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Program in Probability and Its Applications

HYDRODYNAMIC LIMITS WORKSHOP
Wednesday, October 7 to Saturday, October 10, 1998

Proceeding the Workshop is a Short Course given by Professor S.R.S. Varadhan:
Topic: Hydrodynamic Limits and Large Deviations
Monday, October 5 to Tuesday, October 6, 1998

SCHEDULE

Monday, October 5, 1998
9:30-10:30 Registration
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Professor Varadhan's Lecture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Professor Varadhan's Lecture
2:30-3:00 Afternoon Tea
Tuesday, October 6, 1998
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Professor Varadhan's Lecture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Professor Varadhan's Lecture
2:30-3:00 Afternoon Tea
Wednesday, October 7, 1998
9:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Herbert Spohn (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
"Random matrices and Dyson's model of interacting Brownian motions"
11:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Reinhard Illner(University of Victoria)
"On a stellar dynamic equation with Manev corrections to the potential"
2:30-3:00 Afternoon Tea
3:00-4:00 Timo Seppalainen, (Iowa State University)
"Hydrodynamics for the totally asymmetric marching soldiers"
4:00-5:00 Krishnamur Ravishankar, (SUNY)
"A shape theorem for exclusion process with infection" - Preliminary report
Thursday, October 8, 1998
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Juergen Gaertner (Technische Universitat Berlin)
"On the intermittent behaviour of the heat equation with random potential"
11:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Tadahisa Funaki (University of Tokyo)
"Large deviation for the Ginzburg-Landau $\napla\phi$ interface model"
2:30-3:00 Afternoon Tea
3:00-4:00 Andreas Deutsch (University of Bonn)
"Migration automata as models of swarming and aggregation: from individual rules to macroscopic behaviour"
4:00-5:00 Henryk Fuks (The Fields Institute and University of Guelph)
"Cellular automata rules conserving the number of active sites"
7:00-7:30 Cocktails at the Spuntini Ristorante (Cash Bar)
7:30 - Banquet begins
Friday, October 9, 1998
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Horng-Tzer Yau (Courant Institute, NYU)
"Scaling limit of the time evolution of a quantum particle in a random potential"
11:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Fraydon Rezakhanlou (University of California at Berkeley)
"Homogenization for stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations"
2:30-3:00 Afternoon Tea
3:00-4:00 David Levermore (University of Arizona)
"Acoustic and Stokes limits for the Boltzmann equation"
4:00-5:00 Jose A. Carrilo (University of Texas at Austin)
"One-dimensional kinetic equation for granular media"
Saturday, October 10, 1998
9:30-10:30 Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto)
"Internal DLA"
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Gregory Eyink (University of Arizona)
"Surprises in the hydrodynamics of driven lattice gases"