Workshop on First-Passage Percolation
Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, from 11/17 to 11/22, 2014
Over the past half century, the study of spatial growth models such as first-passage percolation has led to a rigorous theory for subadditive ergodic processes and far reaching predictions of KPZ theory. However, despite the prominent recent development within the field, there are many fundamental questions left unanswered. The objective of this workshop is to unite experienced researchers with young talents to discuss the recent developments within the field and challenges of the future. We hope that this workshop will incentive a new generation of probabilists to invest in the field, and together meet the challenges that awaits.
Topics to be treated: The asymptotic shape; competing growth and existence of geodesics; fluctuations and the existence of scaling exponents; columnar defects.
As an introduction to the current state of first-passage percolation, there will be a mini-course held at IMPA the week preceding the workshop (November 10-14), which the participants are welcome to attend. The workshop is part of a longer thematic programme on Probability Theory and Rigorous Statistical Mechanics, organized at IMPA. Participants of the workshop are encouraged to combine their participation with a stay at IMPA during this programme. A list of related events is found below.
Mini-course (IMPA, from 11/10 to 11/14)
Certificates
Location and Transportation
The venue for the event will be “Hotel La Plage” located in the paradisiacal region of Cabo Frio about 2 hours North of Rio. Transportation on the arrival day (Nov 16th) and departure day (Nov. 22th) will be provided for workshop participants.
From Rio de Janeiro to Hotel La Plage:
Sunday, November 16, leaving IMPA at 3:00PM
From Cabo Frio to Rio de Janeiro:
Saturday, November 22, leaving Hotel La Plage at 13:00 hs, passing by the International Airport and then to IMPA. This trip takes around 2.5 hours
If you want to use this service, please send a message to eventos@impa.br – subject: Transportation to Hotel La Plage.
Picture of the Group
Program
Registered Participants
Registration
Prices for Registration
| Category | Prices |
| Professors (Ph.D´s) | R$ 150,00 |
| Students (Master and Ph.D) | R$ 70,00 |
| IMPA’s Students | R$ 40,00 |
Speakers
Review lectures
Kenneth Alexander (University of Southern California)
Some themes in first passage percolation and directed polymers
Lionel Levine (Cornell University)
Toward a theory of lattice-dependent growth processes
James Martin (Oxford University)
First-passage and last-passage percolation, particle systems and queues
Philipe Sosoe (Princeton University)
Concentration in first-passage percolation
Marie Theret (Paris VII – Université Denis Diderot)
Maximal flows : a different aspect of first-passage percolation
Speakers
Daniel Ahlberg (IMPA)
Open Problems
Tonci Antunovic (UCLA)
Stationary Eden Model
Elisabetta Candellero (University of Warwick)
Oil and Water: a two-type internal aggregation model
Partha Dey (University of Warwick)
Multiple phase transitions in long-range first-passage percolation on square lattices.
Nicos Georgiou (University of Sussex)
Busemann functions as solutions to variational formulas
Christopher Hoffman (University of Washington)
The frog model on trees
Arjun Krishnan (New York University)
Variational formula for the time-constant of first-passage percolation
Hubert Lacoin (IMPA)
Counting self-avoiding paths on a supercritical percolation cluster
Régine Marchand – (Université de Lorraine)
First-passage percolation with infinite passage times
Anders Martinsson (Chalmers University of Technology)
First-passage percolation on the n-dimensional hypercube and other n-fold product graphs
Heinrich Matzinger (Georgia Tech)
Longest common subsequences, optimal alignments in relation to percolation models
Robert Morris (IMPA)
Nucleation and growth on Z^2
Leandro Pimentel (UFRJ)
Duality Between Coalescence Times and Exit Points in Last-Passage Percolation Models
Eviatar Procaccia (UCLA)
Stationary aggregation processes and first passage percolation.
Alexandre Stauffer (University of Bath)
Random walk on dynamical percolation
Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA)
Open Problems
Lorenzo Taggi (Max-Planck-Institute)
Active phase for Activated Random Walk
Vincent Tassion (Universite de Geneve)
A universal behavior in Divide-and-Color percolation
Augusto Teixeira (IMPA)
Interface motion in random media .
Venue: Hotel La Plage
Postal Address: Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Estrada Dona Castorina 110, Jardim Botânico
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 22460-320, Brasil
E-mail: eventos@impa.br
