Invited Speaker Schedule

Monday, July 6

Chaired by Tom Kurtz

9:00 - 9:50 am

Random Coin Tossing

Michael Keane

10:30 - 11:20 am

Scaling Structures and Determinism in Time Series

Colleen Cutler

11:30 - 12:20 am

Interface Dynamics from Stochastic Models

Tadahisa Funaki

Tuesday, July 7

Chaired by Anatole Joffe

8:30 - 9:20 am

Branching Processes, Random Trees,
and Interacting Particle Systems

Jean-Francois LeGall

10:00 - 10:50am

Speed of Convergence to Equilibrium for Diffusions
on Big Tori and Some Multiscale Phenomena

Rabi Bhattacharya

11:00 - 11:50 am

A Probabilistic Approach
to Some Explosive Semilinear Heat Equations

Alison Etheridge

Wednesday, July 8

Chaired by Louis Chen

8:30 - 9:20 am

Brownian Excursions, Random Trees, and Random Partitions

Jim Pitman

10:00 - 10:50 am

Recent Story on Spectral Gap
(Memorial Lecture to Xian-Yin Zhou)

Mu-Fa Chen

11:00 - 11:50 am

A Mean Field Approach to the Density
of Coalescing and Annihilating Random Walks
(Elsevier Lecture)

Harry Kesten

Thursday, July 9

Chaired by Krishna Athreya

8:30 - 9:20 am

Logarithmic Combinatorial Structures

Andrew Barbour

10:00 - 10:50 am

Stochastic Models : A Functional View

Rudolf Grubel

11:00 - 11:50 am

The Multifractal Spectrum
of Brownian Occupation Measure

Jay Rosen

Friday, July 10

Chaired by Cindy Greenwood

8:30 - 9:20 am

Measurement of Risk

David Heath

10:00 - 10:50 am

Non-Homogeneous Chains and
Convergence of Annealing Type Algorithms

C.C.Y. Dorea

11:00 - 11:50 am

Probabilistic Extensions of Dynamical Systems
and Their Applications

Michail Gordin