FROM CLASSICAL TO MODERN PROBABILITY

CIMPA SUMMER SCHOOL

Temuco, January 8-26, 2001

e-mail:cimpa@dim.uchile.cl

General Information
The School will take place at the Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile (Avenida Francisco Salazar 01145).
This summer school is aimed to graduate, advanced undergraduate and young doctors interested in probability theory.
There will be courses on:
  • Random surfaces
  • Probabilistic method in kinetic theory
  • Stochastic spin systems
  • First passage percolation
  • Particles systems
  • Random trees and spatial branching processes
  • Concentration of measure phenomenon.

Schedule
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3

Invited Lecturers
Erwin Bolthausen, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich
Pierre Collet, École Polytechnique
Claude Dellacherie, Université de Rouen
Anna De Masi, Universitá de L'Aquila
Harry Kesten, Cornell University
Claudio Landim, IMPA and CNRS, Rouen
Jean-François Le Gall, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Michel Ledoux, Université Paul Sabatier
Isaac Meilijson, Tel-Aviv University, Centro de Modelamiento Matemático

Organizing Committee
Pierre Picco, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille
Jaime San Martín, Universidad de Chile

Local Committee
César Burgueño, Universidad de La Frontera

Scientific Committee
Claude Dellacherie, Université de Rouen
Pablo Ferrari, Universidade de São Paulo
Servet Martínez, Universidad de Chile

Financial Support
There are some fellowships, travel supports and living expenses, specially for Chilean and Latinoamerican students.
Qualifying individuals send a registration and curriculum vitae, deadline October 30, 2000, to the secretary of the school:
Gladys Cavallone
e-mail: cimpa@dim.uchile.cl
Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática
Universidad de Chile
Casilla 170, correo 3
Santiago, Chile
Telephone: 56-2-6711530, Fax: 56-2-6883821.

Sponsors
Cátedra Presidencial, CIMPA, CNRS, CONICYT, ECOS, FONDAP, French Cooperation, Fundación Andes, Universidad de Chile, Universidad de La Frontera.

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