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Schedule for: 24w5169 - Frontiers of Statistical Mechanics and Theoretical Computer Science

Beginning on Sunday, August 11 and ending Friday August 16, 2024

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

Sunday, August 11
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 (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, August 12
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Matthew Jenssen: Applications of the cluster expansion (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Lightning Talks 1 (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Shayan Oveis Gharan: The MCMC method and High Dimensional Expanders (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 15:00 Tyler Helmuth: Lightning Talks Part 2 (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Mark Sellke: Algorithmic Spin Glass Theory (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, August 13
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Wojciech Samotij: The hypergraph container lemma revisited (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Jinyoung Park: Lipschitz functions on expanders (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:45 Group Photo (Online)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 15:00 Shuangping Li: Discrepancy algorithms for the binary perceptron (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Alex Wein: Optimality of AMP Among Low-Degree Polynomials (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, August 14
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Louigi Addario-Berry: Root reconstruction for SI trees (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Roman Kotecky: Emergence of a giant component for random cluster model on the n-cube (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, August 15
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Nima Anari: Parallel Sampling via Counting (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Daniel Hadas: Random high-density packing of disks on a lattice (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 15:00 Reza Gheissari: Metastability in heavy-tailed spin glass dynamics (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Dana Randall: Emergent phenomena in equilibrium and nonequilibrium collectives (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, August 16
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Omer Angel: Long-range frog model (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
10:30 - 11:30 Brice Huang: Algorithmic threshold for the random perceptron (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)