Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium
October 23-25, 2008
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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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.
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