From feldman at pstat.ucsb.edu  Thu Dec  3 17:27:41 2009
From: feldman at pstat.ucsb.edu (Raya Feldman)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:27:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [SCPG] SCPS at UCI, Saturday Dec 5th
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0912031446110.6474@wiener>


      ***** REMINDER ******

The 2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
will be held at UCI

          THIS COMING SATURDAY, December 5th

Reservations are made for dinner to start at 5:30pm
at Aysya Euro-Asian Cuisine at 17271 Brookhurst St,
Fountain Valley.

If you would like to attend the dinner, please sign up on
the meeting (unless you have done so already!)

See you at the meeting!

                  The Organizers
_______________________________________________________


              *** Southern California Probability Symposium ***

               ** University of California at Irvine (UCI) **
                             (organized by UCSB)

                         *SATURDAY, December 5, 2009*

A Web page for the conference can be found at
http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/

PROGRAM:

9:45 Coffee and bagels

10:00 -11:00    Plenary Talk: Mike Harrison (Stanford)
                  "On the Positive Recurrence of Semimartingale Reflecting
                  Brownian Motions in Three (and Higher) Dimensions"

Coffee Break

11:15 -12:00    Weian Zheng (UCI)
                  "How to match two pictures"

12:00 -12:45    Sebastien Roch (UCLA)
                  "Probabilistic Techniques in Mathematical Phylogenetics"

12:45- 2:15  Lunch

2:15 -3:00      Ery Arias-Castro (UCSD)
                  "Detection of an Abnormal Cluster in a Network"

3:00-3:15 Coffee Break

3:15 -4:00      Sergey Lototsky (USC)
                 "Parameter Estimation in Stochastic Equations That are
                  Second-Order in Time"

4:00 -4:45      Mike Ludkovski (UCSB)
                 "A Simulation Approach to Optimal Stopping under Partial
                  Information"

LOCATION: Doheny Beach Room B  (next to the West Courtyard, room A134B
on map) at the UCI Student Center (building 113 on the map).

PARKING: Recommended parking is at the SCPS (Student Center Parking 
Structure) which is adjacent to the student center and is on
Pereira Dr. and West Peltason, just off Campus Drive. On the parking map
(http://www.parking.uci.edu/maps/) the student center is building 113
(in the Red Administration block and North-West of Aldrich park)
and SCPS is North-West from it, marked in yellow.

Participants must pay for their parking;
UCI will honor monthly parking passes from other UC campuses.

DINNER: Dinner will start at 5:30 pm at Aysya Fusion.

QUESTIONS?  Send e-mail to Raya Feldman at feldman at pstat.ucsb.edu