348 Final Programme

ESF Mathematics Conference in partnership with EMS and ERCOM

Combinatorics and Analysis in Spatial Probability

12-17 December 2010

Final Programme

Sunday 12 December
Location: Laplace (LG on map), 1st floor, EURANDOM front desk. Map of the campus.

17:00 -  19:30Welcome Drink & Registration
Monday 13 December
Location: Auditorium AUD 15 (AUD on the map). Map of the campus.

08:30 -  09:00Registration
09:00 - 09:20
Conference Opening
09:20 - 10:10Vincent Beffara - École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FR
Recent progress on the Random Cluster model   
10:10 - 10:40Break
10:40 - 11:30Robin Pemantle - University of Pennsylvania, US
An anisotropoic percolation arising from a deletion channel
11:30 - 11:40Break
11:40 - 12:30
Ron Peled - New York University, US
High-dimensional Lipschitz functions are typically flat  
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:20
Yuval Peres - Microsoft Research, US
Cover times, blanket times, and the Gaussian free field
15:20 - 15:40
Break
15:40 - 16:30 Takashi Kumagai - Kyoto University, JP
Convergence of mixing times for sequences of simple random walks on graphs
16:30 - 16:40
Break
16:40 - 17:30Thomas Richthammer - University of California, US
The spectral gap of the interchange process - a proof of Aldous' conjecture
Tuesday 14 December
Location: Auditorium AUD 15 (AUD on the map). Map of the campus.

09:20 - 10:10Fabio Martinelli - Universita di Roma Tre, IT
Glauber dynamics for the 2D Ising model at low temperature: quasi-polynomial bound on the mixing time   
10:10 - 10:20Group Photo
10:20 – 10:40Break
10:40 - 11:30Hugo Duminil-Copin - University of Geneva, CH
Nienhuis conjectures for two-dimensional self-avoiding walks   
11:30 - 11:40
Break
11:40 - 12:30
Jeffrey Steif - Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Noise and Exclusing Sensitivity

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:00
Poster Session
Location: Laplace (LG on map) room 1.105 (green room EURANDOM). Map of the campus.
17:30
Guided Tour & drinks at DAF Museum
19:00
Conference Dinner at DAF Museum
Wednesday 15 December
Location: Auditorium AUD 16 (AUD on the map). Map of the campus.

09:20 - 10:10

Antal Jarai - University of Bath, UK
Zero dissipation limit and ergodicity in Abelian sandpiles

10:10 - 10:40
Break
10:40 - 11:30Gady Kozma - Weizmann Institute, IL
The cycle structure of the interchange process
11:30 - 11:40Break
11:40 - 12:30
Pierre Tarres - CNRS/University of Oxford, FR
Dynamics of vertex-reinforced random walks
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:20
Alistair Sinclair - University of California, US
Lifting of Tree-Structured Markov Chains
15:20 - 15:40Break
15:40 - 16:30
Alex Gaudillière - Université de Provence, FR
From logarithmic to subdiffusive polynomial fluctuations for internal DLA and related growth models 
16:30 - 16:40
Break
16:40 - 19:00

Short Talks (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion each)


Daniel Ueltschi - Warwick University, UK
Spatial random permutations and their cycle distributions

Augusto Teixeira - DMA/ENS, FR
Fragmentation of a discrete torus by random walk

Johan Tykesson - Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
Percolation in the vacant set of Poisson cylinders

Marcelo Hilario - IMPA, BR
Fixation for Distributed Clustering Processes

Perla Sousi - University of Cambridge, UK
Mobile geometric graphs: detection, coverage and percolation

Giulio Iacobelli - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
Gibbs-non-Gibbs properties for evolving Ising models on trees

Thursday 16 December
Location: Auditorium AUD 16 (AUD on the map). Map of the campus.

09:20 - 10:10
Nicolas Curien - ENS Ulm/Université d'Orsay, FR
A view from infinity of the uniform infinite planar quadrangulation   
10:10 - 10:40
Break
10:40 - 11:30
Guillaume Chapuy - Simon Fraser University, CA
Bijections for (random) maps on surfaces
11:30 - 11:40
Break 
11:40 - 12:30
Jeremie Bouttier - CEA Saclay, FR
Planar maps and continued fractions
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch 
14:30 - 15:20
Stanislav Smirnov- Université de Genève, CH
The energy density field of the Ising model
15:20 - 15:40
Break 
15:40 - 16:30
Balint Toth - Budapest University of Technology, HU
Superdiffusive bounds on random walks and diffusions with long memory in the critical dimension 
16:30 - 16:40
Break
16:40 - 19:00

Short Talks  (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion each)


Tobias Mueller - CWI, NL
Hamilton cycles in random geometric graphs

Leandro Pimentel - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BR
Busemann functions and equilibrium measures in last passage percolation models

Peter Windridge - University of Warwick, UK
Random permutations and spin correlations in the Heisenberg ferromagnet

Victor Ermolaev - University of Groningen, NL
Non-Gibbs behaviour of Curie-Weiss model

Stefan Zohren - Leiden University, NL
Growth of uniform infinite causal triangulations

Xinxing Chen - Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN
Two simple random walks collide infinitely many times on some wedge comb

Johan van Leeuwaarden - TU Eindhoven, NL
Counting walks in the quarter plane

Friday 17 December
Location: Laplace (LG on map) room 1.105 (green room EURANDOM). Map of the campus.

09:20 - 10:10
Peter Brändén - Stockholm University, SE
Negative dependence and zeros of polynomials
10:10 - 11:00
Alan Hammond - University of Oxford, UK
Fluctuation in droplet boundaries
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:20
Omer Angel - University of British Columbia, CA
Phase transition in Dyadic tilings
12:20 - 13:00
Remco van der Hofstad - Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL
Recent developments in high-dimensional percolation