Title: 2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Host:   UCI
Location: IPAM building on the UCLA campus
Organizer: R. Feldman, J-P. Fouque, M. Ludkovski
Location: Doheny Beach Room B (next to the West Courtyard, room A134B on map) at the UCI Student Center (building 113 on the map).
Program:
9:45-10:00 AM Refreshments
10:00-11:00 AM J. Michael Harrison (Stanford) On the positive recurrence of semimartingale reflecting Brownian motions in three (and higher) dimensions
11:00-11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Noon Weian Zheng (UCI) How to match two pictures
12:00-12:45 PM Sebastien Roch (UCLA) Probabilistic techniques in mathematical phylogenetics
12:45- 2:15 PM Lunch
2:15-3:00 PM Ery Arias-Castro (UCSD) Detection of an abnormal cluster in a network
3:00-3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 PM Sergey Lototsky (USC) Parameter estimation in stochastic equations that are second-order in time
4:00-4:45 PM Michael Ludkovski (UCSB) A simulation approach to optimal stopping under partial information