New Directions in Probability Theory 2005

August 5-6, 2005
IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
 

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Friday, August 5
8:15 Coffee and registration
8:45
Session:

Probability, Combinatorics, and Statistical Mechanics
Organizer: Russell Lyons, Indiana University
Speakers: Scott Sheffield, Courant Institute and IAS
Tug of war and the infinity Laplacian
  Antal Jarai, Carleton University
Infinite volume limit of the Abelian sandpile model on Zd
  Richard Kenyon, University of British Columbia
Simple random surfaces
10:30 Break
11:00 Invited Lecture: Terry Lyons, Oxford University
Rough paths: a top down description of controls
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Medallion Lecture: Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota
Recent results and open problems concerning motion in random media
2:30 Break
2:45
Session:

Flows and Random Media
Organizer: Mike Cranston, University of California, Irvine
Speakers: Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin
Spatial inhomogeneities and large scale behavior of the asymmetric exclusion process
  Peter Mueller, University of Goettingen
Spectral asymptotics of Laplacians on bond-percolation graphs
  Ken Alexander, University of Southern California
The pinning transition for a polymer in the presence of a random potential
4:30 Break
4:45 Medallion Lecture: Amir Dembo, Stanford University
The disconnection time of the random walk on a discrete cylinder
6:00 Reception and poster session
   
Saturday, August 6
8:45
Session:

Stochastic Integration
Organizer: Terry Lyons, Oxford University
Speakers: Peter Friz, Cambridge University
Anticipating stochastic calculus via good rough path sequences
  Anastasia Papavasiliou, Princeton University
Applications of rough paths to speech recognition
  Zhongmin Qian, Oxford University
Stochastic integrals for processes with long-time memory
10:30 Break
11:00 Invited Lecture: Russell Lyons, Indiana University
Unimodularity and stochastic processes
12:00 Lunch
1:30
Session:

Random Walk in Random Environment

Organizer: Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota
Speakers: Nina Gantert, University of Muenster
Random walk in random scenery
  Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA
Growth in dynamic random environment
  Martin Zerner, University of Tuebingen
On some self-interacting random walks in random environment
3:15 Break
3:45
Session:

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Organizer: Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
Speakers: Martin Hairer, University of Warwick
Stochastic modulation equations
  Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
Ergodicity of the degenerately forced stochastic fluid equations
 

Nicolai Krylov, University of Minnesota
On the foundation of the Lp-theory of SPDEs