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Forthcoming Conferences, Meetings and Workshops


Conformal Maps: From Probability to Physics

May, 23-28, 2010
Monte Verita, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland

The conference centers on random structures in the context of complex analysis, inspired by interactions between mathematics and physics. The central example is perhaps the Stochastic Loewner Evolution, introduced by Oded Schramm. SLE arises as the scaling limit of interfaces in 2D lattice models at criticality (percolation, Ising model, self avoiding polymers), and its elegant combination of probability and complex analysis has led to the proofs of many conjectures originating in physics. Other topics include Diffusion Limited Aggregation (a model for electrodeposition and other phenomena), Hele-Shaw flow (describing interfaces between fluids of different viscosities, e.g. oil and water), 2D Quantum Gravity and Random Maps.
www.unige.ch/~hongler/ascona/

Organizers: K. Astala, S. Rohde, S. Smirnov

Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop

June 11, 2010
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Italy

The theme of the workshop is Bayesian asymptotics. It will be held at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, a Research Institution housed in an historical building located in Moncalieri on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.

Web: www.carloalberto.org/stats_workshop

Email: stats@carloalberto.org

V-International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modelling (METMAV)

METMAV will be held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), from June 30th until July 2nd. The purpose of this workshop is to promote the development and application of spatio-temporal statistical methods in different fields related to Environmental Sciences. All the information about the conference can be found in the website:
http://eio.usc.es/pub/metma/

Rosa M. Crujeiras, Secretary of METMAV

Probability at Warwick Young Researchers Workshop

The Probability at Warwick Young Researchers Workshop will be held from 19th-23rd July 2010. It has the principal aim of bringing together young researchers working in probability and will feature lecture courses by two excellent invited speakers, intended to be accessible to graduate mathematicians and probabilists: Trickle-down growth models, Doob- Martin boundaries, and random matrices, Prof. Steve Evans (University of California, Berkeley) Regularity and convergence of diffusion processes, Prof. Martin Hairer (University of Warwick). Registration is now open. For further details, please see
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/paw/paw2010

Christina Goldschmidt, Warwick

XIVth Brazilian School of Probability (XIV EBP)

The Brazilian School of Probability (EBP) has been organized each year since 1997. It is an initiative of the Brazilian probabilistic community, planned as a forum for the discussion of new ideas and developments in Probability and related areas. It is an opportunity to detect new research directions and to establish new collaborations, and an excellent occasion for students to start their scientific life. The EBP has been organized by IMPA, in Rio de Janeiro, by IME-USP and IMECCUNICAMP, in São Paulo, and by UFMG in Ouro Preto.

The 14th edition of the Brazilian School of Probability (XIV EBP) will take place jointly with the 2010 Annual Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School "Probability and Statistical Physics in Two and more Dimensions" at its fourth week. The joint event will be held in Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, from August 1 to 7, 2010.

Mini-courses:

Random Polymers, Frank den Hollander (Leiden University) Self-avoiding walks, Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia).

Plenary Talks:

Marek Biskup (UCLA e Univ. of Southern Bohemia), Dima Ioffe (Technion), Nancy Lopes Garcia (Unicamp), Alejandro Maass (Univ. de Chile, Santiago), Leonid Mytnik (Technion), Tatyana Turova (Lund University)

Website: www.impa.br/opencms/pt/eventos/store/evento_1011

e-mail: ebp14@impa.br

New Frontiers in Applied Probability

New Frontiers in Applied Probability: A Conference in Honour of Søren Asmussen
August 1-5, 2011 Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg, Denmark

The conference honours one of the leading researchers in Applied Probability, Søren Asmussen, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. An impressive list of 35 speakers have agreed to contribute to the conference. Among them are the main speakers Hansjörg Albrecher (Lausanne), Ole Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus), Mogens Bladt (Mexico), Daryl Daley (ANU Canberra), Serguei Foss (Heriot Watt Edinburgh), Peter Glynn (Stanford), Martin Jacobsen (Copenhagen), Peter Jagers (Chalmers U. Gothenburg), Lester Lipsky (Storrs), Thomas Mikosch (Copenhagen), Reuven Rubinstein (Technion), Tomasz Rolski (Wroclaw), Karl Sigman (Columbia U. New York), Hermann Thorisson (Reykjavik).

The talks will present the state of the art of Applied Probability.

