Workshop “Stochastic Loewner evolution and scaling limits”

August 4-9, 2008

Program

 

Monday, August 4, 2008

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissants (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 09:35
Welcoming addresses
09:35 - 10:30
Meeting to plan schedule for the week
10:30 - 11:10
John Cardy
(Oxford University)
What conformal field theory tells us about random curves and vice-versa
11:20 - 11:40
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:40 - 12:20
Gregory Lawler
(University of Chicago)
Partition functions and SLE
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:10
Tom Kennedy
(The University of Arizona)
Monte Carlo studies of self-avoiding walks and loops
Abstract
15:20 - 16:00
Scott Sheffield
(Courant Institute, NYU)
Quantum gravity, KPZ and conformal setting
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:10
Oded Schramm
(Microsoft Research, Theory Group)
Scaling limits of dynamical and near-critical percolation
Abstract

17:20
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Oded Schramm
(Microsoft Research, Theory Group)
Scaling limits of dynamical and near-critical percolation - Part 2
Abstract
10:20 - 11:00
Yvan Saint-Aubin
(Université de Montréal)
Fractal dimension of geometric objects
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Dapeng Zhan
(Yale University)
Reversibility and duality of SLE
Abstract
12:20 - 12:40
Group Photo Session

12:40 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:10
Denis Bernard
(LPTENS)
Off-critical SLEs: Massive SLE(4) and Massive LERW
15:20 - 16:00
Nikolai Makarov
(Caltech)
Massive SLEs
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:10
Nam-Gyu Kang
(Caltech)
Coulomb gas formalism and SLE

 

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Julien Dubedat
(University of Chicago)
SLE partition functions
10:20 - 11:00
Stanislas Smirnov
(Univ. de Genève)
Looking for conformal invariance in O(N) models
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:10
Bertrand Duplantier (CEA/DSM/IPhT, CEA/Saclay)
Scott Sheffield (Courant Institute, NYU)
Session on Quantum Gravity and KPZ relations

 

Thursday, August 7, 2008

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Benjamin Doyon
(University of Durham)
The stress-energy tensor in conformal loop ensembles
Abstract
10:20 - 11:00
VIncent Beffara
(UMPA - ENS Lyon)
Isotropic embeddings
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 11:50
Ilia Binder
(University of Toronto)
On certain bond-type percolation models
11:55 - 12:15
Federico Camia
(Vrije Universiteit)
Examples of universality in two-dimensional percolation
Abstract
12:20 - 12:40
Clement Hongler
(Université de Genève)
Yet another percolation formula

12:45 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 14:55
Pierre Mathieu
(Université Laval)
Percolation as a logatihmic conformal field theory
Abstract
15:00 - 15:25
Jacob Simmons
(Univesity of Oxford)
Watts’ formula and logarithmic CFT
15:30 - 15:55
Pierre Nolin
(ENS)
Inhomogeneity and SLE(6)
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:10
Yves Le Jan
(Université Pierre et Marie Curie (P6))
On Markov loops

 

Friday, August 8, 2008

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Gregory Lawler
(University of Chicago)
Natural parametrization for SLE
10:20 - 11:00
Kalle Kytölä
(Université de Paris-Sud)
Representations of Virasoro algebra for SLEs
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:10
David Wilson
(Microsoft Research, Theory Group)
The double dimer model and skew Young diagrams

12:20 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 14:50
Thomas Alberts
(New York University)
Bridge decomposition of restriction measures
14:55 - 15:15
Robert Bauer
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Direct construction of conformally invariant measures on self avoiding loops via chordal SLE (8/3)
15:20 - 15:40
Robert Masson
(UBC)
Growth exponent for planar LERW is 5/4
15:45 - 16:05
Alexi Morin-Duchesne
(Université de Montréal)
Homotopic properties of Fortuin-Kasteleyn clusters on a torus
Abstract
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:10
Stanislas Smirnov
(Univ. de Genève)
On scaling limit of the critical Ising model