The 2nd workshop on
Universality
and Scaling Limits in Probability and Statistical Mechanics
August 5th–9th,
2013, @ Hokkaido University
Contents
1.
Summary
2.
Venue
3.
Time frame
Universality is an
important notion often associated with phase transitions and critical phenomena. It appears not only in statistical
physics, but in probability as well.
An invariance principle for simple random walk on different transitive
lattices is an example: their scaling limits are the same Brownian motion (modulo
variance). We are getting better
understanding of the notion in two dimensions and in dimensions higher than the
upper-critical dimension, but are still almost ignorant in our three dimensions,
in particular. It is due to the
lack of knowledge in dealing with a system of strongly correlated random
variables. It is therefore of great
importance to develop any kinds of methodologies to foster our knowledge, no
matter whether they are related or not so directly related to universality or
scaling limits, and to do so, we must get together and share ideas about
potential problems.
The aim of this
workshop is to invite active researchers and Ph.D students from various
countries, have them present their work (in progress) or ambitious future
problems, and most importantly, get to know each other better in summer
Hokkaido!
This workshop follows
STATPHYS 25 in Seoul and its satellite meeting in Kyoto.
Comparing with those meetings, we will focus more on probabilistic aspects of statistical-mechanical
problems.
This workshop is supported
by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C).
Science Bldg. #3,
Room 309 (see the campus
map)
3.
Time frame (40min/talk, free Wednesday afternoon)
The
opening address will be around 10:20, Aug. 5th.
Workshop
dinner is planned at 18:00 on Aug. 6th (Kanro) & 8th (Kitamaru).
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Aug. 5th |
Aug. 6th |
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Aug. 9th |
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9:40
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10:30 – 11:10 |
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11:20 – 12:00 |
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12:00 – 15:00 |
Break |
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Free |
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15:00 – 15:40 |
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15:50 – 16:30 |
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16:40 – 17:20 |
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Siva Athreya (Indian
Statistical Institute Bangalore, India)
Brownian
motion and random walks on R-tree
Federico Camia
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands / NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE)
2D Ising model in a field: Magnetization critical
exponent and near-critical scaling limit
Francesco Caravenna
(Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Scaling
limits and universality for random pinning models
Lung-Chi Chen
(Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)
Critical
two-point functions for long-range statistical-mechanical models in high
dimensions
Hayato Chiba (Kyushu
University, Japan)
Cristian Giardinà
(Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Stochastic
models of transport
Markus Heydenreich
(Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands)
Spontaneous
breaking of rotational symmetry in the presence of defects
Mark Holmes
(University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Reinforcement
of random sets and graphs
Yukiko Iwata
(Meteorological College, Japan)
Stochastic
perturbations of one-dimensional maps
Wouter Kager (Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The
signed loop approach to the Ising model
Naoki Kubota (Nihon
University, Japan)
On
the speed of convergence in first passage percolation under low moment
conditions
Seiichiro Kusuoka
(Tohoku University, Japan)
Exponential
convergence of Markovian semigroups and their spectra on Lp-spaces
Makoto Nakashima (Tsukuba
University, Japan)
Charles Newman (New
York University, US)
Coarsening
models on various graphs (especially 2D
slabs)
Julien Poisat
(Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands)
The
critical curve of the random pinning and copolymer models at weak coupling
Makiko Sasada (Keio University,
Japan)
On the
spectral gap of binary interacting processes having product reversible measures
Daisuke Shiraishi
(Kyoto University, Japan)
Non-intersecting
random walks in low dimensions
Gordon Slade
(University of British Columbia, Canada)
Growth
constants of lattice trees and lattice animals in high dimensions
Daniel Stein (New
York University, US)
Predictability
in nonequilibrium discrete spin dynamics
Rongfeng Sun
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Independent
random walks on Z with self-blocking immigration at the origin
Yuki Suzuki (Keio
University, Japan)
Limit
theorems for a diffusion process with a Brownian potential including a zero potential
part
Ryokichi Tanaka
(Tohoku University, Japan)
Random
walks on groups of exponential volume growth
Kenkichi Tsunoda
(Tokyo University, Japan)
Hydrodynamic
limit for a certain class of two-species zero-range processes
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