Schedule

The schedule of the talks is now available! See below. All the talks will take place in the Geneen Auditorium at Fuqua. (Map of conference venue)

 

Saturday March 14, 2015

8:00 amRegistration opens (Pick up your name tag and grab some coffee!)
8:50 am - 9:00 amOpening remarks
9:00 am - 9:40 amChair: Andrew A. Nobel
Gábor Lugosi - Looking for Adam in a tree
9:50 am - 10:30 am
Chair: Andrew A. Nobel
Ruth J. Williams - Entrainment in stochastic networks with shared resources
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee break (Reading Room)
11:00 am - 11:40 am
Chair: Shankar Bhamidi
Sourav Chatterjee - The Efron-Stein-Steele inequality and its ramifications
11:50 am - 12:30 pm
Chair: Shankar Bhamidi
Joseph E. Yukich - Random polytopes
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch (Winter Garden)
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm
Chair: Vladimir Pozdnyakov
Sasha Rakhlin - Combinatorial dimensions, uniform convergence, and prediction
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
Chair: Vladimir Pozdnyakov
David Aldous - Foundational questions about sports rating models
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee break (Reading Room)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Chair: Alessandro Arlotto
Young researchers' presentations
6:30 pmMaster of ceremonies: Ed George
Dinner @ Mateo Bar de Tapas (Registration --- a few spots still available.)

 

Sunday March 15, 2015

8:00 am - 9:00 amCoffee and light refreshments available
9:00 am - 9:40 amChair: J. Michael Steele
Sneha Subramanian - Random zero sets under repeated differentiation of an analytic function
9:50 am - 10:30 am
Chair: J. Michael Steele
James A. Fill - Probabilistic analysis of QuickSort: an overview
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffe break (Reading Room)
11:00 am - 11:40 am
Chair: Rick Durrett
David Gamarnik - Power and limits of local algorithms in random combinatorial structures
11:50 am - 12:30 pmChair: Rick Durrett
J. Michael Steele - Reflections: sequences, subsequences, and intersections
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch (Winter Garden)