This event is the second in the Bath Probability Lectures series, following an excellent first course in 2025 from Tom Hutchcroft. The central mini-course this year will be given by Justin Salez, and will be accessible to PhD students and early-career researchers, while also presenting recent developments and open problems of interest to senior researchers. It will be complemented by invited talks by experts in random walks, percolation theory and statistical mechanics.
Draft programme
Monday 7 September
9:45-10:15 Coffee and welcome
10:15-12:15 Justin Salez - Recent progress on the cutoff phenomenon 1
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:50 Perla Sousi - Capacity for branching random walks and percolation
15:00-15:50 Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan - The random walk on the exclusion process in dimensions 鈮� 5
Tuesday 8 September
9:45-10:15 Coffee
10:15-12:15 Justin Salez - Recent progress on the cutoff phenomenon 2
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:50 Christina Goldschmidt - The stable trees revisited
15:00-15:50 J煤lia Komj谩thy - How communities help epidemics survive
15:50-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:05 Pierre-Fran莽ois Rodriguez - Switching and the one-arm exponent for the GFF in three dimensions
19:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 9 September
9:45-10:15 Coffee
10:15-12:15 Justin Salez - Recent progress on the cutoff phenomenon 3
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Thursday 10 September
9:45-10:15 Coffee
10:15-12:15 Justin Salez - Recent progress on the cutoff phenomenon 4
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:50 Tyler Helmuth - Off-giant criticality in the mean-field arboreal gas
15:00-15:50 Hugo Vanneuville - The Ising model, noise sensitivity, and considerations regarding curvature
15:50-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:05 G谩bor Pete - Persistence of crossings in dynamical planar percolation
Friday 11 September
9:45-10:15 Coffee
10:15-11:05 Paul Dario - Delocalisation for the low temperature long-range Gaussian chain
11:15-12:05 Ahmed Bou-Rabee - Sharpness and critical scaling of parking
Travel and accommodation
The workshop will be held on the VR成人视频 campus. Bath Spa train station is located in the city centre, and is well served by national train connections, including from London, where there are easy connections to the Eurostar. We encourage participants to use low-carbon transport where possible. For those who do need to fly, the nearest airports are Bristol airport (approx 50 minutes by bus to Bath city centre) and London Heathrow airport (approx 1h45 by train or 2h by bus).
Getting to campus: The University campus is located up a large, steep hill. The walk to and from campus is very nice, especially in good weather, but much harder work on the way up the hill (to campus) than down (from campus to the city). There are regular buses, e.g. the U1, between the city and campus. It may be helpful to install the First bus app on your smartphone, both for buying tickets and tracking buses.
During your stay
Wifi: Eduroam is available on campus. If you do not have access to eduroam, you can use the "WiFi Guest" network; you will need to register, and it is slower than Eduroam.
Lunch: Lunch will be provided Monday to Thursday.
City of Bath: The city is generally safe to walk around and there are many nice restaurants and pubs to try. It is a fairly small town, so you can do most things on foot. Bath is a Roman town, hence it has a beautiful architecture and there are several places you may wish to visit, such as the Abbey, the Circus, the Royal Crescent or the Roman baths.
Registration
Registration is now closed.
The organisers would like to thank EPSRC, SAMBa and the Heilbronn Institute for their generous funding of this event.