American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, December 21, 2018 16:21:51

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Saturday October 27, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Coupling in Probability and Related Fields, I
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Sayan Banerjee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Terry Soo, University of Kansas tsoo@ku.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On stirring coffee and Knudsen reflections.
  Krzysztof Burdzy*, University of Washington
  Mauricio Duarte, Universidad Andr\'es Bello, Santiago, Chile
  Carl-Erik Gauthier, University of Washington
  Jaime San Martin, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  (1144-60-15)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Coalescing random walk on unimodular graphs.
  Eric Thomas Foxall*, University of Alberta
  (1144-60-19)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Gradient bounds for hypoelliptic diffussions.
  Maria Gordina*, University of Connecticut
  (1144-60-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Joint distribution of Busemann functions for the corner growth model.
  Wai Tong Fan*, Indiana University
  Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1144-60-114)

Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Coupling in Probability and Related Fields, II
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Sayan Banerjee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Terry Soo, University of Kansas tsoo@ku.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Dimension of Unimodular Discrete Spaces.
  Francois Baccelli*, UT Austin, Department of Mathematics
  Mir-Omid Haji-Mirsadeghi, Sharif University
  Ali Khezeli, Tarbiat Modares University
  (1144-60-117)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The frog model on trees with drift.
  Erin Beckman, Duke University
  Natalie Frank, New York University
  Yufeng Jiang, Duke University
  Matthew Junge, Duke University
  Si Tang*, Duke University
  (1144-60-126)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Independent sets in random triangulations.
  Omer Angel*, UBC
  Andrew Rechnitzer, UBC
  (1144-60-230)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Random geometric graphs in normed spaces.
  Karen Gunderson*, University of Manitoba
  (1144-05-250)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Majority dynamics on the infinite 3-regular tree.
  Arnab Sen*, University of Minnesota
  Michael Damron, Georgia Tech
  (1144-60-313)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday October 28, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Coupling in Probability and Related Fields, III
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Sayan Banerjee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Terry Soo, University of Kansas tsoo@ku.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Coupling in Kac's Walks.
  Aaron M. Smith*, University of Ottawa
  Natesh S. Pillai, Harvard University
  (1144-60-322)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fixed distance couplings of Brownian motions on Riemannian manifolds.
  Ionel Popescu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Mihai Pascu, Transilvania University of Brasov
  (1144-60-63)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Universality of quasi-hyperbolic toral automorphisms.
  Anthony Quas*, University of Victoria
  Terry Soo, University of Kansas
  (1144-37-156)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rate of Convergence for Reflected and Walsh Diffusions.
  Andrey Sarantsev*, University of Nevada, Reno
  Tomoyuki Ichiba, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1144-60-29)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion