Tenth Northeast Probability Seminar The Tenth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held at Courant Institute of Mathematics at NYU on Thursday and Friday November 17th and 18th, 2011

Details
The invited speakers are:

• Vlada Limic (Université de Provence) "Some progress in understanding the small-time behavior of exchangeable coalescents"
  
  
• Eyal Lubetzky (Microsoft) "From entropic repulsion to the shape of (2+1)-dimensional SOS"
  
  
• Gregory Miermont (Université Paris Sud and University of British Columbia) "Random maps and their scaling limits"
  
  
• Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto) "Exact solutions in random growth and directed polymers"
  
  
  

Accommodations
See Hotels.tex for details. Financial support to attend the conference.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE
The NSF grant allows us to offer some financial support to participants from US Universities. We will give preference to graduate students, postdocs, women and minorities, and junior faculty.
Applicants for this financial support should provide:

1. a one-page letter explaining their interest in the seminar and its relation to their research interests
   
   
2. a current CV
   
   
3. graduate students and postdocs should also arrange for a letter of recommendation to be sent from their advisor or some expert familiar with their work
   
   

Materials should be sent either by e-mail (preferred) or postal mail to:

Christian Benes
Department of Mathematics
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889
CBenes <at> brooklyn.cuny.edu