Schedule for: 24w5300 - Bootstrap Percolation and its Applications

Beginning on Sunday, April 14 and ending Friday April 19, 2024

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, April 14
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 21:00 Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, April 15
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:50 Rob Morris: Mini-course 1/3 (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:20 Ivailo Hartarsky: Mini-course 2/3 (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:45 - 15:15 Reka Szabo: Stability results for random monotone cellular automata (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:50 - 16:50 David Sivakoff: Supercritical neighborhood growth with one-dimensional nucleation (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:30 - 21:30 Brett Kolesnik: Open Problems 1/2 (TCPL 201)
Tuesday, April 16
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Ivailo Hartarsky: Mini-course 3/3 (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:35 - 11:25 Gábor Pete: Volatility in dynamical bootstrap percolation on regular trees (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
11:40 - 11:50 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
13:15 - 14:05 Tibor Szabó: Slow subgraph bootstrap percolation (TCPL 201)
14:10 - 15:00 Brett Kolesnik: Open Problems 2/2 (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Group Work (Other (See Description))
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, April 17
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Alexander Holroyd: Polluted bootstrap percolation (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:20 Augusto Teixeira: Two-neighbour bootstrap percolation is local (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, April 18
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Paul Balister: Uncomputability in Bootstrap Percolation (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Gal Kronenberg: Independent sets in random subgraphs of the hypercube (TCPL 201)
11:10 - 11:40 Zsolt Bartha: Critical thresholds in graph bootstrap percolation (TCPL 201)
11:40 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:10 - 15:00 Brett Kolesnik: Simulations & applications (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:20 Mihyun Kang: Majority bootstrap percolation on high-dimensional geometric graphs (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 20:50 Brett Kolesnik: Group discussion / panel Q&A (TCPL 201)
Friday, April 19
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Brett Kolesnik: Lightning talks (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)