Program
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Friday,
August 6 |
| 8:15 |
Coffee and registration |
| 8:45 |
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Session: |
Random
Media |
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Organizer:
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Michael
Cranston, Univ. of California, Irvine and Univ. of Rochester |
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Speakers:
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Leonid
Koralov, Princeton University
Asymptotic problems in random transport |
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Gerard
Ben Arous, Courant Institute
Quenched to annealed transition for the parabolic Anderson problem |
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Michael
Cranston, Univ. of California, Irvine and Univ. of Rochester
Some results on the parabolic Anderson model |
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| 10:30 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Medallion Lecture: Kurt
Johansson,
Royal Institute of Technology
Measures from non-intersecting paths |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:45 |
Invited Lecture:
Greg Lawler,
Cornell University
Self-avoiding walk in two
dimensions: detailed conjectures and few
results |
| 2:45 |
Break |
| 3:15 |
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Session: |
Random
Matrices |
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Organizer:
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Craig Tracy,
University of California, Davis |
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Speakers:
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John Harnad, Concordia
University and CRM Universite de Montreal
Two matrix models, duality and Riemann-Hilbert problems |
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Roland Speicher,
Queen's University
Random matrices and free probability |
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| 4:20 |
Break |
| 4:45 |
Medallion Lecture:
Horng-Tzer Yau, Stanford University &
Courant Institute
Brownian motion in quantum dynamics |
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Saturday,
August 7 |
| 8:45 |
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Session: |
Superprocesses |
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Organizer:
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Tom Salisbury, York University |
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Speakers:
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Siva Athreya, Indian
Statistical Institute
Branching coalescing particle systems |
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Carl Mueller,
Rochester University
Stochastic PDE with time-independent Levy noise |
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Xiaowen Zhou,
Concordia University
Self-duality of coalescing Brownian motion and its applications
in measure-valued processes |
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| 10:30 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Invited Lecture:
Craig Tracy, University
of California, Davis
Differential equations for Dyson processes |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:45 |
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Session: |
Self-Avoiding
Walk |
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Organizer:
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Greg Lawler,
Cornell University |
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Speakers:
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David Brydges,
University of British Columbia
Self-avoiding walk in four dimensions
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Tom Kennedy,
University
of Arizona
Monte Carlo studies of self-avoiding walks
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Neal Madras, York
University
Knotting phenomena in self-avoiding walks
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| 3:30 |
Break |
| 4:00 |
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Session: |
Markov
Chains and Algorithms |
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Organizer:
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Robin Pemantle,
University of Pennsylvania |
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Speakers:
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Michael Molloy,
University of Toronto
Generating random colourings of a graph with high girth and
maximum degree |
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Thomas P. Hayes, Toyota
Technological Institute, Chicago
Better coupling with less effort |
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Robin Pemantle,
University
of Pennsylvania (Joint work with Yuval Peres, U.C. Berkeley)
The complexity of finding a path with nearly optimal drift in
a branching random walk |
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