Presentations on research in probability and related topics
11 May 2017
Venue: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
Sponsors:
- The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science
- The Moross Research School of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Avivit Schramm
Organizers:
Itai Benjamini, Ronen Eldan, Gady Kozma, Ofer Zeitouni
Registration:
If you plan to participate in the meeting, please let us know by registering online, by 15 April 2015. Registration is free of charge, and includes lunch at the Institute.
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09:00-09:30 |
Registration |
09:30-10:30 |
Opening Lecture: Gideon Schechtman (WIS):
A quantitative version of the commutator theorem for zero trace matrices
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10:30–10:45 |
Coffee break |
10:45–11:30 |
- Ofer Shwartz (WIS): "Martin Boundary – From random walks to topological Markov shifts"
- Idan Perl (BGU): " Harmonic function & polynomials on groups"
- Tslil Rotbart (TAU): "Garden Kinetics - First Passage Approach to Pollination Optimization"
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11:45-12:30 |
- Renan Gross (WIS): "Getting lost while hiking in the Boolean wilderness"
- Alexander Glazman (TAU): "Macroscopic loops in the critical loop O(n) model"
- Peleg Michaeli (TAU):"Small subgraphs in the trace of a random walk"
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12:30–14:00 |
Lunch break |
14:00-14:45 |
- David Lipshutz (Technion): Sensitivities of reflected diffusions
- Raimundo Briceño (TAU): Some results on entropy in Zd shift spaces
- Xiaolin Zeng (TAU): Limit shape of random partitions
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14:45–15:00 |
Coffee Break
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15:00-15:45
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- Asaf Katz (HUJI): Sparse equidistribution in unipotent flows
- Dan Mikulincer (WIS): An Itô approach to the Central Limit Theorem and applications
- Clara Shikhelman (TAU): Many T-copies in H-free subgraphs of random graphs
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16:00-16:45 |
- Artemi Berlinkov (BIU): Porosities of Mandelbrot percolation
- Dominic Yeo (Technion): Frozen percolation with k types
- Roman Glebov (HUJI): TBD
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Group Photo:
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