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May 15-19, 2006

Workshop on Random Walks in Random Environments
The Fields Institute

 

 

SCHEDULE:

 Monday, May 15 

9:30 – 10:30

Yuval Peres, Berkeley,
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Martingales

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:00 – 12:00

Russell Lyons, Indiana,
Unimodularity and Stochastic Processes

12:00 – 2:00

Lunch Break

 

2:00 – 3:00

Open Problem Presentation

 

3:00 – 3:30

Coffee Break

 

3:30 – 5:30

Open Problem Presentation

 

 

 Tuesday, May 16

 

9:30 – 10:30

Christina Goldschmidt, Cambridge,
Coagulation-fragmentation duality, Poisson-Dirichlet distributions and random recursive trees

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

 Wednesday, May 17

 

9:30 – 10:30

Biskup/Berger TBA

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

 Thursday, May 18

 

9:30 – 10:30

Robin Pemantle, Dept. of Math, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Multivariate generating function techniques and an application to quantum random walks

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

 Friday, May 19

 

9:30 – 10:30

Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota,
A CLT for critically biased random walked on Galton-Watson trees

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

 

For further information please contact gensci(PUT_AT_SIGN_HERE)fields.utoronto.ca