Workshop II: Random Curves, Surfaces, and Transport

Part of the Long Program Random Shapes
April 16 - 20, 2007

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 16, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Nikolai Makarov (California Institute of Technology)

On Coulomb Gas in 2D
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
11:30 - 12:20
Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Random Averaging
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:50
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break at LaKretz
4:00 - 4:50
4:30 - 5:30
Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale University)

The Nature of Roughness in Mathematics, Science and Art

5:00 - 5:15
5:45 - 7:30 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
11:30 - 12:20
Martine Ben Amar (École Normale Supérieure)

Instabilities of Inhomogeneous Lipid Membranes
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Paul Krapivsky (Boston University)

Smoothing a Rock by Chipping
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Jayanth Banavar (Pennsylvania State University)

Statistical physics of Transportation Networks
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
Shlomo Havlin (Bar-Ilan University)

Anomalous Transport in Complex Networks
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
11:30 - 12:20
Qinglan Xia (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

A Mathematical Theory of Ramified Transport
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Raissa D'Souza (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

Jamming, Counting and Changing Phase
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Robert Ziff (University of Michigan)

Density Profiles in Critical Percolation
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
11:30 - 12:20
Maria McGee (Wake Forest University)

Functional Geometry of the Capillary-Tissue Unit

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:05
Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale University)

New Multifractal Constructions
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
4:15 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:20
Denis Grebenkov (École Polytechnique)

Harmonic Measure and Passivation of 2D and 3D Fractals
PDF Presentation

Friday, April 20, 2007

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Michel Zinsmeister (Université d'Orléans)

Brownian Flights
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
Marcel Filoche (École Polytechnique)

Diffusion-Reorganized Agregate: a Structure Stabilized by its Distribution of Brownian Bridges
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50
José Andrade (Federal University of Ceará)

Flow and Particle Transport in Irregular Structures
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)