STAR Workshop on Random Graphs 2018

A two-day workshop focused on random graphs and related topics took place on the campus of Radboud University Nijmegen on the 12th and 13th of April 2018.

STAR Workshop on Random Graphs group photo

Programme

For abstracts and further information, consult the workshop booklet.

Thursday, 12 April

10:00 - 10:20		Welcome coffee/tea
10:20 - 10:30		Opening by Lutgarde Buydens (Dean of FNWI)
10:30 - 11:30	Leslie Goldberg	The Moran process: An algorithm modelling the spread of genetic mutations in populations
11:30 - 11:40		Break
11:40 - 12:30		Two short talks (Betken, Hoorn)
12:30 - 13:30		Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Eric Cator	The contact process on random graphs: a new approach
14:30 - 14:55		One short talk (Ritter)
14:55 - 15:30		Coffee/tea break (conference photo first)
15:30 - 16:30	Colin McDiarmid	Sampling from a high modularity graph
16:45 - 19:00		Borrel or bicycle ride
19:00 -		Dinner reception

Friday, 13 April

10:00 - 10:30		Welcome coffee/tea
10:30 - 11:30	Patrice Ossona de Mendez	Structural convergence and H-colorings of random graphs
11:30 - 11:40		Break
11:40 - 12:30		Two short talks (Šileikis, Bonnet)
12:30 - 13:30		Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Frank den Hollander	Exploration on dynamic networks
14:30 - 14:55		One short talk (Kumar)
14:55 - 15:15		Coffee/tea break
15:15 - 15:40		One short talk (Cai)
15:40 - 16:40	Bruce Reed	The Structure of A Random Graph from a Hereditary Family
16:45 -		Closing borrel

Participants

The list of registered participants: Sven Polak (Amsterdam), Hans Maassen (Nijmegen), Bas Terwijn (Nijmegen), Xing Shi Cai (Uppsala), Stijn Cambie (Nijmegen), Lena Yuditsky (Karlsruhe), Pim van der Hoorn (Northeastern), Wouter Cames van Batenburg (Nijmegen/ULB), Carina Betken (Osnabrück), Stephan Bussmann (Osnabrück), Matas Šileikis (Czech Academy of Sciences), Max Hahn-Klimroth (Frankfurt), Rémi de Joannis de Verclos (Nijmegen), Pankaj Kumar (Copenhagen Business School), Matthias Reitzner (Osnabrück), László Kozma (TU Eindhoven), Hassane Bouzahir (Ibn Zohr), David Sabonis (TU Munich/Copenhagen), Carla Groenland (Oxford), Daniel Ritter (Munich), Gilles Bonnet (Ruhr University Bochum), William Weimin Yoo (Leiden), Markus Schepers (Groningen), Henk Don (Nijmegen), Ben Hansen (Groningen), Nicolas Grelier (IMT Atlantique), Davis Issac (MPI Saarbrücken), Aida Abiad (Maastricht), Eric Cator (Nijmegen), Leslie Ann Goldberg (Oxford), Frank den Hollander (Leiden), Colin McDiarmid (Oxford), Patrice Ossona de Mendez (CNRS), Bruce Reed (CNRS/IMPA), Ross Kang (Nijmegen), Tobias Müller (Groningen).

Sponsors and organisation

The meeting was made possible through the support of the Netherlands mathematics cluster "Stochastics – Theoretical and Applied Research" (STAR). It followed similar events in 2012, 2015, and 2017.

The organisers were Ross Kang and Tobias Müller.