Conference in Honor of the 75th Birthday of S.R.S. Varadhan

15 - 19 August, 2016

Prof. Varadhan

Speakers

  • Inés Armendáris (Buenos Aires)
  • Gérard Ben Arous (NYU)
  • Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich)
  • Peter Friz (WIAS/TU Berlin)
  • Martin Hairer (Warwick)
  • Elena Kosygina (CUNY)
  • Claudio Landim (IMPA)
  • Michail Loulakis (Athens)
  • Terry Lyons (Oxford)
  • Chiranjib Mukherjee (NYU/WIAS)
  • Stefano Olla (Paris)
  • Ross Pinsky (Haifa)
  • Alejandro Ramirez (Chile)
  • José Ramírez (Costa Rica)
  • Firas Rassoul-Agha (Utah)
  • Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (Berkeley)
  • Insuk Seo (Berkeley)
  • Sunder Sethuraman (Arizona)
  • Herbert Spohn (Munich)
  • Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard)
  • Atilla Yilmaz (Koc University)
  • Ofer Zeitouni (NYU/Weizmann)
  • Nikos Zygouras (Warwick)

Time

15 - 19 August, 2016

Location

Technische Universität Berlin
Hauptgebäude (Main building) - Room H1058
Straße des 17. Juni 135
Berlin - Germany
(Directions »)

Pictures

Click here to see a few moments of the conference.

Program

Monday, 15 August
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
 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
 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
 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
 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

Abstracts

The abstracts of the talks can be found here.

Participants

The list can be found here.

Conference dinner

Thursday, 18 August, from 17:00
Clubrestaurant 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

  1. Conference venue, Straße des 17. Juni 10623 Berlin

  2. Mensa TU Hardenbergstraße, Hardenbergstraße 34, 10623 Berlin ($)
  3. Cafeteria TU Skyline, 20th floor, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin ($)
  4. Café Nero @ TU Bibliothek, Fasanenstraße 88, 10623 Berlin ($)
  5. Mathe-Café & 9th floor eatery, TU Mathematics building, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin ($)

  6. Café Hardenberg, Hardenbergstraße 10, 10623 Berlin ($$)
  7. Manjurani Indian Restaurant, Knesebeckstraße 4, 10623 Berlin ($$)
  8. Belmondo, Knesebeckstraße 93, 10623 Berlin ($$$)
  9. Enoteca L'Angolino, Knesebeckstraße 92, 10623 Berlin ($$)
  10. ISHIN Japanese Deli, Hardenbergstraße 19, 10623 ($$$)
  11. Schleusenkrug Biergarten, Müller-Breslau-Straße, 10623 Berlin ($$)
  12. Restaurantschiff Capt'n Schillow, Straße des 17. Juni 113, 10623 Berlin ($$$)
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Registration

The registration is closed.

Organizing committee

  • Peter Friz (TU Berlin and WIAS)
  • Wolfgang König (WIAS and TU Berlin)
  • Chiranjib Mukherjee (Courant Institute, on leave from WIAS)
  • Stefano Olla (Dauphine Université Paris)

Contact

email: Var75@wias-berlin.de

Poster

Available here.

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