
The main lecturers were:
Yuval Peres
Aspects of Markov chains: mixing, rate of escape, and application to metric embedding.
Slides of his lectures
Robin Pemantle
Probability from generating functions: limit laws, singularity analysis, fourier techniques,
automatic asymptotics and applications to exactly solvable models in combinatorics, physics, etc.
Background material
Ander Holroyd
Matching, coupling and point processes.
outline and references
In addition there were two one-hour talks by:
Rick Kenyon
Scott Sheffiled
Balint Virag
Detailed information about the conference:
Conference Schedule (Final version)
Abstracts of contributed talks (Final version)
Conference photos: first * second
This meeting is partially supported a grant from the National Science Foundation
to the probability group at Cornell University.