The Edmund Landau Minerva Center for Research in Mathematical Analysis and Related Areas

Summer School in

Rigorous results on Stochastic Models From Physics

Dates: July 30 - August 3, 2001

Organizers: H. Furstenberg, Y. Kifer, Y. Peres, B. Weiss (Jerusalem)

Place: Institute of Mathematics, Lecture Hall 110, Givat Ram Campus, Jerusalem

Titles of Mini-courses in the summer school

Geoffrey R. Grimmett, Cambridge: "Ferromagnetism and random-cluster processes"

Fabio Martinelli, Roma: "Stochastic dynamics in classical and quantum lattice spin systems"

Wendelin Werner, Orsay: "Critical exponents, conformal invariance and reflected Brownian motion"

Program

Monday, July 30

10:15 Registration, coffee

10:45 Welcome (H. Furstenberg, Y. Kifer, B. Weiss)

11:00 Grimmett lecture 1

12:00 Questions

12:10 lunch

2:00 Werner lecture 1

3:00 Questions, Tea

3:30 to 4:15 E. Vigoda: "Approximating the permanent"

Tuesday, July 31

9:00 Coffee

9:30 Martinelli lecture 1

10:30 Questions, Coffee

11:00 Werner lecture 2

12:00 Questions

12:10 lunch

2:00 Grimmett Lecture 2

3:00 Questions, Tea

3:30 to 4:15 E. Mossel "Glauber dynamics on trees and hyperbolic graphs"

Wednesday, August 1

9:00 Coffee

9:30 Werner Lecture 3

10:30 Questions, coffee

11:00 Grimmett Lecture 3

12:00 Questions

12:10 Lunch

2:00 Martinelli lecture 2

3:00 Questions, Tea

3:30 to 4:15 O. Zeitouni "Random walk in random environment"

Thursday, August 2

9:00 Coffee

9:30 Martinelli Lecture 3

10:30 Questions, Coffee

11:00 Grimmett Lecture 4

12:00 Questions

12:10 Lunch

2:00 to 2:45 Y. Peres "Uniform versus Minimal Spanning Forests"

2:50 M. Zerner "A Zero-one law for planar random walks in random environment"

3:35 Tea

4:00 to 4:45 A. Dembo "Greedy lattice animals: negative values and maxima"

Friday, August 3

9:00 Werner Lecture 4

10:00 Questions, Coffee

10:15 to 11:00 J-D Deuschel "Large deviations for $\nabla\phi$ interface models".

11:15 Martinelli Lecture 4

12:15 Questions, Conclusion of School

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