Sharp Thresholds for Mixing Times
December 20 to December 23, 2004
AIM Research Conference Center, Palo Alto, CA

Organizers:
Amir Dembo, Yuval Peres, and David Revelle

Workshop topics:
This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will address basic
questions about the mixing times of Markov chains.  The mixing times
of Markov chains are fundamental parameters that encode key geometric
information about the chain and at the same time have a wide variety
of applications. In the last twenty years, computer scientists and
probabilists have brought new perspectives and methods to this study.
By bringing together experts on a variety of different techniques,
we hope that perhaps some of them can be combined or modified to obtain
the necessary insights into the problems. 

Application deadline:
September 20, 2004  

For more information:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/mixingtimes.html