Workshop I: Statistical Mechanics and Discrete Geometry - IPAM

Workshop I: Statistical Mechanics and Discrete Geometry

March 25 - 29, 2024

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, March 25, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:00
Moderator: Marianna Russkikh
09:00-09:50
Richard Kenyon (Yale University)
The multinomial dimer model
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Tomas Berggren (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Geometry of the doubly periodic Aztec dimer model
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Zhongyang Li (University of Connecticut)
Planar Site Percolation via Tree Embeddings

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
Moderator: Sanjay Ramassamy
14:30-15:20
Mirjana Vuletić (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Bulk scaling limits in free boundary Schur process
15:30-16:00
Lightning Poster Round
16:00-17:45
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Moderator: Fredrik Viklund
09:00-09:50
Pavel Galashin (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Geometric objects associated to planar bipartite graphs
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Pavlo Pylyavskyy (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Superport networks
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Nathanael Berestycki (University of Vienna)
Random matrix statistics in the uniform spanning tree

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
Moderator: Michael Gekhtman
14:30-15:20
Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan)
Incidences and tilings
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Anton Izosimov (University of Arizona)
Incidences and dimers

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Moderator: Richard Kenyon
09:00-09:50
Abhijit Champanerkar (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Geometric bounds for spanning tree entropy of planar lattices
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Jessica Purcell (Monash University)
Constructing knots with specified geometric limits
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Harold Williams (University of Southern California (USC))
Bipartite graphs and mirror coamoebae

Afternoon Session

12:30-12:45
Group Photo
12:45-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
Moderator: Hao Wu
14:30-15:20
Marcin Lis (Vienna University of Technology)
On Pfaffians in spin models
15:30-16:00
Break

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Moderator: Anton Izosimov
09:00-09:50
Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin)
Dimers and M-curves: Limit shapes from Riemann surfaces.
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Cédric Boutillier (Sorbonne Université)
Minimal bipartite dimers and maximal Riemann surfaces
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Terrence George (University of Michigan)
Spectrum of the Ising model

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
Moderator: Nathanael Berestycki
14:30-15:20
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Mikhail Basok (University of Helsinki)
Dimers on a Riemann surface and compactified free field