Workshop on Random Trees

August 12-16, 2013

Program
 

Monday, August 12, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Donald A. Dawson
(Carleton University)
A class of interacting populations undergoing mutation and selection
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Thomas Duquesne
(Université Paris 6 - Pierre et Marie Curie)
Hereditary tree growth and Lévy forets
Abstract
11:30 - 13:20
Lunch break
13:20 - 14:20
Sébastien Roch
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Maximum likelihood in phylogenetics: Relating combinatorial and variational distances on trees
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Robert C. Griffiths
(University of Oxford)
Lambda coalescent trees and graphs as dual processes
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire André-Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 1360

16:00 - 17:00
David Aldous
(University of California, Berkeley)
What does mathematical probability tell us about the real world?
Abstract

17:00 - 19:00
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Tuesday, August 13, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Christina Goldschmidt
(University of Oxford)
The scaling limit of the minimum spanning tree of the complete graph
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Amaury Lambert
(College de France-CNRS UMR 7241)
Coalescent trees of birth-death models
Abstract
11:30 - 13:20
Lunch break
13:20 - 14:20
Shui Feng
(McMaster University)
Asymptotic behaviour of some random measures
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Cyril Labbé
(Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI))
The Eve property for CSBP
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Shishi Luo
(Duke University)
A Fleming-Viot process for multiscale evolutionary dynamic
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:30
Yu-Ting Chen
(Université de Montréal)
Sharp benefit-to-cost rules for the evolution of cooperation on regular graphs
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Mariolys Rivas
(Concordia University)
Some constructions on multi-type branching trees
Abstract

 

Wednesday, August 14, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Anton Wakolbinger
(Goethe-Universtität Frankfurt)
Trickle-down processes and their boundaries
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Ellen Baake
(University of Bielefeld)
The Moran model with selection (and mutation): Fixation probabilities, ancestral lines, and an alternative particle representation
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
David Aldous
(University of California, Berkeley)
Interacting Particle Systems as Stochastic Social Dynamics
Abstract

Free afternoon

 

Thursday, August 15, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Steven Neil Evans
(UC Berkeley)
Doob-Martin boundary of the Rémy chain
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Jason Schweinsberg
(University of California at San Diego)
Branching Brownian motion with absorption
Abstract
11:30 - 13:20
Lunch break
13:20 - 14:20
Shankar Bhamidi
(University of North Carolina)
Local and non-local preferential attachment models
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Arnab Sen
(University of Minnesota)
Continuous spectra for sparse random graphs
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Nicolas Fraiman
(McGill University)
Scaled attachment recursive trees
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

 

Friday, August 16, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
J. Theodore Cox
(Syracuse University)
Convergence of voter model densities
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
David Aldous
(University of California, Berkeley)
The Compulsive Gambler and the Metric Coalescent
Abstract

11:30
Closure of the workshop

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