The Seminar on Stochastic Processes, 1996, will be held March 14--16, 1996, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. The Seminar will be the sixteenth in a series of annual conferences begun in 1981, giving established researchers, young specialists and graduate students the opportunity to discuss together the most recent advances in stochastic processes including Brownian motion, stochastic analysis, superprocesses, potential theory, processes on discrete spaces, and applications to physics, biology, and finance.
As part of the the Seminar, we will have a banquet on Thursday evening in honor of S. James Taylor who has made many significant contributions to Brownian motion, Levy processes, and many other classes of stochastic processes. His work on the Hausdorff measure of random sets associated with stochastic processes continues to be a major influence in probability. See below for more details about this banquet. We will need to know ahead of time how many people are attending.
Wednesday, March 13
7:00 - 9:00 pm Informal reception at the Brownestone Inn (Early registration can be done at this time.)
Thursday, March 14
All talks will be in the Physics Building. The invited talks will be held in 114 Physics. Rooms for the contributed talks and the informal sessions will be announced later.
8:15 - 9:00 Registration (outside Room 114 Physics)
9:00 - 10:00 Jay Rosen (City University of New York), ``Markov additive functionals,
intersection local times, and Gaussian chaos''
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Jean-Francois Le Gall (University of Paris), ``Path properties
of the Brownian snake and super-Brownian motion''
1:30 - 3:00 Contributed talks
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00 Informal sessions
6:00 - Cocktail hour and dinner in honor of S. James Taylor
Friday, March 15
9:00 - 10:00 Harry Kesten (Cornell), ``Distinguishing sceneries by
observing them along a random path''
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Yuval Peres (Berkeley), ``The percolation approach
to capacity''
1:30 - 3:00 Contributed talks
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00 Informal sessions
Saturday, March 16
9:00 - 10:00 Priscilla E. Greenwood (British Columbia), ``Partially
specified experiments and incomplete markets''
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Contributed talks
Abstracts of invited talks (in postscript format)
CONTRIBUTED TALKS
All participants are invited to make a ten minute presentation of their current research. These talks will be held during the times labelled above. The schedule of contributed talks will not be arranged before the meeting. Instead, all participants will inform the conference organizers on Thursday morning if they wish to give a talk. A schedule will then be made and given to participants before the Thursday afternoon sessions. There is a good chance that parallel sessions will be needed to accomodate all the talks.
INFORMAL SESSIONS
The informal sessions will be in the style of many previous Seminars. Participants will get a chance to discuss informally open questions in areas of current research. These will be arranged by topic. If anyone wishes to have such a session on a particular topic, please contact Greg Lawler. On Thursday afternoon, there will be an informal session on ``fractal properties of paths of stochastic processes.'' This topic ties in nicely with the banquet honoring Professor Taylor on Thursday evening.
BANQUET FOR S. JAMES TAYLOR
The banquet will cost $20 a person which will include a cocktail hour with beer, wine, and soda and wine during dinner. (We thank the Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia for a contribution towards the banquet---this contribution allows us to charge only $20 per person.) WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE ATTENDING. If you wish to attend the banquet please tell Greg Lawler (jose@math.duke.edu) by Wednesday, March 6. Vegetarian meals can be arranged; if you wish a vegetarian meal please state this.
OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS
There is a small reception at the Brownestone MedCenter Inn on Wednesday evening from 7:00 - 9:00. Early registration can be done during this reception.
We have arranged a tour of the Duke Primate Center for Saturday afternoon.
There will be a party Saturday evening at the home of Greg Lawler.
ACCOMMODATION
Participants are asked to make their own reservations. Rooms have been blocked at the Brownestone MedCenter Inn, which is a short walking distance to the University. Special rates for the meeting are $45 single, $50 double, plus tax. Please mention the Seminar in Stochastic Processes when making your reservation.
Brownestone MedCenter Inn
2424 Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-7761
TRANSPORTATION
A number of airlines have flights to Raleigh-Durham Airport, which is about fifteen miles from the University and motel. Shuttle service ($17 one way, $22 round trip) is available from R & G Shuttle Service. They have desks at both of the terminals at RDU airport. Be sure to tell the desk that you are going to the Brownestone MedCenter Inn in DURHAM (there is also a Brownestone motel in Raleigh, and you don't want to go there!).
For those renting a car at the airport: get on I40 West. Exit onto Durham Freeway (Highway 147); this is a right merge. Exit at exit 15A and go to traffic light. Turn left and go to the next traffic light which is Erwin Road. Turn right. The hotel is the third drive on the right.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The National Science Foundation has allocated money to help support researchers, including graduate students, to attend the meeting. We expect to make awards in the range $200-450. Preference will be given to applicants without other grant support. At this point, all of the money has been allocated, but you can still ask to see if any money becomes available.
If you would like to receive financial support, please contact Greg Lawler as soon as possible. In the case of graduate students and recent PhDs, we woulld appreciate a ``letter of introduction'' (i.e. a short and informal version of the ``letter of recommendation'') from your advisor or a colleague. Please indicate if you are a minority or a woman. We would also like to have an estimate of your expenses and to know whether any portion of them will be covered by any other source(s).
REGISTRATION
The seminar is open to all and there is no registration fee. As mentioned above, tickets for the banquet will cost $20.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information, please contact the local organizer, Greg Lawler at: jose@math.duke.edu
Return to: Greg Lawler's home page
Last modified: 28 February 1996