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