GAFA seminar. The first meeting this Friday, November 10.
            In Schreiber 006, Tel Aviv University .
 
 
  10:05 - 11:00, Sasha Sodin (Tel Aviv)
 
 "Non-backtracking walks and the spectrum of random matrices"
 
  11:00 - 11:10 Coffee break
 
  11:10 - 12:10, Eyal Lubetzky (Tel - Aviv)
 
 "Non-backtracking random walks mix faster"
 
  (joint work with N.Alon, I.Benjamini, S.Sodin)

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 GAFA seminar: Friday, December 1, 2006, Schreiber 006,
                            Tel Aviv University

   10:05 - 11:05, Semyon Alesker (Tel Aviv)

  "A new proof of the Bourgain-Milman inequality"
(after G. Kuperberg).

   Coffee break, 11:05-11:15

   11:15 - 12:15,  Mark Rudelson (Columbia, Missouri)

   "The smallest singular number of a random matrix".
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    GAFA seminar, Friday, December 15, 2006, Schreiber 008,
              Tel Aviv University


   10:05 - 11:05, B. Mityagin (Columbus, Ohio)

   Asymptotics of instability zones of the Hill operator with
       trigonometric polynomial potentials.

   11:05 - 11:15 , Coffee break

   11:15 - 12:15, S. Mendelson (Haifa and Canberra)

   Subgaussian processes are well-balanced
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GAFA seminar, Friday, December 29, 2006, Schreiber 006,

              Tel Aviv University

 

   10:05 - 11:05, James Lee (Seattle, Washington)

   Vertex cuts, random walks, and dimension reduction

 
   11:05 - 11:15 , Coffee break

 
   11:15 - 12:15, Gady Kozma (Rehovot)

   The scaling limit of loop-erased random walk in three dimensions
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  GAFA seminar, Friday, January 12, 2007, Schreiber 006,
              Tel Aviv University

 

   10:45 - 11:45, William Johnson (College Station, TX)

   Eight 20+ year old problems in the geometry of Banach spaces

 

   11:45 - 12:00 , Coffee break

 

   12:00 - 13:00, Ofer Zeitouni (Haifa and Minneapolis, MN)

   Markov chains on an infinite dimensional simplex, the 
   symmetric group, and a conjecture of Vershik.
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  GAFA seminar, Friday, March 23, Schreiber 006,
                Tel Aviv University 


   10:05 - 11:05  Avi Wigderson (IAS, Princeton)

   The Power and Weakness of Randomness in Computation

   11:05 - 11:15  Coffee

   11:15 - 12:15 Semyon Alesker (Tel Aviv)

   A Fourier type transform on translation invariant valuations on convex
           sets.
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   GAFA seminar, Friday, April 27, Schreiber 006, 
                 Tel Aviv University


   10:05 - 11:05  Emanuel Milman (Rehovot)

   Isoperimetric inequalities for uniformly log-concave measures and uniformly convex bodies      (Joint work with Sasha Sodin)

   11:05 - 11:15  Coffee

   11:15 - 12:15 Victor Katsnelson (Rehovot)

   The Weyl and Minkowski polynomials