Seventeenth Northeast Probability Seminar
November 15-16, 2018
New York, NY

** Final Announcement: Please share with colleagues and graduate students       **

The Seventeenth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held at Courant Institute, NYU on November 15-16, 2018

CONFERENCE WEBPAGE
The most recent updates, schedule, directions to Kimmel Center and Courant Institute, a link to the financial support / short talk application, etc. can be found at

hhttps://cims.nyu.edu/conferences/northeast-probability-seminar-2018/


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Thursday, November 15, NYU Kimmel Center, Room 912/914

 9:00 - 10:00 am  Registration, light refreshments
10:00 - 11:00  Rick Durrett (Duke). "The contact process on random graphs and trees"
11:00 - 11:30 am  Refreshments
11:30 - 12:30  Tuca Auffinger (Northwestern). "Energy landscape of mean field spin glasses"
12:30 -  2:15 pm  Lunch
 2:15 -  3:15 pm  Informal talks and discussion, part I
 3:15 -  3:30 pm  Break
 3:30 -  4:30 pm  Informal talks and discussion, part II
 4:45 -  5:45 pm  Reception (Courant Institute, 13th Floor Lounge)
 6:00 -           Conference Dinner



Friday, November 16, Warren Weaver Hall/Courant Institute, Room 109


10:00 - 11:00 am  Nalini Anantharaman (IRMA Strasbourg): "Quantum ergodicity on graphs : from spectral to spatial delocalization"
11:00 - 11:30 am  Refreshments
11:30 -  12:30    Roland Bauerschmidt (Cambridge). "Spectral gap critical exponent for Glauber dynamics of hierarchical spin models"
12:30 -  2:00 pm  Lunch
 2:00 -  2:45 pm  Informal talks and discussion, part I
 2:45 -  3:00 pm  Break
 3:00 -  4:00 pm  Informal talks and discussion, part II


REGISTRATION AND NYU ACCESS
No official registration is required to attend the seminar. An ID (such as passport, driver's licence, etc.) is required to enter both Kimmel Center and Courant Institute.


YOUNG RESEARCHER TALKS
Young researchers are encouraged to volunteer short talks for the afternoon sessions. To apply for a short talk and/or funding, please use the link provided at the conference webpage
https://cims.nyu.edu/conferences/northeast-probability-seminar-2018/index.html


WOMEN IN PROBABILITY LUNCH
Women in Probability is an organization for women active in probability research. Our primary purpose is to provide networking and mentoring opportunities for early career women. Our activities are funded by the NSF. For more information on Women in Probability, please visit our website 
http://womeninprobability.org/

We will be hosting a lunch at the Northeast Probability Seminar, Friday, November 16 at 12:30pm. We can offset costs for attendees. Anyone interested in participating in the dinner should please email Tai Melcher ([log in to unmask]).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
The program was chosen by the seminar's scientific committee:
Louis-Pierre Arguin, Yuri Bakhtin, Nayantara Bhatnagar, Paul Bourgade, Ivan Corwin, Julien Dubedat, Ramon van Handel, Elena Kosygina, Eyal Lubetzky, Carl Mueller, Daniel Ocone, Robin Pemantle, Victor de la Pena, Brian Rider, Jay Rosen.

THANKS
We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding from the National Science Foundation that makes this event possible.

We look forward to seeing you in November,

Eyal Lubetzky
Paul Bourgade,
Yuri Bakhtin
(the local organizers at Courant)