ANNOUNCEMENT          SCHEDULE          SPEAKERS          *RSVP*

 

 

Welcome to the sixth

ATHENS Pr OBABILITY COLLOQUIUM

Saturday March 17, 2018

Math Dept, University of Athens

 

Thank you!
Once again, we had a wonderful colloquium! We wish to thank all the participants for making the meeting so successful, and the speakers for their great presentations. Some pictures from the three talks can be found below.

Announcement

 

Following the success of the first five AProC meetings [1,2,3,4,5], we are again organizing this year’s 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.

 

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Schedule

 

All talks will take place in room AMΦ24, on the 2nd floor of the Mathematics Dept building on the University of Athens campus. A map together with information on how to get there can be found here.

 

On Saturday, March 17, 2018

 

11:10-12:10

Evita Nestoridi

(Princeton U)

Studying Cutoff for Card Shuffling

[slides]

12:10-13:00

coffee break

coffee break

13:00-14:00

Nina Gantert

(Technical U of Munich)

Einstein Relation and the Speed of Biased Random Walk in Random Environment

[slides]

14:00-15:30

lunch

Lunch

15:30-16:30

        Konstantina Palla

(Oxford U)

Bayesian Nonparametrics for Sparse Dynamic Networks

[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 refreshments will be made locally by the organizers. Lunch will be provided at the University Cafeteria, at a cost of 3.00 euro per person.

 

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Speakers

 

Evita Nestoridi is an Instructor of Mathematics at Princeton University.
She works in Markov Chains, combinatorics, representation theory and probability.

 

Nina Gantert is a distinguished probabilist, and a professor in the Department of Mathematics,
at the Technical University of Munich.

She works in stochastic processes, large deviations, random media.

 

Konstantina Palla was until recently a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University,
and she now is a researcher at Microsoft Research, in Cambridge, UK.
She works in Bayesian statistics and machine learning.

 

 

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Photos

First talk by Evita Nestoridi

Second talk by Nina Gantert

Third talk by Konstantina Palla

And another group photo

 

RSVP

 

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

 

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