Monday February 14
8:45 – 9:00	Welcome and Introduction Fields Director Ed Bierstone and Workshop Organizers
9:00 – 10:00	Neil O'Connell (University of Warwick) Directed polymers and the quantum Toda lattice
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15	Amine Asselah (Universite Paris-Est) On level sets of the local times, and application to polymers
11:15 – 12:00	Balint Toth (Budapest University of Technology) Scaling limits of self repelling random walks and diffusions
12:00 – 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 – 3:00	Yueyun Hu (Université Paris 13) Random walk in random environment on trees
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:15	Jean-Dominique Deuschel (TU-Berlin) A CLT for balanced, non-elliptic random walk in balanced random environment
4:15 – 5:00	Erwin Bolthausen (University of Zurich) Non-ballistic random walks in random environments
5:00 – 6:00	Welcoming Reception Fields Atrium - cash bar
Tuesday February 15
9:00 – 10:00	Yvan Velenik (University of Geneva) Percolation with a line of defects
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15	Francesco Caravenna (University of Milano-Bicocca) The weak coupling limit of disordered copolymer models
11:15 – 12:00	Oren Louidor (UCLA) Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails
12:00 – 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 – 3:00	Milton Jara (IMPA) Universality of KPZ equation
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:15	Yuri Bakhtin (Georgia Tech) Burgers equation with Poissonian noise
4:15 - 4:45	Nicos Georgiou (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Large deviation rate functions for the partition function of directed polymers
Wednesday February 16
9:00 – 10:00	Hubert Lacoin (CEREMADE Université Paris Dauphine) Exact critical behavior for pinning model in random correlated environment
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15	Marc Wouts (Université Paris 13) Charged polymers with attractive charges : a first order transition
11:15 – 12:00	Nikos Zygouras (Warwick) Strong Disorder in Semi-directed Random Polymers
12:00 – 2:15	Lunch Break
3:00 – 5:00	Curling Leaside Curling Club - 1073a Millwood Road directions here
5:00 – 6:30	Pizza Party @ Curling Club
Thursday February 17
9:00 – 10:00	Ivan Corwin (Courant Institute, NYU)/Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto) Probability Distribution of the Free Energy of the Continuum Directed Random Polymer in 1+1 dimensions
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15	Eric Cator (Delft University of Technology) Asymptotic speed of second class particles in a rarefaction fan
11:15 – 12:00	Leonid Koralov (University of Maryland) Polymer measures and branching diffusions
12:00 – 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 – 3:00	Jonathon Peterson (Cornell University) Weak quenched limiting distributions for a one-dimensional random walk in a random environment
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:15	Firas Rassoul-Agha (University of Utah) Quenched Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Environments and Random Potentials
4:15 - 5:00	Amir Dembo (Stanford University) CLT for biased random walk on multi-type Galton-Watson tree
Friday February 18
9:00 – 10:00	Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute and University of Minnesota) Recursions, tightness and limit laws: from branching random walks to Gaussian free fields and FPP
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15	Matthias Birkner (University Mainz) A random walk pinning model, a conditional LDP and applications
11:15 – 12:00	Francis Comets (Univ. Paris Diderot) KPP equation with random, time-space depedent, rate
	Free Afternoon

Confirmed Participants

Full Name University/Affiliation

Alberts, Tom University of Toronto

Alexander, Kenneth University of Southern California

Amir, Gideon Bar Ilan University

Andrews, Rob (no affiliation)

Asselah, Mohamed-Amine Université Paris XII

Auffinger, Antonio New York University

Bakhtin, Yuri Georgia Institute of Technology

Balázs, Márton Budapest University

Birkner, Matthias Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz

Bloemendal, Alex University of Toronto

Bolthausen, Erwin University of Zurich

Caravenna, Francesco University of Milano-Bicocca

Carmona, Philippe Université de Nantes

Cator, Eric A. Delft Universiy of Technology

Cipriani, Alessandra Universität Zürich

Comets, Francis Université Paris 7- Denis Diderot

Corwin, Ivan Courant Institute, NYU

Dembo, Amir Stanford University

Deuschel, Jean-Dominique Technische Universität Berlin

Dey, Partha New York University

Dolgopyat, Dmitry University of Maryland

Georgiou, Nicos University of Wisconsin-Madison

Grigo, Alexander University of Toronto

Guardia, Marcel Fields Institute/ U. of Toronto

Halevy, Itamar no affiliation

Hammond, Alan University of Oxford

Hu, Yueyun Université Paris 13

Ioffe, Dmitry Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Jara, Milton IMPA

Jovanovski, Oliver York University

Khanin, Konstantin University of Toronto

Kocic, Sasa University of Toronto

Koralov, Leonid University of Maryland

Lacoin, Hubert CEREMADE-Université Paris Dauphine

Louidor, Oren University of California, Los Angeles

Madras, Neal York University

Matic, Ivan

Melnik, Roderick Wilfrid Laurier University

Moreno Flores, Gregorio University of Wisconsin

Niu, Shilei University of Waterloo

O'Connell, Neil University of Warwick

Ortgiese, Marcel TU Berlin

Pajor-Gyulai, Zsolt University of Maryland

Peterson, Jonathon Cornell University

Quastel, Jeremy University of Toronto

Rassoul-Agha, Firas University of Utah

Remenik, Daniel University of Toronto

Salisbury, Thomas York University

Seppäläinen, Timo University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tiglay, Feride The Fields Institute

Toth, Bálint Technical University Budapest

Valenta, George

Valkó, Benedek University of Wisconsin Madison

Velenik, Yvan Université de Genève

Voltz, Jeremy University of Toronto

Vysotsky, Vladislav Arizona State University

Wouts, Marc Université Paris 13

Yarmola, Tatiana Fields Institute

Yildirim, Gokhan University of Southern California

Zeitouni, Ofer Weizmann Institute of Science

Zhang, Ke University of Toronto

Zhang, Zhenghe Northwestern University

Zygouras, Nikos University of Warwick

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February 14-18, 2011
Workshop on Interacting Processes in Random Environments