Dear All, I would like to draw your attention to the following winter school: *-------------------------* *Title:* Leeds Winter School on Theory and Practice of Optimal Stopping and Free Boundary Problems. *Website:* https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/osfbp/ *Date and Location:* 13th-17th of January 2020, School of Mathematics University of Leeds *Registration:* registration is free but compulsory by the 15th of December (see details at https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/osfbp/registration/ ) *Short description: *This winter school is mainly aimed at PhD students and post-docs but participation is open to anyone with an interest in the subject. The lectures will provide a comprehensive introduction to the theory of optimal stopping for Markov processes, including applications to Dynkin games, with an emphasis on the existing links to the theory of partial differential equations and free boundary problems. Alongside traditional lectures there will also be tutorial classes (4 hours) with a focus on solutions of specific problems. On Wednesday 15th of January there will be a full day workshop on a broad range of topics related to optimal stopping and stochastic control. We strongly encourage attendees of the winter school to submit a contributed talk at the time of their registration. -------------------------- I would be most grateful if you could please pass this advert on to potentially interested people. All enquiries can be addressed directly to me (t.deangelis@leeds.ac.uk). Thank you and best wishes Tiziano De Angelis