Thirty First Midwest Probability Colloquium
October 15-17, 2009
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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The Thirty First Midwest
Probability Colloquium will be held at Northwestern University
on October 15-17, 2009. The
local organizer of this year's colloquium is
Mark Pinsky (Northwestern University)
The Tutorial Program is organized by
Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
Elton Hsu (Northwestern University)
Mark Pinsky (Northwestern University)
The Research Program is organized by the following committee
elected at the last year's
meeting at Northwestern University:
Robert Anderson (chair) (University of
North Carolina at Charlotte)
Krishna Athreya (Iowa
State University)
Robert Neel
(Lehigh
University)
This year's Colloquium will feature
the following speakers:
Tutorial Program (October 15)
Terry Lyons (Oxford University)
Rough Paths and Their Signatures, I & II (abstract)
Tom Cass (Cambridge University)
Applications of Rough Path Theory to Hormander's Theorem
and Mathematical Models for Evolving Communities (abstract)
Research Program (October 16-17)
Joel Spencer (New York University)
I. 78 Years (and Counting!) of Ramsey R(3,k)
II. Sieving a Needle From Lovasz's Exponential Haystack (abstract)
Maury Bramson (University of Minnesota) Stability Criteria and Applications for Load Balancing in Many-Server Queues (abstract)
Sunder Sethuraman (Iowa State University) Nonequilibrium Behaviors of a Tagged Particle in an Interacting Systems (abstract)
Please visit Northwestern University Travel Guide for general travel information.
Taxi services:
Norshore Cab 1-847-864-7500
303 Taxi 1-800-CALL-303
American Taxi 1-847-272-8000
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.
b. Best Western University Plaza 1501 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208 847-491-6400
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.
c. Comfort Inn Northshore Skokie 9333 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077 847-679-4200
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.
d. Hotel Orrington 1710 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201 888-677-4648
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.
e. Northshore Doubletree Skokie 9599 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077 847-329-4324
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. In some cases, we can supplement travel costs up to $250 per person. Requests will be organized at the end of the summer.
All such requests should be received by the conference organizer (Mark Pinsky) on or before October 1 by email or by online registration (soon to be available) in order to be eligible for consideration. In every case, first consideration will be given to chronological priority.
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