Workshop II: Random Curves, Surfaces, and Transport - IPAM

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

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Yuval Peres (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Gravitational Allocation and Internal DLA
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
Nikolai Makarov (California Institute of Technology)
On Coulomb Gas in 2D
11:30-12:20
Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Random Averaging

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Hans Herrmann (Eidgenössische TH Zürich-Hönggerberg)
Equations of Motion of Hydrodynamically Driven Granular Surfaces
15:00-15:50
Richard Kenyon (Yale University)
Branched Polymers in Two and Three Dimensions
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break at LaKretz
16:00-16:50
16:30-17:30
Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale University)
The Nature of Roughness in Mathematics, Science and Art
17:00-17:15
17:45-19:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Marek Biskup (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Harmonic Embedding and Random Walk on Infinite Random Graphs
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:20
Gerhard Gompper (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Random Surfaces as Models for Solid and Fluid Membranes
11:30-12:20
Martine Ben Amar (École Normale Supérieure)
Instabilities of Inhomogeneous Lipid Membranes

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Paul Krapivsky (Boston University)
Smoothing a Rock by Chipping
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:50
Satya Majumdar (Université d'Orsay)
Understanding Search Trees via Statistical Physics

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Jayanth Banavar (Pennsylvania State University)
Statistical physics of Transportation Networks
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:20
Shlomo Havlin (Bar-Ilan University)
Anomalous Transport in Complex Networks
11:30-12:20
Qinglan Xia (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
A Mathematical Theory of Ramified Transport

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Raissa D'Souza (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Jamming, Counting and Changing Phase
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:50
Mark Bowick (Syracuse University)
Order, Defects and Dynamics on Curved Surfaces

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Robert Ziff (University of Michigan)
Density Profiles in Critical Percolation
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:20
Bernard Sapoval (École Polytechnique)
Extreme and Smooth Gradient Percolation
11:30-12:20
Maria McGee (Wake Forest University)
Functional Geometry of the Capillary-Tissue Unit

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Bertrand Duplantier (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA))
Harmonic Multifractal Spectra for Multiple Conformally Invariant Curves
15:00-15:15
Coffee Break
15:15-16:05
Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale University)
New Multifractal Constructions
16:15-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:20
Denis Grebenkov (École Polytechnique)
Harmonic Measure and Passivation of 2D and 3D Fractals

Friday, April 20, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Michel Zinsmeister (Université d'Orléans)
Brownian Flights
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
11:30-12:20
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Scaling Behavior of Curves and Surfaces in Pattern Forming Systems

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Robert McCann (University of Toronto)
Continuity, Uniqueness, Curvature, and General Covariance of Optimal Transportation
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:50
José Andrade (Federal University of Ceará)
Flow and Particle Transport in Irregular Structures
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