Definite workshop program

Please note the switch from summer daylight savings time to standard time on the night between Oct 25 and Oct 26.

Sunday, Oct 26

Morning chair: Christian Maes. Afternoon chair: Anders Martin-Löf
9.30-10.30Registration and coffee
10:30-10:45Opening remarks by the organizers
10:45-11:45Russ Lyons: The uniform spanning forest model
11:45-14:00Lunch break
14:00-14:40Timo Seppäläinen: The limiting shape for a simple first-passage percolation model on the planar lattice
14:50-15:30Mathew Penrose: Connectivity and minimal spanning tree on random points
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Aernout van Enter: How measures can fail to be Gibbsian

Monday, Oct 27

Morning chair: Russ Lyons. Afternoon chair: Timo Seppäläinen.
9.00-9.40Elisabetta Scoppola: On low temperature behavior for some conservative stochastic Ising models
9:50-10:20Wolfgang König: One-dimensional polymer measures
10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50-11:30Oded Schramm: Noise sensitivity of percolation and other Boolean functions
11:40-12:10 Peter Jagers: Branching processes with dependence but homogeneous growth
12:10-14:20Lunch break
14:20-15:00Jacob van den Berg: On the existence or non-existence of finitary codings for a class of random fields
15:10-15:30Damien White: Backbends in directed percolation
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Departmental colloquium. Charles Newman: First-passage percolation: random geometry on Z^d

Tuesday, Oct 28

Morning chair: Jacob van den Berg. Afternoon chair: Frank den Hollander.
9.00-10.00Ken Alexander: The asymmetric random cluster model and comparison of Ising and Potts models
10:10-10:30Elchanan Mossel: Random walk on percolation clusters in 2+epsilon dimensions
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:40Dmitrii Silvestrov: Mixed large deviations and ergodic theorems for nonlinearly perturbed stochastic systems
11:50-12:10Rasmus Waagepetersen: Markov connected component fields
12:10-14:30Lunch break
14:30-15:10Kurt Johansson: The longest increasing subsequence in a random permutation and a unitary random matrix model
15:20-15:50Håkan Andersson: Epidemics and random graphs
15:50-16:20Coffee break
16:20-17:20 Svante Janson: New versions of Suen's correlation inequality

Wednesday, Oct 29

Morning chair: Håkan Andersson.
9.00-10.00Harry Kesten: Crossing probabilities and the size of the largest cluster in a box in near critical percolation
10:10-10:40Ingemar Kaj: A spatial particle system with first passage branching
10:40-11:10Coffee break
11:10-11:30Marianne Månsson: On periods of words and their occurrence in random strings
11:40-12:20Balint Toth: The true self-repelling motion: a polymer measure of a new type
12:20-...Free afternoon!

Thursday, Oct 30

Morning chair: Ingemar Kaj. Afternoon chair: Kurt Johansson.
9.00-10.00Charles Newman: Chaotic time dependence in a disordered voter model
10:10-10:30Annelies Van Moffaert: Coupled lattice maps
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:20Örjan Stenflo: Iterated function systems with time dependent probabilities
11:30-12:10Itai Benjamini: Percolation beyond Z^d: progress report
12:10-14:00Lunch break
14:00-14:30Marie-Colette van Lieshout: Generalisations of the Widom-Rowlinson model in stochastic geometry
14:40-15:20Hans-Otto Georgii: Spontaneous magnetization in Curie-Weiss ferrofluids
15:20-15:50Coffee break
15:50-16:20 Jesper Moller: Variable dimension MCMC and perfect simulation of locally stable point processes
16:30-17:00 Sven Erick Alm: Inequalities for means of restricted first-passage times in percolation
18:30-... Conference dinner at Ordenshuset, Lennart Torstenssonsgatan 4

Friday, Oct 31

Morning chair: Ronald Meester. Afternoon chair: Sven Erick Alm.
9.00-10.00Geoffrey Grimmett: More strict inequalities for critical values
10:10-10:30Guy Gielis: Percolation processes and disordered spin systems
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:20Johan Jonasson: The random triangle model
11:30-12:10Frank den Hollander: How random is the composition of two random processes?
12:10-14:00Lunch break
14:00-14:40Ronald Meester: The ergodic theorem and the rate of convergence of simultaneous continued fractions
14:50-15:20Christian Maes: Gibbsian characterisation of stationary measures for interacting particle systems
15:20-...Coffee

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