West Coast Coin Flippers Conference

Paccar 291

8:30 - 9:00: Coffee + Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:30: Jonathan Novak (UCSD) - Invariant ensembles for coin flippers
9:30 - 10:00: Arnab Sen (Minnesota) - Correlation decay of maximum weight matching on sparse graphs
10:00 - 10:30: Lucas Teyssier (UBC) - On the Naruse hook length formula and mixing times

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30: Laura Eslava (UNAM) - Methods for cutting down random recursive trees

11:30 - 12:00: Max Newman (Indiana) - Quenched limit laws for coalescents of mean-field populations with selfing
12:00 - 2:00: Lunch break

2:00 - 2:30: Stewart Ethier (Utah) - Testing for dice control at craps
2:30 - 3:00: Marydol Soto Santarriaga (UDel) - The rightmost and k-rightmost columns of ordered Chinese restaurant processes up-down chains: Markov properties and intertwining

3:00 - 3:30: Coffee break + Coin Flipping Competition, Part I

3:30 - 4:00: David Aldous (UC Berkely & Washington) - Three open problems
4:00 - 4:30: Gourab Ray (UVic) - Integer valued Lipschitz functions on regular trees
5:30 - 8:30: Informal dinner meetup at TBD