Eleventh Northeast Probability Seminar The Eleventh Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) will be held at C. P. Davis Auditorium in the Schapiro Center at Columbia University on Thursday and Friday November 15th and 16th, 2012.

Details
The speakers are:

• Maury Bramson (University of Minnesota)
  "Maximal displacement of the two dimensional Gaussian free field and branching Brownian motion" abstract
• Sandra Cerrai (University of Maryland)
  "Kolmogorov equations in Banach spaces and path-wise uniqueness for stochastic partial differential equations" abstract
• Amir Dembo (Stanford University)
  "Persistence probabilities" abstract
• Alexander Soshnikov (University of California, Davis)
  "Central limit type theorem in large random matrices with independent entries" abstract

Local organizers A big thanks to the local organizers Victor de la Pena, Jose Blanchet, Fredrik Viklund, and Olympia Hadjiliadis. As well, many thanks are due to Columbia University and their Department of Statistics for hosting the event this year. 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