AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session
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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
Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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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3:00 p.m.
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