Workshop “Random functions, random surfaces and interfaces”January 4-9, 2009Program |
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Monday, January 5, 2009 |
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07:30 - 09:00
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Breakfast
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09:00 - 10:30
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Richard Kenyon
(Brown University) Dimers and Harnack curves | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 11:45
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Tadahisa Funaki
(The University of Tokyo) Scaling limits for weakly pinned random walks with two large deviation minimizers | Abstract |
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11:45 - 12:30
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Jean-Dominique Deuschel
(Technische Universität Berlin) Decay of covariances, uniqueness of ergodic component and scaling limit for a class of gradient systems with non-convex potential | Abstract |
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12:30 - 16:00
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Lunch break and free afternoon
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16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee
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16:30 - 17:30
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Konstantin Khanin
(University of Toronto) Directed polymers and KPZ scalings |
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17:30 - 18:30
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Sergei Nechaev
(Institut de Physique Nucléaire) On distribution of surface extrema in several one- and two-dimensional random landscapes and statistics of permutations | Abstract |
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19:30
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Dinner
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 |
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07:30 - 09:00
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Breakfast
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09:00 - 09:45
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J. Richard Bond
(University of Toronto) The Past, Present and Future of Random Fields in Cosmology |
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09:45 - 10:30
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Sergei F. Shandarin
(University of Kansas) The large-scale structure in the universe: the role of anisotropic and nonGaussian fields | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 11:45
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Dmitri Pogosyan
(University of Alberta) The skeleton of the cosmic web |
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11:45 - 12:30
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Rien van de Weygaert
(University of Groningen) Analysis & Multiscale Morphology of the Cosmic Web | Abstract |
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12:30 - 16:00
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Lunch break and free afternoon
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16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee
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16:30 - 17:30
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Lev Kofman
(University of Toronto) The random fields in the early universe theory | Abstract |
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17:30 - 18:30
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Michael R. Douglas
(Stony Brook University) Toy models of the string landscape |
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19:30
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Dinner
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 |
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07:30 - 09:00
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Breakfast
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09:00 - 10:30
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Bertrand Duplantier
(CEA/Saclay) Liouville Quantum Gravity and KPZ | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 12:30
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Scott Sheffield
(Courant Institute, NYU) Liouville quantum gravity |
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12:30 - 16:00
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Lunch break and free afternoon
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16:00 - 16:30
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Jason Miller
(Stanford University) Thick Points of the Gaussian Free Field | Abstract |
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16:30 - 17:30
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Yan Fyodorov
(University of Nottingham) Multifractality, freezing and extreme value statistics in models with logarithmic correlations | Abstract |
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17:30 - 18:30
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Semen Shlosman
(CNRS, Marseille-Luminy) TBA |
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19:30
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Dinner
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Thursday, January 8, 2009 |
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07:30 - 09:00
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Breakfast
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09:00 - 10:30
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Mikhail Sodin
(Tel-Aviv University) Fluctuations in random complex zeroes. Asymptotic normality revisited | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Robert Adler
(Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) A kinematic formula for Gaussian excursions | Abstract |
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12:00 - 12:30
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Manjunath Krishnapur
(University of Toronto) Zeros of certain matrix-valued random analytic functions |
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12:30 - 16:00
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Lunch break and free afternoon
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16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee
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16:30 - 17:30
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Pavel Bleher
(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) Arctic circle theorem for the six vertex model |
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17:30 - 18:30
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Steve Zelditch
(Johns Hopkins University) Large deviations for empirical measures of zeros | Abstract |
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19:30
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Dinner
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Friday, January 9, 2009 |
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07:30 - 09:00
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Breakfast
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09:00 - 10:00
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Semyon Klevtsov
(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Bergman kernel, balanced metrics and black holes | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Ben Baugher
(Johns Hopkins University) Statistics of Critical Points in Kahler Geometry and String Theory |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 11:30
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Igor Wigman
(Université de Montréal) Nodal lines of random eigenfunctions of the Laplacian | Abstract |
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11:30 - 12:30
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Open Problems
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12:30 - 14:30
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Lunch
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14:30
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Shuttle departure for Montreal
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