Weizmann Institute of Science

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

STUDENTS PROBABILITY DAY

Wednesday 28 March, 2007

Ziskind Building, Room 1

Program

9:00-9:30 - Registration

9:30-11:00 First session

Yehonatan Elon (Weizmann Institute)

Critical properties of Helmholtz eigenvalues

Ori Gurel-Gurevich (Weizmann Institute)

Recurrence of SRW paths

Nir Auerbach (Weizmann Institute)

Modified circular billiards

Or Zuk (Weizmann Institute)

Entropy rate of hidden Markov processes

11:00 - Coffee break

11:15-12:30 Second Session

Uri Shapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Dynamics on homogeneous spaces

Lior Fishman (Ben Gurion University)

Diophantine approximations

Yonatan Gutman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

On processes which cannot be distinguished by finite observations

Tom Meyerovitch (Tel Aviv University)

Entropy of cellular automata

12:30 Group Photograph on steps of Ziskind building

12:40 -14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:45 Third Session

Roni Ben-David (Bar Ilan University)

Set-indexed point processes

Yair Shaki (Bar Ilan University)

Renewal cox process in R^d

Yoni Nazarathy (Haifa University)

Transient fluid solutions and queueing networks with infinite
virtual queues

Nathan Levy (Technion)

Lyapunov exponents in wireless communication

15:45 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Fourth Session

Sreekar Vadlamani (Technion)

Stochastic flows driven by fractional Brownian motion

Anna Levit (Technion)

Long range order and giant component of quantum random graphs

Haran Pilpel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Combinatoric applications of representations of the symmetric group

Nathan Keller (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Correlation of monotone families

Ariel Yadin (Weizmann Institute)

Diffusion-limited aggregation