9 am - 6 pm • Location: Yeshiva University Museum, 15 W 16th ST, New York, NY 10011
This coming Fall, on Sunday, September 7 we will celebrate, at Yeshiva University’s campus in midtown Manhattan, a one-day conference to honor the many accomplishments and career of our dear colleague Sergey V. Buldyrev.
This conference celebrates the distinguished career of Dr. Sergey Buldyrev, Professor Emeritus of Yeshiva University, whose impactful work spans statistical physics and complexity in both physical and biological systems. His contributions include the theory of phase transitions, network theory, the resilience and stability of infrastructure networks, Econophysics, DNA sequence analysis, models of water, and more. The conference will showcase recent advances in these areas and foster interaction among researchers working in statistical physics, complex systems, and related disciplines. To honor Professor Buldyrev, join him and many of his colleagues and collaborators from around the world as they share their research, reflect on their collaborations with him over the years, and discuss the lasting influence he has had on their work and careers.
Speakers:
The schedule of the conference is the following:
| Time | Speaker | |
| Registration | 9:00-9:20 | |
| Welcome remarks | 9:20-9:30 | |
| Session 1 | 9:30-11:10 | Session Chair: Marian Gidea |
| 1 | 9:30-9:50 | Lea Santos (University of Connecticut) |
| 2 | 9:50-10:10 | Mikhail A. Anisimov (University of Maryland) |
| 3 | 10:10-10:30 | Feng Ding (Clemson University) |
| 4 | 10:30-10:50 | Eugene I. Shakhnovich (Harvard University) |
| 5 | 10:50-11:10 | Michael Shlesinger (Office of Naval Research) |
| Coffee break | 11:10-11:40 | |
| Session 2 | 11:40-1:00 | Session Chair: Neer Asherie |
| 6 | 11:40-12:00 | Shlomo Havlin (Bar-Ilan University) |
| 7 | 12:00-12:20 | Francesco Sciortino (Sapienza University of Rome) |
| 8 | 12:20-12:40 | Giancarlo Franzese (University of Barcelona) |
| 9 | 12:40-1:00 | Eduardo Lopez (George Mason University) |
| Lunch break | 1:00-2:20 | |
| Session 3 | 2:20-4:00 | Session Chair: Emil Prodan |
| 10 | 2:20-2:40 | G. M. Viswanathan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN ) |
| 11 | 2:40-3:00 | Paola Gallo (University Roma Tre) |
| 12 | 3:00-3:20 | Brigita Urbanc (Drexel University) |
| 13 | 3:20-3:40 | Francis W. Starr (Wesleyan University) |
| 14 | 3:40-4:00 | Anatoly Frenkel (Stony Brook University) |
| Coffee break | 4:00-4:30 | |
| Session 4 | 4:30-5:50 | Session Chair: Gabriel Cwilich |
| 15 | 4:30-4:50 | Nicholas Giovambattista (CUNY) |
| 16 | 4:50-5:10 | Nikolay V. Dokholyan (University of Virginia) |
| 17 | 5:10-5:30 | Gil Zussman (Columbia University) |
| 18 | 5:30-5:50 | Alexander Yu. Grosberg (NYU) |
| Closing remarks | 5:50-6:10 | Sergey Buldyrev (Yeshiva University) |
The titles and abstracts for the talks can be found here Sergey_Buldyrev_Conference_Schedule_and_Abstracts_0.docx
The conference will be followed by a banquet.
If you have questions, please contact us at: cwilich@yu.edu and marian.gidea@yu.edu