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Frankfurt Seminar on Random Discrete Structures

September 9-11, 2004

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Welcome to the homepage of the Frankfurt Seminar on Random Discrete Structures, which will be held from September 9-11, 2004, at the Mathematical Department of the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt a.M.

The Seminar is part and highlight of a workshop closing a German-Russian Research Cooperation on Branching processes in Random Environment. Sponsors are the DFG, the Russian Foundation of Basic Research and the Mathematics Department of Frankfurt University.

Contact person: Ms Maripola KOLOKOTSA, Robert-Mayer-Str. 10, 7th floor, R. 702, Tel. +49 69 798 22524

On this site you can find the following information:

Scope

By organizing this seminar the Mathematical Department acknowledges the increasing influence of discrete structures, methods and algorithms in mathematics, particularly in connection with probability. Special emphasis is given to:

  • probabilistic analysis of algorithms
  • combinatorial stochastic processes
  • random trees
  • branching processes and random walks in random environment

Participants (from outside Frankfurt)

Plenary lectures

Plenary lectures to a general mathematical audience will be given by Luc Devroye and Steven N. Evans.

Program

The talks are held in the "Hilbertraum" (nr. 302), on the 3rd floor of Robert-Mayer-Straße 8.
(To download the Program please click here)

In the days before the seminar there will be further talks within the Workshop.

Registration from 14.00 to 15.00 in front of Hilbertraum.

Thursday, 9th
15.00 - 15.45
V.Vatutin
(Moscow)

Limit theorems for critical branching processes in random environment
16.00 - 16.45
T. Duquesne
  (Orsay)

Probabilistic and fractal aspect of Lévy trees
17.15 - 18.00
M. Dekking
  (Delft)

Binary search trees from head to foot
 
Friday, 10th
09.30 - 10.15
S. Sagitov
(Göteborg)

The coalescent effective size of age-structured populations
10.30 - 11.15
S. Janson
(Uppsala)

Asymptotic distributions for generalized Pólya urns.
11.45 - 12.30
J.-F. Marckert
 (Versailles)

Limit of normalized quadrangulations: notion of Brownian map
(This is a joint work with Abdelkader Mokkadem)
15.00 - 16.00

L. Devroye
(Montreal)

Limit laws for random binary search trees
16.30 - 17.30

S. Evans
(Berkeley)

Real trees, Dirichlet forms, and the SPR Markov chain from phylogenetic analysis
 
Saturday, 11th
09.30 - 10.15
J. Schweinsberg
 (Cornell)

Power laws for family sizes in a duplication model
10.30 - 11.15
E. Mossel
(Berkeley)

Phase transitions and Phylogeny
11.45 - 12.30
N. Gantert
(Karlsruhe)
 Deviations of random walk in random scenery

Organizing Committee

If you are interested in participating, please contact one of the organizers.

Accomodation

Reservations were made in the hotels listed below, located in the vicinity of the University campus Bockenheim. Participants will be notified per e-mail about the name of their hotel and may then consult the relevant website for further information.
  • Best Western Imperial Hotel Am Palmengarten, (a link to the English version is under ‘Kontakt & Reservierung') Sophienstraße 40, 60487 Frankfurt a.M, tel. +49 69 7930 03-0, fax +49 69 7930 03-88
  • Falk Hotel, Falkstraße 38A, 60487 Frankfurt a.M., tel. +40 69 7191 887-0, fax +40 69 7191 887-77
  • Hotel West, Gräfstraße 81, 60486 Frankfurt a.M., tel. +49 69 2479 020, fax +49 69 7075 309
  • Hotel Am Kurfürstenplatz, Am Kurfürstenplatz 38, 60486 Frankfurt a.M., tel. +49 69 9709 12-0, fax +49 69 9709 12-55

Accessibility by public transport:
From Airport Station to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof: trains S8 / S9.

Best Western Imperial Hotel am Palmengarten, Falk Hotel and Hotel West can be reached from Hauptbahnhof by subway U4 or tram 16, stop "Bockenheimer Warte".
For the Hotel Am Kurfürstenplatz you will have to change at "Bockenheimer Warte" to U6 / U7 for one more stop at "Leipziger Straße".

To go downtown you may use the subway (U6 / U7).