Title: Twenty-seventh Annual Southern California Probability Symposium Date: Saturday/Sunday, November 16-17, 1996 Host: CalTech (joint with AMS meeting) Organizer: Tom Liggett Program: 9:00-9:35 AM Ken Alexander (USC) The asymmetric random cluster model and comparisons among Potts models 9:40-10:15 AM Alan Stacey (UCLA) A strict inequality between site and bond critical probabilities 10:20-10:55 AM Robert Burton (Oregon State U.) Mixing and determinism in random fields 2:00-3:00 PM Roberto Schonmann (UCLA) The Ising model in recent years: Wulff droplets, metastability, and strong mixing properties 3:30-4:05 PM Peter Baxendale (USC) Almost sure mixing for stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms 4:10-4:45 PM Janko Gravner (UC Davis) Properties of critical threshold growth dynamics 4:50-5:25 PM David Aldous (UCB) Deterministic and stochastic models for coalescence: A survey of the mean field theory 9:00-9:15 AM Uri Keich (CalTech) A possible definition of a stationary tangent process 9:20-9:35 AM Vladimir Piterbarg (USC) Convergence of rescaled isotropic flows to a coalescing flow 9:40-9:55 AM Amber Puha (UCLA) Critical values for reversible growth models on trees 10:00-10:15 AM Francis Su (Harvey Mudd) Rates of convergence for random walks on $S^1$ and $S^2$ 10:20-10:35 AM Sherry Masooman (UCI) High temperature and strong magnetic field phases of long range random Ising models 10:40-10:55 AM Intae Jeon (Ohio State U.) Gelation phenomena