[Sorry for the second "final" announcement, but this has extra information.]
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Fifteenth Northeast Probability Seminar
November 17th-18th, 2016
New York, NY
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** 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).
Thursday, Nov. 17
8:30 - 10:00 am Registration, light refreshments
10:00-11:00 Vincent Vargas (Ecole Normale Sup��rieure 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 P��ch�� (Universit�� 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 Pe��a, and Jay Rosen.
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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
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 th
e
dinner
should please email Tai Melcher ([log in to unmask]).
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There is no official registration required to attend the seminar.
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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
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We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding from the National Science Foundation that makes this event possible.
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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 shoul
d 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
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We look forward to seeing you this November,
Louis-Pierre Arguin ([log in to unmask])
Michael Carlisle ([log in to unmask])
Elena Kosygina ([log in to unmask])
Ivan Matic ([log in to unmask])
(the local organizers)