Conference Program

(Venue: Lecture Hall FH8, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, 1040 Wien)


Monday, June 28, 2010



08:00-09:30:     Registration

09:30-10:00:     Opening

10:00-11.00:     Noga Alon. Color Coding: Variations and Applications

11.00-11.30:     Coffee Break

11:30-12:00:     James Allen Fill.
                        Distributional Convergence fot the Number of Symbol
                        Comparisons used by Quick Sort.
12:00-12:30:    Conrado Martinez and Uwe Roesler.
                        Partial Quicksort and Quickpartitionsort.
12:30-13:00:    Matthew Roberts.
                       Almost sure asymptotics for the random binary  search tree.

13:00-15:00:     Lunch Break

15:00-15:30:     David Laferrière, Daniel Panario and Jason Gao.
                        Asymptotics of Decomposable Combinatorial Structures of
                        Alg-Log Type With Positive Log Exponent.
15:30-16:00:    Johannes Morgenbesser.
                        Square root singularities of infinite systems of functional
                        equations.
16:00-16:30:    Mark Daniel Ward.
                        Asymptotic Rational Approximation To Pi: Resolving An
                        „Unsolved Problem“ Posed By Herbert Wilf

16:30-17:00:     Coffee Break

17:00-17:30:     Carlos Hoppen.
                         The analysis of a prioritised probabilistic algorithm to find
                         large induced forests in reguar graphs with large girth.
17:30-18:00:     Uriel Feige and Dorit Ron.
                         Finding hidden cliques in linear time.
18:00-18:30:     Aris Anagnostopoulos, Clement Dombry, Nadine Guillotin-Plantard,
                         Ioannis Konotoyiannis and Eli Upfal.
                         Stochastic Analysis of the $k$-Server Problem on the Circle.

19:00                Welcome Reception



Tuesday, June 29, 2010

09:30-10:30:     Yuliy Baryshnikov. Search on the brink of chaos.

10:30-11:00:     Coffee Break

11:00-11:30:     Philippe Flajolet, Mathieu Roux and Brigitte Vallee.
                         Digital Trees and Memoryless Sources .
11:30-12:00:    Svante Janson.
                        Renewal theory in analysis of tries and strings.
12:00-12:30:    Guy Louchard, Svante Janson and Anders Martin-Löf.
                        The maximum of Brownian motion with with parabolic drift.
12:30-13:00:    Alexander Gnedin, Alexander Iksanov and Alexander Marynych.
                        The Bernoulli sieve.

13:00-15:00:     Lunch Break

15:00-15:30:    Yann Ponty and Olivier Bodini.
                        Multi-dimensional Boltzmann Sampling of Languages.
15:30-16:00:     Dominique Gouyou-Beauchamps and Cyril Nicaud.
                        Random Generation Using Binomial Approximations.
16:00-16:30:     Lucas Gerin.
                        Random sampling of lattice paths with constraints, via transportation.

16:30-17:30:     Poster Session & extended Coffee Break

17:30-18:00:     Antoine Genitrini and Bernhard Gittenberger.
                        No Shannon effect on probability distributions on Boolean functions
                        induced by random expressions.
18:00-18:30:     Lev Gordeev and Andreas Weiermann.
                        Phase transitions in proof theory.


Wednesday, June 30, 2010


09:30-10:30:     Peter Winkler. The Automaton as Statistician
       
10:30-11:00:     Coffee Break

11:00-11:30:     Thomas Feierl.
                        Asymptotics for Walks in a Weyl chamber of Type B.
11:30-12:00:    Cédric Loi, Coumède Paul-Henry and Jean Francon.
                        A symbolic method to compute the probability distribution
                        of the number of pattern occurences in random texts
                        generated by stochastic OL-systems.
12:00-12:30:    Cyril Banderier and Pierre Nicodème.
                        Bounded discrete excursions.
12:30-13:00:    Philippe Jacquet, Charles Knessel and Wojciech Szpankowski.                                   
                        Counting Markov Types.


Thursday, July 1, 2010


09:30-10:30:     Oliver Riordan. Percolation on graphs.

10:30-11:00:     Coffee Break

11:00-11:30:     Guillaume Chapuy, Eric Fusy, Omer Gimenez and Marc Noy.
                         On the diameter of random planar graphs.
11:30-12:00:     Jason Gao and Gilles Schaeffer.
                         The distribution of the number of small cuts in a random
                         planar.
12:00-12:30:     Mohammed Abdullah, Colin Cooper and Alan Frieze.
                         Cover time of a random graph with given degree.

12:30-13:00:    Veronika Kraus.
                        The degree distribution in unlabelled 2-connected graph
                        families.

13:00-15:00:     Lunch Break

15:00-15:30:     Luc Devroye, Omar Fawzi and Nicolas Fraiman.
                        The height of scaled attachment random recursive trees.
15:30-16:00:     Alois Panholzer and Georg Seitz.
                        Ordered increasing k-trees: Introduction and analysis of a
                        preferential attachment network model.
16:00-16:30:    Götz Olaf Munsonius.
                        The total Steiner k-distance for b-ary recursive trees and
                        linear recursive trees.

16:30-17:00:     Coffee Break

17:30-18:00:     Stephan Wagner.
                         On unary nodes in tries.
18:00-18:30:     Philippe Jacquet and Paul Muhlethaler.
                         Geometric Bucket Trees:  Analysis of Linear Bucket Trees.
18:30-19:00:     Michael Fuchs.
                         The variance for partial match retrievals in k-dimensional
                         bucket digital trees

19:30                Conference Dinner at „Heuriger Fuhrgasslhuber“

22.30-23.00:     Buses will bring participants back to the centre of Vienna


Friday, July 2, 2010


10:00-11:00:     Daniel Panario. Polynomials over Finite Fields: Algorithms and
                         Randomness

11:00-11:15:     Coffee Break

11:15-11:45:     Jérémie Lumbroso.
                         An optimal cardinality estimation algorithm based on order
                         statistics and its full analysis.
11:45-12:15:     Jakub Kozik.
                        Dynamic Threshold Strategy for Universal Best Choice
                        Problem.
12:15-12:45:    Yun Kuen Cheung and Mordecai Golin.
                        Analyzing a Weighted Digital Sum Variant.
12:45-13:15:     Bergfinnur Durhuus and Soeren Eilers.
                        Combinatorial aspects of pyramids of one-dimensional pieces
                        of fixed integer length.

13:15-15:00:     Lunch Break

15:00-15:30:     Páidi Creed and Mary Cryan.
                        The number of Euler tours of random d-in/d-out graphs.
15:30-16:00:     Kunal Dutta and C.R. Subramanian.
                        Induced acyclic subgraphs in random digraphs: Improved
                        bounds.
16:00-16:30:    Thomas Fernique and Damien Regnault.
                        Stochastic flips on dimertilings.

16:30-17:00:     Coffee Break

17:30-18:00:     Stephen Chestnut and Manuel Lladser.
                         Occupancy distributions in Markov chains via Doeblin‘s ergodicity
                        coefficient.
18:00-18:30:    Jacek Cichon and Marek Klonowski.
                        A Note on Invariant Random Variables.

               Closing of Conference