Week 2 to 5 - Extended Program

August 5th to August 30th, 2024

 

The extended program gives researchers in discrete Probability, Statistics and related areas the opportunity to visit IMPA for a full month, while taking part in a loosely structured and related set of activities. The weekly schedule will consist of

 

• talks by participating researchers (to be scheduled once their dates are confirmed);
• the second part of the minicourse in discrete Probability from week 1;
• minicourses in Statistics aimed at PhD students with a strong mathematical background;
• collaborative work and open problem sessions.

 

The extended program is open to all. A small amount of financial aid will be available, with priority given to young researchers and students from South American institutions.

Participants from RandNET institutions in Europe and Chile may be funded through secondments from this grant; contact the team leader at your institution for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preliminary weekly program

 

	Monday/Wednesday	Tuesday/Thursday	Friday
10:30 – 12:00	Courses 1 and 3	Course 2	Talk
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:00 – 15:00	Collaborative work on open problems	Collaborative work on open problems	Free
15:00 – 16:00	Talk	Talk	Free
16:00 – 17:00	Progress report	Progress report	Free

 

Talks

• August 5th – 3pm
  Igor Kortchemski (CMAP, École polytechnique) – Global Freezing

 

• August 6th – 3pm
  Peter Keevash (University of Oxford) – Isoperimetric stability and its applications
  

 

• August 7th – 3pm – João Pereira (IMPA) – Landscape analysis of an improved power method for tensor decomposition

 

• August 8th – 3pm
  Andressa Cerqueira (UFSCAR) – Estimating the number of communities in networks

 

• August 12th – 3pm
  Zoraida Rico (Columbia) – Fine bounds on covariance estimation

 

• August 13th – 3pm
  Benedikt Stufler (TU Wien) – Trees, partitions and planar graphs

 

• August 14th – 3pm
  Anna Brandenberger (MIT) – Errors and Correction in Cumulative Knowledge

 

• August 15th – 3pm
  Guilherme Ost (UFRJ) – Inferring parameters of a random graph model from an induced stochastic dynamics

 

• August 19th – 3pm
  Noela Müller (Eindhoven University of Technology) – The number of random 2-SAT solutions is asymptotically log-normal

 

• August 20th – 3pm
  Joshua Cape (Wisconsin) – Robust spectral clustering with rank statistics 

 

• August 21st – 3pm
  Luís Vena (UPC) – Compactifying the set of positive real sequences by their asymptotic behavior and its applications to graph limits

 

• August 22nd – 3pm
  Tomasz Przybyłowski (Oxford) – Tournaments on the root systems

 

• August 26nd – 3pm

  Rivka Mitchell (Oxford) – Convergence of globally centered discrete snakes

 

• August 28nd – 1:30pm
  Lucas Prates (USP) – Consistent estimation of multiple change-points via penalized likelihood
   

 

Courses

• Course 1 (Week 2)
  Dieter Mitsche (PUC-Chile)
  Random discrete models
  * This course begins during the “Workshop on Randomness and Learning on Networks”

• Course 2 (Weeks 2 to 4)
  Jesús Arroyo/Joshua Cape (TexasA&M/Wisconsin)
  Statistical Network Analysis

• Course 3 (Weeks 3 to 5)
  Cynthia Rush (Columbia)
  High-dimensional Statistics and Approximate Message Passing Algorithms

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