RDSES/ESI Educational Workshop
on Discrete Probability
Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, March 13-25, 2006
Workshop program
MONDAY, 13 March
Morning session:
chair K. Schmidt
|
| 9.45-10.00 |
Opening |
| 10.00-10.50 |
Christophe PITTET |
"Random walks and isoperimetry in compactly generated groups. 1" |
| 11.20-12.00 |
Ben HAMBLY |
"Random walks on graphs with fractal structure" |
Afternoon session:
chair Ch. Krattenthaler
|
| 15.00-15.50 |
Alex GAMBURD |
"Discrete and continuous variations on the expanding theme. 1" |
| 16.20-17.00 |
Michael DRMOTA |
"Concentration Properties of Extremal Parameters in Random Trees" |
| 17.20-17.50 |
Andras TELCS |
"The multiplicative Einstein relation" |
TUESDAY, 14 March
Morning session:
chair B. Hambly
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Christophe PITTET |
"Random walks and isoperimetry in compactly generated groups. 2" |
| 10.30-11.10 |
Alexander BENDIKOV |
TBA |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Florian SOBIECZKY |
"Anchored expansion of products of random trees" |
Afternoon session:
chair B. Toth
|
| 15.00-15.50 |
Alex GAMBURD |
"Discrete and continuous variations on the expanding theme. 2" |
| 16.20-16.50 |
Gidi AMIR |
"Excited random walk against a wall" |
| 17.10-17.40 |
Ori GUREL-GUREVICH |
"Almost Sure Reccurence of the Simple Random Walk Path" |
WEDNESDAY, 15 March
Morning session:
chair A. Bendikov
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Christophe PITTET |
"Random walks and isoperimetry in compactly generated groups. 3" |
| 10.30-11.10 |
Cyril BANDERIER |
"Random Maps, Coalescing Saddles, Singularity Analysis, and Airy Phenomena" |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Ulrich HABÖCK |
"Recurrence of the twisted planar random walk" |
Afternoon session:
chair C. Banderier
|
| 15.00-15.50 |
Alex GAMBURD |
"Discrete and continuous variations on the expanding theme. 3" |
| 16.20-16.50 |
Lorenz GILCH |
"Rate of Escape of Lamplighter Random Walks on Trees" |
| 17.10-17.40 |
Thomas STOLL |
"Newman's phenomenon for generalized Thue-Morse sequences" |
THURSDAY, 16 March
Morning session:
chair V. Kaimanovich
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Christophe PITTET |
"Random walks and isoperimetry in compactly generated groups. 4" |
| 10.30-11.10 |
Bálint TOTH |
"Random Trees and General Branching Processes" |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Baláczs RÁTH |
"Self-organized critical mean field forest fire model" |
Afternoon session:
chair Ch. Pittet
|
| 15.00-15.50 |
Alex GAMBURD |
"Discrete and continuous variations on the expanding theme. 4" |
| 16.20-16.50 |
Clement RAU |
"On the number of distinct visited sites by a random walk on the infinite cluster of the percolation model" |
| 17.10-17.40 |
Vincent LE PRINCE |
"On the problem of extremality of
generators in groups of exponential growth" |
FRIDAY, 17 March
Morning session:
chair W. Woess
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Christophe PITTET |
"Random walks and isoperimetry in compactly generated groups. 5" |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Andrea COLLEVECCHIO |
"On the transience of processes defined on Galton-Watson trees" |
| 11.20-12.00 |
Alex GAMBURD |
"Discrete and continuous variations on the expanding theme. 5" |
Afternoon session:
chair A. Gamburd
|
| 15.00-15.30 |
Sebastian MÜLLER |
"Recurrence and Transience of Branching Markov Chains" |
| 16.00-16.50 |
Terry LYONS |
"Recombination and cubature on Wiener space" |
MONDAY, 20 March
Morning session:
