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2010 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, October 9-10, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1063

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

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Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields

• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, I
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nash Bargaining Exchange Networks: Fast Convergence of Natural Dynamics.
    Mohsen Bayati, Stanford University
    Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research
    Jennifer Chayes*, Microsoft Research
    Yashodhan Kanoria, Stanford University
    Andrea Montanari, Stanford University
    (1063-91-257)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Probability, Social Choice and Social Networks.
    Elchanan Mossel*, U.C Berkeley and Weizmann
    (1063-60-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Detection and Percolation on Mobile Geometric Graphs.
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
    Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley
    Perla Sousi, Cambridge University
    Alexandre Stauffer*, UC Berkeley
    (1063-60-222)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Brownian motion with variable drift: 0-1 laws, hitting probabilities and multiple points.
    Perla Sousi*, University of Cambridge
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
    (1063-60-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Almost sure process-level large deviations for random walk in random environment.
    Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
    Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1063-60-195)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, II
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Inhomogeneous Continuity Equation with Application to Hamiltonian ODE.
    Lincoln Chayes, University of California, Los Angeles
    Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Helen K Lei*, California Institute of Technology
    (1063-35-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fluid Limits for Shortest Remaining Processing Time Queues.
    Amber L Puha*, California State University San Marcos
    H Chrsitian Gromoll, University of Virgina
    Douglas G Down, McMaster University
    (1063-60-212)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Uniformity of the Uncovered Set of Random Walk and Cutoff for Lamplighter Chains.
    Jason P Miller*, Stanford University
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-265)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spatial aspects of multiscale reaction networks.
    Lea Popovic*, Concordia University
    (1063-60-228)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, III
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of high-dimensional random convex optimization problems.
    Andrea Montanari*, Stanford University
    Mohsen Bayati, Stanford University
    David Donoho, Stanford University
    Arian Maleki, Stanford
    (1063-60-180)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The evolution of the cover time.
    Martin T. Barlow, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
    Jian Ding, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
    Asaf Nachmias, MIT, Mass., USA
    Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-234)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cover times, blanket times, and majorizing measures.
    Jian Ding*, UC Berkeley
    James Lee, University of Washington
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A stochastic model for phylogenetic trees.
    Rinaldo B Schinazi*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    Thomas M Liggett, UCLA
    (1063-60-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the spectral analysis of second-order Markov chains.
    Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
    Laurent Miclo, Universite de Toulouse and CNRS, France
    Jessica Zuniga*, Stanford University
    (1063-60-235)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, IV
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Left and Right Convergence for Sequences of Graphs with Bounded Degrees.
    Christian Borgs*, Microsoft Reserach New England
    Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
    Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
    Laci Lovasz, Eotvos University, Budapest
    (1063-05-258)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Statistical physics and computational phase transitions of the hardcore model.
    Allan Sly*, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-186)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Reconstruction in the Potts and Hardcore models.
    Nayantara Bhatnagar*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (1063-60-194)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lattices, Uniform Distribution and $3\log 2-\pi^2/8$.
    Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University
    Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University
    Anthony Quas*, University of Victoria
    (1063-37-200)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Large Deviation Principle for the Erdos-Renyi Random Graph.
    Sourav Chatterjee*, New York University
    Srinivasa Varadhan, New York University
    (1063-60-89)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The genealogy of branching Brownian motion with absorption.
    Jason Schweinsberg*, University of California, San Diego
    Julien Berestycki, Universite Paris VI
    Nathanael Berestycki, University of Cambridge
    (1063-60-42)

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