Title: Sixteenth Annual Southern California Probability Symposium Date: Monday, December 16, 1985 Host: UCLA Organizer: Tom Liggett Program: 1O:30-11:00 AM Coffee 11:00-11:45 AM Paul Chacon (USC) Barrier stopping times nd the filling scheme 11:50-12:35 AM Shinichi Kotani (Kyoto U.) Global and local analysis in the study of random spectra 12:40-2:00 PM Lunch 2:00-2:45 PM David Aldous (UCB) Eigenvalues and probabilities for Markov processes 2:50-3:35 PM Hermann Thorisson (Chalmers U.) On maximal and distributional coupling 3:40-4:10 PM Coffee 4:10-4:55 PM Joe Gani (UCSB) Some problems of epidemic theory