________________________________ From: Jay Rosen <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 11:47 AM To: Ben-Ari, Iddo; [log in to unmask] Subject: Fifteenth Northeast Probability Seminar, final announcement Please circulate. There are still funds available for students and junior faculty. :_-::|-|-__--|.._...|.|_:-.:|_:-_.-_.|-.:.___:.:_||_:-:.:||---_-:-|-:..-|-| Fifteenth Northeast Probability Seminar November 17th-18th, 2016 New York, NY :|-:._.|-:_|.:-:.:-_...--__.||-_:-.|:..---:..|::--_:.__._|_::_:_|:::-_||:-| ** Final Announcement: Please share with ** ** colleagues and graduate students ** The Fifteenth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held in Room 750 of the Baruch College Conference Center, CUNY, 151 East 25th street (between Lexington Ave and 3d Ave). Tentative schedule: Thursday, Nov. 17 8:30 - 10:00 am Registration, light refreshments 10:00-11:00 Vincent Vargas (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris) "Ward and Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov (BPZ) identities for Liouville quantum field theory on the Riemann sphere" 11:00 - 11:30 am Refreshments 11:30-12:30 Sandrine Péché (Université Paris Diderot) "Some results on delocalization and localization of eigenvectors of random matrices." 12:30 - 2:15 pm Lunch 2:15 - 3:15 pm Informal talks and discussion, part I 3:15 - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 - 4:30 pm Informal talks and discussion, part II 4:45 - 5:45 pm Reception 6:30 - Conference Dinner Friday, Nov. 18 10:00 - 11:00 am Balint Virag (University of Toronto) "Random relaxed sorting networks." 11:00 - 11:30 am Refreshments 11:30 - 12:30 Nike Sun (University of California, Berkeley) "Phase transitions in random constraint satisfaction problems." 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 2:15 pm Informal talks and discussion, part I 2:15 - 2:30 pm Break 2:30 - 3:30 pm Informal talks and discussion, part II Young researchers are encouraged to volunteer short talks for the afternoon sessions. The program was chosen by the seminar's scientific committee: Yuri Bakhtin, Gerard Ben Arous, Nayantara Bhatnagar, Paul Bourgade, Ivan Corwin, Eyal Lubetzky, Carl Mueller, Daniel Ocone, Robin Pemantle, Victor de la Peña, and Jay Rosen. |-:._.|-:_|.:-:.:-_...--__.||-_:-.|:..---:..|::--_:.__._|_::_:_|:::-_||:-| Dinner for Women in Probability: Women in Probability is an organization for women active in probability research. Our primary purpose is to provide networking and mentoring opportunities for early career women. Our activities are funded by the NSF. For more information on Women in Probability, please visit our website http://womeninprobability.org<http://womeninprobability.org/> Women in Probability<http://womeninprobability.org/> womeninprobability.org Women in Probability is an organization for women active in probability research in North America. Our primary purpose is to provide networking and mentoring ... We will be hosting a dinner the last evening of the Northeast Probability Seminar, Friday, November 18 at 6pm. We can offset costs for attendees. Anyone interested in participating in the dinner should please email Tai Melcher ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). |:..<< REGISTRATION >>.|-|_.|:_:::.-._..|:.|__-:-|.----||_:_|_:|-:||::.-:_: There is no official registration required to attend the seminar. ||:.<< UPDATES >>--.::..:-|..-|.__:_.||:_.|:-:-||___:--:|_-|::..|.-.:.-::__ Consult the seminar Web site http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar for updates regarding the schedule, the seminar dinner, and accommodations in New York City. Ramada Inn rates are around $155-170/night (on the web now). It is located at the intersection of the 30th street and Lex Ave, 5 blocks from Baruch. Reservations can be made through the web: https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/ramada/new-york-city-new-york/ramada-eastside/overview .:__<< THANKS >>-|:__::_.|_.::.:-:_::_-_.-.|:._.-....-_.-.:---.|_.::..:|_|: We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding from the National Science Foundation that makes this event possible. |:::<< FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE >>.-:|.._.:_:-||:_:.:_||:::||--:.|||_ There are still available funds. The NSF grant 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. Applicants for this financial support should provide: * a one-page letter explaining their interest in the seminar and its relation to their research interests * a current CV * graduate students and postdocs should also arrange for a letter of recommendation to be sent from their advisor or some expert familiar with their work Materials should be sent either by e-mail (preferred) or postal mail to: Ivan Matic Department of Mathematics Baruch College of the City University of New York One Bernard Baruch Way New York, NY 10010 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> _:-...:||-:|-..|__....-:-_.::.---_-|:-:.:|-__-:-:..|___-_|..:.__-.-:-:|-_-: We look forward to seeing you this November, Louis-Pierre Arguin ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Michael Carlisle ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Elena Kosygina ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Ivan Matic ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) (the local organizers) Jay Rosen Department of Mathematics College of Staten Island, CUNY 2800 Victory Boulevard Staten Island, N,Y, 10314 CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave, New York, N.Y. 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