Workshop: Random Growth Problems and Random Matrices

September 2-6, 2016

Program

 

Friday, September 2, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Brian Rider
(Temple University )
A universality result for the random matrix hard edge
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 11:00
Amanda Turner
(Lancaster University)
Scaling limits of Laplacian random growth models
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee
11:30 - 12:30
Philippe Sosoe
(Harvard University)
Arm events in two-dimensional invasion percolation
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Michael Damron
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
The size of the boundary in the Eden model
Abstract

15:30 - 16:30
Coffee break

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

16:00 - 17:00
Scott Sheffield
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Universal randomness in 2D
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
17:00 - 18:00
Yuval Peres
(Microsoft Research)
From Laplacian growth to competitive erosion
Abstract

18:00
Reception

 

Saturday, September 3, 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Christina Goldschmidt
(University of Oxford)
Critical random graphs with i.i.d. random degrees having power-law tails
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:30
Anna Lytova
(University of Alberta)
On invertibility of adjacency matrices of random d-regular digraphs
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee
14:30 - 15:30
Richard Kenyon
(Brown University)
Spanning trees, forests, and homotopic limit shapes
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

15:30 - 16:30
Yuval Peres
(Microsoft Research)
Competitive erosion is conformally invariant
Abstract

 

Sunday, September 4, 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Omer Angel
(University of British Columbia)
Competition in branching and annihilating random walks
Abstract

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

10:30 - 11:30
Scott Sheffield
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
More universal randomness in 2D and its relationship to gauge theory - I
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

11:30 - 12:00
Coffee

12:00
Free afternoon

 

Monday, September 5, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Nina Gantert
(Technical University Munich)
Large deviations for random projections of $\ell^p$ balls
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

10:00 - 11:00
Yuval Peres
(Microsoft Research)
Random walks on dynamical percolation
Abstract

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee

11:30 - 14:00
Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30
Coffee


Meeting room(s) : 6254

14:30 - 15:30
Paul Bourgade
(New York University)
Random matrices beyond mean-field
Abstract

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

15:30 - 16:30
Scott Sheffield
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
More universal randomness in 2D and its relationship to gauge theory - II
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Sourav Chatterjee
(Stanford University)
The 1/N expansion for lattice gauge theories
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 11:00
Antonio Auffinger
(Northwestern University)
The ground state energy of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee
11:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee
14:30 - 15:30
Christopher Hoffman
(University of Washington)
Geodesics in first passage percolation
Abstract
15:30 - 16:30
Laure Dumaz
(Université Paris-Dauphine)
Two-dimensional near-critical forests
Abstract

Diapos / Slides