This is a recap of the 12th Northwest Probability Seminar, a one-day mini-conference organized by the University of Washington (opens in new tab), the Oregon State University (opens in new tab), the University of British Columbia (opens in new tab), the University of Oregon (opens in new tab), and the Theory Group at Microsoft Research. The conference was hosted at Microsoft.
Supported by Microsoft Research and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (opens in new tab) (PIMS).
The Birnbaum (opens in new tab) Lecture in Probability was given by Jean-François Le Gall (opens in new tab) (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay and Institut Universitaire de France). [Past Birnbaum speakers (opens in new tab)] The other speakers will be Włodzimierz Bryc (opens in new tab) (U Cincinnati), Gordon Slade (opens in new tab) (U British Columbia), and Allan Sly (opens in new tab) (Microsoft Research), and Edward Waymire (opens in new tab) (Oregon State U).
The Scientific Committee for the 12th NW Probability Seminar (2010) consisted of Martin Barlow (opens in new tab) (U British Columbia), Chris Burdzy (opens in new tab) (U Washington), Zhen-Qing Chen (opens in new tab) (U Washington), Yevgeniy Kovchegov (opens in new tab) (Oregon State U), David Levin (opens in new tab) (U Oregon), and Yuval Peres (Microsoft).
Schedule & Recordings & Slides
| 9:45 – 11:00 | Coffee and muffins | ||
| 11:00 – 11:40 |  |
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Allan Sly (opens in new tab) (Microsoft Research) Critical slowdown for Ising model on the two-dimensional lattice |
| 11:55 – 12:35 | |
Edward Waymire (opens in new tab) (Oregon State) Interfacial Phenomena and Skew Diffusion |
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| 12:35 – 2:00 | Lunch (catered) | ||
| 1:35 – 2:00 | Open problems (overlaps with lunch) | ||
| 2:05 – 2:55 |  |
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Jean-François Le Gall (opens in new tab)(Orsay) The continuous limit of large random planar maps |
| 3:05 – 3:45 | |
Gordon Slade (opens in new tab) (U British Columbia) A renormalisation group analysis of the 4-dimensional continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk |
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| 3:45 – 4:20 | Tea and snacks | ||
| 4:20 – 5:00 |  |
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Włodzimierz Bryc (opens in new tab) (U Cincinnati) Martingales from pairs of randomized Poisson, Gamma, negative binomial and hyperbolic secant processes |
| 5:45 – | Dinner (catered) |