AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 12, 1999, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Interacting Particles, Random Walks, and Brownian Motion, I
Room 233, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Irene Hueter, University of Florida hueter@math.ufl.edu
Gregory F. Lawler, Duke University jose@math.duke.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Hydrodynamic limit for the asymmetric marching soldiers model.
  Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen*, Iowa State University
  (940-60-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Estimating selection from aligned DNA sequences.
  Stanley A. Sawyer*, Washington University in St.~Louis
  (940-60-107)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Growth Profile of Weakly Supercritical Contact Process on a Tree.
  Steven P Lalley*, Purdue University
  (940-60-333)

Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Interacting Particles, Random Walks, and Brownian Motion, II
Room 233, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Irene Hueter, University of Florida hueter@math.ufl.edu
Gregory F. Lawler, Duke University jose@math.duke.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Random growth models: some recent results .
  Janko Gravner*, University of California, Davis
  (940-60-52)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Uniform Spanning Forests and Collections of Random Walks.
  Russell D Lyons*, Indiana University
  Itai Benjamini, Weizmann Institute of Science
  Oded Schramm, Weizmann Institute of Science
  Yuval Peres, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  (940-60-216)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Packing Dimension and Fine Properties of Stochastic Processes.
  Yimin Xiao*, University of Utah
  (940-60-34)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Interacting Particles, Random Walks, and Brownian Motion, III
Room 233, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Irene Hueter, University of Florida hueter@math.ufl.edu
Gregory F. Lawler, Duke University jose@math.duke.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Anisotropic contact process and percolation on trees between phase transitions.
  Irene Hueter*, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  (940-60-252)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Surface Tension and Wulff construction in three or more dimensions.
  Raphael Cerf, Universite Paris Sud
  Agoston Pisztora*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (940-60-150)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Boundary Fluctuations in Wulff Droplets.
  Kenneth S. Alexander*, University of Southern California
  (940-60-330)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Interacting Particles, Random Walks, and Brownian Motion, IV
Room 233, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Irene Hueter, University of Florida hueter@math.ufl.edu
Gregory F. Lawler, Duke University jose@math.duke.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A martingale approach in the study of percolation clusters.
  Yu Zhang*, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO 80933
  (940-60-298)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Purity of the Limit Distribution for Random Walks in Matrices.
  Arunava Mukherjea*, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  (940-60-302)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Effect of Finite Memory Cutoff On Loop Erased Walk In 3 Dimensions.
  Aklilu Zeleke*, Alma College
  (940-60-30)

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