13. Probability and Statistics

Classical probability theory, limit theorems and large deviations. Combinatorial probability and stochastic geometry. Stochastic analysis. Random fields and multicomponent systems. Statistical inference, sequential methods and spatial statistics. Applications.


INVITED SPEAKERS


Anton Bovier
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany
Metastability: a potential theoretic approach
Friday, August 25, 15:00-15:45

Raphael Cerf   
Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
On Ising droplets
Tuesday, August 29, 17:00-17:45

Amir Dembo         
Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Simple random covering, disconnection, late and favorite points
Thursday, August 24, 17:00-17:45

Peter Donnelly       
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Modelling genes: mathematical and statistical challenges in genomics
Wednesday, August 30, 17:00-17:45

David Elworthy      
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Geometric stochastic analysis on path spaces
Monday, August 28, 17:00-17:45

Jianqing Fan    
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Statistical challenges with high dimensionality in knowledge discovery
Saturday, August 26, 16:00-16:45

Alice Guionnet      
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
Random matrices and enumeration of maps
Friday, August 25, 16:00-16:45

Steven Lalley 
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The weak/strong survival transition on trees and nonamenable graphs
Thursday, August 24, 18:00-18:45

Yves  Le Jan
Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
New developments in stochastic dynamics
Monday, August 28, 18:00-18:45

Peter McCullagh     
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Stochastic classification models
Wednesday, August 30, 16:00-16:45

Andrei Okounkov     
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Random partitions and instanton counting
Tuesday, August 29, 15:00-15:45

Dominique Picard
Université Paris 7, Paris, France
Estimation in inverse problems and second-generation wavelets
Saturday, August 26, 15:00-15:45

Wendelin  Werner        
Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Conformally invariant loops
Tuesday, August 29, 16:00-16:45