This workshop will take place on June 21-25, 2004 at the Nordic School of Public Health in Göteborg, Sweden. The program will focus (mainly) on the topics indicated in the title, and will contain invited talks only. Talks will begin in the morning of Monday, June 21 (so participants are normally expected to arrive Saturday or Sunday), and the program ends on Friday, June 25, before lunchtime. See the detailed schedule below.
There is no conference fee. Hotel and meals will be arranged at a total cost of around 800 SEK (100 EUR) per day. The deadline for registrations passed on May 1.
The workshop is an official satellite conference of the Fourth European Congress of Mathematics, which takes place in Stockholm, beginning two days after the workshop. Stockholm is an easy three-hour train ride away from Göteborg.
The workshop is financed by the European Science Foundation programme RDSES (Phase Transitions and Fluctuation Phenomena for Random Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems) and by the Stochastic Centre at Chalmers.
Final schedule:
| Sunday, June 20 | 19.00 | Dinner |
| Monday, June 21 | 8.00-9.00 | Breakfast | 9.45-10.00 | A few words of welcome | 10.00-10.45 | Senya Shlosman | Combinatorics, statistical mechanics, and the Internet [Paper] | 10.45-11.15 | Coffee | 11.15-12.00 | Roman Kotecký | Birth of the equilibrium droplet | 12.00-15.30 | Lunch followed by break | 15.30-16.00 | Coffee | 16.00-16.45 | Nina Gantert | Deviations of random walk in random scenery | 17.00-17.45 | Jacob van den Berg | The one-dimensional self-organized critical forest-fire model revisited | 19.00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday, June 22 | 8.00-9.00 | Breakfast | 9.00-9.45 | Charles Newman | Remarks on continuum scaling limits in two dimensions | 10.00-10.45 | Emilio De Santis | Upper bounds of spectral gaps for Glauber and Swendsen-Wang dynamics in the Ising model | 10.45-11.15 | Coffee | 11.15-12.00 | Christian Maes | The Potts model built on sand [Paper] | 12.00-15.30 | Lunch followed by break | 15.30-16.00 | Coffee | 16.00-16.45 | Alexander Holroyd | A stable marriage of Poisson and Lebesgue | 17.00-17.45 | Roberto Fernandez | Birth-and-death processes in random environment | 19.00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday, June 23 | 8.00-9.00 | Breakfast | 9.00-9.45 | Vladas Sidoravicius | Growth in random environment | 10.00-10.45 | Fabio Martinelli | Glauber dynamics on trees: boundary conditions and mixing times [Paper 1] [Paper 2] [Paper 3] | 10.45-11.15 | Coffee | 11.15-12.00 | Roland Häggkvist | The Ising model as I reckon it | 12.00-19.00 | Lunch followed by free afternoon! | 19.00 | Dinner | 20.00 | (Meeting of the RDSES steering group.) |
| Thursday, June 24 | 8.00-9.00 | Breakfast | 9.00-9.45 | Remco van der Hofstad | Random subgraphs of finite graphs | 10.00-10.45 | Bernard Nienhuis | Correlations for critical percolation on cylinders and strips | 10.45-11.15 | Coffee | 11.15-12.00 | Russ Lyons | Asymptotic enumeration of spanning trees via traces and random walks | 12.00-15.30 | Lunch followed by break | 15.30-16.00 | Coffee | 16.00-16.45 | Gerard Ben Arous | A phase transition at the edge of random spectra | 17.00-17.45 | Silke Rolles | Recent progress on reinforced random walks [Paper] | 19.00 | Conference dinner |
| Friday, June 25 | 8.00-9.00 | Breakfast at NOVOTEL | 9.30-10.15 | Tom Liggett | Stationary distributions for exclusion processes in one and higher dimensions [Paper 1] [Paper 2] | 10.30-11.15 | Wendelin Werner | Brownian loop-soups and conformal field theory |
For more information, contact either of the organizers Olle Häggström and Jeff Steif.