11:00 – 11:30 Ken Stephenson (U. Tennessee) Rigidity of circle packings 11:35 – 12:05 Zheng-Xu He (Beijing CAS) Disk packings and conformal maps 12:10 – 12:40 Igor Pak (UMN and UCLA) Caged eggs and the…
2:00 – 2:30 Olle Häggström (Chalmers) Percolation, mass transport and cluster indistinguishability 2:35 – 3:05 Yuval Peres (Microsoft) Connectivity Probability in Critical Percolation: An unpublished gem from Oded
3:35 – 4:05 David B. Wilson (Microsoft) Oded’s work on Boolean functions 4:10 – 4:40 Christophe Garban (ENS Paris) Oded’s work on Noise Sensitivity 4:45 – 5:15 Gábor Pete (U. Toronto) How to prove tightness…
9:30 – 10:00 Omer Angel (U. British Columbia) Random planar maps and their limits 10:05 – 10:35 Michael Freedman (Microsoft) Random triangulations as dynamical variables in quantum mechanical models
1:30 – 2:00 Mario Bonk (U. Michigan) Transboundary Extremal Length 2:05 – 2:35 Gregory F. Lawler (U. Chicago) Understanding the SLE curve
11:05 – 11:35 Russell Lyons (Indiana U.) Hyperfinite graph limits 11:40 – 12:10 Steffen Rohde (U. Washington) Jordan Curves and Dimension of Quasicircles
3:00 – 3:50 Stanislav Smirnov (U. Genève) SLE, percolation, and scaling limits 3:55 – 4:25 Scott Sheffield (MIT) SLE as a scaling limit and the Gaussian free field 4:30 Conference concludes
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research When Mark Braverman joined Microsoft Research New England as a postdoctoral researcher in July 2008, both he and the founders of the lab knew the move had the…
