2003 Southern California Probability Symposium

The 2003 Southern California Probability Symposium will be held on Sunday, November 23, 2003 at the IPAM building on the UCLA campus.

Program

9:45-10:00 Refreshments
10:00-10:45 Jianfeng Zhang (USC)
Title: $L2$-modulus and Numerical Methods for Backward SDEs
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Chris Burdzy (University of Washington, Seattle)
Title: Trap domains for reflected Brownian motion
11:45- 1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:30 Silke Rolles (UCLA)
Title: Edge-reinforced random walk on a ladder
2:30-2:45 Coffee break
2:45-3:30 Robert Adler (Technion, visiting UCSB)
Title: Random Fields on Manifolds
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-4:30 Magdalena Musat (UCSD)
Title:Interpolation techniques and inequalities for non-commutative martingales
5:00 Dinner at Acapulco restaurant at 1109 Glendon in Westwood..

Driving and Parking Information: Click here for a UCLA campus map.

If driving from LAX, take Century Blvd. east to the 405 Freeway going north. After about 10 miles on the 405, you will exit at Wilshire Blvd. going east. Go east on Wilshire for several blocks. Make a left onto Westwood Blvd. Follow Westwood Blvd. to campus.

Get a sticker at the kiosk at the campus entrance on Westwood Blvd. ($7 for those who don't have UC permits, free for those who do) and park in lot 9.

Questions? Send an e-mail to Raya Feldman at feldman[at]pstat.ucsb.edu or call 805-893-2826

Organizers: Guillaume Bonnet (bonnet[at]pstat.ucsb.edu), Janos Englander (englander[at]pstat.ucsb.edu) and Raya Feldman (feldman[at]pstat.ucsb.edu).