Schedule

Monday, June 14 Morning and afternoon: main lectures.
9.00-10.00	Torgny Lindvall	Introduction I
10.15-11.00	Torgny Lindvall	Introduction II
11.15-12.00	Olle Häggström	Coupling and stochastic domination I
12.00-15.00	LUNCH BREAK
15.00-16.00	Olle Häggström	Coupling and stochastic domination II
16.15-17.00	Hermann Thorisson	More basic tools and tricks I
17.15-18.00	Hermann Thorisson	More basic tools and tricks II
Tuesday, June 15 Morning and afternoon: main lectures.
9.00-10.00	Torgny Lindvall	Coupling of random walks I
10.15-11.00	Torgny Lindvall	Coupling of random walks II
11.15-12.00	Yuval Peres	Coupling and Kakutani's dichotomy
12.00-15.00	LUNCH BREAK
15.00-16.00	Yuval Peres	Coupling of percolation processes
16.15-17.00	Olle Häggström	Markov random fields I
17.15-18.00	Olle Häggström	Markov random fields II
Wednesday, June 16 Morning: main lectures. Afternoon: boat trip.
9.00-10.00	Hermann Thorisson	Shift-coupling and transformation coupling I
10.15-11.00	Hermann Thorisson	Shift-coupling and transformation coupling II
11.15-12.00	Torgny Lindvall	Some history of the coupling method
Thursday, June 17 Morning: main lectures. Afternoon: contributed talks.
9.00-10.00	Olle Häggström	Markov chain Monte Carlo and perfect simulation
10.15-11.00	Andrew Barbour	The Stein-Chen method and coupling I
11.15-12.00	Andrew Barbour	The Stein-Chen method and coupling II
12.00-15.00	LUNCH BREAK
15.00-15.45	Elke Thönnes	Perfect simulation for Markov point processes
16.00-16.45	Vicky Henderson	Local time, coupling, and the passport option
17.00-17.30	Alexander Holroyd	Entanglement in percolation
Friday, June 18 Morning: main lectures. Afternoon: contributed talks.
9.00-10.00	Yuval Peres	Coupling of tree-indexed Markov chains I
10.15-11.00	Robin Pemantle	Reconstructing bias from random scenery I
11.15-12.00	Torgny Lindvall	Poisson embeddings
12.00-15.00	LUNCH BREAK
15.00-15.30	Corrie Quant	Stability and weakly convergent approximations of queueing systems on a circle
15.45-16.15	David Svensson	Some properties of the renewal function of a DFR renewal process in a random environment
16.30-17.00	Torkel Erhardsson	An analysis of the Johnson-Mehl model using Stein-Chen's method and coupling
17.15-17.45	Peter Eichelsbacher	Compound Poisson approximation for dissociated random variables
Saturday, June 19 Morning: main lectures. The school closes after lunch.
9.00-10.00	Robin Pemantle	Reconstructing bias from random scenery II
10.15-11.00	Yuval Peres	Coupling of tree-indexed Markov chains II
11.15-12.00	Andrew Barbour	A transition function expansion for a diffusion model with selection

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