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 am | Registration opens (Pick up your name tag and grab some coffee!) |
8:50 am - 9:00 am | Opening remarks |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Chair: 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 pm | Master of ceremonies: Ed George Dinner @ Mateo Bar de Tapas (Registration --- a few spots still available.) |
Sunday March 15, 2015
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Coffee and light refreshments available |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Chair: 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 pm | Chair: Rick Durrett J. Michael Steele - Reflections: sequences, subsequences, and intersections |
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch (Winter Garden) |