AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09

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

Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, I
Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random walks in reversible random environments: some solutions and open problems.
  Marek Biskup*, Department of Mathematics at UCLA
  (1019-60-151)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Transient random walks on a strip in a random environment.
  Alexander Roitershtein*, University of British Columbia
  (1019-60-193)

Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, II
Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
- 3:00 p.m.
  Diffusions in random environment and ballistic behaviour.
  Tom Schmitz*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1019-60-102)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Variance bounds for the current in the asymmetric simple exclusion process.
  M\'arton Bal\'azs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1019-60-117)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday October 8, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, III
Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
- 9:00 a.m.
  Detecting the path of a random walker in a random scenery.
  Noam Berger*, UCLA
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
  (1019-60-75)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An Almost Sure Invariance Principle for Non-Nestling Random Walk in Mixing Random Environment.
  Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
  Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1019-60-89)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, IV
Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
- 3:00 p.m.
  Lyapunov norms for random walks random with random potential.
  Nikos Zygouras*, University of Southern California
  (1019-31-85)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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