Workshop: Probabilistic Methods in Topology

November 14-18, 2016

Program
 

Monday, November 14, 2016
09:30 - 10:20
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

10:20 - 10:30
Opening Remarks
10:30 - 11:20
Igor Rivin
(University of St Andrews)
Random curves, knots, and three-manifolds
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:20 - 11:40
Coffee break
11:40 - 12:30
Tomasz Odrzygozdz
(Institute of Mathematics PAN)
Survey on the square and hexagonal model for random groups
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Peter Bubenik
(University of Florida)
Probabilistic persistent homology
Abstract
15:20 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Matthew Kahle
(The Ohio State University)
An invitation to stochastic topology
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Tuesday, November 15, 2016
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:20
Louigi Addario-Berry
(McGill University)
Probabilistic aspects of minimum spanning trees
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:30
Ameer Abu-Fraiha
(Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Random simplicial complexes based on Steiner systems
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:40 - 12:30
Omer Bobrowski
(Technion-Israel Institute of Technology )
Topology of random geometric complexes
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Jason Behrstock
(Lehman College, CUNY)
Random graphs and applications to Coxeter groups
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:40
Giulio Tiozzo
(University of Toronto)
Counting loxodromics for hyperbolic actions
Abstract

 

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 09:50
Chaim Even-Zohar
(ICERM, Brown University)
Random knots
Abstract
09:50 - 10:10
Coffee break
10:10 - 11:00
Joseph Maher
(College of Staten Island, CUNY )
Strata of random mapping class group elements
Abstract
11:10 - 12:00
Moira Chas
(Stony Brook University)
Computer driven questions, pre-theorems and theorems in geometry
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:50
Sylwia Antoniuk
(Adam Mickiewicz University)
Random triangular groups -- a threshold for collapsing
Abstract
15:00 - 15:50
Boris Lishak
(Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik)
The space of triangulations of a compact 4-manifold
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 - 17:20
Matthew Kahle
(The Ohio State University)
A brief survey of random finitely-presented groups
Abstract

 

Thursday, November 17, 2016
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 09:50
Michael Farber
(Queen Mary University of London)
Topology of large random spaces
09:50 - 10:20
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:10
Yuval Peled
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Random simplicial complexes - around the phase transition
Diapos / Slides


Meeting room(s) : 1360

11:30 - 12:30
Mikhael Gromov
(IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, France))
Can homology replace probability?

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room(s) : 6254

14:30 - 15:20
Mark V. Sapir
(Vanderbilt University )
On random 1-related groups
Abstract
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:30
David Futer
(Temple University)
Generic quotients of cubulated hyperbolic groups
Abstract
16:40 - 17:30
John Mackay
(University of Bristol)
Random groups and actions on $L^p$ spaces
Abstract

 

Friday, November 18, 2016
08:40 - 09:10
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:10 - 10:00
Tomasz Luczak
(Adam Mickiewicz University )
Integral homology of random simplicial complexes
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:10
Roman Glebov
(Hebrew University)
Virtually fibering random right-angled Coxeter groups
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Matthew Kahle
(The Ohio State University)
The bouquet-of-spheres conjecture
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

12:30
Closure of the workshop

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