AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:13

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Sunday October 22, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topics in Probability, with Emphasis on Markov Chains and Random Matrices, I
Room 210, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Steve Evans, University of California, Berkeley evans@stat.berkeley.edu
Amir Dembo, Stanford University amir@stat.stanford.edu
Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley peres@math.huji.ac.il
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random Matrix Theory and Szego's theorem.
  Persi Diaconis*, Stanford University
  (958-60-264)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Glauber dynamics and the Ising model on trees.
  Claire Kenyon, LRI, UMR CNRS
  Elchanan Mossel*, Microsoft research
  Yuval Peres, U.C. Berkeley and Hebrew University
  (958-60-249)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The $\zeta(2)$ limit in the random assignment problem.
  David J Aldous*, U.C. Berkeley
  (958-60-277)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Probability, with Emphasis on Markov Chains and Random Matrices, II
Room 210, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Steve Evans, University of California, Berkeley evans@stat.berkeley.edu
Amir Dembo, Stanford University amir@stat.stanford.edu
Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley peres@math.huji.ac.il
- 3:00 p.m.
  Random Walks on Truncated Cubes and Sampling Knapsack Solutions, Part I.
  Alistair Sinclair*, UC Berkeley
  (958-60-291)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Random Walks on Truncated Cubes and Sampling Knapsack Solutions, Part II.
  Benjamin J Morris*, Stanford University
  (958-60-293)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Lyapunov exponents for a combination of products of random matrices, and applications to stochastic partial differential equations.
  Frederi G Viens*, Purdue University
  (958-60-68)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Percolation on a stretched lattice.
  Christopher Hoffman*, University of Washington
  (958-60-250)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Soshnikov,TBA

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