Seventh Northeast Probability Seminar The seventh Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University November 20th and 21st, 2008.

Details
Our tentative schedule is

Thursday, Nov. 20th: Room 914/912 Kimmel Center
		(60 Washington Square South)
Morning Session:
9:30 -	10:15 am	Registration, light refreshments
10:15 -	10:30 am	Opening Remarks
10:30 -	11:30 am	Marek Biskup (UCLA)
"Random conductance model"
11:30 -	11:45 pm	break
11:45 -	12:45 pm	David Aldous (University of California Berkeley)
"Spatial Random Networks"
12:45 -	2:15 pm	Lunch break
Afternoon Session:
2:15 -	3:15 pm	10-15 minute informal talks and discussion
3:30 -	4:30 pm	Presentations by supported postdocs and graduate students
Arnab Sen (UC Berkeley) Spectra of Random Trees
Ruoting Gong (GA Tech) Viscosity and Principal-Agent Problem
Sergio Almada (GA Tech) Asymptotic estimates on the exit distribution of a bounded domain for a
		small noise diffusion driven by white noise
Dongsheng Wu (Univ. Ala, Huntsville) Regularity of ILT of FBM
Bob Wooster (U Conn) Evolution systems of measures for non-autonomous SDEs
4:45 -	5:45	Conference Reception, 13th floor of the Courant Institute
6:30 -		Conference Dinner at
		DARNA
		600 Columbus Ave at 89th Str.
		212-721-9123

Friday, Nov. 21st: Room 109, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
		(251 Mercer Street)
Morning Session:
9:30 -	10:30 am	Nina Gantert, (Universität Münster )
"Asymptotics for the survival probability in a supercritical branching random walk"
10:30 -	11:00 am	Refreshments
11:00 -	Noon	Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia)
"Random walks and critical percolation"
Noon -	1:30 pm	Lunch break
Afternoon Session:
1:30 -	2:15 pm	10-15 minute informal talks and discussion
2:30 -	3:30 pm	Presentations by supported postdocs and graduate students
Mang Wu (U Conn) A Brownian motion on the group of orientation
		preserving diffeomorphisms of the unit circle.
John Mayberry (Cornell) Gaussian Perturbations of Circle Maps: A Spectral Approach
Vlad Vysotsky (Univ. of Delaware) A functional limit theorem for the position of particle moving in random medium
Alexandra Chronopoulou (Purdue) Hurst Index Estimation and Reproduction Property
		for non-Gaussian Hermite processes
George Fellouris (Columbia) Asymptotically Optimal Schemes in Decentralized Detection
Hongzhong Zhang (CUNY GC) Drawdowns and rallies in a finite time-horizon

Accommodations
See Hotels.tex for details. Financial support to attend the conference.
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:

• a one-page letter explaining their interest in the seminar and its relation to their research interests
  
  
• a current CV
  
  
• 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:

John Verzani
verzani@math.csi.cuny.edu
Department of Mathematics, 1S-215
College of Staten Island, CUNY
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, N.Y. 10314