Informal-Analysis-Seminar-2012

KENT STATE INFORMAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Lecture Series in Ergodic Theory and Probability

Supported by NSF and the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Kent State University.

March 30th - April 1st, 2012

Please e-mail Dmitry Ryabogin ryabogin@math.kent.edu
or Artem Zvavitch zvavitch@math.kent.edu
for more information.

Organizers: Analysis Group of Kent State University

Speakers:

• Yun Sung Choi (Postech, Pohang South Korea)
• • The Uniform Convexity, Lushness and Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás Property

• Pablo Galindo (Universidad de Valencia/Purdue University)
• • Some algebras of symmetric analytic functions and their spectra
    

• Miguel Martin (University of Granada)
• • "Slicely countably determined Banach spaces"
• Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research)
• • Will give a series of lecture on "Transience of random walks, Unpredictable paths, percolation and Kakeya sets"
    
• Mark Rudelson (University of Michigan)
• • Will give a series of lectures on "Invertibility of random matrices"
    

Schedule:

Friday, March 30th

• 3:10 - 4:00pm Yun Sung Choi: "The Uniform Convexity, Lushness and Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás Property"
• 4:00 - 4:20pm Coffee Break
  
• 4:20 - 5:10pm Pablo Galindo "Some algebras of symmetric analytic functions and their spectra"
• 5:15 - 6:05pm Miguel Martin: "Slicely countably determined Banach spaces"
• 7:00pm Dinner at Pufferbelly
  

Saturday, March 31st

• 10:00 - 10:30am Breakfast/Coffee
• 10:30 - 11:30am Yuval Peres
• 11:30 - 12:00pm Break
• 12:00 - 1:00pm Yuval Peres
• 1:00 - 2:00pm Lunch in the MSB Library
• 2:00 - 3:00pm Mark Rudelson: "Asymptotic vs. non-asymptotic approach in random matrix theory"
  
• 3:00 - 3:30pm Break
• 3:30 - 4:30pm Mark Rudelson: "Invertibility of random matrix: soft methods"
  
• 6:00pm Dinner at Wild Papaya Thai Cuisine.
  

Sunday, April 1st

• 9:00 - 9:30am Breakfast/Coffee
• 9:30 - 10:30am Yuval Peres
• 10:30 - 11:00pm Break
• 11:00 - 12:00pm Yuval Peres
• 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch in the MSB Library
• 1:00 - 2:00pm Mark Rudelson: "Identifying the obstacles: arithmetic structure of the small ball probability"
  
• 2:00 - 2:30pm Break
• 2:30 - 3:30pm Mark Rudelson: "Avoiding the obstacles: normal to a random hyperplane"