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The Twenty-Ninth Midwest Probability Colloquium will be held at Northwestern University
on October 19-20, 2007.  The local organizer of this year's colloquium is Mark Pinsky
(Northwestern University). The scientific program was organized by the following committee
elected at the last year's meeting at Northwestern University:

        Maury Bramson               (University of Minnesota)
        Gregory Lawler (chair)      (University of Chicago)
        Lea Popovic                 (Cornell University)

This year's program will feature the following speakers:

       Chris Burdzy (University of Washington) 
             Lecture I:  Branching Brownian Motion and Potential Theory in Euclidean Domains (abstract)
             Lecture II: Reflected Brownian Motion (abstract)

       Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA-Instituo Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)
        Growth systems with columnar defects and the polymer pinning problem (one lecture) (abstract)

       Eulalia Nualart (Université Paris XIII)

             Potential Theory and Stochastic Heat Equations (one lecture) (abstract)

In addition, we are hosting a Thursday's program on Hydrodynamic Limits, presented by
S.R.S. Varadhan (Courant Institute) and Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto). 

Please visit Northwestern University Travel Guide

Taxi services:

Norshore Cab 1-847-864-7500

303 Taxi 1-800-CALL-303

American Taxi 1-847-272-8000

Rooms have been reserved at three different location this year. 
 
 a. The Homestead Residence		1625 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208  	847-475-3300	

 b. Best Western University Plaza 	1501 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208 	847-491-6400 	

 c. Comfort Inn Northshore Skokie       9333 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077         847-679-4200  \

 d. Hotel Orrington                     1710 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201       888-677-4648 

The rooms at The Homestead Residence are $85.00 a day, which includes parking and 
breakfast. They can provide us with a total of 30 rooms each day for Thursday, 
Friday, and Saturday on the first-come first served basis. The cutoff date 
is October 1.
      
Best Western University Plaza is located a bit further from the campus, on 
Sherman Avenue just south of Grove St. They quoted a rate of $120 and the 
cutoff date of September 27. 

The Comfort Inn, which is located in Skokie, quotes a group rate of $104 and 
will provide van service to and from the meeting. 

Hotel Orrington agrees to block 30 rooms and quotes a rate of $149 for single and
double rooms. It has the cutoff date of September 27.

The above hotel information is subject to change. For the most recent hotel information 
please visit this website again. 

We expect to be able to supplement the room rates by conference funds, 
as we have done in the past. Please note that, when making reservations, 
IT IS ESSENTIAL to give the name of the group: Midwest Probability 
Colloquium, in order to be included in the list for possible 
reimbursement; otherwise your name may be lost among a large group of
unaffiliated hotel guests. 

As in the past, we expect to have NSF funds to offset the expenses of 
graduate students and other younger investigators. All such requests
should be received by the conference organizer (Mark Pinsky) on or before 
October 1, in order to be eligible for consideration. In every case, first 
consideration will be given to chronological priority.