[DMANET] Conference on Mixing Times, ICTP, 5-9 May 2025

Dear all,

This is the first announcement of the upcoming conference: "Mixing times between Probability, Computer Science and Statistical Physics", to be held in Trieste, ICTP<https://www.ictp.it/>, in the week May 5-9, 2025.

Some more information about the topics and the invited speakers are reported below. Please check the dedicated website<https://indico.ictp.it/event/10831/overview> for further information, and do not hesitate to share this message with anyone who might be interested.

Grants & registration. A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee, but registration is required.

Best regards,
the organizing committee


Topics

* Theory of Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods
* Efficient sampling
* Random walks in random environment
* Interacting particle systems
* Concentration of measure
* Phase transitions

Mini-course Speakers
P. SOUSI, Cambridge, UK
A. STAUFFER, King's College London, UK

Regular Speakers
A. CARACENI, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Z. CHEN, GeorgiaTech, USA
S. CHEWI, Yale, USA
A. CIPRIANI, University College London, UK
B. DUBAIL, KTH, Sweden
D. ELBOIM, Princeton, USA
S. GANGULY, Berkeley, USA
N. GANTERT, TUM, Germany
I. HARTARSKY, CNRS / Lyon 1, France
M. JARA, IMPA, Brazil*
K. LIU, MIT, USA
E. NESTORIDI, Stony Brooks, USA
G. PERARNAU, UPC, Spain
A. SARKOVIC, Cambridge, UK
D. SCHMID, Columbia, USA
A. SINCLAIR, Berkeley, USA*
A. SHAPIRA, MAP5, France
A. SLY, Princeton, USA
C. TONINELLI, CNRS/Paris Dauphine, France
*To be confirmed

Organizing Committee
P. Caputo, Roma Tre, Italy
M. Quattropani, Roma Tre, Italy
J. Salez, Paris Dauphine & PSL, France
F. Sau, Università di Milano, Italy
V. Silvestri, Sapienza, Italy
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