AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday April 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Concentration Inequalities, I
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Sourav Chatterjee, University of California Berkeley sourav@stat.berkeley.edu
Roman Vershynin, University of California Davis vershynin@math.ucdavis.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Stein's Method for concentration inequalities - some applications.
  Sourav Chatterjee, UC Berkeley
  Partha S Dey*, UC Berkeley
  (1049-60-176)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hensley's theorem and isotropic positions of convex measures.
  Sergey G Bobkov*, University of Minnesota
  (1049-46-149)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Random Tensors and Planted Cliques.
  Charlie Brubaker, Georgia Tech
  Santosh S Vempala*, Georgia Tech
  (1049-60-169)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Concentration Inequalities, II
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Sourav Chatterjee, University of California Berkeley sourav@stat.berkeley.edu
Roman Vershynin, University of California Davis vershynin@math.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Concentration inequalities for eigenvalues of random matrices.
  Michel LEDOUX*, University of Toulouse
  (1049-60-37)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On fine properties of mixtures with respect to concentration of measure and Sobolev type inequalities.
  Djalil Chafai*, Institut de Mathematiques de Toulouse and INRA, France
  Florent Malrieu, IRMAR, Universite de Rennes, France
  (1049-60-14)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Concentration via coupling and some applications.
  Jean-René Chazottes*, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique
  (1049-60-96)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Concentration Inequalities, III
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Sourav Chatterjee, University of California Berkeley sourav@stat.berkeley.edu
Roman Vershynin, University of California Davis vershynin@math.ucdavis.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Concentration of functionals of random matrices.
  Mark Meckes*, Case Western Reserve University
  (1049-60-186)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Small ball probability estimates, $\psi_2$-behavior and the hyperplane conjecture.
  Nikos Dafnis, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens
  Grigorios Paouris*, Texas A & M University
  (1049-52-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  {\bf Bounding relative entropy between measures on product spaces\newline by the relative entropy between local specifications}.
  Katalin Marton*, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
  (1049-60-33)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Concentration Inequalities, IV
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Sourav Chatterjee, University of California Berkeley sourav@stat.berkeley.edu
Roman Vershynin, University of California Davis vershynin@math.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Concentration of measure, laws of large numbers and mixing for Markov chains.
  Malwina J Luczak*, London School of Economics
  (1049-60-130)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Limiting Shape of Random Young Tableaux for Markovian Words.
  Christian Houdre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Trevis Litherland, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1049-60-170)
- 5:00 p.m.
  An Elementary Technique to Prove some Basic Inequalities in Convex Geometry.
  Daniel N Dadush*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Vempala S Santosh, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1049-52-08)

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