Tenth Northeast Probability Seminar

   November 17-18, 2011 

     New York, NY
 


The Tenth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at NYU on  November 17th and
18th, 2011.

The invited speakers are:

 Vlada Limic  (Université de Provence)
"Some progress in understanding the small-time behavior of exchangeable coalescents"

 Eyal Lubetzky  (Microsoft)
"From entropic repulsion to the shape of (2+1)-dimensional SOS"

  Gregory Miermont  (Universite Paris Sud and University of British Columbia)
"Random maps and their scaling limits"

  Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto)
"Exact solutions in random growth and directed polymers"


As at the previous seminars, there will time allowed for short,
informal talks and discussion sessions. A tentative schedule is below.

The program was chosen by the seminar's scientific committee: 
Richard Bass, Gerard Ben Arous, Sourav Chatterjee, Wenbo Li,
Carl Mueller,  Daniel Ocone, Robin Pemantle, Victor de la Peña, and Jay Rosen.


 Thursday, Nov. 17th, Kimmel Center Room 914/912:

Morning Session: Chair, TBA

9:30 -	10:15 am    Registration, light refreshments
10:15 -	10:30 am    Opening Remarks, TBA
10:30 -	11:30 am    Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto)
      
      "Exact solutions in random growth and directed polymers"

11:30 -	     11:45 pm    break

11:45 -	     12:45 pm    Vlada Limic (Université de Provence)

      "Some progress in understanding the small-time behavior of exchangeable coalescents"

12:45 -	    2:15 pm      Lunch break

Afternoon Session: Chair, TBA

2:15 -	  3:15 pm     10-15 minute informal talks and discussion
3:15 -	  3:30 pm     break
3:30 -	  4:30 pm     10-15 minute informal talks and discussion

4:45 -	  5:45     Conference Reception, 13th floor of the Courant Institute
6:30 -	  	       Conference Dinner

Friday, Nov. 18th, Room 109, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences:

Morning Session: Chair, TBA

9:30 -	10:30 am    Gregory Miermont (Université Paris Sud and University of British Columbia)

     "Random maps and their scaling limits "

10:30 -	     11:00 am    Refreshments

11:00 -	     Noon      Eyal Lubetsky (Microsoft)

      "From entropic repulsion to the shape of (2+1)-dimensional SOS"

Noon -	    1:30 pm      Lunch break

Afternoon Session: Chair, TBA

1:30 -	  2:15 pm      10-15 minute informal talks and discussion
2:15 -	  2:30 pm      break
2:30 -	  3:30 pm      10-15 minute informal talks and discussion