Harry Crane (Rutgers University) (Two talks)

                                                                                Probabilistic Symmetry and Network Models, I & II  

Abstract: Talk 1: Basic symmetries and network sampling. The first lecture focuses
on exchangeability and sampling considerations in network modeling. After introducing
some well known random graph models, I compare structural results for graphon models
(Aldous, 1979; Hoover, 1980; Kallenberg, 2006) and edge exchangeable models (Crane-
Dempsey, 2018). I discuss qualitative similarities and differences between these 
cases and show how the main results extend naturally to higher-order structures and 
more general invariance principles (Crane-Dempsey, 2019; Crane-Towsner, 2018).

Talk 2: Dynamic network models. The second lecture focuses on network dynamics. 
In this setting, I discuss graph-valued Markov process models that satisfy a certain 
Markov projectivity condition. These processes evolve on the state space of graphs 
with countable vertex set in such a way that the process induced by projecting to 
any subset of vertices preserves the Markov property. I discuss a general structural 
result for processes of this type (Crane, 2017; Crane-Towsner, 2019+) and then 
present a special subclass of combinatorial Levy processes, for which additional 
results are known (Crane, 2018).

Many questions about the material in both lectures remain open. I will highlight some
such problems throughout the lectures.

Greg Lawler (University of Chicago) (Two talks)

      Talk 1: Complex Gaussian Fields and (Brownian Motion and Random Walk) Loop Soups
    

Abstract: There has been a lot of work relating Gaussian fields and their squares with 
random walks and Brownian motion. Among the tools are the Brownian and random walk loop 
soups. I will give an introduction from the perspective of discrete time loop measures 
and describe an improvement of a result of Trujillo Ferreras and myself on the convergence 
of random walk loops to Brownian loops. This is related to the convergence of the square 
of a discrete Gaussian field to the square of the continuous field. This is joint work 
with Peter Panov.

      Talk 2: Brownian Loops, Multiple Radial Schramm-Lowner Evolution and Dyson Brownian Motion 

Abstract: There are many models from statistical physics that give measures to configurations 
of interacting or non-self-intersecting curves. The limit objects for the curves are often 
Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) paths and it is not obvious on the continuous level how 
to tilt individual paths to get interacting paths. I will discuss how the Brownian loop 
measure helps describe this. I will then discuss a recent result with Vivian Healey showing 
how multiple radial SLE paths lead naturally to a driving function that is Dyson Brownian motion.

Louis-Pierre Arguin (City University of New York)	

	Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals

Abstract: cIn a seminal paper in 2012, Fyodorov & Keating proposed a series of 
conjectures describing the statistics of large values of zeta in short intervals of 
the critical line. In particular, they relate these statistics to the ones of 
log-correlated Gaussian fields. In this lecture, I will present recent results that
answer many aspects of these conjectures. Connections to problems in number theory will
also be discussed. 

 
Jasmine Foo (University of Minnesota)

   Statistial Models of Cancer Evolution

Abstract: The process of cancer initiation from healthy epithelial tissue can be modeled using 
stochastic spatial processes. In particular, cancer is often caused by genetic mutations which 
confer a fitness advantage to a cell, leading to a clonal expansion of its progeny through the 
tissue. In this talk I will discuss some models of this evolutionary process, and explore how 
tissue architecture may impact cancer initiation.

Janko Gravner (University of California, Davis)

       Long-range Bootstrap Percolation