Recent Advances in Probability

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Decemeber 11 - 15, 2007

Programme
December 14

10:00am – 12:00pm Chair: Arup Bose
Arunava Mukherjea
Skeletons, cyclicity, and products of i.i.d. random stochastic matrices
Partha Sarathi Dey
Limiting spectral distribution of random linear combination of representations at positive root system of classical Coxeter groups   Slides
Zbigniew Jurek
Large s-selfdecomposable and selfdecomposable probability distributions

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Tea

12:30pm – 1:30pm Chair: S. Ramasubramanian
K. R. Parthasarathy
Testing hypotheses in the quantum world, Neyman – Pearson revisited

1:30pm – 3:00pm
Lunch

3:00pm – 5:00pm Chair: Probal Chaudhuri
Bikramjit Das
QQ plots, random set and data from a heavy tailed distribution   Slides
Arijit Chakraborty
Optimal stopping times with different information levels and with time uncertainty   Slides
Arnab Sen
Satisfiability threshold for random 2-SAT model   Slides