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

Table of contents

Préface
From Boltzmann to random matrices and beyond
Approximate tensorization of entropy at high temperature
Mixing time and local exponential ergodicity of the East-like process in ℤ d
An exposition to information percolation for the Ising model
Total variation cutoff in a tree
Discrete Ricci Curvature bounds for Bernoulli-Laplace and Random Transposition models
Spectral Graph Theory via Higher Order Eigenvalues and Applications to the Analysis of Random Walks
A note on exit time for anchored isoperimetry
Random walks under slowly varying moment conditions on groups of polynomial volume growth
Some simple but challenging Markov processes
Graph classes and the switch Markov chain for matchings
Computable upper bounds on the distance to stationarity for Jovanovski and Madras’s Gibbs sampler
Talking Across Fields: A Physicist’s Presentation of some Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
On quantitative convergence to quasi-stationarity