Conference Schedule
Wednesday, March 26
1:00-1:30 Check-In
1:30-3:00 Tutorial Lecture by Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA): Structure of near critical clusters and continuity of the phase transition for Bernoulli percolation and Ising models in dimensions 2 and 3. Abstract
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Tutorial Lecture by Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA): Structure of near critical clusters and continuity of the phase transition for Bernoulli percolation and Ising models in dimensions 2 and 3. Abstract
5:00-6:00 Optional walk to cliff top, view of ocean
Thursday, March 27
9:00-9:20 Check-In
9:20-9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30-10:30 Neil O'Connell (University of Warwick / Trinity College Dublin): Geometric RSK, Whittaker functions and random polymers. Abstract
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Brief talks by poster presenters
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Brief talks by poster presenters
4:00-6:00 Poster session
6:30-9:00 Conference dinner
Friday, March 28
9:30-10:30 Ramon van Handel (Princeton University): Conditional Ergodicity. Abstract
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Kai Lai Chung Lecture by Rodrigo Bañuelos (Purdue University): Martingale transforms, the heart of the matter. Abstract
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Open problem session
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 Panel Discussion
4:30-5:30 Possible continuation of open problem session
Saturday, March 29
9:00-10:00 Sebastien Roch (University of Wisconsin): Maximum likelihood in phylogenetics: Relating combinatorial and variational distances on trees. Abstract
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Sandra Cerrai (University of Maryland): Large deviations and exit problems for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations driven by space-time white noise. Abstract
Brief talks by poster presenters
First Session (11:00-12:30)
- Winfried Barta (George Washington University): Forgetting the Starting Distribution in Interacting Tempering. Abstract
- Douglas Rizzolo (University of Washington): A light gas particle in a gravitational field. Abstract
- Dejan Siraj (University of Warwick): Mirror and Synchronous Couplings of Geometric Brownian Motions. Abstract
- Chuan Qin (University of California, Davis): Uniqueness of Friend Cluster in a Social Network on Non-Amenable Graphs. Abstract
- Lucas Tcheuko (University of Maryland): Quasi-linear equations with a small diffusion term and the evolution of hierarchies of cycles. Abstract
- Andrey Sarantsev (University of Washington): Infinite Systems of Competing Brownian Particles. Abstract
- Ngoc Mai Tran (University of Texas at Austin): Zeros of random tropical polynomials, random polytopes and stick-breaking. Abstract
- Zhuang Hou (University of Rochester): Blow-up of Stochastic Delay Differential Equations. Abstract
- Michael Salins (University of Maryland): The exit time problem for second-order finite- and infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equations. Abstract
- Xueying Wang (Washington State University): Fast-Slow Analysis of Neural Excitability with Synaptic Noise. Abstract
- Lingjiong Zhu (University of Minnesota): Ruin probabilities for risk processes with non-stationary arrivals and subexponential claims. Abstract
- Zsolt Pajor-Gyuali (University of Maryland): Transition from Averaging to homogenization in cellular flows - an exact description.
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Second Session (2:00-3:30)
- Xin Liu (Clemson University): Diffusion approximations for double-ended queues. Abstract
- Li-Cheng Tsai (Stanford University): Weakly Asymmetric Non-Simple Exclusion Process and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation. Abstract
- Youngsoo Seol (Texas State University - San Marcos): Random Walks in a sparse random environment. Abstract
- Wai-Tong (Louis) Fan (University of Washington): Systems of reflected diffusions with annihilations through membranes. Abstract
- Shuwen Lou (University of Washington): Brownian Motion with Varying Dimension. Abstract
- Qiang Zeng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Subgaussian 1-cocycles on discrete groups. Abstract
- Jong Jun Lee (University of Maryland): Small mass asymptotics of a charged particle in a variable magnetic field. Abstract
- Yulei Pang (Texas Tech University): Random walks and cards shuffling. Abstract
- Tvrtko Tadic (University of Washington): Time and graphical properties of processes indexed by time-like graphs. Abstract
- Mohammadreza Aghajani (Brown University): Asymptotic Coupling of an SPDE, with Applications to Many-Server Queues.
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- Jingyu Huang (University of Kansas): Stochastic heat equations with general multiplicative Gaussian noises: Hölder continuity and intermittency. Abstract
- David Lipshutz (Brown University): Periodic Oscillations in a Genetic Circuit with Delayed Negative Feedback. Abstract
- Subhomoy Ghosh (New York University Abu Dhabi): Colored Maximal Branching Process. Abstract
- Matija Vidmar (University of Warwick): Markov chain approximations to scale functions of Levy processes.
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Open problem session
The following people have been scheduled to speak in the open problem session. Additional contributions are welcome.
- Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington): Concatenated Brownian paths
- Priscilla Greenwood (University of British Columbia): Sustained oscillations for SPDE's?
- Cheng Ouyang (University of Illinois at Chicago): Hitting probabilities for SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motions
- Ngoc Mai Tran (University of Texas, Austin): Recursive partition on $\Z^2 \cap [0,n]^2$
- Wai-Tong (Louis) Fan (University of Washington): An annihilating-Branching diffusion model and its self organizing structure
- Hyunchul Park (The College of William and Mary): Harmonic measure for subordinate Brownian motions with Gaussian component in $C^{1,1}$ open sets
- Bijan Zangeneh (Sharif University of Technology): An Ito Type Inequality and its application