Joint Probability Workshop

sponsored by the

Technion & the Budapest University of Technology (BUT)
together with the National Office for Research and Technology of Hungary

January 20-22, 2009

Technion, Haifa, Israel

This conference will consist of 11 one-hour talks on current themes in probability theory and stochastic processes and a special one-hour lecture on applied probability which will be geared to a more general audience, including undergraduate students.

Organizing committee:

Ross Pinsky, Eduardo Mayer-Wolf, Dmitry Ioffe, Robert Adler

Confirmed speakers:

Robert Adler (Technion), András Telcs (BUT), Rami Atar (Technion), Márton Balazs (BUT), Noam Berger (Hebrew University, Dmitri Ioffe (Technion), Eduardo Mayer-Wolf (Technion), Leonid Mytnik (Technion), Tamás Szabados (BUT), Bálint Tóth (BUT), Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute)

The detailed program:

http://www.math.technion.ac.il/cms/decade_2001-2010/year_2008-2009/probability/program.pdf

The special lecture for more general audience:

FROM STATISTICS TO PROBABILITY VIA GEOMETRY, AND BACK AGAIN

ROBERT J. ADLER

Electrical Engineering
Industrial Engineering and Management

The aim of this talk will be to describe some new and deep results in the stochastic geometry of random processes.

However, to make these results and the setting accessible to all, I shall start by briefly discussing some statistical problems related to brain mapping and to analyzing cosmic radiation data.

These problems have motivated recent results describing the geometry of stochastic processes over abstract manifolds, which I shall describe, defining everything as we go along.

At the end I will relate these results back to the original applied problems, as well as also describing some of their more mathematical implications.

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The audience it can appeal to is:

Undergraduate and graduate students in the Technion and other universities (not necessarily Mathematics students).