Home /  Introductory Workshop: Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures

Workshop

Introductory Workshop: Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures January 27, 2025 - January 31, 2025
Registration Deadline: January 31, 2025 2 months ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: October 27, 2024 5 months ago
Parent Program:
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Atrium, Online/Virtual, Front Courtyard, 2nd Floor Deck
Organizers Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill University), LEAD Shankar Bhamidi (University of North Carolina), Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford), Dana Randall (Georgia Institute of Technology), Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge), Remco van der Hofstad (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Speaker(s)

Show List of Speakers

Description
Image
Visualization of a network constructed using simple probabilistic rules, showing the emergence of hubs and other macroscopic network phenomenon. From https://graph-tool.skewed.de
  Networks, graph driven algorithms, and dynamics on graphs such as epidemics, random walks and centrality measures all play a major role, both in our daily lives as well as many scientific and engineering disciplines. This introductory workshop will bring together experts and junior researchers in combinatorics, probability, and statistics to share a broad vision of major challenges and objectives, with a primary focus on models of random graphs and their limits, network inference, dynamic processes on networks and algorithms and optimization on random structures.  Download a workshop flyer to share with your colleagues, department, or networks
Funding & Logistics Show All Collapse

Show Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by the funding application deadline displayed above.

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.

Show Lodging

For information about recommended hotels for visits of under 30 days, visit Short-Term Housing. Questions? Contact coord@slmath.org.

Show Directions to Venue

Show Visa/Immigration

Show Reimbursement Guidelines

Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos
Show Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos
Show All Collapse
Jan 27, 2025
Monday
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
  Welcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Do there exist expanders with non-negative curvature ?
Justin Salez
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Some easy optimization problems have the overlap-gap property
Shuangping Li (Stanford University)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Clustering of vertices in random hypergraphs
Lasse Leskela (Aalto University)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Dynamical Thresholds for the Fixed-Magnetization Ising Model
Corrine Yap (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Obscure results and open problems: some of my favorites
David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley; University of Washington)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Graphs, Markov chains, and branching distributional equations
Mariana Olvera-Cravioto (University of North Carolina)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Zooming in on random 2-SAT
Noela Muller (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Speeding up random walk mixing by starting from a uniform vertex
Guillem Perarnau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
04:30 PM - 06:20 PM
  Reception
Jan 29, 2025
Wednesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Cutoff for Cayley Graphs of Nilpotent Groups
Xiangying Huang (University of North Carolina)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  The critical beta-splitting random tree: exchangeable partitions and Mellin transform analysis
Svante Janson (Uppsala University)
Jan 30, 2025
Thursday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Asymptotic enumeration of discrete structures: what, how and why
Catherine Greenhill (UNSW Sydney)
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
  Group Photo
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Random Sampling of Connected Balanced Graph Partitions
Sarah Cannon (Claremont McKenna College)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  A new approach to critical phenomena in long-range models
Tom Hutchcroft (California Institute of Technology)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  The largest common subtree of uniform attachment trees
Miklós Rácz (Northwestern University)
Jan 31, 2025
Friday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Large Deviations for Interacting Particle Systems on Sparse Random Graphs
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Permutations from Symmetric Random Walk
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Large deviations for triangles in random graphs in the critical regime
Will Perkins (Georgia Institute of Technology)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Shuffling via transpositions
Evita Nestoridi (Stony Brook University)