Title: Eighth Annual Southern California Probability Symposium Date: Monday, December 19, 1977 Host: UCLA Organizer: Tom Liggett Program: 1O:3O-11:OO AM Coffee 11:00-11:4O AM Ronald Getoor (UCSD) Excursions of a Markov Process 11:5O-12:30 PM Theodore Cox (USC) Entrance Laws and Markov Processes with Time Parameter $(-\infty,+\infty)$ 12:3O-2:00 PM Lunch 2:00-2:4O PM Philip Protter (Princeton) $H^p$ Stability of solutions of stochastic differential equations 2:50-3:30 PM Charles Stone (UCLA) Potential theory for recurrent symmetric infinitely divisible processes 3:30-4:O0 PM Coffee 4:0O-4:40 PM Theodore Harris (USC) Random flows in the plane induced by stochastic differential equations