3rd Northeast Probability Seminar

Northeast Probability Seminar

November 4th and 5th, 2004.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, New York City

The seminar will be held in the first-floor Segal Theatre.

Thursday, Nov. 4th (Segal Theatre)

9:30 – 10:15 am Registration, light refreshments

10:15 – 10:30 am Opening Remarks

10:30 – 11:30 am Peter Morters, University of Bath
“The multifractal spectrum of Brownian intersection local times”

11:30 – 1:00 pm Lunch break

1:00 – 2:00 Oded Schramm, Microsoft
“Dynamic percolation,
exceptional times, and harmonic analysis of boolean functions”
2:15 – 4:15 pm Informal talks and discussion session

4:30 – 6:00 pm Reception in Math Department Lounge, 4th floor.

A seminar dinner will be held Thursday night. Please sign up during
the morning to be included in the reservations.

Friday, Nov. 5th (Segal Theatre)

9:30 – 10:30 am Sylvie Méléard, Université Paris X
“A probabilistic approach for
nonlinear equations involving the fractional Laplacian”
10:30 – 11:00 am Refreshments

11:00 – Noon Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University
“The singularity/absolute continuity dichotomy for Brownian motions on compact groups and related problems”

Noon – 1:30 pm Lunch break

1:30 – 3:30 pm Informal talks and discussion session