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A conference in honor of Persi Diaconis' 60thbirthday will be held at the University ofCalifornia at San Diego, starting Thursdayafternoon, January 27, 2005, and ending in theearly evening of Saturday, January 29, 2005.Click here for a listing of Persi Diaconis'papers. Click here for a listing of his collaborators.
The speakers will include Persi Diaconis, David Aldous, Ron Graham, SusanHolmes, Barry Mazur, Robin Pemantle, Eric Rains, Laurent SaloffCoste, andDonald Ylvisaker.
There will be a conference dinner on Friday evening, January 28, 2005, at theUCSD Faculty Club. The cost is $25 per person. If you plan to attend the dinner,please write a check for $25 times the number of people in your party, and send it toAnita McKee, Department of Mathematics, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La JollaCA 920930112, USA. Your check should be made payable to UC Regents andshould arrive before Wednesday, January 12, 2005.
If you are interested in attending the conference please send email to RobertGuralnick ([email protected]) and Anita McKee ([email protected]); pleaseindicate your dates of attendance.
We have received funding from various sources and in particular from the NationalSecurity Agency. We hope to be able to at least partially fund the travel expenses ofpostdocs and graduate students who attend the conference. If you are interested inapplying for such funding, please mention that in your registration email.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, January 27, 2005Natural Sciences Building, Room 1205
1:302:00 p.m.: Registration2:052:15 p.m.: Welcoming remarks2:153:15 p.m.: Susan Holmes, "Even Odds"3:154:00 p.m.: Refreshment Break4:005:00 p.m.: Ron Graham, "Unfinished Business"
Friday, January 28, 2005Natural Sciences Building, Room 1205
9:3010:30 a.m.: Eric Rains, "Random Matrix Perturbations". Two papers relatedto this talk can be obtained by clicking here and here (Section 2 is most relevant).10:3011:15 a.m.: Refreshment Break11:15 a.m.12:15 p.m.: Laurent SaloffCoste, "Some Problems Concerning
Gaussian Convolution Semigroups on Compact Groups".12:151:45 p.m.: Lunch Break (on your own)1:452:45 p.m.: Donald Ylvisaker, "Lotteries". Slides from the talk file 1, file 2,
file 3.2.453:30 p.m.: Refreshment Break3:305:00 p.m.: Open session to discuss connections with Diaconis' work.
Contributions by Jason Fulman, Hani Doss, Martin Hildebrand, Jim Pitman. 5:306:30 p.m.: No host bar, UCSD Faculty Club6:30 p.m.: Conference Dinner, UCSD Faculty Club ($25 per person
prepayment required by January 12, 2005, see above).
Saturday, January 29, 2005Center Hall, Room 115 (note change of room from that on Thursday andFriday)
9:3010:30 a.m.: Robin Pemantle, "Multivariate asymptotics (why probabilistsneed to know math)". For an abstract, click here.10:3011:00 a.m.: Refreshment Break11:00 a.m.12:00 noon: Barry Mazur, "It is a Story" Provisional notes from
Mazur's talk are available by clicking here. These will be updated with referencesand other items at a later date.12:00 noon2:00 p.m.: Lunch Break (on your own)2:003:00 p.m.: David Aldous, "Constrained Ising Models: From One
Dimensional Theory to Storage in Ad Hoc Networks"3:003:30 p.m.: Break3:304:30 p.m.: Persi Diaconis, "A Few of My Favorite Things"
PARTICIPANTS
SHUTTLE TRANSPORTATION TO/FROM HOTELS For information on shuttles to and from the hotels, click here.
PARKING INFORMATION Parking permits are required in order to park on campus on Thursday and Friday.One day permits (for yellow and green spaces only) costing $6 per day are availablefrom a machine at the Gilman Drive information kiosk. The Gilman Drive kiosk ison the right as you enter campus from the south on Gilman Drive. There aremachines in some other parking lots on campus. Permits can also be obtained fromthe parking office in the Gilman Parking Structure. For a map showing parkingareas click here. Parking lots P102 and P103 at the South end of campus nearRevelle College are closest to the conference site on Thursday, Friday the NaturalSciences Building. Parking lot P602 or the Gilman Parking Structure are near (12blocks from) Center Hall, the conference location on Saturday.
HOTEL INFORMATION
Three hotels have agreed to special rates for the conference. Please makereservations directly with the hotel of your choosing.
Radisson Hotel La Jolla 3299 Holiday Court La Jolla, CA 92037 (858) 4524010 direct (858) 4539909 fax Individual reservations can be made by calling the Hotel directly at (858) 4535500,or by calling Radisson Reservations at (800) 3333333. Please reference "DiaconisConference" to receive the group rate. Rates are $129 for a single room plus $10 perperson (for up to three extra persons). The hotel is within walking distance ofcampus (it is a fairly good walk and somewhat uphill). There are a limited numberof rooms at this rate, so participants are encouraged to make early reservations.
Marriott Residence Inn $129 (+ tax) per night. 8901 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 92037 USA Phone: 18585871770 Fax: 18585520387 TollFree: 18008761778 Please reference "Diaconis Conference" to get this rate. This hotel is within walkingdistance although it is a good walk and mostly uphill.
Del Mar Inn $69 (+ tax) per night (SundayThursday nights), $99 (+ tax) per night(Friday and Saturday nights). 720 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, CA 92014 Local (858) 7559765; Toll free 1 800 4514515 Ask for the UCSD rate (mention Mathematics if they ask for a department and ifasked, the mail code for the Mathematics department is 0112). This is the furthestaway, but they have shuttles to campus. It is very close to the ocean.
FURTHER LOCAL INFORMATION
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Joe Buhler, Steve Freeman, Ron Graham, Robert Guralnick (chair), Susan Holmes,Igor Pak, Charles Radin, Laurent SaloffCoste, Ruth Williams, Donald Ylvisaker. Acknowledgements: The artwork at the head of this page was kindly provided byHenry Segerman. Google links for participants were provided by Jim Pitman.
Last updated: February 5, 2005
