AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 12, 2008 00:23:32

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

Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, I
Room 319, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  Diffusion at RMT's hard edge.
  Brian Rider*, CU Boulder
  Jose Ramirez, Universidad de Costa Rica
  (1038-60-198)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Matchings of exponential tail on coin flips in $Z^d$.
  Adam Timar*, The University of British Columbia
  (1038-60-304)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Internal aggregation with multiple sources.
  Lionel Levine, University of California, Berkeley
  Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
  (1038-60-245)

Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, II
Room 319, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Critical percolation on finite graphs.
  Asaf Nachmias*, U.C. Berkeley
  (1038-60-193)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Random matrices: The Circular Law.
  Van H. Vu*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers
  (1038-60-200)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The TASEP speed process.
  Omer Angel*, University of Toronto
  Gideon Amir, Univ. of Toronto
  Benedek Valko, Univ. of Toronto
  (1038-60-204)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, III
Room 319, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  Velocity gain for a self-repelling Brownian particle.
  Nathanael Berestycki*, Cambridge University
  (1038-60-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Natural parametrization for Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE).
  Gregory F Lawler*, University of Chicago
  (1038-60-166)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, IV
Room 319, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  The scaling limits of dynamical and near-critical percolation, and the Minimal Spanning Tree.
  Christophe Garban, Universite Paris-Sud and ENS
  G\'abor Pete*, Microsoft Research
  Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research
  (1038-60-321)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quasi-units in Zhang's sandpile model.
  Anna Fey-den Boer*, VU Amsterdam
  Haiyan Liu, VU Amsterdam
  Ronald Meester, VU Amsterdam
  Corrie Quant, VU Amsterdam
  Frank Redig, Leiden University
  (1038-60-231)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Sampling $3$-colourings of the discrete torus.
  David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
  (1038-60-187)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A different approach to strong embeddings.
  Sourav Chatterjee*, University of California at Berkeley
  (1038-60-199)

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