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Connections Workshop: Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures January 23, 2025 - January 24, 2025
Registration Deadline: January 28, 2025 about 2 months ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: October 23, 2024 5 months ago
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Atrium, Online/Virtual, Front Courtyard, 2nd Floor Deck
Organizers Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford), Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge), Kavita Ramanan (Brown University), Dana Randall (Georgia Institute of Technology), LEAD Nike Sun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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This two-day workshop will bring together researchers from discrete mathematics, probability theory, theoretical computer science, and statistics to explore topics at their interface. The focus will be on probability and statistics of random discrete structures, as well as their applications, including in computer science and physical systems. The workshop will celebrate academic and gender diversity, bringing together mathematicians at junior and senior levels of their careers from mathematics, physics, and computer science. This workshop is open to all mathematicians. Download PDF flyer to share with colleagues and networks
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All are welcome to apply for funding, including students and recent PhDs. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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Jan 23, 2025
Thursday
09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
  Welcome
09:10 AM - 10:10 AM
  Matchings on random graphs
Mihyun Kang (Graz University of Technology)
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
  Morning Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Trickle-down and new results for Glauber on SK-Ising and related models
Thuy Duong Vuong (Stanford University)
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
  Lunch
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  The time constant of high dimensional first passage percolation, revisited
Si Tang (Lehigh University)
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Continuous and discrete SK spin glass models
Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin (McGill University)
03:00 PM - 03:20 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:20 PM - 04:20 PM
  Some easy optimization problems have the overlap-gap property
Tselil Schramm (Stanford University)
04:20 PM - 05:20 PM
  Panel Discussion
Marie Albenque (Université Paris Cité), Yeganeh Alimohammadi (University of California, Berkeley), Fan Chung (University of San Diego), Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge), Si Tang (Lehigh University), Thuy Duong Vuong (Stanford University)
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
  Dinner
Jan 24, 2025
Friday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Clustering in graphs with high clustering coefficients
Fan Chung (University of San Diego)
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
  Group Photo
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
  Morning Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Rare events in sparse random graphs, random trees and coagulation processes
Luisa Andreis (Politecnico di Milano)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Lunch
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Sampling Colorings with Flip Dynamics
Charlie Carlson (University of Colorado)
02:00 PM - 02:20 PM
  Afternoon Tea
02:20 PM - 03:20 PM
  Minkowski content of the scaling limit of 3D loop-erased random walk
Sarai Hernandez-Torres (Instituto de Matematicás, UNAM-Ciudad Universitaria)