Workshop on Probabilistic Techniques in Statistical Mechanics

in celebration of Erwin Bolthausen's 65th birthday

TU Berlin, October 14-16, 2010

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Organised by the DFG-Forschergruppe 718 "Analysis and Stochastics in Complex Physical Systems", Berlin and Leipzig

Programme committee: Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Wolfgang König, Max von Renesse and Michael Scheutzow.

Local organisation: Wolfgang König, Abdelhadi Es-Sarhir, Noemi Kurt.

All talks are public. There is no conference fee. To facilitate the organisation, please register for the workshop by sending an e-mail to essarhir(at)math.tu-berlin.de.

A poster is available here (or in high resolution).

Programme

Printable version of the Program and abstracts

Thursday, 14 October


9:00-9:15

Opening
9:15-9:55
Michiel van den Berg (University of Bristol)
Minimization of Dirichlet eigenvalues with geometric constraints
10:00-10:30
Coffee break

10:30-11:10
Tadahisa Funaki (University of Tokyo)
Hydrodynamic limit for 2D and 3D Young diagrams
11:15-11:55
Ofer Zeitouni (University of Minnesota and Weizmann Institute of Science)
Fluctuations of the (discrete) Gaussian Free Field, and Branching Random Walks
12:00-14:00
Lunch break

14:00-14:40
Giambattista Giacomin (University Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
Impurities, defects and phenomena
14:45-15:25
Alice Guionnet (ENS Lyon)
Potts model on random graphs
15:30-16:00
Coffee break

16:00-16:40
Fabio Toninelli (ENS Lyon)
On the zero temperature dynamics of 3D Ising model
16:45-17:25
Yvan Velenik (University of Geneva)
A new approach to the Aizenman-Higuchi theorem
17:30-???
Wine and cheese party

Friday, 15 October


9:00-9:40
Wendelin Werner (University Paris-Sud 11 in Orsay and ENS Paris)
Self-interacting random walks with finite spatial interaction range
9:45-10:25
Bálint Tóth (Technical University Budapest)
Superdiffusive lower bound for self-repelling processes in the critical dimension
10:30-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-11:40
Alain-Sol Sznitman (ETH Zurich)
Random walks and random interlacements
11:45-12:25
Amir Dembo (Stanford University)
Low temperature expansion for matrix models
12:30-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-14:40
David Brydges (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) The strong interaction limit of continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk
14:45-15:25
Gérard Ben Arous (Courant Institute New York)
Extreme gaps in the spectrum of random matrices
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:40
Nicola Kistler (University of Bonn)
Traveling waves through the spin glass
16:45-17:25
Béatrice de Tilière (University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
The critical Z-invariant Ising model via dimers: local statistics and combinatorics
17:30-18:10
Ilya Goldsheid (Queen Mary College)
 Simple random walks in 1D random environment: limiting behaviour in the sub-diffusive regimes
19:00-???
Birthday Dinner

Saturday, 16 October


9:00-9:40
Dmitry Ioffe (Technion)
Stretched polymers in random environment
9:45-10:25
Francesco Caravenna (University of Padova)
The weak coupling limit of disordered copolymer models
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:40
 Anton Bovier (University of Bonn)
  Almost sure ageing 
11:45-12:25
Frank den Hollander (Leiden University and Eurandom)
Variational approach to copolymers near linear interfaces


Invited speakers

Gérard Ben Arous
Michiel van den Berg
David Brydges
Anton Bovier
Francesco Caravenna
Amir Dembo
Tadahisa Funaki
Jürgen Gärtner
Giambattista Giacomin
Ilya Goldsheid
Alice Guionnet
Frank den Hollander
Dima Ioffe
Nicola Kistler
Alain-Sol Sznitman
Béatrice de Tilière
Fabio Toninelli
Yvan Velenik
Wendelin Werner
Ofer Zeitouni


Wine and cheese

On Thursday, 14. October, at 17:30, a wine and cheese reception will be organised at TU Berlin. Everybody is invited.

The organisers gratefully acknowledge the support by the IRTG (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Stochastic Models of Complex Systems).

Conference Dinner

A conference dinner will be organised on Friday, 15. October, (Erwin's
birthday) starting from 19:00. The number of places is limited. Everybody
interested in participation is kindly asked to send an e-mail to
essarhir(at) math.tu-berlin.de and will be put on a waiting list.

The organisers gratefully acknowledge the support by the Springer Verlag.


Participants


List of participants

Accommodation

Berlin offers a wide range of hotels of all categories. You may book hotels on-line here. Hotels for the invited speakers will be booked by the TU probability group, please contact the organisers.

Conference in honour of Jürgen Gärtner

A birthday conference in celebration of Jürgen Gärtner's 60th birthday is organised at TU Berlin, April 8-10, 2010. More information.

Website maintained by Abdelhadi Es-Sarhir and Noemi Kurt. Last update: 05. October, 2010