AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:12

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Probability, I
Room 305, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the volume of the intersection of two Wiener sausages.
  Frank den Hollander*, EURANDOM
  (957-60-191)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Idempotent probability and large deviations.
  Anatolii A. Puhalskii*, University of Colorado at Denver
  (957-60-332)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Coalescents with simultaneous multiple collisions.
  Jason R Schweinsberg*, U.C. Berkeley
  (957-60-188)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Incipient infinite clusters.
  Antal J\'arai, Jr.*, PIMS-UBC
  (957-60-325)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Probability, II
Room 305, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Interacting particle systems modelling epidemics.
  Rinaldo B Schinazi*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  (957-60-87)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Hitting properties of the random string.
  Carl E Mueller*, University of Rochester
  Roger Tribe, University of Warwick
  (957-60-147)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Critical Phenomena for Hierarchical Random Walks.
  Donald A. Dawson*, Carleton University
  (957-60-193)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Probability, III
Room 305, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamical sensitivity of randomness.
  Itai Benjamini, The Weizmann Institute of Science
  Olle Haggstrom, Chalmers University of Technology
  Yuval Peres, UC Berkeley and Hebrew University
  Jeffrey E Steif*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (957-60-101)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Isoperimetric Constants and Percolation.
  Russell D Lyons*, Indiana University
  (957-60-80)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the Critical Behavior of Long-Range Percolation and Ising Model.
  Noam Berger*, Hebrew university/U.C. Berkeley
  (957-60-113)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Special Session on Probability, IV
Room 305, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
- 2:00 p.m.
  Dominating edge property for a class of reinforced random walks.
  Vlada Limic*, Cornell University
  (957-60-272)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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