Workshop on
"Self-Interacting Random Walks"
March 29-31, 2006
EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Programme & Abstracts| Speakers & Participants |Registration | Practical Information
SUMMARY
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in self-interacting random walks and related areas. This includes, among others, research on random walks in random environments, various reinforced random walks, random walks in random sceneries and time evolutions of stochastic particle systems. Related topics will also be touched.
Invited SPEAKERS
Rob van den Berg, CWI
and Free University of Amsterdam
Marek Biskup, University of California at Los Angeles
David Brydges, University of British Columbia
Andrea Collevecchio, University D'Annunzio
Burgess Davis, Purdue University
Olle Häggström, Chalmers University of Technology
Remco van der Hofstad, Eindhoven University of Technology and EURANDOM
Mark Holmes, EURANDOM
Vlada Limic, Marseille
Henri Matzinger, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Brian
Skyrms,
University of California
Jeff Steif, Chalmers University of Technology
Masaki Takeshima, Osaka University
Pierre Tarres, University of Oxford
Martin Zerner, University of Tübingen
Wednesday March 29, 2006
09.00-09.05 | Opening | |
09.05-09.55 | M. Zerner | Excited random walks |
10.05-10.55 | J. Steif | Statistical mechanical systems on complete graphs, infinite exchangeability and finite extensions |
11.05-11.30 | Coffee/Tea break | |
11.30-12.20 | R. van den Berg | Self-destructive percolation in the plane |
12.30-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-14.50 | D. Brydges | A combinatorial generalisation of Cramers Rule |
15.00-15.50 | B. Skyrms | Learning to Signal |
16.00-16.30 | Coffee/Tea break | |
16.30-17.20 | O. Häggström | Optimization, evolution, and the two kinds of applied mathematics |
Thursday March 30, 2006
09.00-09.50 | H. Matzinger | Some recent developments in the LCS-problem and Optimal Alignment |
10.00-10.50 | M. Biskup | A quenched invariance principle for random walk on percolation clusters |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee/Tea break | |
11.30-12.20 | B. Davis | Vertex reinforced jump processes |
12.30-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-14.50 | V. Limic | Attracting edge: does it happen and if so when? |
15.00-15.50 | P. Tarres | Reinforced Random Walks |
16.00-16.30 | Coffee/Tea break | |
16.30-17.20 | M. Holmes | |
18.15 | Conference dinner |
Friday March 31, 2006
09.00-09.50 | R. van der Hofstad | An expansion for self-interacting random walks |
10.00-10.50 | M. Takeshima | Recurrence of once edge-reinforced random walks with exponential weights on trees |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee/Tea break | |
11.30-12.20 | A. Collevecchio | On the transience of processes defined on trees and other graphs |
12.30-13.40 | Lunch |
There is no registration fee.
PLEASE REGISTER BY FILLING IN THE FORM
Conference Location
the workshop location is EURANDOM, Den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, Laplace Building, 1st floor, LG 1.105.
EURANDOM is located on the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology, in the 'Laplacegebouw' building' (LG on the map). The university is located at 10 minutes walking distance from Eindhoven railway station (take the exit north side and walk towards the tall building on the right with the sign TU/e).
Travel
For those arriving by plane, there is a convenient train connection between Amsterdam Schiphol airport and Eindhoven, with only one change at Duivendrecht. This trip will take about two hours. For more detailed information, please consult the NS travel information pages or see EURANDOM web page location.
Many low cost carriers also fly to Eindhoven Airport. There is a bus connection to the Eindhoven central railway station from the airport. (Bus route number 401) For details on departure times consult http://www.9292ov.nl
The University can be reached easily by car from the highways leading to Eindhoven (for details, see our route descriptions or consult our map with highway connections
Hotel
EURANDOM made preliminary group reservations in
hotel Hampshire Inn, Stratumsedijk 23d/f, Eindhoven. Special price single room 82* euro, double room 92* euro(breakfast included)
If you want EURANDOM to make a reservation, indicate the requested nights in the registration page.
For privat bookings we suggest to consult the web pages of the Tourist Information Eindhoven, Postbus 7, 5600 AA Eindhoven.
On the map below, the
hotel is indicated by "1". EURANDOM is located left of "2" in the
LAPLACE Building, First Floor.
Lunches/dinner
March 29-30-31 lunches are being organised; free of costs for all participants, if ordered on the registration form.
On Thursday evening, March 30 there will be a workshop dinner. For non-invitees an amount of 30 euro is requested, to be paid at arrival in cash (preferably exact amount in euros).
Contact
For more information please contact Mrs. Lucienne Coolen, workshop officer of EURANDOM, at coolen@eurandom.tue.nl
&
Organizers
Franz Merkl
(University of Munich, merkl@mathematik.uni-muenchen.de)
Silke Rolles
(Technical University of Munich, srolles@ma.tum.de)
This page is maintained by Lucienne Coolen