Recent Advances in Probability

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Decemeber 11 - 15, 2007

The invited speakers are:

Siva Athreya
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
Blowup and conditionings of ψ-super Brownian exit measures

Gutti Jogesh Babu
Pennsylvania State University
Marginal quantiles: asymptotics for functions of order statistics   Slides

Antar Bandyopadhyay
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
Annealed and quenched IP for random walk in dynamic Markovian environment

Shankar Bhamidi
University of California, Berkeley
Flows on random networks: probabilistic and statistical problems   Slides

Rabi Bhattacharyya
University of Arizona
Geometry and distributions of shapes   Slides

Vivek Borkar
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Singular perturbations in ergodic control   Slides

Amarjit Budhiraja
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Singular control with state constraints   Slides

Arijit Chakraborty
Cornell University
Optimal stopping times with different information levels and with time uncertainty   Slides

S. G. Dani
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Embeddability of infinitely divisible probabilities on Lie groups

Bikramjit Das
Cornell University
QQ plots, random set and data from a heavy tailed distribution   Slides

Amites Dasgupta
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Strong and weak limit theorems for certain urn models   Slides

Partha Sarathi Dey
University of California, Berkeley
Limiting spectral distribution of random linear combination of representations at positive root system of classical Coxeter groups   Slides

Arka P. Ghosh
Iowa State University
Optimal buffer size and dynamic rate control for a queueing network with reneging in heavy traffic   Slides

Souvik Ghosh
Cornell University
Long strange segments and ruin probabilities   Slides

Yves Guivarc'h
Universitè de Rennes 1
Limit theorems for affine stochastic recursions, and application to random medium on the line

Remco van der Hofstad
Eindhoven University of Technology
Universal aspects of distances in power-law random graphs   Slides

Göran Högnäs
Åbo Akademi University
Life-times and quasi-stationary distributions of some stochastic population processes

Zbigniew Jurek
University of Wroclaw
Large s-selfdecomposable and selfdecomposable probability distributions

Rajeeva L. Karandikar
Cranes Software International Limited
On testing for randomness of a bitstream and applications to cryptography   Slides

Estáte Khmaladze
Victoria University of Wellington
Differentiation of sets in measure — "fold-up" derivatives   Slides

Arunava Mukherjea
University of South Florida
Skeletons, cyclicity, and products of i.i.d. random stochastic matrices

Parthanil Roy
ETH, Zurich
Ergodic theory, Abelian groups, and point processes associated with stable random fields

Arnab Sen
University of California, Berkeley
Satisfiability threshold for random 2-SAT model   Slides

Riddhi Shah
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Jawaharlal Nehru University
Some properties of semistable measures on p-adic vector spaces

Jan Swart
UTIA, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
The contact process seen from a typical infected site

Hermann Thorisson
University of Iceland
Mass-stationarity for random measures in Rd

Balint Toth
Technical University, Budapest
Self-interacting random motions in one dimension   Slides

David Wilson
Microsoft Research and University of Washington
Random-turn games, tug-of-war, and the infinity-Laplacian