The Center for Applied Probability at Columbia University presents the 15th Annual Applied Probability Day (APD).
IN HONOR OF CHRIS C. HEYDE
Saturday June 28th, 2008
9:00AM-6:00PM
Room 303
S.W. Mudd Building
500 West 120th Street
Columbia University, New York City
REGISTRATION IS FREE, all are very welcome, please join.
SPEAKERS & SCHEDULE:
Five (5) Speakers include:
David Pollard, Yale University, USA
- Random chromatic numbers, some statistical folklore, and some puzzling inequalities
Søren Asmussen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Failure probabilities for checkpointing and parallel computing
Steve Kou, Columbia University, USA
- The Recent Financial Turmoil and Related Financial Engineering Research Problems
J. Michael Steele, Wharton School, USA
- Martingale Markets
Sidney Resnick, Cornell University, USA
- Multivariate regular variation on 3 cones yields three theories
A reception will follow. We particularly warmly welcome all of those who remember Chris C. Heyde; his students, his colleagues and his friends. For further information please go to our web site:
http://www.cap.columbia.edu
