Workshop on Interacting Processes in Random Environments

February 14 - 18, 2011, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

Topics

Disordered polymer/pinning models
Self-interacting walks and random walks in random environments
Phase segregation and interfaces in systems with random interactions

Schedule

Monday, February 14th, 2011
08:45 to 09:00	Welcome and Introductions
09:00 to 10:00	Directed polymers and the quantum Toda lattice Neil O'Connell, University of Warwick
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:15	On level sets of the local times, and application to polymers Amine Asselah, L’Université Paris-Est Créteil
11:15 to 12:00	Scaling limits of self repelling random walks and diffusions Balint Toth, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
12:00 to 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 to 15:00	Random walk in random environment on trees Yueyun Hu, Université Paris 13
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:15	A CLT for balanced, non-elliptic random walk in balanced random environment Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Technical University of Berlin
17:00 to 18:00	Welcoming Reception

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
09:00 to 10:00	Percolation with a line of defects Yvan Velenik, University of Geneva
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:15	The weak coupling limit of disordered copolymer models Francesco Caravenna, Università Milano Bicocca
11:15 to 12:00	Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails Oren Louidor, Technion - IIT
12:00 to 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 to 15:00	Universality of KPZ equation Milton Jara
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:15	Burgers equation with Poissonian noise Yuri Bakhtin, Georgia Tech
16:15 to 16:45	Large deviation rate functions for the partition function of directed polymers Nicos Georgiou

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
09:00 to 10:00	Exact critical behavior for pinning model in random correlated environment Hubert Lacoin, IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:15	Charged polymers with attractive charges : a first order transition Marc Wouts, University of Paris
11:15 to 12:00	Strong Disorder in Semi-directed Random Polymers Nikos Zygouras, University of Warwick
12:00 to 14:15	Lunch Break
15:00 to 17:00	Curling at Leaside Curling Club - 1073a Millwood Road
17:00 to 18:30	Pizza Party @ Curling Club

Thursday, February 17th, 2011
09:00 to 10:00	Probability Distribution of the Free Energy of the Continuum Directed Random Polymer in 1+1 dimensions Ivan Corwin, Columbia University
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:15	Asymptotic speed of second class particles in a rarefaction fan Eric Cator, Tu Delft
11:15 to 12:00	Polymer measures and branching diffusions Leonid Koralov, University of Maryland
12:00 to 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 to 15:00	Weak quenched limiting distributions for a one-dimensional random walk in a random environment Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:15	Quenched Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Environments and Random Potentials Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah
16:15 to 17:00	CLT for biased random walk on multi-type Galton-Watson tree Amir Dembo, Stanford University

Friday, February 18th, 2011
09:00 to 10:00	Recursions, tightness and limit laws: from branching random walks to Gaussian free fields and FPP Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute of Science
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:15	A random walk pinning model, a conditional LDP and applications Matthias Birkner, University Mainz
11:15 to 12:00	KPP equation with random, time-space depedent, rate Francis Comets, University Paris Diderot

Organizing Committee

Tom Alberts - University of Utah

Ken Alexander - USC Dornsife

Dima Ioffe - Technion - IIT

Timo Seppalainen - University of Wisconsin–Madison

Scheduled as part of

Thematic Program on Dynamics and Transport in Disordered Systems

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