Workshop
Modern Applied Probability: A Workshop in Celebration of Sergey Foss’ 65th Birthday
15 - 17 May 2019
ICMS, The Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT
Programme
Meet the speakers
Venkat Anantharam
University of California
Asmussen-Sigman Duality for Monotone Recursions on Graphs and Unimodular Random Rooted Graphs
Soren Asmussen
Aarhus University
Insurance Premium Control and Game Equlibriums in Some Bayesian Contexts
Francois Baccelli
University of Texas at Austin
Wireless Birth and Death Processes
Onno Boxma
TU Eindhoven
On Two Classes of Reflected Stochastic Processes
Mikhail Chebunin
Novosibirsk State University
Spatially Decentralized Protocols in Random Multiple Access Networks
Natalia Chernova
Novosibirsk State University Denis Denisov
University of Manchester Sergey Foss
Heriot-Watt University Sergey Zuyev
Chalmers University of Technology
Self-decomposable Point Processes and Limit Theorems for Superpositions
Maria Frolkova
CWI Amsterdam Peter Glynn
Stanford University Jennie Hansen
Heriot-Watt University
Structural Transition in Random Mappings via Urn Schemes
Takis Konstantopoulos
University of Liverpool
Probabilistic and Combinatorial Analysis of a Simple Computer Security Model
Dima Korshunov
Lancaster University
Strong Law of Large Numbers for Function of Local Times of Transient Random Walkin
Nelly Litvak
University of Twente
Local Weak Convergence for PageRank
Masakiyo Miyazawa
Tokyo University of Science
A Martingale View of Blackwell’s Renewal Theorem and its Extensions to a General Counting Process
Ilya Molchanov
University of Bern
Scale Invariant Stochastic Processes Arising from General Iterative Schemes
Thomas Mountford
EPFL
Many Greedy Servers in a Poisson Environment
Zbygniew Palmowski
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Persistence of Heavy-Tailed Sample Averages Occurs by Infinitely Many Jumps
Kavita Ramanan
Brown University Tomasz Rolski
University of Wroclaw
Remarks on the Concept of Scale Functions
Sasha Stolyar
University of Illinois
Join-Idle-Queue with Service Elasticity: Stability and Asymptotics
Vitali Wachtel
Universität Augsburg
Persistence of AR(1)-sequences}
Ilze Ziedins
University of Auckland Bert Zwart
CWI Amsterdam and TU Eindhoven
Cascading Failures in Power Grids and Heavy Tails
Guenter Last
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Doubly Stable Queueing Systems in Space
Seva Shneer
Heriot-Watt University
Stability Conditions for a Discrete-Time Decentralised Medium Access Algorithm
Istvan Gyongy
University of Edinburgh
On Itô’s Formula for Jump Processes
Artem Kovalevskii
Novosibirsk State Technical University
An Elementary Probabilistic Model of Literary Texts and Poissonization
