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CAP
601 CEPSR Columbia University 530 West 120th Street Mail Code: 8906 NY, NY 10027 USA PHONE: (212) 854-6096 FAX: (212) 854-6989 EMAIL: cap@columbia.edu |
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Monday May 10th, 2004
9:00AM-6:00PM
Columbia University, New York City
(Location: Interschool Lab, 7th Floor of CEPSR (Shapiro Engineering
Center))
SCHEDULE:
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Danish
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks: Chris C. Heyde, Director of CAP
9:15-10:00 Assaf Naor (Microsoft Research)
Shannon's Problem on the Monotonicity of Entropy
10:00-10:45 Yuval Peres (UC Berkeley)
A Stable Marriage of a Poisson Process and Lebesgue Measure
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Amir Dembo (Stanford University)
Fractal geometry of simple random covering: late and favorite points
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-2:45 Timo Seppalainen (University of Wisconsin)
Inhomogeneities and the Hydrodynamic Limit of the Asymmetric Exclusion
Process
2:45-3:30 Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell University)
Measuring the Length of Memory in Infinite Variance Stable Processes
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-4:45 Chris Heyde (Columbia University and Australia National
University)
The Zoo of Non-classical Limit Theorems - Species Yet to be Classified
4:45-6:00 Wine and Cheese Reception
Directions and parking information
For inquiries:
chris@wald.stat.columbia.edu
(Chris
Heyde, Director of CAP)
sigman@ieor.columbia.edu
(Karl Sigman, Secretary of CAP)
Applied Probability Day 1992-2003
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