SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PROBABILITY SYMPOSIUM
NOVEMBER 21, 2004

This year's meeting of the annual Southern California Probability Symposium will take place at the University of Southern Calfornia on Sunday, November 21, 2004.

PROGRAM:

  • 9:45 Coffee and bagels
  • 10:00 -10:45 Remigijus Mikulevicius (USC) "On the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation"
  • Coffee Break
  • 11:00 -11:45 Yuval Peres (UC Berkeley) "Point processes, the stable marriage algorithm, and Gaussian power series"
  • Lunch
  • 1:45 -2:30 Jason Schweinsberg (UC San Diego) "Exchangeable coalescent processes and the genealogy of branching processes"
  • 2:45 -3:30 Janos Englander (UC Santa Barbara) "Branching Brownian motion in a random environment"
  • Coffee Break
  • 3:45 -4:30 Mike Cranston (UC Irvine) "Some results on the parabolic Anderson model"

  • LOCATION: Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS), room 106, on the USC University Park Campus. You can find a map of the USC campus by clicking here.

  • DRIVING INSTRUCTIONS: The only open entrance gate to campus will be Gate 5 at Jefferson and McClintock.

    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.

  • QUESTIONS: Send email to one of the organizers: Ken Alexander (alexandr@math.usc.edu) and Peter Baxendale (baxendal@math.usc.edu).