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The 27th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications was held in Cambridge at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences from 9th to 13th July 2001. There were around 240 participants and 140 lectures.
Invited lectures were given by S.Asmussen, G.Ben Arous, M.Bramson, A.-B.Cruzeiro, P.Diaconis, S.N. Evans, J.-P.Fouque, Y.Kontoyiannis, D.Korshunov, M.Lifshits, T.Lyons, Y.Peres, A.Puhalski, S.Smirnov, A.-S.Sznitman, W.Werner and R.Williams. W.Werner gave the second Rollo Davidson Lecture, and R.Williams delivered the Applied Probability Trust Lecture. There were special workshops on the following topics: stochastic networks (organised by A.Ganesh), conditioned Markov processes and quasistationarity (S.Jacka and P.Pollett), perfect sampling (R.Dobrow) and stochastic analytic methods in combinatorics (R.Darling and D.Levin). In addition there were a large number of contributed talks. Lists of participants, titles and abstracts are available at:
The conference provided abundant evidence of the vitality of the field of stochastic processes, in both theoretical and applied contexts.
Financial support was provided by EPSRC, London Mathematical Society, Microsoft Research, Hewlett Packard BRIMS, Springer Verlag and the Applied Probability Trust. Further support for participants was given by Eurandom and the National Science Foundation.
James Norris
This was the fifth edition of a congress which is organised by Universidad de la Habana (Cuba) with the coauspices of Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid, Spain). It was held in la Habana, on 4-8 March 2002.
The participants came from 17 countries. Germans and Spaniards were the main foreigner contributors, 16 each one, followed by Canada (8) Argentine, USA and Peru (4). The rest of the visitors contributed a total of 12 papers (France, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Mexico and Venezuela); 28 papers were presented by Cubans.
As usual, most of the talks were in optimization, in statistics and in biostatistics, with important contributions also from queue theory, numerical analysis and algorithms, computational geometry, decision theory and mathematical economics. Plenary lectures were delivered by F.Pukelsheim (Augsburg, Germany), C.Roucairol (Versailles, France), J.M.Das Rochas (Vigo, Spain) and A.Griewanck (Dresden, Germany).
At the University's Aula Magna, a richly decorated building constructed in the first third of the last century, the inauguration took place and a Chorus gave a performance which included the Hymn of the Academia and a selection of traditional songs representative of the main participant countries. The previous night the Welcome Party was developed in the Facultad de Matemática y Computación interior patio under an unexpectedly cold weather with occasional raining.
The conference was closed with a friendly walk around the Old Havana, organised by the Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, and a Concert of Ancient Songs in the Convent of San Francisco de Paula, an old XVII Century's building of Greco-Roman style.
Carlos Narciso Bouza Herrera
CLAPEM Conference dinner:
the chair Sira Allende prepares
for the toast; at the table some of the invited speakers,
F.Pukelsheim and B.Droge
Participants to CLAPEM in la Habana, Cuba
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