Recent Advances in Probability
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Decemeber 11 - 15, 2007
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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