ATHENS Pr OBABILITY COLLOQUIUM

Tue 9 Oct 2012 - 10:09

ATHENS Pr OBABILITY COLLOQUIUM

http://pages.cs.aueb.gr/~yiannisk/APC/

Saturday December 1, 2012

Math Dept, University of Athens
Announcement

This one-day event, centered around three top-quality talks in probability and its connections with other active areas of current research activity, aims to bring together all near-Athens-based researchers in probability and related areas of mathematics and applications.

All interested faculty, post-docs and students are welcome and are encouraged to attend

The talks will be intended for a general (math/stat) audience and will be accessible to students without particular expertise in the specific areas of the topics discussed. Also, there will be ample time for free interaction and discussion between the participants.

Schedule

All talks will take place in room Γ31, on the 3rd floor of the Mathematics Dept building on the University of Athens campus.

11:00-12:00 Bálint Virág title TBA

12:00-12:30 coffee break

12:30-13:30 Nikolaos Fountoulakis Bootstrap percolation on inhomogeneous random graphs

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos Simulating events of unknown probabilities via reverse time martingales

There is NO registration fee and everyone interested is welcome to participate. But we ask, for planning purposes, that you please let us know that you plan to attend by sending an email to one of the three organizers:

Dimitris Cheliotis dimitrisc@gmail.com

Ioannis Kontoyiannisyiannis@aueb.gr

Michalis Loulakis loulakis@math.ntua.gr