First ATHENS Pr OBABILITY
COLLOQUIUM
Saturday December 1, 2012
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.
This one-day event,
centered around three top-quality talks in probability and its interface with other
active areas of current research activity, aims 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 Γ31, on the 3rd
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,
December 1, 2012
11:00-12:00 |
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12:00-12:30 |
coffee break |
coffee break |
12:30-13:30 |
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13:30-14:30 |
lunch |
lunch |
14:30-15:30 |
Simulating events of unknown probabilities
via reverse time martingales |
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.]
Bálint Virág (born 1973) is a Hungarian mathematician working in
Canada, known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random
walks and other probabilistic questions on groups. He received his Ph.D. from
U.C. Berkeley in 2000, under the direction of Yuval Peres, and was a post-doc
at MIT. Since 2003 he has been a Canada research chair at the University of
Toronto. Virág was awarded a Sloan Fellowship
(2004), the Rollo Davidson Prize (2008), and the Coxeter–James
Prize (2010). [from Wikipedia]
Nikolaos Fountoulakis obtained his first degree in Computer Engineering and
Informatics from the University of Patras in 1999 and
continued his studies at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford,
where on 2003 he obtained the degree of the Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) under
the supervision of Colin McDiarmid. He has held research posititions
at McGill University (Montréal, Canada) as well as at the Max Planck Institue for Informatics (Saarbruecken,
Germany). He joined the School of
Mathematics of the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) in 2011, as a
lecturer in pure mathematics. His research interests cover probability theory
and combinatorics as well as their applications to
computer science.
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos graduated from the Department of Statistics of AUEB
and did a PhD at Lancaster University, UK, under the supervision of Gareth
Roberts. He is currently ICREA Research Professor based at the Department of
Economics at UPF, Barcelona. Prior to this he was Assistant Professor at
Warwick University. His main areas of research are high (or infinite)
dimensional Bayesian analysis, simulation of stochastic processes, and
development and theoretical analysis of Monte Carlo algorithms. In 2010 he
received the Guy Medal in Bronze by the Royal Statistical Society.
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