chair K. Schmidt
|
| 9.45-10.00 |
Re-opening |
| 10.00-10.50 |
Persi DIACONIS |
"Sharp transitions in probability,
combinatorics, and statistical mechanics. 1" |
| 11.20-12.00 |
Christian KRATTENTHALER |
"Asymptotics for random walks in alcoves of affine Weyl groups" |
Afternoon session:
chair M. Drmota
|
| 15.00-15.50 |
Greg LAWLER |
"Random walk problems from statistical physics. 1" |
| 16.20-17.00 |
Steve LALLEY |
"Local Limit Theorems for Random Walks on Fuchsian Groups" |
| 17.20-17.50 |
Franz LEHNER |
"Noncrossing cumulants and De Finetti's theorem" |
TUESDAY, 21 March
Morning session:
chair T. Ceccherini-Silberstein
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Persi DIACONIS |
"Sharp transitions in probability, combinatorics, and statistical mechanics. 2" |
| 10.30-11.10 |
Ewa DAMEK |
"Invariant measures for random recursions" |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Dariusz BURACZEWSKI |
"On invariant measures of stochastic affine recursions" |
Afternoon session:
chair M. Kotani |
| 15.00-15.50 |
Greg LAWLER |
"Random walk problems from statistical physics. 2" |
| 16.20-16.50 |
Tatsuya TATE |
"A spectral analogue of asymptotics of
the number of partitions" |
| 17.10-17.40 |
Tullio CECCHERINI-SILBERSTEIN |
"Trees, wreath products and finite Gelfand pairs" |
WEDNESDAY, 22 March
Morning session:
chair G. Lawler
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Persi DIACONIS |
"Sharp transitions in probability, combinatorics, and statistical mechanics. 3" |
| 10.30-11.10 |
Takashi KUMAGAI |
"Random walk on the incipient infinite cluster on trees" |
| 11.30-12.00 |
James PARKINSON |
"Isotropic Random Walks on Trees and Buildings" |
Afternoon session:
chair P. Mathieu |
| 15.00-15.50 |
Greg LAWLER |
"Random walk problems from statistical physics. 3" |
| 16.20-16.50 |
Sara BROFFERIO |
"Internal Diffusion Limited Aggregation on groups with exponential growth" |
| 17.10-17.40 |
Fabienne CASTELL |
"Self-Intersection Local Times for Random Walk, and Random Walk in Random Scenery" |
THURSDAY, 23 March
Morning session:
chair S. Lalley
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Persi DIACONIS |
"Sharp transitions in probability, combinatorics, and statistical mechanics. 4" |
| 10.30-11.10 |
Pierre MATHIEU |
"Random walks on hyperbolic groups: harmonic vs quasi-conformal
measures" |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Adam TIMAR |
"Neighboring clusters in Bernoulli percolation" |
Afternoon session:
chair E. Damek
|
| 15.00-15.50 |
Greg LAWLER |
"Random walk problems from statistical physics. 4" |
| 16.20-16.50 |
Roman MUCHNIK |
"Boundary L2 representation of negatively curved groups" |
| 17.10-17.40 |
Pierre-Yves LOUIS |
"Interacting Particle Systems with multi-sites updating rules" |
19.00: Public lecture of Persi DIACONIS at math.space
Mathematics and Magic Tricks
(Click on the title for more information.)
|
FRIDAY, 24 March
Morning session:
chair T. Kumagai
|
| 9.10-10.00 |
Persi DIACONIS |
"Sharp transitions in probability, combinatorics, and statistical mechanics. 5" |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Satoshi ISHIWATA |
"Gradient estimate of the heat kernel on modified graphs" |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Elmar TEUFL |
"Spectral dimension and the number of spanning trees of fractal
graphs" |
Afternoon session:
chair P. Diaconis
|
| 15.00-15.50 |
Greg LAWLER |
"Random walk problems from statistical physics. 5" |
| 16.20-17.00 |
Vadim A. KAIMANOVICH |
"Random infinite trees and stochastic homogenization" |