Recent Advances in Probability

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Decemeber 11 - 15, 2007

Programme
December 11

9:30am – 9:45am
Registration and inauguration

9:45am – 10:00am
Tea

10:00am – 12:00pm Chair: Alok Goswami
S. G. Dani
Embeddability of infinitely divisible probabilities on Lie groups
Riddhi Shah
Some properties of semistable measures on p-adic vector spaces
Estáte Khmaladze
Differentiation of sets in measure — "fold-up" derivatives   Slides

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Tea

12:30pm – 1:30pm Chair: B. V. Rao
S. R. S. Varadhan
Random walks in a random environment   Slides

1:30pm – 3:00pm
Lunch

3:00pm – 5:00pm Chair: Abhay G. Bhatt
Arka P. Ghosh
Optimal buffer size and dynamic rate control for a queueing network with reneging in heavy traffic   Slides
Vivek Borkar
Singular perturbations in ergodic control   Slides
Amarjit Budhiraja
Singular control with state constraints   Slides