AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 8, 2002, 2:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, I
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
- 2:10 p.m.
  Perfect matchings in random graphs with prescribed minimal degree.
  Alan M Frieze*, Carnegie Mellon University
  Boris G Pittel, Ohio State University
  (975-60-144)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Pseudo-random graphs.
  Michael Krivelevich*, Tel Aviv University
  (975-05-216)
- 4:10 p.m.
  On Avoiding A Giant Component.
  Tom Bohman*, Carnegie Mellon University
  Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University
  Nicholas Wormald, University of Melbourne
  (975-05-332)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Divide and Conquer Martingales.
  Van H. Vu*, Department of Mathmatics, UCSD
  (975-05-126)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, II
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Dominos and hyperbolic polyhedra.
  Richard W Kenyon*, CNRS
  (975-82-99)
- 8:55 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:15 a.m.
  Adaptive Intersection and t-Threshold Problems.
  Claire Kenyon*, U. Paris-Orsay
  Jeremy Barbay, U. Paris-Orsay
  (975-68-424)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Urn models and cooled Brownian motion.
  Robin Pemantle*, Ohio State University
  (975-60-222)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 3:05 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, III
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
- 3:05 p.m.
  Knockin' 'em Down, One After Another.
  James Allen Fill*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
  David Bruce Wilson, Theory Group, Microsoft Research
  (975-60-375)
- 4:05 p.m.
  Anatomy of a permutation.
  Andrew Granville*, University of Georgia
  (975-05-378)
- 4:35 p.m.
  Two questions on coins with unknown bias.
  Yuval Peres*, University of California, Berkeley
  (975-60-418)
- 5:35 p.m.
  On the meeting point for random spanning trees.
  Philippe Marchal*, CNRS and Georgia Tech
  (975-60-276)

Sunday March 10, 2002, 10:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, IV
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
- 10:10 a.m.
  A Markov Random Field Model of Multicasting.
  Kavita Ramanan*, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  Ilze Ziedins, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  Anirvan Sengupta, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  Partha Mitra, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  (975-00-274)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Mixing time for biased card shuffling.
  Itai Benjamini, Weitzmann institute
  Noam Beger, U.C Berkeley
  Chris Hoffman, University of Washington
  Elchanan Mossel*, Microsoft Research
  (975-60-203)
- 11:10 a.m.
  A new, probabilistic approach for heat kernel bounds.
  Ben Morris*, University of California, Berkeley
  (975-60-341)
- 11:40 a.m.
  Decomposition, Swapping and Mean-Field Models.
  Dana Randall*, Georgia Tech
  (975-60-358)

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