Recent Advances in Probability

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Decemeber 11 - 15, 2007

Programme
December 13

10:00am – 12:00pm Chair: Anish Sarkar
Göran Högnäs
Life-times and quasi-stationary distributions of some stochastic population processes
Siva Athreya
Blowup and conditionings of ψ-super Brownian exit measures
Balint Toth
Self-interacting random motions in one dimension   Slides

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Tea

12:30pm – 1:30pm Chair: Krishanu Maulik
Sidney Resnick
Heavy tail analysis and network modeling

1:30pm – 3:00pm
Lunch

3:00pm – 5:00pm Chair: Somesh Bagchi
Souvik Ghosh
Long strange segments and ruin probabilities   Slides
Parthanil Roy
Ergodic theory, Abelian groups, and point processes associated with stable random fields
Shankar Bhamidi
Flows on random networks: probabilistic and statistical problems   Slides

7:30pm – 9:30pm
Conference dinner