Title: 2011 Southern California Probability Symposium 
Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011
Host:   USC
Location: Kaprelian Hall at USC
Organizer: Ken Alexander and Peter Baxendale
Program:
9:15 - 9:50 AM Refreshments
10:00 - 10:45 AM Oren Louidor  (UCLA) Mixing time analysis of the Glauber dynamics for the Curie-Weiss Potts Model [http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/abs_louidor.html Abstract]
10:45 - 11:00 AM Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 AM Jin Ma  (USC) Recent developments on forward-backward stochastic differential equations [http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/abs_ma.html Abstract]
11:45 - 1:45  PM Lunch
1:45 - 2:30   PM Rohini Kumar  (UCSB) Small time asymptotics for fast mean-reverting stochastic volatility models [http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/abs_kumar.html Abstract]
2:35 - 3:20 PM Jim Pitman (UC Berkeley) Concave majorants of random walks and Lévy processes [http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/abs_pitman.html Abstract]
3:20 - 3:45   PM Coffee break
3:45 - 4:30   PM Todd Kemp  (UCSD) Chaos and the fourth moment [http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/abs_kemp.html Abstract]
4:30 - 5:30   PM Reception to Celebrate Tom Liggett's Two-Thirds of a Century Birthday
6:00          PM      Dinner