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## Random Walks and Random Media April 30, 2012 - May 04, 2012

Apr 30, 2012
Monday
 08:50 AM - 09:00 AM Welcome 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Criteria for Ballistic Behavior of Random Walks in Random Environment Alejandro Ramirez 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Edge reinforced random walks, Vertex reinforced jump process, and the SuSy hyperbolic sigma model. Christophe sabot 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Lunch 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Dynamical point of view on some random walk models Dmitry Dolgopyat 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM A central limit theorem for the effective conductance and resistance Marek Biskup 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM On the monotonicity of the speed of biased random walk on a Galton-Watson tree without leaves Alexander Fribergh (University of Montreal)
May 01, 2012
Tuesday
 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Directed polymers and KPZ universality Timo Seppalainen 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Directed random polymers and Macdonald processes Ivan Corwin (Columbia University) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Spanning trees of graphs on surfaces and the intensity of loop-erased random walk on Z^2 David Wilson (University of Washington) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Stability of the greedy server: Proof of the Coffman-Gilbert conjecture on the unit circle vladas sidoravicius 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM Subgaussian Concentration and Rates of Convergence in Directed Polymers Kenneth Alexander 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM Reception
May 02, 2012
Wednesday
 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Random walks on finite graphs and random interlacements Augusto Teixeira 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Chemical Distance on Random Interlacements Jiri Cerny 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Conditional quenched CLTs for random walks among random conductances. Serguei Popov
May 03, 2012
Thursday
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Detecting the trail of the random walker Yuval Peres (University of California, Berkeley) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Tea 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Linearly reinforced random walks. Omer Angel 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM On the localization-delocalization critical line for the random copolymer Erwin Bolthausen 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Self-interacting random walks Perla Sousi 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Stochastic Representation of the Ground States for the Mean Field Anna Levit 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM Scaling limits for self-interacting random walks and diffusions Balint Toth
May 04, 2012
Friday
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM The Cutoff Phenomenon for Typical Birth and Death Chains - Persi Diaconis 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Tea 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Large deviations and slowdown asymptotics for excited random walks. Jonathon Peterson 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Excited random walks on $Z^d$ Elena Kosygina 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Maxima of two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field Jian Ding 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Potts and independent set models on d-regular graphs Nike Sun