AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41
2002 AMS and MAA Spring Southeastern Section Meetings
Atlanta, GA, March 8-10, 2002
Meeting #975
Associate secretaries: John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics
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Friday March 8, 2002, 2:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, I
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
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2:10 p.m.
Perfect matchings in random graphs with prescribed minimal degree.
Alan M Frieze*, Carnegie Mellon University
Boris G Pittel, Ohio State University
(975-60-144) -
3:10 p.m.
Pseudo-random graphs.
Michael Krivelevich*, Tel Aviv University
(975-05-216) -
4:10 p.m.
On Avoiding A Giant Component.
Tom Bohman*, Carnegie Mellon University
Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University
Nicholas Wormald, University of Melbourne
(975-05-332) -
4:40 p.m.
Divide and Conquer Martingales.
Van H. Vu*, Department of Mathmatics, UCSD
(975-05-126)
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2:10 p.m.
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Saturday March 9, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, II
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Dominos and hyperbolic polyhedra.
Richard W Kenyon*, CNRS
(975-82-99) -
8:55 a.m.
Break. -
10:15 a.m.
Adaptive Intersection and t-Threshold Problems.
Claire Kenyon*, U. Paris-Orsay
Jeremy Barbay, U. Paris-Orsay
(975-68-424) -
11:15 a.m.
Urn models and cooled Brownian motion.
Robin Pemantle*, Ohio State University
(975-60-222)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 9, 2002, 3:05 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, III
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
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3:05 p.m.
Knockin' 'em Down, One After Another.
James Allen Fill*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
David Bruce Wilson, Theory Group, Microsoft Research
(975-60-375) -
4:05 p.m.
Anatomy of a permutation.
Andrew Granville*, University of Georgia
(975-05-378) -
4:35 p.m.
Two questions on coins with unknown bias.
Yuval Peres*, University of California, Berkeley
(975-60-418) -
5:35 p.m.
On the meeting point for random spanning trees.
Philippe Marchal*, CNRS and Georgia Tech
(975-60-276)
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3:05 p.m.
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Sunday March 10, 2002, 10:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, IV
Room 113, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Russell D. Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology rdlyons@math.gatech.edu
Prasad V. Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology tetali@math.gatech.edu
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10:10 a.m.
A Markov Random Field Model of Multicasting.
Kavita Ramanan*, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Ilze Ziedins, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Anirvan Sengupta, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Partha Mitra, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
(975-00-274) -
10:40 a.m.
Mixing time for biased card shuffling.
Itai Benjamini, Weitzmann institute
Noam Beger, U.C Berkeley
Chris Hoffman, University of Washington
Elchanan Mossel*, Microsoft Research
(975-60-203) -
11:10 a.m.
A new, probabilistic approach for heat kernel bounds.
Ben Morris*, University of California, Berkeley
(975-60-341) -
11:40 a.m.
Decomposition, Swapping and Mean-Field Models.
Dana Randall*, Georgia Tech
(975-60-358)
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10:10 a.m.