Sixth Northeast Probability Seminar
The sixth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held November
15th and 16th, 2007. in the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate
Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309.
ScheduleSixth Northeast Probability Seminar
November 15th and 16th, 2007
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
CUNY Graduate Center
| Thursday, Nov. 15th | ||
| Morning Session: Chair, Robin Pemantle | ||
| 9:30 – | 10:15 am | Registration, light refreshments |
| 10:15 – | 10:30 am | Opening Remarks |
| 10:30 – | 11:30 am | Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (Universite Bordeaux) |
| “On the shape of binary trees” | ||
| 11:30 – | 1:00 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Chair, Richard Bass | ||
| 1:00 – | 2:00 | Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia) |
| “Recent Progress in the Random Conductance Model” | ||
| 2:15 – | 4:15 pm | Informal talks and discussion session. |
| Noah Dean (Purdue) “Recurrence and Transience of a Reinforced | ||
| Process on Weighted Graphs.” | ||
| Hanna Jankowski (UW) “Limiting Distributions in Nonparametric |
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| Shape-Constrained Methods” | ||
| Matt Cecil (UConn) “Quasi-invariance of heat kernel measure on loop and path groups” | ||
| Alan Hammond (NYU) TBA | ||
| Sasha Teplyaev (UConn) “Products of random matrices and derivatives on fractals” | ||
| 4:30 – | Conference Reception Mathematics lounge, Rm. 4214 | |
| 6:30 – | Conference Dinner DARNA | |
| 600 Columbus Ave at 89th Str. 212-721-9123 | ||
| Friday, Nov. 16th | ||
| Morning Session: Chair, Gérard Ben Arous | ||
| 9:30 – | 10:30 am | Jonathan Mattingly, (Duke University) |
| “Ergodicity in infinite dimensions: Degenerately forced Stochastic |
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| Partial Differential equations” | ||
| 10:30 – | 11:00 am | Refreshments |
| 11:00 – | Noon | Thomas Liggett (UCLA) |
| “Negative Dependence and the Symmetric Exclusion Process” | ||
| Noon – | 1:30 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Chair, Daniel Ocone | ||
| 1:30 – | 3:30 pm | Informal talks and discussion session |
| Nevena Maric (Syracuse) “Existence of Quasi-stationary distributions via |
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| Fleming-Viot particle systems” | ||
| Iddo Ben-Ari (UC Irvine) “Some Scaling Limits for a Homopolymer Model” | ||
| Souvik Ghosh (Cornell) “The effect of memory on functional large deviation |
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| of a moving average process” | ||
| Rohini Kumar (UW Madison) “Current fluctuations for independent random walks” | ||
| Dongsheng Wu (UA, Huntsville) “Dimension results of multifractional Brownian sheets” | ||
| Xinyi Zhang (Delaware) “On the differences of expected length of minimum spanning tree” | ||
| Ang Wei (Delaware) TBA | ||
| Bikramjit Das (Cornell) “Multivariate limit distribution with one extreme component” |
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