Workshop on Combinatorial Methods
for Statistical Physics Models
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

April 29, 30 and May 1

Thursday, April 29

---------------	STUDENT SERVICES BLDG,	ROOM 117
10:05-10:55	Peter Winkler	Percolation and Collision Abstract
11:05-11:55	Jennifer Chayes	The Scaling window for 2SAT
12:00-2:00	lunch
2:05-2:55	Roman Kotecky	Overview of the q=3 Potts model
---------------	MATH BLDG (SKILES),	ROOM 249
3:05-3:35	Sorin Istrail	On the impossibility of exact solubility of the general three-dimensional Ising model Abstract
3:40-4:10	David Wilson	Scaling limits for minimal and random spanning trees in two dimensions
4:10-4:30	Refreshment break
4:35-5:25	Umesh Vazirani	Group theory, Fourier transforms and quantum computation (Dept Colloquium) Abstract

Friday, April 30

---------------	STUDENT SERVICES BLDG,	ROOM 117
10:05-10:55	Jeff Kahn	Independence properties and combinatorial uses of monomer-dimer systems Abstract
11:05-11:55	Rob van den Berg	Mixing properties of the monomer-dimer model, with applications to random sampling
12:00-2:00	lunch
2:05-2:55	Christian Borgs	Slow mixing for the independent set model and critical Swendsen-Wang
---------------	MATH BLDG ,	ROOM 249
3:05-3:35	Mark Huber	Sampling independent sets Abstract
3:40-4:10	Gregory Sorkin	The random assignment problem Abstract
4:10-4:40	Refreshment break
4:40-5:30	Rick Kenyon	Long-range properties of spanning trees in Z^2 Abstract

Saturday, May 1

---------------	STUDENT SERVICES BLDG,	ROOM 117
10:05-10:55	Jeff Steif	Amenability and nonamenability of graphs and connections with Ising
		and other models Abstract
11:00-11:30	Claire Kenyon	Mixing rates of block dynamics in one dimension
11:35-12:05	Eric Vigoda	Improved bounds for sampling colorings Abstract
12:10-12:40	Stefan Boettcher	Extremal optimization: the virtues of large fluctuations Abstract
12:45-1:15	Kari Eloranta	Bounded ice on planar lattices
After 1:30	Informal activities (TBA)

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