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.
| Monday 2nd July |
| 14:00 | Registration in Holgate House - closes at Dinner |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 3rd July |
| 09:00-10:00 | A-S. Sznitman | Random walks and interfaces |
| 10:00-11:00 | G. Slade | Random walks and the lace expansion I |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea and laptop support |
| 11:30-12:15 | R. van der Hofstad | An expansion for self-interacting random walks |
| 12:15-13:00 | J. Mairesse | From random walks on groups to queueing networks |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 13:50 | Conference photograph after lunch outside Grey College main entrance |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:00-16:45 | O. Haggstrom | Markov chains in a percolation theorist's toolbox |
| 16:45-17:15 | M. Hairer | Ergodic theory for a class of non-Markovian processes |
| 17:15-17:45 | Th. Delmotte | Reversible random walks in a random environment of elliptic conductances |
| 17:45-18:15 | J. Warren | Consistent families of Brownian motions |
| 19:30 | Wine Reception (after dinner) in the JCR, Grey College |
| Wednesday 4th July |
| 09:00-10:00 | L. Saloff-Coste | Random walks on finitely generated groups I |
| 10:00-11:00 | G. Slade | Random walks and the lace expansion II |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea and laptop support |
| 11:30-12:15 | S. Rolles | Linearly edge-reinforced random walks - a subjective overview |
| 12:15-13:00 | P. Mathieu | Random walks with random conductances |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:00-16:45 | F. Merkl | Reinforced random walk on two-dimensional graphs |
| 16:45-17:15 | M. Jerrum | Tight bounds on mixing time of Markov chains |
| 17:15-17:45 | M. Winkel | SLE and α-SLE driven by Levy processes |
| 17:45-18:15 | S. Veretennikov | On mixing for Markov diffusions and Poisson equations in Sobolev classes |
| Thursday 5th July |
| 09:00-10:00 | O. Zeitouni | Regeneration and quenched limits |
| 10:00-11:00 | E. Bolthausen | Random walks in random environment I |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30-12:15 | J.R. Norris | Stochastic flows, planar aggregation and the Brownian web |
| 12:15-13:00 | W. Woess | The Poisson boundary of lamplighter random walks on the homogeneous tree
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| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Friday 6th July |
| 09:00-10:00 | G. Slade | Random walks and the lace expansion III |
| 10:00-10:45 | B. Toth | Tagged particle diffusion in deterministic dynamics: old and new results |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30-12:15 | R. van den Berg | Some standard and less standard coalescing random walk models |
| 12:15-13:00 | V. Sidoravicius | Growth system with columnar defects and pinning problems |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:00-16:45 | T. Kumagai | Heat kernel estimates and Harnack inequalities for jump processes
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| 16:45-17:30 | T. Lyons | Rapid convergence of a Markov chain with stationary measure: the heat kernel measure |
| 17:30-18:15 | S. Volkov | Random walks with time and space dependent drifts |
| Saturday 7th July |
| 09:00-10:00 | E. Bolthausen | Random walks in random environment II |
| 10:00-11:00 | L. Saloff-Coste | Random walks on finitely generated groups II |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30-12:15 | C. Sabot | Limit laws for random walks in random environment on Z |
| 12:15-13:00 | S.A. Molchanov | Phase transitions in the long polymer chains |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 16:15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:45-17:30 | I. Goldscheid | Products of random transformations an RWRE |
| 17:30-18:00 | A. Jarai | Some estimates on 2D percolation |
| 19:30 | Poster session with cheese and wine (after dinner) in the JCR, Grey College |
| Sunday 8th July |
| 09:00 | Day trip to Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby (confirm your participation at registration) |
| Monday 9th July |
| 09:00-10:00 | R. Pemantle | Random processes with reinforcement I (Basic models and techniques) |
| 10:00-11:00 | L. Saloff-Coste | Random walks on finitely generated groups III |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30-12:15 | V. Limic | Waiting for the attracting edge to appear |
| 12:15-13:00 | O. Raimond | From simulated annealing to vertex-reinforced random walks. |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:00-16:45 | P. Moerters | Intersections of random walks in supercritical dimensions |
| 16:45-17:30 | A.M. Stevens | A PDE point of view on reinforced random walks |
| Tuesday 10th July |
| 09:00-10:00 | E. Bolthausen | Random walks in random environment III |
| 10:00-11:00 | R. Pemantle | Random processes with reinforcement II (Applications of urn models) |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30-12:15 | Y. Le Jan | Determinants and Markov chains |
| 12:15-13:00 | B. Tsirelson | Random walks in semigroups: stability and sensitivity
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| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 14:30 | Cathedral visit (confirm your participation at registration) |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:00-16:45 | B. Davis | Initial weights and recurrence in vertex reinforced jump
processes |
| 16:45-17:15 | S.C. Harris | Branching Brownian motion in a quadratic potential |
| 17:15-17:45 | Yu. Suhov | Anderson localisation for interacting particles |
| 17:45-18:15 | A. Sakai | Critical behaviour and the limit distribution for long-range oriented percolation |
| 19:00 | Drinks in Grey JCR followed by the Conference Dinner |
| Wednesday 11th July |
| 09:00-10:00 | R. Pemantle | Random processes with reinforcement III (Recent problems and results) |
| 10:00-10:45 | R. Lyons | Unimodularity and stochastic processes |
| 11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30-12:15 | F. Comets | On ρ-percolation and the number of polymer paths |
| 12:15-13:00 | M.V. Menshikov | Periodicity for some transient random walk associated with a polling system
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| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16:00-16:45 | K. Burdzy | Pathwise uniqueness for reflecting Brownian motion |
| 16:45-17:15 | W. Kendall | Coupling Brownian stochastic areas |
| Thursday 12th July |
| Departure after breakfast |
