AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:30

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

Friday April 4, 2003, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Probability, I
Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Robin A. Pemantle, Ohio State University pemantle@math.ohio-state.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Minimal Spanning Trees: Recent Consequences of Combinatorial and Objective Methods.
  J. Michael Steele*, University of Pennsylvania
  (985-60-179)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Phase transitions in phylogeny.
  Elchanan Mossel*, U.C. Berkeley
  (985-60-97)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Break
- 4:00 p.m.
  Random weighting, asymptotic counting and inverse isoperimetry.
  Alexander Barvinok*, University of Michigan
  (985-05-70)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Average case analysis of Gosper's algorithm.
  Olgica Milenkovic*, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Un
  (985-60-114)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Probability, II
Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Robin A. Pemantle, Ohio State University pemantle@math.ohio-state.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Optimization of shape in continuum percolation.
  Johan Jonasson*, Chalmers University of Technology
  (985-60-115)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Percolation on Finite Cayley Graphs.
  Igor Pak*, MIT
  (985-60-200)
- 10:30 a.m.
  What do bootstrap percolation and integer partitions have in common?
  Thomas M Liggett*, UCLA
  A E Holroyd, UC Berkeley
  Dan Romik, Weizmann Institute
  (985-60-56)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Probability, III
Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Robin A. Pemantle, Ohio State University pemantle@math.ohio-state.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Entropy and graph homomorphisms.
  David Galvin*, Microsoft Research
  Prasad Tetali, Georgia Tech
  (985-60-184)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some Ideas in Scenery Reconstruction.
  Heinrich Felix Matzinger*, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  (985-60-212)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A threshold routing system in heavy traffic.
  Vlada Limic*, British Columbia
  Ruth Williams, UC San Diego
  (985-60-228)

Sunday April 6, 2003, 9:30 a.m.-11:45 p.m.
Special Session on Probability, IV
Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Robin A. Pemantle, Ohio State University pemantle@math.ohio-state.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Crossing numbers and the probabilistic method.
  Laszlo A Szekely*, NCBI/NLM/NIH and USC
  (985-05-167)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Projection of measures and geodesic flows.
  Elon B. Lindenstrauss*, Stanford University
  (985-60-209)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Connection between Randomness Extractors and Expander Graphs.
  Salil P Vadhan*, Harvard University
  (985-05-277)

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