Workshop “Random tilings, random partitions and stochastic growth processes”

September 1-5, 2008

Program

 

Monday, September 1, 2008

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


Meeting room : 6214

09:25 - 09:30
Welcoming addresses
09:30 - 10:20
Kurt Johansson
(Royal Institute of Technology)
Random matrices and random tilings
10:20 - 11:10
Evgeny Strahov
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Measures on partitions, Pfaffian point processes, and the matrix hypergeometric kernel
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Nicolas Destainville
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Mixing times of Markov chains, the multi-decomposition technique, and flip dynamics in random tilings
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Gerard Ben Arous
(NYU)
TBA
15:20 - 16:10
Cédric Boutillier
(Université Paris VI)
The critical Ising model on isoradial graphs via dimers
Abstract
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:20
Filippo Colomo
(INFN, Sezione di Firenze)
Arctic Curves for the Domain Wall six vertex model
Abstract

17:20
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Nicolai Reshetikhin
(University of California, Berkeley)
TBA
10:20 - 11:10
Grigori Olshanski
(Institute for Information Transmission Problems)
Markov chains on partitions and time-dependent point processes
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Jason Fulman
(University of Southern California)
Some applications of random walk on partitions
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Senya Shlosman
(CNRS, Marseille-Luminy)
Gibbs Ensembles of Nonintersecting Paths and Determinantal Processes
Abstract
15:20 - 16:10
Aleksander Yu. Orlov
(Institute for Oceanology)
Phase transitions in random turn walk of hard core particles
Abstract
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:20
Andrei Okounkov
(Princeton University)
Noncommutative geometry of planar dimers - part I

 

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Eric M. Rains
(California Institute of Technology)
Elliptic hypergeometric integrals
Abstract
10:20 - 11:10
Taro Nagao
(Nagoya University)
Vicious walks and matrix models
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Mihai Ciucu
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Combinatorial identities and the correlation function of gaps in dimer packings
Abstract

12:30
Lunch break and free afternoon

 

Thursday, September 4, 2008

09:00 - 10:20
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:20 - 11:10
Christian Krattenthaler
(Universität Wien)
The interaction of a gap with a free boundary in a two-dimensional dimer system
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Andrei Okounkov
(Princeton University)
Noncommutative geometry of planar dimers - part II

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:00
Eric Nordenstam
(Swedish Royal Institute of Technology)
A particle dynamics related to the shuffling algorithm for the Aztec diamond
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Mirjana Vuletic
(Caltech University)
The shifted Schur process and generalized MacMahon's formula
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Vadim Gorin
(Moscow State University)
Around lozenge tilings of a hexagon
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:00
Jeffrey Kuan
(California Institute of Technology)
Asymptotics of Plancherel measures for the infinite-dimensional unitary group
Abstract
17:00 - 17:30
Sevak Mkrtchyan
(University of California, Berkeley)
Random skew plane partitions with a piecewise periodic back wall
Abstract

 

Friday, September 5, 2008

09:30 - 10:20
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:20 - 11:10
Tomohiro Sasamoto
(Faculty of Science, Chiba University )
The fluctuations of a tagged particle in one-dimensional exclusion process
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Patrik Ferrari
(WIAS-Berlin)
Anisotropic growth of random surfaces in 2+1 dimensions
Abstract

12:30
Closure of the workshop