Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar The Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar will be held at C.P. Davis Auditorium in the Schapiro Center at Columbia University Thursday and Friday November 19th and 20th, 2009.

The seminar will be supported by an NSF grant and the Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University.

We have four invited speakers and have again made time for short (about 10 minutes), informal presentations, as at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes.

Social activities:

A reception and dinner are planned for Thursday night after the activities.

Schedule

Thursday, Nov. 19th:
Morning Session:
9:30 -	10:15 am	Registration, light refreshments
10:15 -	10:30 am	Opening Remarks
10:30 -	11:30 am	Craig Tracy (University of California, Davis)
"Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process: Integrable Structure and Limit Theorems"
11:30 -	11:45 pm	break
11:45 -	12:45 pm	Giovanni Peccati (Université Paris Ouest)
"Universality of the Gaussian Wiener chaos"
12:45 -	2:15 pm	Lunch break
Afternoon Session:
2:15 -	3:15 pm	10 minute informal talks and discussion
3:15 -	3:30 pm	break
3:30 -	4:30 pm	10 minute informal talks and discussion
5:00 -	6:00	Conference Reception
6:30 -		Conference Dinner

Friday, Nov. 20th
Morning Session:
9:30 -	10:30 am	Rick Kenyon (Brown University)
"The vector-bundle Laplacian on a graph"
10:30 -	11:00 am	Refreshments
11:00 -	Noon	Claudia Neuhauser (University of Minnesota)
"When Genealogy Meets Ecology"
Noon -	1:30 pm	Lunch break
Afternoon Session:
1:30 -	2:15 pm	10-15 minute informal talks and discussion
Including presentations by these supported postdocs and graduate students:
Vlad Vysotsky (University of Delaware) Clustering in the stochastic model of sticky particles
Jonathon Peterson (Cornell) Bridges of random walks in a random environment
Alejandro Góomez (University of Rochester) A 1 dimensional non-linear stochastic wave equation
2:15 -	2:30 pm	break
2:15 -	2:30 pm	break
2:30 -	3:30 pm	10-15 minute informal talks and discussion
Including presentations by these supported postdocs and graduate students:
Iddo Ben Ari (University of Connecticut) Perturbations to Perron Eigenvalue through
	Additive functionals: Probabilistic methods in study of positive matrices
Nate Eldredge (Cornell) Hypoelliptic heat kernels and Lévy area
Mang Wu (University of Connecticut) A Brownian motion on Diff(S1)
Sergio Pulldo (Cornell) Bubbles and Futures contracts
	in markets with short-selling constraints