Here is an announcement from Jay Rosen:

Seventeenth Northeast Probability Seminar
November 15-16, 2018
New York, NY

** First Announcement: Please share with  **
** colleagues and graduate students       **

The Seventeenth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held at Courant Institute, NYU on November 15-16, 2018

    Thursday: Kimmel Center for University Life at NYU, Room 912/914
    Friday: Warren Weaver Hall/Courant Institute, Room 109

SPEAKERS
* Nalini Anantharaman (IRMA Strasbourg): TBA
* Antonio Auffinger (Northwestern): "Energy landscape of mean field spin glasses." 
* Roland Bauerschmidt (Cambridge): "Spectral gap critical exponent for Glauber dynamics of
hierarchical spin models"
* Richard Durrett (Duke): "The Contact Process on Random Graphs and Trees."
 
As at the previous seminars, there will be time for short, informal talks and discussion sessions. 
The program was chosen by the seminar's scientific committee:  
Louis-Pierre Arguin, Yuri Bakhtin, Nayantara Bhatnagar, Paul Bourgade, Ivan Corwin, Julien Dubedat, Ramon van Handel, Elena Kosygina, Eyal Lubetzky, Carl Mueller, Daniel Ocone, Robin Pemantle, Victor de la Pena, Brian Rider, Jay Rosen

CONFERENCE WEBPAGE
The most recent updates, schedule, directions to Kimmel Center and Courant Institute, a link to the financial support/ short talk application, etc. can be found at 
https://cims.nyu.edu/conferences/northeast-probability-seminar-2018/

FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE
We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding from the National Science Foundation that makes this event possible.
It allows us to offer some financial support to participants from US Universities. We will give preference to graduate students, postdocs, women and minorities, and junior faculty. A link to the online application for funding can be found at the conference webpage.

We look forward to seeing you this November, 
Eyal Lubetzky
Paul Bourgade,
Yuri Bakhtin
(the local organizers at Courant)