Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 17, 2015 03:30:12
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015 (Saturday - Tuesday)
Meeting #1106
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on Probability and Applications
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Saturday January 10, 2015, 2:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Probability and Applications, I
Room 001B, Convention Center
Organizers:
Rick Kenyon, Brown University
Russell Lyons, Indiana University, Bloomington rdlyons@indiana.edu
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2:15 p.m.
Randomize to optimize: a brief excursion in the uses of randomness in numerical line algebra algorithms.
Ioana Dumitriu*, University of Washington
James Demmel, University of California, Berkeley
Olga Holtz, University of California, Berkeley
Grey Ballard, University of California, Berkeley
Chris Melgaard, University of California, Berkeley
(1106-60-2640) -
3:15 p.m.
Area-one rectangulations.
Aaron Abrams, Washington and Lee University
Richard Kenyon*, Brown University
(1106-60-718) -
4:15 p.m.
A threshold for reconstruction in stochastic block models.
Elchanan Mossel, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Neeman*, University of Texas, Austin
Allan Sly, University of California, Berkeley
(1106-60-527) -
5:15 p.m.
Asymptotics of symmetric functions: applications to some integrable models.
Greta Panova*, University of Pennsylvania
(1106-60-1004)
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2:15 p.m.
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Sunday January 11, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Probability and Applications, II
Room 001B, Convention Center
Organizers:
Rick Kenyon, Brown University
Russell Lyons, Indiana University, Bloomington rdlyons@indiana.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Convergence and learning in majority dynamics on infinite graphs.
Omer Tamuz*, MIT
(1106-60-190) -
9:00 a.m.
Zeroes of Random Tropical Polynomials, Random Polytopes and Stick-breaking.
Francois Baccelli, University of Texas, Austin
Ngoc Mai Tran*, University of Texas, Austin
(1106-60-836) -
10:00 a.m.
Permutations and Spin Systems.
Shahrzad Haddadan, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College
Peter Winkler*, Dartmouth College
(1106-60-1858) -
11:00 a.m.
Intersections of SLE paths.
Hao Wu*, MIT
Jason Miller, MIT
(1106-60-65)
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8:00 a.m.