Discrete Random Walks 2003

Conference program

All the lectures hold in the "Hermite Lecture Hall", Institut Henri Poincaré (map).

All the invited talks last one hour. All the other talks are slots of 30 minutes: 25 min of talk + few minutes of questions and a short break before the next talk.

Monday, September 1

09:30 - 10:00         Opening
10:00 - 11:00         Gordon Slade: Scaling Limits and Super-Brownian Motion
11:00 - 11:30         Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00         Omer Angel: Random walks with cyclic time and random infinite permutations
12:00 - 12:30         Pierre Nicodème: q-gram analysis and urn models
12:30 - 14:30         Lunch time
14:30 - 15:00         Yao-ban Chan & Anthony J. Guttmann: Some results for directed lattice walkers in a strip
15:00 - 15:30         Saibal Mitra & Bernard Nienhuis: Osculating Random Walks on Cylinders
15:30 - 16:00         Tea o'clock
16:00 - 16:30         Serguei Popov: Frogs and some other interacting random walks models
16:30 - 17:00         Marina Vachkovskaia (with Luiz Renato G. Fontes & Anatoli Yambartsev): Entropic repulsion on a rarefied wall

Tuesday, September 2

09:30 - 10:30         Yuval Peres: Evolving sets, mixing and heat kernel bounds
10:30 - 11:00         Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30         Dayue Chen (with Yuval Peres): The Speed of Simple Random Walk and Anchored Expansion in Percolation Clusters: an Overview
11:30 - 12:00         Anders Karlsson: Some remarks on harmonic functions on homogeneous infinite graphs
12:00 - 12:30         Andras Telcs: The volume and time comparison principle and transition probability estimates for random walks
12:30 - 14:30         Lunch time
14:30 - 15:00         Michel Nguyen The: Area of Brownian Motion with Generatingfunctionology
15:00 - 15:30         Donatela Merlini: Generating functions for the area below some lattice paths

15:30 - 16:00         Tea o'clock
16:00 - 17:30         Announcements of the conferences: Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics & Probabilities and Richard Stanley 60's birthday meeting, Open problem session, Informal presentation of new results...
20:00                     Conference Dinner: Restaurant "Au moulin vert" (location)

Wednesday, September 3

09:30 - 10:30         Ira Gessel: Combinatorial methods in lattice path enumeration
10:30 - 11:00         Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30         Michael Drmota: Discrete random walks on one-sided periodic graphs
11:30 - 12:00         Alois Panholzer: Non-crossing trees revisited: cutting down and spanning subtrees
12:00 - 12:30         Guy Louchard: The number of distinct part sizes of some multiplicity in compositions of an integer. An asymptotic analysis
12:30 - 14:00         Lunch time
14:00 - 15:00         Richard Durrett: Rigorous result for the CHKNS random graph model
15:00 - 15:30         Nathanael Berestycki (with Richard Durrett): A phase transition in the random transposition random walk
15:30 - 17:30 Tea o'clock & Poster Session:
                              
  • H. K. Dai (with H. C. Su): Approximation and Analytical Studies of Inter-clustering Performances of Space-Filling Curves
  • Michal L. Green, Alan Krinik, Carrie Mortensen, Gerardo Rubino, Randall Swift: Transient probability functions - A sample path approach
  • Oleksiy Khorunzhy: Rooted Trees and Moments of Large Random Matrices
  • -Massimiliano Mattera: Annihilating random walks and perfect matchings of planar graphs
  • -Fabio Machado: Percolation on a non-homogeneous Poisson blob process
  • Dimitri Petritis (with Mikhail Menshikov & Serguei Popov): Bindweeds or random walks in random environments on multiplexed trees and their asympotics
  • Klaus Simon (with Beat Trachsler): A Random Walk Approach for Light Scattering in Material
  • -Leonid Tolmatz: Asymptotics of the distribution of the integral of the absolute value of the Brownian motion for large arguments
  • -Valentin Topchii and Vladimir Vatutin: Individuals at the origin in the critical catalytic branching random walk
  • Alessandro Vezzani (with D. Cassi & R. Burioni): Average properties of combinatorial problems and thermodynamics of spin models on graph
  • Nisheeth Vishnoi: Non Uniform Random Walks
  • NB: The 4 posters with a "-" were presented without their authors, who were finally not able to attend.

    • Thursday, September 4

    09:45 - 10:45         Mark Jerrum: Decomposition techniques for rapid mixing
    10:45 - 11:15         Coffee break
    11:15 - 11:45         David Gamarnik: Linear Phase Transition in Random Linear Constraint Satisfaction Problems
    11:45 - 12:15         Moez Draief (with Jean Mairesse & Neil O'Connell): Joint Burke's Theorem and RSK Representation for a Queue and a Store
    12:15 - 14:00         Lunch time
    14:00 - 19:00         Random walk through Paris (including a visit of the Museum "Le Louvre", 15h30-17h)

    Friday, September 5

    09:30 - 10:30         Philippe Marchal: Constructing a sequence of random walks strongly converging to Brownian motion
    10:30 - 11:00         Coffee break
    11:00 - 11:30         James B. Martin: Reconstruction Thresholds on Regular Trees
    11:30 - 12:00         Endre Csaki & Yueyun Hu: Lengths and heights of random walk excursions
    12:00 - 13:00         David Wilson: Conformal Radii of Loop Models
    13:00 - ad lib         Conference closure

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