NEWS
2000/2001
Issue No 10
2000 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
Associated Workshop: RAND-APX (Randomized and
Approximate Computation)
17-19 September
Organiser: Mark Jerrum (Edinburgh)
RAND-APX is a Thematic Network funded by the EU Esprit initiative, with sites in Bonn, Edinburgh, Leeds, Lund, Oxford, Paris and the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot. The Network holds one or two workshops each year, which are open to those outside the Group.
The theme of the Workshop was ‘statistical physics’ and two of the four invited speakers were physicists. The invited speakers were:
- Marek Biskup (Microsoft, Redmond, USA) – Statistical
mechanics with complex weights: rigorous theory of partition function zeros
- Roman Kotecký (Prague) – The mathematics of phase
transitions
- Andrew Stuart (Warwick) – Algorithms for collision
detection amongst spheres
- Prasad Tetali (Georgia Tech.) – Poincaré, Cheeger and log-Sobolev
In all, there were 23 participants, including five graduate students.
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Participants:
Berenbrink, Petra, University of Warwick
Biskup, Marek, Microsoft Research
Buhmann, Joachim, University of Bonn
Cooper, Colin, University of London
Dyer, Martin, Leeds University
Goldberg, Leslie, University of Warwick
Gudmundsson, Joachim, Lund Universitt
Hauptmann, Mathias, University of Bonn
Haxell, Penny, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jerrum, Mark, University of Edinburgh
Karpinski, Marek, Universität Bonn
Kelk, Steven, University of Warwick
Kotecky, Roman, Charles University
Lingas, Andrzej, Lund University
Luczak, Malwina, Oxford University
Santha, Miklos, Universite Paris-Sud
Scott, Alexander, University College, London
Stuart, Andrew, University of Warwick
Tetali, Prasad, Georgia Tech/Microsoft Research
Verhoeven, Yann, Univ Paris Sud Orsay
Vigoda, Eric, University of Edinburgh
Wegner, Peter, University of Bonn
Welsh, Dominic, Merton College, Oxford
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