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Sixteenth Northeast Probability Seminar November 16th-17th, 2017 at Columbia University, New York, NY Website: (see for more details and updates regarding the rooms) http://www.math.columbia.edu/department/probability/nep17/NEP17.html Tentative schedule: Wednesday, Nov. 15 Women in Probability Dinner: Anyone interested in joining should contact ([log in to unmask]) and see http://womeninprobability.org for further details. The cost of dinner can be offset for women graduate student and postdoc dinner attendees Thursday, Nov. 16 (Room TBA) 9:30-10:30 am Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES) 10:45-11:45 am Perla Sousi (Cambridge) 11:45 - 2:45 pm Lunch 2:45 - 3:45 pm Junior participant talks 3:45 - 4:00 pm Break 4:00 - 5:30 pm Junior participant talks 6:00 - Conference Dinner Friday, Nov. 17 (Room TBA) 9:30-10:30 am Tai Melcher (Virginia) 10:45-11:45 am Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) 11:45 - 1:45 pm Lunch 1:45 - 2:45 pm Junior participant talks 2:45 - 3:15 pm Break 3:15 - 4:15 pm Junior participant talks Junior participant talks: Young researchers are encouraged to volunteer to give 15 minute talks for the afternoon sessions. If you'd like to be considered for one of these talks, please submit a title and abstract for your talk to ([log in to unmask]) before November 1st. Financial support to young researchers: We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding from the National Science Foundation that makes this event possible. We also acknowledge support from the Columbia Mathematics and Statistics Departments in organizing this event. Our 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] The program was chosen by the seminar's scientific committee: Louis-Pierre Arguin (CUNY), Nayantara Bhatnagar (Delaware), Yuri Bakhtin (Courant), Paul Bourgade (Courant), Ivan Corwin (Columbia), Victor de la Pena (Columbia), Julien Dubedat (Columbia), Elena Kosygina (CUNY), Eyal Lubetzky (Courant), Carl Mueller (Rochester), Daniel Ocone (Rutgers), Robin Pemantle (UPenn), Brian Rider (Temple), Ramon van Handel (Princeton) Questions: Contact Ivan Corwin ([log in to unmask]).