Seminar Schedule

(Conference held at Sloan Hall, 380C)

Thursday March 26, 2009

8:30-9:15 AM - Registration & light breakfast

9:15-9:30 AM - Welcome

9:30-10:30 AM - Scott Sheffield                  [Chair: Greg Lawler]
Quantum Gravity: KPZ, SLE, and Conformal Welding

10:30-11:00 AM - Coffee break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM - Omer Angel          [Chair: Tom Salisbury]
Deterministic Poisson Thinning

12:00-2:00 PM - Lunch Break (on your own)

2:15-3:45 PM – Short Presentations                 [Chair: Wenbo Li]
Short Presentation schedule attached

3:45-4:15 PM - Coffee break

4:15-6:00 PM - Short Presentations             [Chair: Chris Burdzy]
Short Presentation schedule attached

 

Friday March 27, 2009

8:30-9:15 AM - Light breakfast

9:15-10:15 AM - Christina Goldschmidt    [Chair: David Aldous]
The Scaling Limit of Critical Random Graphs

10:15-10:45 AM - Coffee break

10:45 AM -12:30 PM - Short Presentations     [Chair: Jay Rosen]
Short Presentation schedule attached

12:30-2:15 PM - Lunch Break (on your own)

2:15-3:45 PM - Problem/Informal Session    [Chair: Steve Evans]
Short Presentation schedule attached

3:45-4:15 PM - Coffee break

4:15-6:00 PM - Short Presentations           [Chair: Ruth Williams]
Short Presentation schedule attached

7:30-9:30 PM - Banquet dinner - Schwab Center
Schwab Residential Center - East building

 

Saturday March 28, 2009

9:00-10:00 AM - Sourav Chatterjee           [Chair: Persi Diaconis]
Chaos, Concentration and Multiple Valleys

10:00-10:15 AM - Coffee break

10:15-11:15 AM - Maury Bramson           [Chair: Mike Harrison]
Stability Criteria and Applications for Randomized Load Balancing Schemes