AMS meeting at Loyola University, Probability Session

October 3rd–4th, 2015

Welcome to the Probability Session of the AMS Sectional meeting on October 3rd - 4th

The invited speakers and titles for this session are:

Jinho Baik (Michigan) - Fluctuations of the free energy of spherical spin glass.

Shankar Bhamidi (UNC) - Continuum scaling limits of critical inhomogeneous random graph models.

Nayantara Bhatnagar (Delaware) - Limit Theorems for Monotone Subsequences in Mallows Permutations.

Paul Bourgade (NYU) - Quantum Unique Ergodicity as a tool for Universality for random matrices.

Wei-Kuo Chen (Minnesota) - Self-averaging in spin glasses with Gaussian disorder.

Partha Dey (UIUC) - Longest increasing path within the critical strip.

Alexander Drewitz (Columbia) - The maximal particle of branching random walk in random environment.

Ramon van Handel (Princeton) - Chaining and convexity.

Steve Lalley (U. Chicago) - Critical Branching Brownian Motion with Killing at 0.

Elchanan Mossel (Berkeley) - Shotgun Assembly of Graphs.

Firas Rassoul-Agha (Utah) - Busemann functions and geodesics for the corner growth model.

Arnab Sen (Minnesota) - Double Roots of Random Integer Polynomials.

Charles Smart (U. Chicago) - Regularity and stochastic homogenization.

Prasad Tetali (GA Tech.) - Some open problems inspired by discrete curvature.

Mei Yin (Denver) - Asymptotic properties of the (generalized) edge-triangle exponential random graph model.

Jun Yin (Wisconsin) - Universality of wide band matrix.

All abstracts can be found here.

Schedule

Saturday  October 3, 2015  
8:30-8:55          Talk 1 Jinho Baik
9:00-9:25          Talk 2 Arnab Sen
9:30-9:55          Talk 3 Paul Bourgade
10:00-10:25   Talk 4 Jun Yin
10:30-10:55     Talk 5 Wei-Kuo Chen
11:05-11:10 Welcome  
11:10-12:00 Invited Address 1 ********************************************
12:00-1:30 LUNCH   
1:30-2:20 Invited Address 2 ********************************************
2:30-2:55 Talk 6 Ramon van Handel
3:00-3:25 Talk 7 Firas Rassoul-Agha
3:30-3:55 Talk 8 Nayantara Bhatnagar
4:00-4:25 Talk 9  Partha Dey
4:30-4:55 Talk 10  Alexander Drewitz
5:10-5:15 Erdos Introduction ********************************************
5:15-6:15 Erdos Lecture  Peter Sarnak ******************************
6:15-7:30 RECEPTION  
Sunday  October 4, 2015  
8:30-8:55          Talk 11 Elchanan Mossel
9:00-9:25          Talk 12 Shankar Bhamidi
9:30-9:55          Talk 13 Mei Yin
10:00-10:25   Talk 14 Steve Lalley
10:30-10:55     Talk 15 Charles Smart
11:05-11:55 Invited Address 4 ********************************************
12:00-1:30 LUNCH   
1:30-1:55 Talk 16 Prasad Tetali 
2:00-2:25 Talk 17 Melanie Pivarski
2:30-2:55 Talk 18  Andrey Sarantsev

Organizers

The scientific organizers are Antonio Auffinger, Jian Ding and Sebastien Roch.

More conferences in the area

The week after the Workshop is the 37th Midwest Probability Colloquium held at Northwestern University.