From alexandr at usc.edu  Mon Nov 14 18:41:40 2011
From: alexandr at usc.edu (Kenneth Alexander)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:41:40 -0800
Subject: [SCPG] So. Calif. Probability Symposium
Message-ID: <73b0fb94127d4.4ec144c4@usc.edu>


           *** Southern California Probability Symposium ***

                ** University of Southern California **

                      *Saturday, December 3, 2011*

                          Second Announcement


PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL STUDENTS, VISITORS AND NEW FACULTY.   

If you are in one of those categories, please add yourself to the mailing list at 
  http://lists.imstat.org/mailman/listinfo/scpg 

Conference web page (including abstracts and campus map link):  
  http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~alexandr/SoCalifProbSymp2011.html 

All talks in Kaprelian Hall (KAP) 414, breaks in KAP 410. 

Turn right as you exit the elevator.

Schedule:

9:50 - 10:40  Jinqiao Duan, IPAM and Illinois Institute of Technology, "Random Dynamical Systems with Non-Gaussian Noises"

11:10 - 12:00  Tom Alberts, Cal Tech, "The Continuum Directed Random Polymer and the KPZ Universality Class"

2:00 - 2:50  Allan Sly, UC Berkeley, "Asymptotic Learning on Social Networks"

3:20 - 4:10  Tomoyuki Ichiba, UC Santa Barbara, "On collision of Brownian particles and applications"

4:10 - 5:00  Konstantin Zuev, USC, "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Revolution in Reliability Engineering"

6:00  Dinner


Practical items:

Free parking is available--just tell the parking booth attendant that you are going to the Southern California Probability Symposium.

On Saturdays the only entrance likely to be open is Entrance 5, on the northern edge of campus at Jefferson Blvd. and McClintock Ave.  Sometimes Entrance 1 off Exposition Blvd. on the south side of campus is open as well--you can look if you pass by.

Kaprelian Hall is on the western edge of campus, at the intersection of Vermont Ave. and 36th Place.  

Organizers:  
  Ken Alexander, alexandr at usc.edu
  Peter Baxendale, baxendal at usc.edu

Please email one of the organizers by November 28, if you would like to attend the dinner.

From alexandr at usc.edu  Tue Nov 22 21:53:56 2011
From: alexandr at usc.edu (Kenneth Alexander)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:53:56 -0800
Subject: [SCPG] So. Calif. Prob. Symp.--dinner
Message-ID: <73e0906425439.4ecbfdd4@usc.edu>

If you would like to attend the dinner after the Southern California Probability Symposium on Saturday December 3, please email one of the organizers by MONDAY NOVEMBER 28:

alexandr at usc.edu
baxendal at usc.edu

The dinner will be in Chinatown, which is just north of downtown LA.  Thanks to those who already expressed their wish to attend.

Conference web page:

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~alexandr/SoCalifProbSymp2011.html 

Speakers, please note that talks are 50 minutes including questions.

     --Ken Alexander