Random Structures and Limit Objects

“随机结构和极限对象”会议将于2012年9月15日至16日在纽约大学柯朗数学科学研究所举行，将利用大卫奥尔德斯60岁生日之际汇集一批不同的知名专家和新的研究人员，目的是讨论概率论和相关领域中一些最紧迫的研究问题并取得进展。特别强调将奠定领域的影响大卫奥尔德斯的作品，如交换和图形限制，混合时间的马尔可夫链及其深刻的联系，在统计物理和计算机科学的关键现象，极值理论和泊松近似，随机树和临界随机图，随机凝聚和碎裂模型，遗传学和生物进化模型以及局部弱收敛和组合优化的概念。会议将在两天内举行八场演讲，初级研究人员和研究生将进行额外的简短演讲。像这样的专业数学会议很重要，因为它们为年轻的研究人员提供了一个交流思想、尝试新理论并与该领域一些杰出思想家互动的机会。本次会议将是一个公开会议，并将刊登在数理统计研究所的公告，美国数学学会的通知，在网络上，并通过一些电子邮件列表。还将维持一个会议网站。讲座的幻灯片将在会议网站上提供。如果可能的话，我们还将收集会议中出现的一些核心问题和想法，并以调查的形式发表在开放获取的概率杂志上，如概率调查。

The conference "Random Structures and Limit Objects", to be held on September 15-16, 2012 at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York University, will use the occasion of the 60th birthday of David Aldous to bring together a diverse group of eminent experts and new researchers, with the aim of discussing and making progress on some of the most pressing research questions in probability theory and related areas. Special emphasis will be laid on fields influenced by David Aldous's works, such as exchangeability and graph limits, mixing time of Markov chains and their deep connections with critical phenomena in statistical physics and computer science, extreme value theory and Poisson approximation, random trees and critical random graphs, stochastic coagulation and fragmentation models, phylogenetics and biological models of evolution and the notion of local weak convergence and combinatorial optimization. The conference will feature eight talks over a span of two days, with additional short talks by junior researchers and graduate students. Specialized mathematical meetings like this are important since they give people an opportunity to young researchers to exchange ideas and try out new theories and interact with some of the pre-eminent thinkers in the field. This conference will be an open meeting and will be advertised in the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, on the Web, and through a number of electronic mailing lists. A conference website will also be maintained. The slides of the talks will be made available at the conference website. If possible, we will also collect some of the core questions and ideas that arise in the conference and publish this in survey form in an open access probability journal such as Probability Surveys.