AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Mechanics, I
Room 4, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
David Brydges, University of British Columbia db5d@math.ubc.ca
Richard Kenyon, Brown University rkenyon@math.brown.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Multi-coloured matchings with general restrictions.
  Gidi Amir, University of Toronto
  Omer Angel*, UBC
  Ander Holroyd, Microsoft Research
  Terry Soo, UBC
  (1041-60-216)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Gibbs measures on combinatorial structures.
  Shankar Bhamidi*, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia
  (1041-60-169)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dimer packings with gaps and electrostatics: Boundary interactions.
  Mihai Ciucu*, Indiana University
  (1041-82-238)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic Expansion for Dimer Lambda_d.
  Paul Federbush*, University of Michigan
  (1041-82-187)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Five Stories about the Metropolis Algorithm.
  Persi Diaconis*, Stanford University, Departments of Mathematics & Statistics
  (1041-60-197)

Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Mechanics, II
Room 4, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
David Brydges, University of British Columbia db5d@math.ubc.ca
Richard Kenyon, Brown University rkenyon@math.brown.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Unravelling the bootstrap percolation paradox.
  Alexander E Holroyd*, University of British Columbia
  (1041-60-205)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Forest-Root Formulas in Statistical Mechanics.
  John Z Imbrie*, University of Virginia
  (1041-82-179)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Spatial Epidemics and Local Times for Critical Branching Random Walks in Dimensions 2 and 3.
  Steven P Lalley*, University of Chicago
  Xinghua Zheng, University of Chicago
  (1041-60-208)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Random Complexes and $\ell^2$-Betti Numbers.
  Russell D Lyons*, Indiana University
  (1041-60-111)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Mechanics, III
Room 4, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
David Brydges, University of British Columbia db5d@math.ubc.ca
Richard Kenyon, Brown University rkenyon@math.brown.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fixed-Energy Sandpiles and the Poincaré Rotation Number.
  Anne Fey-den Boer, Technical University Delft
  Lionel Levine*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1041-37-109)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The growth exponent for loop-erased random walk.
  Robert Masson*, University of British Columbia
  (1041-60-132)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Extended scaling relations for planar lattice models.
  Vieri Mastropietro*, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata"
  (1041-82-103)
- 10:00 a.m.
  1. The Cutoff Phenomenon for Markov chains, and the Ising model.
  Jian Ding, University of California, Berkeley
  Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research
  Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
  (1041-60-272)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Mechanics, IV
Room 4, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
David Brydges, University of British Columbia db5d@math.ubc.ca
Richard Kenyon, Brown University rkenyon@math.brown.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Can you "hear" the normal cone of your generating function?
  Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bell Labs
  Robin Pemantle*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1041-60-116)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Random walks on percolation clusters and percolation renormalization on groups.
  Gábor Pete*, University of Toronto and MSRI Berkeley
  (1041-60-247)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:30 p.m.
  Hall-Littlewood process.
  Mirjana Vuletic*, Caltech
  (1041-60-241)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Minimum bounded depth spanning trees and Steiner trees.
  Omer Angel, University of British Columbia
  Abie Flaxman, University of Washington
  David B. Wilson*, Microsoft Research
  Riccardo Zecchina, ICTP
  (1041-60-298)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 6:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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