We are organizing a summer school about graph limits, groups and stochastic processes at the MTA Renyi Institute in Budapest. The school is aimed at PhD students and young researchers, but everyone is welcome to attend.


Picnic

We will have a picnic on Margaret Island, you can find the location on the map below.

Slides

You can find the slides for David Conlon's first talk here.
You can find the slides for Ágnes Backhausz's first talk here.
You can find the slides for László Lovász's talk here.

Program, transportation, accommodation

The schedule of the school can be found here. You can also find information on accommodation and transportation.

Confirmed lecturers

Tim Austin (UCLA): Measure concentration and the weak Pinsker property

Ágnes Backhausz (Eötvös Loránd University and Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest): On the almost eigenvectors of random regular graphs

David Conlon (University of Oxford): Applications of groups in graph theory

László Lovász (Eötvös Loránd University): Hyperfiniteness and local equivalence

Russell Lyons (Indiana University): Spanning trees, random walks, and graph limits

Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research): Random walks on amenable groups and compression exponents for embedding into Hilbert space

Benjamin Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Sofic groups and their actions


Application

The deadline for application has passed.
The school covers full lodging and lunch for all accepted participants. There is funding available to cover the registration fee (230 USD / 64 000 HUF). Please indicate in the application form if you wish to apply for this support. There is a very limited funding for travel support.


Accommodation

Accommodation will be available for accepted participants from the 26th of August (Saturday) until the 3rd of September (Sunday). The summer school will take place from the 28th of August (Monday) to the 2nd of September (Saturday).


Organizers

Miklós Abért (MTA Rényi Institute)

László Lovász (Eötvös Loránd University)

Balázs Szegedy (MTA Rényi Institute)

Bálint Virág (University of Toronto and MTA Rényi Institute)


Contact

Please send all correspondence to: budapest.summer.school _at_ renyi.mta.hu

Mailing address: MTA Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
Realtanoda u. 13-15, Budapest, Hungary, H-1053

Fax: +36 1 4838333

Local organizer: László Márton Tóth (MTA Renyi Institute/Central European University, Budapest)

Acknowledgement

The conference is supported by:

  • the MTA Rényi Lendület Groups and Graphs Research Group;
  • the MTA Rényi Institute Lendület Limits of Structures Research Group;
  • the ERC Consolidator grant Limits of Discrete Structures (No. 617747);
  • and the ERC Consolidator grant Asymptotic invariants of discrete groups, sparse graphs and locally symmetric spaces (No. 648017).