Welcome to the second
ATHENS Pr OBABILITY
COLLOQUIUM
Saturday May 31, 2014
Math Dept,
University of Athens
We wish to
thank all the participants for making the meeting so successful, and the
speakers for their wonderful presentations. Some pictures from the three talks
can be found here.
Following last year’s success, we decided to continue with this
one-day event, centered around three top-quality talks
in probability and its interface with other active areas of current research
activity. The main aim is to bring together all near-Athens-based researchers
in probability and related areas of mathematics and applications.
All interested faculty, post-docs and
students are welcome and are encouraged to attend
The talks are
intended for a general (math/stat) audience and will be accessible to students
without particular expertise in the specific areas of the topics discussed.
Also, there will be ample time for free interaction and discussion between the
participants.
All talks will take
place in room AMΦ24, on the 2nd
floor of the Mathematics Dept building on the University
of Athens campus [map]. A collection
of campus maps together with information on how to get there can be found here.
On Saturday, May
31, 2014
11:10-12:10 |
Directed
polymer and percolation models [slides] |
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12:10-13:00 |
coffee break |
coffee break |
13:00-14:00 |
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14:00-15:30 |
lunch |
lunch |
15:30-16:30 |
Mobile
geometric graphs: Detection, isolation and percolation [slides] |
After the last
talk, there will be another coffee break to wrap up, get yet another chance to
chat and say goodbye.
[Arrangements for
coffee and lunch will be made locally by the organizers.]
Timo Seppäläinen is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, and he is currently the editor of the Annals of Applied Probability. His
research interests include interacting particle systems, large deviations, and
random walks in random environments.
Perla Sousi is a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel College,
Cambridge University. Her research interests include random walks, Brownian
motion, mixing times of Markov chains, Poisson Brownian motions, and
rearrangement inequalities.
Kostas Kardaras is a professor with the London School of Economics. His research
interests focus on stochastic analysis and, in particular, its applications in
Financial Mathematics.
There is NO
registration fee and everyone interested is welcome to participate. But we ask,
for planning purposes, that you please let us know that you plan to attend by sending an
email to one of the three organizers
Dimitris Cheliotis (ΕΚΠΑ)
Ioannis Kontoyiannis (ΟΠΑ)
Michalis Loulakis (ΕΜΠ)
or, preferably, to: athensproc@gmail.com