AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 6, 2006 00:24:07

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, I
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The loop-erased random walk and the uniform spanning tree on the four-dimensional discrete torus.
  Jason R. Schweinsberg*, University of California at San Diego
  (1018-60-63)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Commutation of SLEs.
  Julien Dubedat*, Courant Institute
  (1018-60-167)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Universality Result for Critical 2D Percolation.
  Helen K. Lei*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
  L. Chayes, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
  (1018-60-166)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Neighboring clusters in Bernoulli percolation.
  Adam Timar*, Indiana University/TU Graz
  (1018-60-86)

Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, II
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Variational Bounds for the Random Energy Model.
  Cristian Giardina, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Shannon L. Starr*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1018-82-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Almost-sure invariance principles for random walk in random environment.
  Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
  Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1018-60-226)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Fluctuations around characteristics for some interacting particle systems.
  M\'arton Bal\'azs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Firas Rassoul-Agha, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
  Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1018-60-75)

Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, III
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  What slows mixing on (random) graphs.
  Elchanan Mossel*, Statistcs, U.C. Berkeley
  Dror Weitz, DIMACS
  Nick Wormald, Waterloo
  (1018-60-219)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Solution-space Geometry of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
  Dimitris Achlioptas*, Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Cruz
  Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza
  (1018-60-215)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Localization of favorite points for diffusion in random environment.
  Dimitris Cheliotis*, University of Toronto
  (1018-60-223)

Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, IV
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Zeroes of random analytic functions.
  Manjunath Krishnapur*, Department of Statistics, U C Berkeley
  (1018-60-149)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Large deviations for analytic functions with diffusing coefficients.
  J. Ben Hough*, U.C. Berkeley
  (1018-60-211)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Statistical physics, computer simulation and probability.
  Raissa M D'Souza*, University of California, Davis
  (1018-82-171)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Corner percolation and related models on planar lattices.
  G\'abor Pete*, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
  (1018-60-259)

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