Workshop “New Directions in Random Spatial Processes”May 11-15, 2009Program |
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Monday, May 11, 2009 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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08:45 - 09:00
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Registration
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Room 5345
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Geoffrey Grimmett
(University of Cambridge) Words, embeddings, and dependent percolation |
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10:00 - 10:50
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James Martin
(Oxford University) Multiclass queues and particle systems | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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11:30 - 12:20
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Johan Wästlund
(Chalmers University of Technology) Optimization in mean-field and spatial models | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:30
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:30 - 15:20
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Christina Goldschmidt
(University of Oxford) Behaviour near the extinction time in stable fragmentation processes | Abstract |
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15:30 - 16:20
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Robin Pemantle
(University of Pennsylvania) How many random integers from 1 to N must you see before some subset has a square product? | Abstract |
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16:30
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Welcoming reception
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Room 6245
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Peter Winkler
(Dartmouth College) Branched polymers | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:50
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David B. Wilson
(Microsoft Research) Double-dimer pairings and skew Young diagrams | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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11:30 - 12:20
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Maria Deijfen
(Stockholm University) Invariant random graphs with prescribed iid degrees | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:30
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:30 - 15:20
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Dan Romik
(The Hebrew University) Alternating sign matrices - recent progress and open problems | Abstract |
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15:30 - 16:20
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Open Problem Session
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16:30
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Bálint Tóth
(Budapest University of Technology) Diffusive bounds for some self-interacting random walks | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:50
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Franz Merkl
(University of Munich) Linearly edge-reinforced random walks | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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11:30 - 12:20
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Nina Gantert
(Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik) RWRE bridges | Abstract |
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Free afternoon
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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James Propp
(University of Massachusetts Lowell) Rotor walks and Markov chains | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:50
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Lionel Levine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Growth rates and explosions in sandpiles | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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11:30 - 12:20
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Cristina Toninelli
(Univ Paris VI-VII and CNRS) A bootstrap-like algorithm with a discontinuous glass transition | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:30
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:30 - 15:20
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Janko Gravner
(University of California, Davis) Large range random growth models | Abstract |
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15:30 - 16:20
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Leonardo Rolla
(École Normale Supérieure) The Broken Line Process | Abstract |
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16:30
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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Friday, May 15, 2009 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Charles M. Newman
(Courant Institute, NYU) Ising Euclidean fields and cluster area measures | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:50
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Pablo Augusto Ferrari
(Universidad de Buenos Aires) Rescaling a slow-to-start model | Abstract |
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10:50 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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11:30 - 12:20
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Bálint Virág
(University of Toronto) Random walks on binary sequences, classical fractals and groups | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:30
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:30 - 15:20
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Frank Redig
(Universiteit Leiden) The symmetric inclusion process | Abstract |
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15:30 - 16:20
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Adam Timar
(Universität Bonn) Equivariant colorings of random planar graphs | Abstract |
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16:30
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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