About the Northeast Probability Seminar The Northeast Probability Seminar aims to be an annual event held in the Fall in New York City as a regional conference in probability drawing together participants from the numerous instititutions in the Northeast. There have been six previous Northeast Probability Seminars. The first was supported by CUNY faculty development funds and was held November 21 and 22 2002. The speakers were:

• Zhan Shi, University of Paris VI

  "Clustering in a self-gravitating gas"

  
  
  
• Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington

  "Lyapunov exponent for reflected Brownian motion"

  
  
  
• Richard Bass, University of Connecticut

  "Stability of parabolic Harnack inequalities"

  
  
  
• Shaul Foguel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

  "Markov Processes - Markov Operators"

  
  
  
• Greg Lawler, Cornell University

  "Conformal Restriction Properties"

  
  
  
• Wenbo V. Li, University of Delaware

  "On the positivity exponent of random polynomials"

The second seminar (called the first for funding reasons) was again supported by CUNY faculty development funds was held November 20 and 21st, 2003. The invited speakers were:

• Nathalie Eisenbaum Université Paris, VI
  "On the infinite divisibility of squared Gaussian processes"
  
  
• Jim Fill The Johns Hopkins University
  "Asymptotic Analysis via Mellin Transforms for Small Deviations in L²-norm of Integrated Brownian Sheets"
  
  
• Ofer Zeitouni University of Minnesota and Technion
  "Central Limit Theorems for Random Walk in Mixing Random Environment."
  
  
• Yimin Xiao Michigan State University
  "Potential Theory of Additive Lévy Processes, Capacity and Hausdorff Dimension"
  
  

The third seminar was supported by the NSF and CUNY faculty development funds and was held November 4th and 5th, 2004. The invited speakers were:

• Peter Mörters, University of Bath
  "The multifractal spectrum of Brownian intersection local times"
  
  
• Oded Schramm, Microsoft
  "Dynamic percolation, exceptional times, and harmonic analysis of boolean functions"
  
  
• Sylvie Méléard, Université Paris X
  "A probabilistic approach for nonlinear equations involving the fractional Laplacian"
  
  
• Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University
  "The singularity/absolute continuity dichotomy for Brownian motions on compact groups and related problems"
  
  

The fourth Northeast Probability Seminar was supported by the NSF and held at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences at New York University on November 17-18, 2005. The invited speakers were:

• Sergey Bobkov, University of Minnesota
  "Randomized limit theorems for sums of dependent random variables"
  
  
• Pablo Ferrari, Universidade de Sao Paulo
  "Multiclass processes, dual points and multitype customer queues"
  
  
• Michael Cranston, University of California, Irvine
  "Behavior of Solutions of the Parabolic Anderson Model"
  
  



• Alice Guionnet, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
  "Random matrices and combinatorics of maps"
  
  

The fifth Northeast Probabilitt Seminar was supported by the NSF with special co-sponsors The Center for Applied Probability at Columbia University (CAP) and The Department of Statistics at Columbia (http://www.stat.columbia.edu.) It was held in the C.P. Davis Hall, Schapiro Center at Columbia University. The invited speakers were

• Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft) Ëpidemics in Technological and Social Networks: The Downside of Six Degrees of Separation"
  
  
• Rodrigo Bañuelos (Purdue University) "Finite dimensional distributions of Brownian motion and stable processes"
  
  
• Christian Houdré (Georgia Tech) "Problems and Theorems in Sequence Comparison"
  
  
• Yuval Peres (University of California, Berkeley and Microsoft). "Matching and Gravitational Allocation for Poisson Processes"
  
  

The sixth Northeast Probability Seminar was again supported by the NSF and held at the CUNY Graduate Center November 15 and 16 2007. The main speakers were

• Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia)
  
  
• Mireille Bousquet-Melou (Universite Bordeaux)
  
  
• Thomas Liggett (UCLA)
  
  
• Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University).
  
  

The seminar has received 3-years of support from the NSF so leave a spot in your calendar in November from 2008 through 2010.