2015 Southern California Probability Symposium

The 2015 Southern California Probability Symposium will be held on Saturday, December 5, at the University of California, Irvine.

9:30-10:00 Refreshments
10:00-10:50 Tianyi Zheng (Stanford): Applications of Markov type to infinite groups. Abstract
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:10 Pierre-François Rodriguez (UCLA): On level set percolation for the Gaussian free field. Abstract
12:10-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:50 Andrey Sarantsev (UCSB): Infinite systems of competing Brownian particles. Abstract
2:50-3:20 Coffee break
3:20-4:10 Badal Joshi (CSU San Marcos): Detailed balance, Complex balance, and Product-Form Stationary Distribution in Stochastic Models of Reaction Networks. Abstract.
4:10-5:00 Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford): Gauge-string duality in lattice gauge theories. Abstract
6:00 Dinner

Here is a link to a UCI campus map. The talks will be held in Balboa Island A, which is in the Student Center, located at D5 on the campus map near the intersection of Pereira Drive and West Peltason Drive.
The best place for parking is the Student Center Parking Structure, which is across from the Student Center and is labelled SCPS on the campus map. A permit may be purchased at the kiosk upon entering the structure. UC participants may use their UC parking permits. There will be signs posted directing participants form the parking ramp to the room.
Because there is another large event scheduled at UCI on the day of the symposium, participants are encouraged to allow 10-15 minutes more time than usual for parking.

The conference dinner will be held at 6:00 PM at O Fine Japanese Cuisine in Irvine.
If you wish to attend the dinner, please email Todd Kemp at tkemp@math.ucsd.edu by 5:00 PM on Thursday, December 3.

This year's symposium is being organized by the San Diego probability group, consisting of Bruce Driver, Pat Fitzsimmons, Todd Kemp, Amber Puha, Jason Schweinsberg, and Ruth Williams.
If you have any questions about the symposium, please direct them, by email, to Jason Schweinsberg at jschwein@math.ucsd.edu.

Information and reminders about the symposium will be sent by email to members of the Southern California Probability Group email list. If you wish to add or remove your name from this list, please click here.

Here is a link to a web page with information about the history of the Southern California Probability Symposium.