Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos

MSRI Program on Probability, Algorithms and Statistical Physics, Spring 2005 --- OPENING DAY, Thursday 13 January, 2005 January 13, 2005 - January 13, 2005

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Jan 13, 2005
Thursday

09:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Real -world Random Networks- Overview
David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley)

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Random Networks; Observed Properties, Models, and Open Questions
Jennifer Chayes (UC Berkeley)

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithims- Overview
Alistair Sinclair (University of California, Berkeley)

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Glauber Dynamics with Equilibrium States: Recent Results and Open Problems
Fabio Martinelli

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM

Phase Transitions-Overview
Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research)

03:00 PM - 03:50 PM

What Do We Know About Glass Phases? An Introduction, Illustrated by Some Examples from Computer Science
Marc Mezard

04:30 PM - 05:20 PM

Rapid Mixing: Some Old Problems and New Ideas
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College)