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The Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium will be held at Northwestern University
on October 23-25, 2008.  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:

        Julien Dubedat              (University of Chicago)
        Joseph Quinn (chair)        (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
        Ananda Weerasinghe          (Iowa State University)

This year's program will feature the following speakers:

       Jean-Francois Le Gall (University of Paris)

		The Continuous Limit of Large Random Planar Graphs, I & II (abstract)

       Alexei Borodin (California Institute of Technology)

		Growth of Random Surfaces (abstract)

       Savas Dayanik (Princeton University)

		Sequential Change Detection and Identification Problems for Stochastic Processes (abstract)

In addition, we will host a Thursday's program on Fractional Brownian motion, presented by
David Nualart (University of Kansas) and Fabrice Baudoin (Purdue University). 

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 

 e. Northshore Doubletree Skokie 	9599 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077         847-329-4324 

The rooms at The Homestead Residence are $95.00 a day, which includes parking and 
breakfast. They can provide us with a total of 20 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 (formerly Holiday Inn) is located a bit further from
the campus, on Sherman Avenue just south of Grove St. They quoted a rate of $149 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. Their cutoff date is October 10.

Hotel Orrington agrees to block off 40 rooms and quotes a rate of $149 for single and
double rooms. Sharing a room can reduce the effective cost to each person. 

The Northshore Doubletree is also located in Skokie, at the corner of Golf Road 
and Skokie Blvd. They quoted a group rate of $124.00 including breakfast, but their 
van service is not complimentary.

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.