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Conference on New Developments in Probability, jointly hosted by Women in Probability

May 6th-8th, 2016 - Northwestern University

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Welcome to the Conference on New Developments in Probability

This conference is part of the 2015/2016 emphasis year in probability theory. It is jointly hosted by Women in Probability.

Invited Speakers

• Nayantara Bhatnagar (U. Delaware)
• Rodrigo Banuelos (Purdue)
• Sandra Cerrai (U. Maryland)
• Ioana Dumitriu (U. Washington)
• Rick Durrett (Duke)
• Vadim Gorin (MIT)
• Davar Khoshnevisan (U. Utah)
• Lea Popovic (Concordia University)
• Gigliola Staffilani (MIT)
• Elisabeth Werner (Case Western)
• Arnab Sen (U. Minnesota)

The conference will also feature a mini-celebration of Alexandra Bellow’s 80th birthday with talks by

• Alexandra Bellow (Northwestern)
• Roger Jones (DePaul)

See here a 2015 interview with Alexandra about her mathematical career.

Organizers

The scientific organizers are Tai Melcher, Kay Kirkpatrick and Kavita Ramanan.

The local organizers are Antonio Auffinger and Elton Hsu.

Acknowledgements

This meeting is partially supported by the National Science Foundation. By Grant NSF DMS 1255574 (PI: Tai Melcher) and by a grant to the probability group at Northwestern University and by the Northwestern Mathematics Department as part of the 2015/2016 emphasis year in probability theory.