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Numéro Spécial : Conférence “Talking Across Fields” du 24 au 28 mars 2014 à l’Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse

Table of contents

Préface
Laurent Miclo
From Boltzmann to random matrices and beyond
Djalil Chafaï
Approximate tensorization of entropy at high temperature
Pietro Caputo; Georg Menz; Prasad Tetali
Mixing time and local exponential ergodicity of the East-like process in ℤ d
Paul Chleboun; Alessandra Faggionato; Fabio Martinelli
An exposition to information percolation for the Ising model
Eyal Lubetzky; Allan Sly
Total variation cutoff in a tree
Yuval Peres; Perla Sousi
Discrete Ricci Curvature bounds for Bernoulli-Laplace and Random Transposition models
Matthias Erbar; Jan Maas; Prasad Tetali
Spectral Graph Theory via Higher Order Eigenvalues and Applications to the Analysis of Random Walks
Shayan Oveis Gharan
A note on exit time for anchored isoperimetry
Thierry Delmotte; Clément Rau
Random walks under slowly varying moment conditions on groups of polynomial volume growth
Laurent Saloff-Coste; Tianyi Zheng
Some simple but challenging Markov processes
Florent Malrieu
Graph classes and the switch Markov chain for matchings
Martin Dyer; Haiko Müller
Computable upper bounds on the distance to stationarity for Jovanovski and Madras’s Gibbs sampler
James P. Hobert; Kshitij Khare
Talking Across Fields: A Physicist’s Presentation of some Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
Michel Caffarel
On quantitative convergence to quasi-stationarity
Persi Diaconis; Laurent Miclo