The 17th International Conference on

RANDOM STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS

Pittsburgh, PA, 27-31 July, 2015
Program
SUNDAY
4:00-6:00PM Pre-conference reception.
Cohon room of the Cohon University Center.


MONDAY
8:00-9:00 light breakfast
9:10-9:15 Opening Ceremony
Session FF1
9:15-9:55 Martin Dyer
The chromatic number of a random hypergraph
10:00-10:40 Ravi Kannan
The Planted Gaussian Problem
10:40-11:05 coffee break
Session FF2
11:05-11:45 Michael Krivelevich
On some Hamiltonicity problems in random graphs
11:50-12:30 Colin McDiarmid
Hamilton cycles in dense graphs
12:30-2:00 lunch break
Session FF3
2:00-2:40 Mike Molloy
Freezing in colourings of a random graph
2:45-3:25 Dhruv Mubayi
Packing problems in quasirandom hypergraphs
3:30-4:10 Boris Pittel
Asymptotic distribution of the numbers of vertices and arcs of the giant strong component in sparse random digraphs.
4:10-4:35 coffee break
Session FF4
4:35-5:15 Gregory Sorkin
VCG auction mechanism cost expectations and variances
5:20-6:00 Santosh Vempala
On the Complexity of Detecting Planted Solutions


TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 light breakfast
9:10-10:00 Eyal Lubetzky
Random walks on the random graph
10:00-10:30 coffee break
Sessions 1A, 1B, 1C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
10:30-10:55 John Wierman
On percolation threshold curves for 3-uniform hypergraphs
Florian Pfender
Semidefinite Programming and Ramsey Numbers
Dan Poole
On loose connectivity of a random hypergraph
11:00-11:25 Tobias Muller
The critical probability for confetti percolation equals 1/2
Po-Shen Loh
Directed paths: from Ramsey to Ruzsa and Szemeredi
Oliver Cooley
Smoothness for high-order connectivity in random hypergraphs
11:30-11:55 Amites Sarkar
Coverage and Percolation in the Secrecy Model
Deepak Bal
Monochromatic covers and partitions of (pseudo)random graphs
Christoph Koch
Evolution of high-order connected components in random hypergraphs
12:00-12:25 Małgorzata Sulkowska
Secretary problem for powers of paths via percolation
Mikhail Pyaderkin/ Andrei Raigorodskii
The independence numbers and the chromatic numbers of random subgraphs of Kneser's graphs and their generalizations
Felicia Rassmann
A positive temperature Phase Transition in Random Hypergraph 2-coloring
12:30-2:00 lunch break
2:00-2:50 Prasad Tetali
Discrete curvature: implications and applications
2:50 Conference Photo
3:00-3:30 coffee
Sessions 2A, 2B, 2C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
3:30-3:55 Hoi Nguyen
On eigenvalue repulsion of Erdos-Renyi random matrices
Gal Kronenberg
Packing, Counting and Covering Hamilton cycles in random directed graphs
Yuval Peled
On the phase transition in random simplicial complexes
4:00-4:25 Richard Darling
Rank deficiency in sparse random GF[2] matrices
Michelle Delcourt
Intersecting families in random settings
Kathrin Skubch
How does the core sit inside the mantle?
4:30-4:55 Sean O'Rourke
Singular values and vectors under random perturbation
Roman Glebov
Comparable pairs in families of sets
Philipp Sprüssel
The phase transition of graphs embeddable on a surface of positive genus
5:00-5:25 Philip Matchett Wood
The eigenvalues of a fixed matrix plus small random noise
Ares Méroueh
Lubell mass and induced partially ordered sets
Xing Shi Cai
The graph structure of a deterministic automaton chosen at random
Random Run


WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 light breakfast
9:10-10:00 Amin Coja-Oghlan
Belief Propagation
10:00-10:30 coffee break
Sessions 3A, 3B, 3C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
10:30-10:55 Xavier Pérez-Giménez
Strong-majority bootstrap percolation on regular graphs with low dissemination threshold
Dániel Korándi
Decomposing random graphs into few cycles and edges
Tuan Tran
A Density Turan Theorem
11:00-11:25 Michal Przykucki
On the maximum running time in graph bootstrap percolation
Caroline Terry
Discrete metric spaces: global structure, enumeration, and 0-1 laws
Clara Shikhelman
Many T copies in H-free graphs
11:30-11:55 Tamas Makai
Bootstrap percolation process on inhomogeneous random graphs
Kevin Costello
Integral Graphs are Very Rare
Anton Bernshteyn
The Local Action Lemma
12:00-12:25 Nikolaos Fountoulakis
A phase transition on the evolution of bootstrap percolation processes on preferential attachment graphs
Tibor Szabo
Half-random Maker-Breaker games
Krzysztof Choromanski
A tale of two properties of random graphs
12:30-2:00 lunch break
2:00-2:50 Ryan O'Donnell
Quantum Spectrum Estimation
3:00-5:00 excursion
5:00-6:00 cocktail
6:00-8:00 banquet


THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 light breakfast
9:10-10:00 Andrew Thomason
Containers and list colourings
10:00-10:30 coffee break
Sessions 4A, 4B, 4C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
10:30-10:55 Chaim Even Zohar
Random knots
Tim Garoni
The worm process for the Ising model is rapidly mixing
Louis DeBiasio
Arbitrarily oriented Hamilton cycles: an extension of Dirac's theorem to digraphs
11:00-11:25 Ke Wang
Random weighted projections, random quadratic forms and random eigenvectors
Andrew Beveridge
A Hitting Time formula for the Discrete Green's Function
Richard Mycroft
Tight cycles and regular slices in dense hypergraphs
11:30-11:55 Yen Do
Real roots of random polynomials
Antonio Blanca
Dynamics for the mean-field random-cluster model
Theodore Molla
Triangle factors in graphs with large minimum degree and no large independent sets
12:00-12:25 Mihyun Kang
The Minimum Bisection in the Planted Bisection Model
Thomas Hayes
Codes, Lower Bounds and Phase Transitions in the Symmetric Rendezvous Problem
Matthew Kwan
Bounded-degree spanning trees in randomly perturbed graphs
12:30-2:00 lunch break
2:00-2:50 Jozsef Balogh
On some applications of the container method
3:00-3:20 coffee
Sessions 5A, 5B, 5C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
3:20-3:45 Mindaugas Bloznelis
Modeling evolving affiliation networks via random intersection graph processes
Anshui Li
Treewidth of random geometric graphs
Will Perkins
Birthday Inequalities, Hard Spheres, and Independent Sets
3:50-4:15 Sang June Lee
CANCELLED
On a phase transition of the random intersection graph: Supercritical region
Milan Bradonjic
Scaling Laws for Maximum Coloring of Sparse Random Geometric Graphs
Zilin Jiang
Topological Method for the Colored Bárány’s Theorem
4:20-4:45 Katarzyna Rybarczyk
Distributed MST algorithms and min-degree graph processes.
Zizhen Chen
Bipartite Subgraphs of Random Geometric Graphs
Nor Jaafari
Random graph colorings
4:45-5:00 fresh air break
Sessions 6A, 6B, 6C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
5:00-5:25 Joel Spencer
The First Order World of Galton-Watson Trees -- Preliminary Report
Charles Burnette
Representing Random Permutations as a Product of Two Involutions
Abram N Magner
Combinatorics of a Sequence to Self-Avoiding Walk Channel
5:30-5:55 Aleksandr Matushkin
Universal Zero-One k-Law
Pawel Hitczenko
Random trees obtained from permutation graphs
Jan Volec
Properly colored and rainbow copies of graphs with few cherries
6:00-6:25 Maksim Zhukovskii
On infinite spectra of first-order properties
Anant Godbole
A Variety of Threshold Progressions Related to Coverings and Packings
Alexey Pokrovskiy
Rainbow matchings and rainbow connectedness


FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 light breakfast
9:10-10:00 Venkatesan Guruswami
Polar codes: Reliable communication with complexity polynomial in the gap to Shannon capacity
10:00-10:30 coffee break
Sessions 7A, 7B, 7C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
10:30-10:55 Guillem Perarnau
Connectivity in bridge-addable graph classes: the McDiarmid-Steger-Welsh conjecture
Matas Sileikis
Embedding the binomial random graph in the regular random graph
Mariana Olvera-Cravioto
Ranking algorithms on directed random networks
11:00-11:25 Amanda Redlich
Power laws and the power of two choices
Andrzej Dudek
On Hamilton Cycles in Random Hypergraphs
Aarti Singh
Column subset selection from partially observed data
11:30-11:55 Sergey Tilga
On distribution of small subgraphs in the Buckley--Osthus random graph model
Nemanja Skoric
Robust Hamiltonicity of random directed graphs
Pedro Vieira
Finding structures in random graphs economically
12:00-12:25 Laura Eslava
High degrees in random recursive trees
Adam Wagner
Applications of the Container Method
Charalampos Tsourakakis
Scalable Dense Subgraph Discovery
12:30-2:00 lunch break
Sessions 8A, 8B, 8C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
2:00-2:25 Olaf Parczyk
Spanning structures and universality in sparse random hypergraphs
Pawel Pralat
Almost all 5-regular graphs have a 3-flow
L.N. Iskhakov/M. S. Mironov
Diameter of a random distance graph
2:30-2:55 Rajko Nenadov
Almost-spanning universality in random graphs
Samuel Hetterich
On the chromatic number of random regular graphs
Kyle Luh
Random Matrices: l1 Concentration and Dictionary Learning with Few Samples
3:00-3:30 coffee
Sessions 9A, 9B, 9C
A - Rashid Auditorium B - Gates-Hilman room 4307 C - Gates-Hilman room 4405
3:30-3:55 Laura Florescu
Spectral thresholds in the stochastic block model
Lutz Warnke
The phase transition in Achlioptas processes
Daniel Freund
Contagious Sets in Dense Graphs
4:00-4:25 Oanh Nguyen
Anti-concentration inequalities for polynomials
Frank Mousset
Connectivity Thresholds for Bounded Size Rules
Hong Liu
The number of maximal sum-free subsets of integers
4:30-4:55 Daniel Kral
Finitely forcible limits of graphs
Sarka Petrickova
Number of maximal triangle-free graphs
Amanda Lohss
The Asymptotic distribution of Parameters in Random Weighted Staircase Tableaux


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