The Scientific Organizing Committee, consisting of
• Peter Glynn, University of Stanford
• Thomas Mikosch (Chair), University of Copenhagen
• Tomasz Rolski, University of Wroclaw
• Reuven Rubinstein, Technion Haifa,
will also edit a Festschrift in Honour of Søren Asmussen with the contributions of the 35 speakers.

The number of participants is restricted to 70. Detailed information about the conference and registration is available on the website www.thiele.au.dk/asmussen

Thomas Mikosch, Copenhagen

SPA 2011

The 35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2011) will be held at the city of Oaxaca, Mexico in June 19-24 of 2011.

The main venue will be the Hotel Mision de los Angeles, Oaxaca. This conference is the major annual meeting for researchers working in the field of Stochastic Processes.

Information: Professor M.E. Caballero, chair of the organizing committee (marie@matem.unam.mx)

Website: http://abalontico.matem.unam.mx/SPA/index.php

58th World Statistics Congress of the ISI

The 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) will take place in Dublin, from the 21st to the 26th August 2011. The Bernoulli Society, as a section of the ISI, sponsors different Invited Paper Sessions (IPS), Special Topics Sessions (STS) and Satellite meetings as well. With this announcement we want to call, and to encourage people, for proposals of STS and Satellite meetings that can be attractive to the members of our Society. Please visit the web page of the meeting: www.isi2011.ie, to know the way to submit your proposals and, please, do your submission as soon as you can. You might also find it useful to visit the websites of the previous editions of the ISI Congress in Durban 2009 www.statssa.gov.za/isi2009/ and in Lisbon 2007 www.isi2007.com.pt/isi2007/, as a reference for these activities.

See you in Dublin next year!

José Manuel Corcuera
Representative of the Bernoulli Society in the PCC

Calendar of Events

This calendar lists all meetings which have been announced in this and previous issues of Bernoulli News together with forthcoming meetings organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli society or one of its Regional Committees (marked by ). A more comprehensive calendar of events is available on the ISI Website isi.cbs.nl/calendar.htm

May 2010

* May 23rd – 28th, 2010, Conformal Maps: From Probability to Physics, Monte Verita, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
http://www.unige.ch/~hongler/ascona/

June 2010

* June 28th – July 2nd, 2010, 10th International Vilnius Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Vilnius University, Lithuania,
www.vilniusconference10.com  

* June 11th, 2010, Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Italy,
www.carloalberto.org/stats_workshop  

* June 30th –July 2nd, 2010, V-International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modelling (METMAV), Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
http://eio.usc.es/pub/metma/

July 2010

* July, 19th-23rd, 2010, Probability at Warwick Young Researchers Workshop, Warwick, United Kingdom,
www.warwick.ac.uk/go/paw/paw2010  

* July, 22nd – 24th, 2010, Satellite Summerschool to the 6th International Conference on Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications, Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany,
www.tu-braunschweig.de/stochastik/levyschool

* July, 26th – 30th, 2010, 6th International Conference on Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications, University of Dresden, Germany,
www.math.tu-dresden.de/levy2010

August 2010

* August, 1st – 7th, XIVth Brazilian School of Probability, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
www.impa.br/opencms/pt/eventos/store/evento_1011

* August, 9th – 13th, IMS Annual Meeting, Chalmers University, Gothenborg, Sweden,
www.ims-gothenburg.com

* August, 9th – 13th, ICM Satellite Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India www.isibang.ac.in/~statmath/icmprobsat  

* August, 17th – 22nd, 28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, www.stat.unipi.gr/ems2010/

September 2010

* September, 6th – 10th, 2010, 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Osaka, Japan,
http://stokhos.shinshuu.ac.jp/SPA2010/index.html

June 2011

* June, 19th – 25th, 2010, 35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Oaxaca, Mexico,
www.abalontico.matem.unam.mx/SPA/

August 2011

* August, 1st – 5th, New Frontiers in Applied Probability: A Conference in Honour of Søren Asmussen, Sønderborg, Denmark
www.thiele.au.dk/asmussen  

* August 21st – 26th, 58th ISI World Statistics Congress, Dublin, Ireland,
www.isi2011.ie/

July 2012

* July, 9th – 14th, 2012, 8th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, Istanbul, Turkey,
www.home.ku.edu.tr/~worldcong2012/