Schedule for: 18w5036 - Spin Glasses and Related Topics

Beginning on Sunday, September 30 and ending Friday October 5, 2018

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, September 30
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, October 1
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Amin Coja-Oghlan (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 David Gamarnik (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Guy Bresler: Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Some Statistics Problems (TCPL 201)
14:05 - 14:35 Leo Miolane (TCPL 201)
14:35 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Quentin Berthet (TCPL 201)
15:35 - 16:05 Subhabrata Sen (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, October 2
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Eliran Subag: Free energy landscapes of spherical spin glasses (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Jean Barbier: Concentration of multi-overlaps in ferromagnetic systems (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Souvik Dhara: Critical percolation on random networks with given degrees (TCPL 201)
14:05 - 14:35 Louis-Pierre Arguin: Disorder Chaos in Edwards-Anderson Model (TCPL 201)
14:35 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Jinho Baik: 2-spin SSK and random matrices (TCPL 201)
15:35 - 16:05 David Belius: The TAP-Plefka variational principle (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, October 3
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Yan Fyodorov: Hessian spectrum at the global minimum of high-dimensional random landscapes (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Pierfrancesco Urbani: Continuous constraint satisfaction problems and jamming (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:40 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, October 4
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Aukosh Jagannath: Bounding flows for Langevin dynamics in complex energy landscapes (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Nike Sun: Capacity lower bound for the Ising perceptron (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Ahmed El Alaoui (TCPL 201)
14:05 - 14:35 Veronique Gayrard: Asymptotic dynamics and aging in the GREM (TCPL 201)
14:35 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Laurent Massoulie (TCPL 201)
15:35 - 16:05 Galen Reeves (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, October 5
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Discussions (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Discussions (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (BIRS Coffee Lounge, TCPL and Reading Room) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)