Combinatorial and probablistic inequalities
CSMW05
23 June 2008 to 27 June 2008
We have been made aware of a convincing email scam that is focusing on our Programme and Workshop participants. Participants may receive an email from a firm called Expo Hotel Services (ehotelservices.org) to arrange accommodation for workshops and/or programmes. This might include a request to provide them with credit card information.
Please note, INI will never ask for your card details. We take all payments via the University of Cambridge Online store https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/.
If you have been contacted by this company please contact us as soon as possible.
Workshop theme
The workshop will be concerned broadly with combinatorial and probabilistic inequalities and their applications to problems arising in combinatorics, probability theory, and the analysis of statistical mechanics models. Examples of such inequalities include those of Fortuin-Kasteleyn-Ginibre, of Ahlswede-Daykin, of van den Berg-Kesten-Reimer, other inequalities expressing positive or negative correlations, inequalities on higher moments, isoperimetric inequalities, eigenvalue inequalities, upper or lower bounds on asymptotic growth rates, critical exponents, or critical probabilites, and so on. Such inequalities are applied to questions on the combinatorics of graphs, matroids, and partial orders, and to probabilistic and statistical mechanical models such as percolation, Potts models and random cluster models, lattice gases, exclusion processes, random matrix models, and so on.
The workshop will provide a venue for some of the leading researchers in these fields to share recent ideas and to collaborate on approaches to many of the unsolved problems in this area. It will also feature some survey lectures intended to provide a snapshot of the current state of the art for younger researchers interested in these subjects. The topics will be of interest to combinatorialists, probabilists, mathematical and theoretical physicists, and computer scientists.
Keynote Speakers will include
Rob van den Berg (CWI), Béla Bollobás (Cambridge, Memphis), Jeff Kahn (Rutgers), Alan Sokal (NYU, UCL) and Dominic Welsh (Oxford).
Timetable
| Monday 23rd June 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 to 10:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Dominic Welsh University of Oxford |
Meeting Room | |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:40 to 12:20 |
David Jackson University of Waterloo |
Meeting Room | |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Jacob van den Berg Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) |
Meeting Room | |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:40 to 16:20 |
Mokshay Madiman Stanford University |
Meeting Room | |
| 16:20 to 17:00 |
Armenak Gasparyan Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Meeting Room | |
| 17:00 to 18:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required | ||
| Tuesday 24th June 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Jeff Kahn Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
Meeting Room | |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:40 to 12:20 |
Fengming Dong Nanyang Technological University |
Meeting Room | |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Petter Branden KTH - Royal Institute of Technology |
Meeting Room | |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:40 to 16:20 |
Olga Holtz Technische Universität Berlin |
Meeting Room | |
| 16:20 to 17:00 |
Peter Cameron Queen Mary University of London |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required | ||
| Wednesday 25th June 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Bela Bollobas University of Cambridge |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:40 to 12:20 |
Dudley Stark Queen Mary University of London |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Julius Borcea Stockholm University |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:40 to 16:20 |
Serguei Novak Middlesex University |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 16:20 to 17:00 |
Colin McDiarmid University of Oxford |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 19:15 to 23:00 | No Room Required | ||
| Thursday 26th June 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 11:00 | Centre for Mathematical Sciences | ||
| 11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:40 to 12:20 |
Aldo Procacci Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Salvador Miracle-Sole Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:40 to 16:20 |
Milos Zahradnik Charles University, Prague |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 16:20 to 17:00 |
Vadim Levit Ariel University Center of Samaria |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 18:30 to 20:00 | No Room Required | ||
| Friday 27th June 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Klas Markström Umeå University |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:40 to 12:20 |
Mihai Ciucu Indiana University |
Centre for Mathematical Sciences | |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 14:40 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required | ||
Speakers
- Bela Bollobas University of Cambridge
- Julius Borcea Stockholm University
- Petter Branden KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
- Peter Cameron Queen Mary University of London
- Mihai Ciucu Indiana University
- Fengming Dong Nanyang Technological University
- Armenak Gasparyan Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Olga Holtz Technische Universität Berlin
- David Jackson University of Waterloo
- Jeff Kahn
- Vadim Levit Ariel University Center of Samaria
- Mokshay Madiman Stanford University
- Klas Markström Umeå University
- Colin McDiarmid University of Oxford
- Salvador Miracle-Sole Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille
- Serguei Novak Middlesex University
- Aldo Procacci Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
- Alan Sokal New York University
- Dudley Stark Birkbeck, University of London
- Jacob van den Berg Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
- Dominic Welsh University of Oxford
- Milos Zahradnik Charles University, Prague
Supported By
