Svante Janson 70 - A Conference in Probability Theory, 2-5 June 2025
Preliminary Programme
Monday 2 June (Humanistiska teatern)
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:40 Johan Tysk opens the conference on behalf of Uppsala University
9:40-10:00 Geoffrey Grimmett: Svante – a friend and collaborator
10:00-10:45 coffee and tea
10:45-11:15 Jim Fill:
A new fine-scale Berry–Esseen-type Gumbel-limit theorem for multivariate maxima
11:30-12.00 Christina Goldschmidt:
A large deviation principle for excursions of
a spectrally positive \alpha-stable Lévy process
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:45 Remco van der Hofstad: Barely supercritical configuration models
14:00-14:30 Jeff Steif: Poisson representable processes
14:30-15.15 coffee and tea
15:15-15:45 Michał Karoński: The best of Svante
16:00 Reception
Tuesday 3 June (Humanistiska teatern)
9:00-9:30 David Aldous: The critical beta-splitting random tree
9.45-10:15 James Norris: Long-time limits for a simple fragmentation-coagulation
process on an interval
10:15-10:45 coffee and tea
10:45-11:15 Cecilia Holmgren: Some collaborations with Svante
11:30-12:00 Klas Markström: Negative correlations and the Van den Berg-Kesten
inequality
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:45 Daniel Ahlberg: Mean field stable matchings
14:00-14:30 Tatyana Turova: Conditional CLT for Gibbs random variables
14:30-15:00 coffee and tea
15:00-15:30 Tom Britton: Epidemic models with one or several local group
structures
15:45-16:15 Sigurður Örn Stefansson: Scaling limit of random series-parallel networks
16:30-17:00 Ralph Neininger:
On solutions of the distributional Bellman operator
Wednesday 4 June (Ihresalen)
9:00-9:30 Oliver Riordan:
Cube-root concentration of the chromatic number of G(n,1/2) – sometimes
9:45-10:15 Tomasz Łuczak: Precious memories and sweet dreams
10:15-10-45 coffee and tea
10:45-11:15 Omer Angel: Permutons and algebraic properties
11:30-12:00 Erik Ekström: Playing with ghosts in stochastic games
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:45 Malwina Luczak:
Convergence to equilibrium for density dependent jump Markov processes
14:00-14:30 Ola Hössjer:
A mathematical framework for learning and knowledge acquisition
14:30-15:00 coffee and tea
15.00-15.30 Allan Gut: Elephant random walks
16:00 Excursion to
Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum
17:30 Conference Dinner at V-Dala Nation,
Sysslomansgatan 13.
Thursday 5 June (Ihresalen)
9:00-9.30 Kurt Johansson: Coulomb gas on a Jordan curve and a Jordan arc
9:45-10:15 James Martin: Matchings, games, and cores in random graphs
10:15-10:45 coffee and tea
10:45-11:15 Stephan Wagner:
Maximum protection number in simply generated trees
11:30-12:00 Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda:
Convergence of the Aldous-Broder Markov chain on high-dimensional regular graphs
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:45 Stanislav Volkov: Generalized one-dimensional forest fire models
14:00-14:30 Victor Falgas Ravry:
On the threshold for relative hyperbolicity in random right-angled Coxeter
groups
14:30-15:00 coffee and tea
15:00-15:30 Andrzej Ruciński:
Powers of Hamiltonian cycles in randomly augmented graphs
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