SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PROBABILITY SYMPOSIUM
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

In Memory of Ted Harris

February 11, 2007

This year's Southern California Probability Symposium will be special in two ways. First, it will be held Sunday February 11, 2007, at USC, in place of its usual December date. Second, and more important, it will be held in memory of Ted Harris, including a special lunch event from 12:00-1:30 p.m. This year's organizers are Ken Alexander (alexandr@usc.edu), Richard Arratia (rarratia@usc.edu), and Peter Baxendale (baxendal@usc.edu).

Schedule

  • 9:30 - 10:30 Tom Liggett (UCLA), "Correlation Inequalities and the Contact Process: Ted Harris and Beyond"
  • 10:45 - 11:45 Peter Baxendale (USC), "Stirring processes and random sources for stochastic flows"
  • 12:00 - 1:30 Luncheon
  • 2:00 - 3:00 David Aldous (U.C. Berkeley), "Probability and Spatial Networks"
  • Break
  • 3:30 - 4:30 Nikolaos Zygouras (USC), "Lyapounov norms for random walks in a random potential and dimension greater than three"

    There will be remarks (non-technical) at the luncheon about Ted's life and career, by the following people:

  • Steve Harris, Ted's son
  • Dr. Sam Genensky, formerly of Rand Corp.
  • Prof. Solomon Golomb, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, USC
  • Prof. Peter Baxendale, USC
    LOCATION: Talks are in Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS), room 106, on the USC University Park Campus. You can find a map of the USC campus at http://www.usc.edu/assets/maps/upc_map.gif GFS is just south of Cromwell Field. The USC University Club is number 3 on the map.
    DRIVING INSTRUCTIONS: The only open entrance gate to campus will be Gate 5 at Jefferson and McClintock on the north side of campus.
  • From the 110 (Harbor Freeway) North: Take the Exposition Boulevard exit. Go straight through the 37th Street light. Keep left. Go under the freeway bridge, across Flower Street, and turn right on Figueroa Street. Turn left on Jefferson Boulevard, then turn left at McClintock into the USC campus.
  • From the 110 (Harbor/Pasadena Freeway) South: Take the Exposition Boulevard exit. Keep right. Go across Flower Street and turn right on Figueroa Street. Turn left on Jefferson Boulevard, then turn left at McClintock into the USC campus.
  • From the 10 (Santa Monica Freeway) East: Take the Hoover Street exit. Turn right on Hoover Street. Continue until Hoover Street ends at Jefferson Boulevard. Turn right on Jefferson Boulevard, then turn left at McClintock into the USC campus.
  • From the 10 (Santa Monica Freeway) West: Transition to the 110 (Harbor Freeway) South. Take the Exposition Boulevard exit. Keep right. Go across Flower Street turn right on Figueroa Street. Turn left on Jefferson Boulevard, then turn left at McClintock into the USC campus.
    PARKING INSTRUCTIONS: Tell the parking attendant that you have come for the Southern California Probability Symposium and you should not have to pay. Drive straight (south) and park in Parking Structure A. Grace Ford Salvatori building (GFS) is on the block diagonally across (to northeast) from the parking structure.
    A CAMPUS MAP can be viewed by clicking here .