Lectures on
Probability and Stochastic Processes VII

Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre
November 30 - December 4, 2012

Tentative schedule of the workshop is as follows. The final Schedule will be announced later.

Schedule of Lectures (Each Day)
09:30-10:20 Random walks, random media and branching by Nina Gantert
10:20-10:30 Break
10:30-11:20 Random walks, random media and branching by Nina Gantert
11:20-12:00 Tea/Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Discussions with Nina Gantert (not on the last day)
12:30-13:00 Poster Session (not on the last day)
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:20 Directed trees and their limits by Anish Sarkar
15:20-15:30 Break
15:30-16:20 Directed trees and their limits by Anish Sarkar
16:20-16:30 Break
16:30-17:00 Discussions with Anish Sarkar (not on the last day)
17:00-17:30 Tea/Coffee break
17:30-18:30 Informal discussions and short presentations (not on the last day)

All the lectures will be held in the auditorium.

The schedule for posters will be announced later.



Schedule of Posters (12:30 - 13:00 Each Day)

  • November 30, 2012 (Friday):
    • Ghurumuruhan Ganesan, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre
      Title: Size of Giant Component and Infection Spread in Random Geometric Graphs
    • Anirban Ghatak, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
      Title: Spatial Games and Evolutionary Stability against Multiple Mutations
    • Mustafa Khandwawala, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: Belief Propagation for Optimal Edge-Cover in the Random Complete Graph
    • Ashok M. Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: Transitive Statistical Inference rules

  • December 01, 2012 (Saturday):
    • Kumarjit Saha, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre
      Title: Directed Spanning Forest and Brownian Web
    • Subhamoy Saha, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: Average Cost Risk Sensitive Control of Continuous Time Markov Chains on a Countable State Space
    • Tulsi A. Ram Reddy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: Recurrent Configuration in Rotor-Router Model

  • December 03, 2009 (Monday):
    • P. T. Akhil, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: Separable Concave Optimization with Application to Communication Networks
    • Debleena Thacker, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre
      Title: Pólya Urn Scheme on Infinite Graphs

All posters will be displayed on the Ground Floor Corridor in front of the class rooms leading to the auditorium.



Schedule of the Short Presentations [15 minutes] (17:30 - 18:30 Each Day Except for the Last Day)

  • November 30, 2012 (Friday):
    • Amine Asselah, University of Paris XII, Paris, France
      Title: Fleming-Viot Processes and Quasi-Stationarity
    • Sameer Kamal, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: On the Bohman Frieze Process
    • Veeraruna Kavitha, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
      Title: Analysis of Hybrid Polling Systems via Discretization

  • December 01, 2012 (Saturday):
    • Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: A Model for Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Networks
    • Sreenivasan Ravi, University of Mysore, Mysore
      Title: On an Inequality in Applied Probability
    • Koushik Saha, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
      Title: Some Problems in Joint Convergence of Random Matrices
    • Rahul Vaze, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
      Title: On Information Theoretic Secure Percolation

  • December 03, 2009 (Monday):
    • K. R. Parthasarathy, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
      Title: An Example of a k-Exchangeable but not (k+1)-Exchangeable Partially Gaussian Stationary Process
    • Steve Tanner, Eastern Oregon University, USA
      Title: Limit Theorems on Pearl Trees
    • Parthanil Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
      Title: Large Deviations for Point Processes Induced by Stable Random Fields