Programme
All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site. Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Grey College.
| Saturday 26th July |
| 09:30-10:15 | M.R. Jerrum | Mixing time and its relation to other Markov chain parameters |
| 10:15-10:45 | C. Liverani | Transfer operators in dynamical systems (a brief idiosyncratic review of Perron-Frobenius operators theory)
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| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:45-12:30 | W. Kendall | Coupling I: concepts and examples |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 14:15-15:15 | A.D. Sokal | A personal list of unsolved problems concerning lattice gases and antiferromagnetic Potts models |
| 15:15-16:00 | M.R. Jerrum | Mixing time and its relation to other Markov chain parameters |
| 16:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:45-17:15 | C. Liverani | Transfer operators in dynamical systems (a brief idiosyncratic review of Perron-Frobenius operators theory) |
| Wine Reception (after dinner) |
| Sunday 27th July |
| 09:15-10:00 | W. Kendall | Coupling II: applications to simulation |
| 10:00-11:00 | H. Crauel | An Introduction to Random Dynamical Systems |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:45-12:45 | J. Rosenthal | Statistics and MCMC |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 14:00-15:00 | C. Schuette | Stochastic Approaches to Biomolecular Dynamics |
| 15:00-15:30 | A.M. Stuart | Approximation of/by Markov Chains |
| 16:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| Monday 28th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | G.O. Roberts | MCMC convergence for hierarchical models |
| 09:30-10:00 | M.E. Dyer | Markov Chains for sampling contingency tables |
| 10:00-10:30 | J.A. Fill | Speeding up the FMMR perfect sampling algorithm: A case study revisited |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:15-12:15 | C. Schuette | Rare events in biomolecular dynamics |
| 11:45-12:15 | P. Tavan | Effective stochastic models for the conformational dynamics of peptides in solution
extracted from molecular dynamics simulations |
| 12:15-12:45 | R. Kupferman | Variable reduction in heat bath models |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:30-17:00 | C. Liverani | Stochastic properties of Anosov flows |
| 17:00-17:30 | S. Luzzato | Topological Markov Chains and Statistical properties of non-uniformly expanding maps |
| 17:30-18:00 | M. Nicol | Statistical Properties of Endomorphisms and Compact Group extensions |
| Tuesday 29th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | I.M. MacPhee | Classification of polling models via semi-martingales - Joint talk with M Menshikov |
| 09:30-10:00 | P. Robert | Stochastic Models of Data Transmission in Communication Networks |
| 10:00-10:30 | H. Thorisson | Intuitive Coupling Argument in the Null Recurrent Case |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:15-11:45 | E.B. Davies | Markov-type semigroups and pseudospectra.
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| 11:45-12:15 | W. Huisinga | On the Effects of Fast Degrees of Freedom on Macroscopic Dynamical Behavior
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| 12:15-12:45 | S.P. Meyn | Spectral theory and large deviations for Markov processes |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 13:50 | Conference Photograph |
| 15:45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:30-17:00 | D. Talay | Extrapolation methods for stochastic particle systems (joint work in progress with M. Bossy and A. Kohatsu-Higa)
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| 17:00-17:30 | K. Burdzy | Trap domains for reflected Brownian motion |
| 17:30-18:00 | T. Kurtz | A complicated representation of a simple branching process |
| Wednesday 30th July |
| 09:00 | Outing to Hadrian's Wall & Housesteads Fort and Hexham |
| 20:00 | Poster session |
| A. Beskos | One-Shot Coupling From the Past |
| M. Bordewich | Counting problems in phylogenetics |
| C. Cotter | TBA |
| B. de Sousa | Extremal Indices and Geometric Ergodicity of Markov Chains |
| N.R.H. Hansen | Excursions for Markov Additive Processes and Biological Sequence Alignment |
| R. Montenegro | TBA |
| J. Radcliffe | TBA |
| S.R. Shah | TBA |
| J.W. Walter | Averaging of Multiscale Systems |
| Thursday 31st July |
| 09:00-09:30 | M. Cryan | Random Walks on the Vertices of Transportation Polytopes with Constant Number of Sources |
| 09:30-10:00 | T. Lindvall | On a routing problem |
| 10:00-10:30 | O. Haggstrom | Probability on bunkbed graphs |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:15-11:45 | P. Ashwin | Convergence to local random attractors
(joint work with Gunter Ochs, Bremen) |
| 11:45-12:15 | M. Dellnitz | On the identification of macroscopic dynamics |
| 12:15-12:45 | P. Winkler | Mixing times and card shuffling |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:30-17:00 | R. Kannan | Blocking Conductance and improved mixing bounds |
| 17:00-17:30 | E. Vigoda | A Non-Markovian Coupling for Randomly Sampling Colorings |
| 17:30-18:00 | N. O'Connell | Representations for Random Walks in Weyl Chambers |
| Friday 1st August |
| 09:00-09:30 | A. Scott | Finding a planted partition in a random graph |
| 09:30-10:00 | D. Welsh | Problems in Approximate Counting |
| 10:00-10:30 | S. Reich | Unresolved Gravity Waves in Particle Simulations |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:15-11:45 | E. Buckwar | Noise Induced Oscillation in Solutions of Stochastic Delay Differential Equation
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| 11:45-12:15 | D Wilson | Mixing time of the Rudvalis shuffle |
| 12:15-12:45 | A. Veretennikov | Mixing for approximation of SDEs |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 14:30 | Cathedral visit |
| Saturday 2nd August |
| 09:00-09:30 | P. Wiberg | Parameter Estimation for Partially Observed Hypo-Elliptic Diffusions |
| 09:30-10:00 | B. Leimkuhler | Structured dynamical heat bath models for molecular systems |
| 10:00-10:30 | P.F. Tupper | Models of Heat Baths, Long Term Statistics, and Numerical Simulation
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| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:15-11:45 | P. Diaconis | Fastest mixing Markov Chains and convex programming |
| 11:45-12:15 | E. Thoennes | MCMC for random trees and vascular structure |
| 12:15-12:45 | J. Rosenthal | Optimal Scaling of Metropolis-Hastings Proposal Distributions |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:30-17:00 | P.E. Kloeden | The computation of invariant measures of dynamical systems through Markov chains |
| 17:00-17:30 | Sri Namachchivaya | Multi-Scale phenomena in noisy nonlinear mechanical systems |
| 17:30-18:00 | D. Viswanath | Random Fibonacci sequences and the number $1.13198824...$
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| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Sunday 3rd August |
| 09:00-09:30 | D. Aldous | Recursive Tree Processes |
| 09:30-10:00 | H. Crauel | Stabilization of a reaction-diffusion equation by additive noise |
| 10:00-10:30 | I. Melbourne | A New Test for Chaos |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:15-11:45 | A. Czumaj | Applications of convergence bounds for Markov chains to stochastic balls-into-bins processes. |
| 11:45-12:15 | M.J. Luczak | On the power of two choices: balls and bins in continuous time |
| 12:15-12:45 | L. Goldberg | Markov chains for sampling colourings |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 14:15-14:45 | J. Mattingly | Adaptive methods of long time simulations of stochastic differential equations |
| 14:45-15:15 | T. Shardlow | Stochastic PDEs and Spirals
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| 15:15-15:45 | R. Skeel | Variance reduction for random walk calculations of rate constants |
| 15:45 | Coffee/Tea |
| Monday 4th August |
| Departure after breakfast |
