Recent Advances in Probability

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Decemeber 11 - 15, 2007

Programme
December 12

10:00am – 12:00pm Chair: Gopal Krishna Basak
Rabi Bhattacharyya
Geometry and distributions of shapes   Slides
Gutti Jogesh Babu
Marginal quantiles: asymptotics for functions of order statistics   Slides
Rajeeva L. Karandikar
On testing for randomness of a bitstream and applications to cryptography   Slides

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Tea

12:30pm – 1:30pm Chair: Antar Bandyopadhyay
David Aldous
Probability and spatial networks

1:30pm – 3:00pm
Lunch

3:00pm – 5:00pm Chair: Rahul Roy
Remco van der Hofstad
Universal aspects of distances in power-law random graphs   Slides
David Wilson
Random-turn games, tug-of-war, and the infinity-Laplacian
Jan Swart
The contact process seen from a typical infected site