Baxter's TQ-relation and its applications
- Speaker: Hermann Boos
Online
18:00-18:30
Universality in the hyperbolic plane
- Speaker: Bernard Nienhuis
Online
18:30-19:00
Integrability on the Coulomb branch
- Speaker: Konstantin Zarembo
Online
08:30-09:00
Generalizations of the free-parafermionic Z(N) Baxter quantum chains
- Speaker: Francisco Alcaraz
09:00-09:30
Thermodynamics in a split Hilbert space: Quantum impurity in an interacting 1-d system
- Speaker: Natan Andrei
Online
09:30-10:00
Inhomogeneous Baxter model at criticality
- Speaker: Sergei Lukyanov
Online
10:00-10:30
Boundary reflection matrices of perturbed minimal models
- Speaker: Rafael Nepomechie
Online
10:30-11:00
Generalized Chiral Potts models and hyperbolic monopoles from Chern-Simons theories
- Speaker: Masahito Yamazaki
Online
11:30-12:00
Exact solution of asymmetric gelation between three walks on the square lattice
- Speaker: Aleks Owczarek
Online
12:00-12.30
The Rogers-Ramanujan journey from mathematics to physics
- Speaker: Geoffrey Campbell
Online
14:00-14:30
Yang-Baxter integrability of bosons hopping on the square lattice with global-range interaction
- Speaker: Jon Links
Online
14:30-15:00
Expansion coefficients and the Yang-Baxter equation
- Speaker: Michael Wheeler
Online
15:00-15:30
On TTbar and higher-spin deformations of integrable field theories
- Speaker: Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli
16:00-16:30
Semiclassical limit of the Beth Ansatz and finite gaps solutions of soliton equations
- Speaker: Pavel Weigmann
Online
16:30-17:00
On hybrid integrable systems
- Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin
Online
17:00-17:30
- Speaker: Giuseppe Mussardo
Online
17:30-18:00
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling in integrable magnets
- Speaker: Tomaz Prosen
Online
18:00-18:30
Statistics of matrix elements of local operators in integrable models
- Speaker: Fabian Essler
Online
18:30-19:00
Guided by Baxter
- Speaker: Paul Fendley
Online