Schedule

Schedule:

August 1st:

8:30 - 9:30: Coffee + Breakfast + Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:00: Sean English (UNCW): The constructor-blocker game on graphs
10:00 - 10:30: Douglas Rizzolo (UDel): The Aldous chain and its diffusive limit

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30: JE Paguyo (McMaster): Homozygosity of the hierarchical Dirichlet process

11:30 - 12:00: Tamara Broderick (MIT): An extension of the beta-Bernoulli process to predict variant counts across multiple heterogeneous populations
12:00 - 2:00: Lunch break

2:00 - 2:30: Hanbaek Lyu (UW - Madison): Concentration and limit of large random matrices with given margins
2:30 - 3:00: David Sivakoff (Ohio State): Competing one- and two-dimensional growth dynamics in two dimensions

3:00 - 3:30: Coin Flipping Competition, Part I

3:30 - 4:00: Zoe Huang (UNC): Cutoff for random Cayley graphs of nilpotent groups
4:00 - 4:30: Neal Madras (York): Random walking on a graph and on its complement
5:30 - 8:30: Informal dinner meetup at Deer Park Tavern

August 2nd:

8:30 - 9:30: Coffee + Breakfast
9:30 - 10:00: Open Problem Session
10:00 - 10:30: Peter Winkler (Dartmouth): Coins, urns, and the value of information

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30: Pamela Harris (UW - Milwaukee): Probabilistic parking functions 

11:30 - 12:00: Mei Yin (DU): Statistics of parking functions and labelled forests
12:00 - 2:00: Lunch break 

2:00 - 2:30: Noah Forman (McMaster): Pruning and contraction on Galton-Watson and splitting trees
2:30 - 3:00: Pawel Hitczenko (Drexel): Asymptotics of a class of polynomial recurrence 

3:00 - 3:30: Coin Flipping Competition, Part II

3:30 - 3:30 + epsilon: Closing Remarks

Abstracts to the talks can be found on the Program page.