New Interactions between probability and geometry

January 26 - 30, 2026

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 26, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

MODERATOR: Yilin Wang
9:00 - 9:45
Scott Sheffield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

TBA

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Mingkun Liu (Université de Paris XIII (Paris-Nord))

Length spectrum of random surfaces and random graphs
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

MODERATOR: Yilin Wang
2:30 - 3:15
Franco Vargas Pallete (Arizona State University)

W-volume for planar domains with circular boundary

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45 Discussion

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

MODERATOR: Fredrik Viklund
9:00 - 9:45
Kurt Johansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technol)

Planar Coulomb gas on a Jordan arc

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Eero Saksman (University of Helsinki)

Some random geometry in Riemann zeta

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Tianyi Zheng (University of California San Diego)

Quasi-isometric nonequivalence for random subsets in products of trees

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

Afternoon Session

MODERATOR: Fredrik Viklund
2:30 - 3:15
Shirshendu Ganguly (University of California, Berkeley)

Polymer models in critical environments.

3:30 - 3:45 Lightning Poster Round
3:45 - 5:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

MODERATOR: Steffen Rohde
9:00 - 9:45
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Catherine Wolfram (ETH Zurich)

Brownian bubble tea

12:30 - 12:40 Group Photo
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Afternoon Free

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

MODERATOR: Mario Bonk
9:00 - 9:45
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

MODERATOR: Mario Bonk
2:30 - 3:15
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45 Discussion

Friday, January 30, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

MODERATOR: Hrant Hakobyan
9:00 - 9:45
Omer Angel (University of British Columbia)

Phase transitions in the frog model.

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Malik Younsi (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Miracles of holomorphic motions
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15 Discussion