Conference in Honor of the 75th Birthday of S.R.S. Varadhan
15 - 19 August, 2016
 
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| Time15 - 19 August, 2016LocationTechnische Universität BerlinHauptgebäude (Main building) - Room H1058 Straße des 17. Juni 135 Berlin - Germany (Directions ») PicturesClick here to see a few moments of the conference.Program | 
| Monday, 15 August | |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Registration | 
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Welcome | 
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Fraydoun Rezakhanlou Hamilton-Jacobi equation, homogenization and beyond | 
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | 
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Insuk Seo Large deviation principle for interacting Brownian motions | 
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Martin Hairer Algebraic aspects of renormalisation | 
| 17:15 - 19:30 | Reception at Lichthof | 
| Tuesday, 16 August | |
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| 9:15 - 10:00 | Firas Rassoul-Agha KPZ wandering exponent for random walk in i.i.d. dynamic Beta random environment | 
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Peter Friz A Stroock-Varadhan support theorem for a singular SPDE | 
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | 
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Atilla Yilmaz Averaged vs. quenched large deviations and entropy for random walk in a dynamic random environment | 
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | 
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Alejandro Ramirez Asymptotic expansion of the invariant measure for ballistic random walks in random environment in the low disorder regime | 
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Nikos Zygouras Scaling limits of disordered systems | 
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | 
| 16:00 - 16:45 | José Ramírez The hard edge of beta ensemble, spiking and transitions | 
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Chiranjib Mukherjee The polaron path measure for strong coupling and its mean-field approximation | 
| Wednesday, 17 August | |
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| 9:15 - 10:00 | Erwin Bolthausen Gaussian random fields with local pinning | 
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Inés Armendáris Metastability in condensing zero-range processes | 
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | 
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Michail Loulakis A stochastic control problem for the deposition of phosphorus in shallow lakes | 
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Ofer Zeitouni Sum rules via large deviations | 
| 12:45 | Lunch and free afternoon | 
| Thursday, 18 August | |
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| 9:15 - 10:00 | Elena Kosygina Homogenization of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations: a remark and an application | 
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Claudio Landim Metastability and reaction-diffusion equations | 
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | 
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Sunder Sethuraman On deriving a long-range stochastic Burgers equation | 
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | 
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Ross Pinsky A natural probabilistic model on the integers and its relation to Dickman-type distributions and Buchstab's function | 
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Horng-Tzer Yau Spectral statistics of random graphs | 
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | 
| from 17:00 | Conference dinner (see below for more details) | 
| Friday, 19 August | |
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| 9:15 - 10:00 | Gérard Ben Arous Scaling limit for the ant in some labyrinths | 
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Terry Lyons From Hopf algebras to machine learning via rough paths | 
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | 
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Herbert Spohn Directed polymers in a two-dimensional random medium with complex weights | 
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Stefano Olla Entropic hypocoercivity and hydrodynamic limits | 
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Closing | 
| AbstractsThe abstracts of the talks can be found here. | ||
| ParticipantsThe list can be found here. | ||
| Conference dinnerThursday, 18 August, from 17:00Clubrestaurant im VSaW Am Großen Wannsee 22-26 17:00 Bus departure at Hotel Otto, Knesebeckstr. 10, 10623 Berlin 22:00 Bus departure (VSaW), back to Berlin Important: Please bring the sticky dinner badge! | ||
| Some suggestions for the lunch break
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| RegistrationThe registration is closed. | ||
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| Contactemail: Var75@wias-berlin.de | ||
| PosterAvailable here. | ||
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