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Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
April 1-2, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1127

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Probability and Applications

• Saturday April 1, 2017, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Applications, I
  BH214, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Nick Travers, Indiana University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    New bounds on the chemical distance in 2D critical percolation.
    Michael Damron, Georgia Tech
    Jack Hanson, City College, New York
    Philippe Sosoe*, Harvard University
    (1127-60-288)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The energy landscape of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.
    Wei-Kuo Chen*, University of Minnesota
    Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University
    Gilad Lerman, University of Minnesota
    Madeline Handschy, University of Minnesota
    (1127-60-168)
• Saturday April 1, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Applications, II
  BH214, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Nick Travers, Indiana University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Percolation-decorated triangulations and their relation with SLE and LQG.
    Nina Holden*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Olivier Bernardi, Brandeis
    Xin Sun, MIT
    (1127-60-386)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convergence of the self-avoiding walk on random quadrangulations to SLE$_{8/3}$ on $\sqrt{8/3}$-Liouville quantum gravity.
    Ewain Gwynne*, MIT
    Jason Miller, Cambridge
    (1127-60-109)
• Sunday April 2, 2017, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Applications, III
  BH214, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Nick Travers, Indiana University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Random walks on Ramanujan graphs, complexes, and digraphs.
    Eyal Lubetzky*, Courant Institute, New York University
    (1127-60-365)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 2, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Applications, IV
  BH214, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Nick Travers, Indiana University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Speed of random walks on finitely generated groups and minimal growth of harmonic functions.
    Jeremie Brieussel, Universit\'e de Montpellier
    Tianyi Zheng*, UC San Diego
    (1127-60-406)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Infinite Systems of Competing Brownian Particles.
    Andrey Sarantsev*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1127-60-325)

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