LMS-EPSRC Durham Symposium 2017: Markov Processes, Mixing Times and Cutoff Talks

London Mathematical Society -- EPSRC Durham Symposium

Markov Processes, Mixing Times and Cutoff

2017-07-26 to 2017-08-05

Slides and Movies of Talks

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Speaker	Title	PDF	MP4	Extras
Andrieu	On the ordering of a class of non-reversible Markov Monte Carlo algorithms
Banerjee	Coupling, geometry and hypoellipticity
Barbour	Density dependent Markov chains: from Kurtz to equilibrium I
Barbour	Density dependent Markov chains: from Kurtz to equilibrium II
Barbour	Density dependent Markov chains: from Kurtz to equilibrium III
Bernstein	Cutoff for the random-to-random shuffle
Bovier	Extremal processes of Gaussian processes indexed by trees
Candellero	Coupling of Brownian motions in Banach spaces
Connor	Omnithermal Perfect Simulation for Multi-server Queues
Cotar	Density functional theory and optimal transport with Coulomb and Riesz cost
Croydon	Scaling limits of stochastic processes associated with resistance forms
Cruise	Electricity networks, novel challenges
Daly	Approximation by geometric sums: Markov chain passage times and queueing models
Flemming	Laser Beam Scintillation: What it is and why it is a problem for statistical analysis
Guo	Random cluster dynamics at $q = 2$ is fast mixing
Hambly	Scaling limits for randomly trapped random walks
Hermon	Cutoff for Ramanujan graphs via degree inflation
Hobert	Convergence analysis of MCMC algorithms for Bayesian robust multivariate regression
Huber	Linear time perfect simulation from Markov Random Fields
Jacka	Optimal stopping, the dual problem and smooth pasting
Jerrum	Partial rejection sampling
Jones	Convergence of Gibbs Samplers and Output Analysis in a Bayesian Linear Model
Jordan	Preferential attachment with choice
Kendall	SIRSN and abstract scattering processes
Latuszynski	AirMCMC
Levin	Cutoff for Markov chains I
Levin	Cutoff for Markov chains II
Levin	Cutoff for Markov chains III
Luczak	Extinction time for the weaker of two competing stochastic SIS logistic epidemics
Martin	Percolation games, ergodicity of probabilistic cellular automata, and the hard-core model.
Mijatović	Stability of overshoots of recurrent random walks
Moulines	The Langevin MCMC: Theory and methods
Nestoridi	Cutoff for the Tsetlin library and for hyperplane walks.
Norris	Fluid limits for Markov chains II
Norris	Fluid limits for Markov chains I
Norris	Fluid limits for Markov chains III
Pollock	Exact Bayesian inference for big data: Single- and multi-core approaches
Pymar	Mixing time for exclusion processes on hypergraphs
Qin	Estimating the spectral gap of a trace-class Markov operator
Ramírez	Asymptotic direction for random walk in mixing random environment
Roberts	Markov process questions inspired by Monte Carlo I
Roberts	Markov process questions inspired by Monte Carlo II
Roberts	Markov process questions inspired by Monte Carlo III
Roberts	Robustness of mixing and bottleneck sequences
Saloff-Coste	Some random walks on the symmetric group
Sauerwald	When is meeting as fast as coalescing?
Sidorova	Delocalising the parabolic Anderson model
Smith	Kac's Walks on $S^{n}$ and $SO(n)$.
Sousi	Random walk on dynamical percolation
Stauffer	Multi-particle diffusion limited aggregation
Steinsaltz	Asymptotics of killed one-dimensional diffusions, with applications to the biodemography of ageing
Turner	Scaling limits of planar random growth models
van Doorn	Asymptotic aperiodicity and the strong ratio limit property
Wang	Foundational properties of quasistationary Monte Carlo methods
Zanella	On the design of informed Metropolis-Hastings proposal distributions