Dear Colleagues,
If you are in the UK, you might be interested in these presentations of the new Probability and Statistics Group at the University of Sussex. The event will take place on 25/26 May 2017 in Room 5C11, Pevensey 3 Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.
Everybody is welcome and participation is free of charge, but due to limited place availability registration is compulsory. If you wish to attend, please send an e-mail to e.scalas@sussex.ac.uk before 15 May 2017. Places will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis.
Best wishes,
Enrico Scalas -- Thursday 25 May
9:00 - 9:30 Get together (coffee and cookies)
9:30 - 10:00 Opening talk presented by Charles Goldie: A lower-class criterion for discounted tail series
10:00 – 11:00 Masoumeh Dashti: Sparsity-promoting MAP estimators in non-parametric Bayesian inverse problems
11:00 - 12:00 Andrew Duncan: Bayesian Inference in Finite and Infinite Dimension using Billiard Balls
12:00 - 13:00 Nicos Georgiou: Last passage times for Bernoulli models on the lattice
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch in Bramber House
14:30 - 15:30 Federico Ciech: An inhomogeneous model of last passage percolation
15:30 - 16:30 MASS Seminar presented by Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick)
16:30 - 17:30 Sabine Jansen: Precise large and moderate deviations for heavy-tailed variables
19:00 Dinner
Friday 26 May
9:30 - 10:00 Get together (coffee and cookies)
10:00 - 11:00 Enrico Scalas: Counting and Classifying. How to build theoretical science from probability theory
11:00 - 12:00 Mailan Trinh: The fractional non-homogeneous Poisson process
12:00 - 13:00 Stephen Ashton: The mathematics of human contact
13:00 - 14:30 Fish and chips
14:30 - 15:30 Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis: Non-equilibrium processes driven by boundary action
15:30 - 16:30 Panagiota Birba: Fluctuations for an out-of-equilibrium process driven by current reservoirs
16:30 - 17:30 Vladislav Vysotskiy: Large deviations of convex hulls of planar random walks.
19:00 Dinner