---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Walter Schachermayer wschach@fam.tuwien.ac.at ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:15:29 +0100 From: ESI Secretary secr@esi.ac.at To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: RDSES Workshop March 12-25

RDSES Educational Workshop on Discrete Probability March 12 – 25, 2006

Minicourses and program

First week: Alex Gamburd (Princeton): "Discrete and continuous variations on the expanding theme" Talks: Monday 13 - Thursday 16 March 15.00-15.50

Christophe Pittet (Marseille): "Random walks and isoperimetry in compactly generated groups" Talks: Monday 13 March 10.00-10.50 and Tuesday 14 - Friday 17 March 9.10-10.00

Second week: Persi Diaconis (Stanford): "Sharp transitions in probability, combinatorics, and statistical mechanics" Talks: Monday 20 March 10.00-10.50 and Tuesday 21 - Friday 24 March 9.10-10.00

Greg Lawler (Cornell): "Random walk problems from statistical physics" Talks: Monday 20 - Friday 24 March 15.00-15.50

all lectures will take place in the ESI Boltzmann lecture hall