New Directions in Applied Probability:
Stochastic Networks and Beyond
Edinburgh, 10-14 July 2006
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The workshop will begin in the early morning of Monday 10 July and end in the afternoon of Friday 14 July.Programme
Monday 10 July
| 08.30-09.15 | Registration |
| 09.15-09.30 | Welcome |
| 09.30-10.15 | J
Michael Harrison (Stanford University) Reflected Brownian motion in a quadrant: tail behavior of the stationary distribution |
| 10.15-10.45 | Coffee |
| 10.45-11.30 | Iain MacPhee (Durham University) Stability criteria for queueing networks |
| 11.45-12.30 | Jean Mairesse (CNRS, Université de Paris VII) Zero-automatic queues and networks |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.45 | Kostas Tsoukatos (University of Thessaly) Fairness, stability and energy efficiency in CDMA stochastic networks |
| 15.00-15.45 | Anatolii Puhalskii (CU Denver & IPPI Moscow) Large deviations of stochastic systems with discontinuous dynamics |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16.15-17.00 | Alexander Stolyar (Bell Labs) Large deviations of queues under quality-of-service scheduling algorithms |
| 17.15-18.00 | Alexander Vladimirov (Institute for Information
Transmission
Problems) The smoothing effect of certain queueing networks |
Tuesday 11 July
| 09.30-10.15 | Geoffrey Grimmett (University of Cambridge) Stochastic geometry and statistical mechanics |
| 10.15-10.45 | Coffee |
| 10.45-11.30 | Mathew Penrose (University of Bath) The random on-line nearest neighbour graph and related topics |
| 11.45-12.30 | James Martin (University of Oxford) Competition interfaces and interacting particles |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.45 | Hannu Reittu (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) On the robustness of power law random graphs |
| 15.00-15.45 | Marc Lelarge (University College Cork) Minimal spanning tree and scaling exponents |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16.15-17.00 | Wilfrid Kendall (University of Warwick) Perfect simulation: a survey |
Wednesday 12 July
| 09.30-10.15 | Onno Boxma (EURANDOM & Eindhoven University of
Technology) Queues and Lévy processes |
| 10.15-10.45 | Coffee |
| 10.45-11.30 | Denis Denisov (EURANDOM & Eindhoven University
of
Technology) Tail asymptotics for first passage times of Levy processes and random walks |
| 11.45-12.30 | Michel Mandjes (University of
Amsterdam) A fluid system with coupled input and output, and its application to bottlenecks in ad hoc networks |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-17.30 | Free afternoon |
| 17.30-18.30 | Reception at ICMS, 14 India Street |
| 19.00 | Workshop Dinner at Howies Restaurant, 29 Waterloo Place |
Thursday 13 July
| 09.30-10.15 | Sean Meyn (University of Illinois) Dynamics of prices in electric power networks |
| 10.15-10.45 | Coffee |
| 10.45-11.30 | Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Threshold behaviour for epidemics on networks |
| 11.45-12.30 | Philippe De Wilde (Heriot-Watt University) Coupled networks in the brain |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.45 | Ostap Hryniv (Durham University) Phase transition for a class of two-dependent Markov chains |
| 15.00-15.45 | Esko Valkeila (Helsinki University of Technology) An extension of Lévy's characterization theorem to fractional Brownian motion |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 16.15-17.00 | Sergey Utev (University of Nottingham) A dyadic induction blocking technique for weakly dependent random variables |
Friday 14 July
| 09.00-09.45 | Alexandre Rybko (Institute for Information Transmission
Problems) Poisson hypothesis for information networks |
| 10.00-10.45 | Ingemar Kaj (University of Uppsala) Propagation properties in a simple sensor network with Brownian mobility |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.15-12.00 | Lasse Leskelä (Centrum voor Wiskunde en
Informatica) Stochastic monotonicity properties in loss networks with repacking |
| 12.15-13.00 | Sergei Zuyev (University of Strathclyde) Stable distributions on convex cones |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
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Expected Participants
04 July 2006
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Boxma, Onno | EURANDOM & Eindhoven University of Technology |
| De Wilde, Philippe | Heriot-Watt University |
| Denisov, Denis | EURANDOM & Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Duffy, Ken | Hamilton Institute, NUIM |
| Foss, Serguei | Heriot-Watt University |
| Ganesh, Ayalvadi | Microsoft Research, Cambridge |
| Grimmett, Geoffrey | University of Cambridge |
| Halliday, Samuel | Heriot-Watt University |
| Harrison, J Michael | Stanford University |
| Hryniv, Ostap | Durham University |
| Jerrum, Mark | University of Edinburgh |
| Kaj, Ingemar | University of Uppsala |
| Kendall, Wilfrid | University of Warwick |
| Konstantopoulos, Takis | Heriot-Watt University |
| Kumar, Dinesh | INRIA |
| Lelarge, Marc | Univeristy College Cork |
| Leskelä, Lasse | Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) |
| MacPhee, Iain | Durham University |
| Mairesse, Jean | CNRS, Université de Paris VII |
| Mandjes, Michel | University of Amsterdam |
| Martin, James | University of Oxford |
| Meyn, Sean | University of Illinois |
| Moriarty, John | University College Cork |
| Norros, Ilkka | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
| Penrose, Mathew | University of Bath |
| Puhalskii, Anatolii | CU Denver & IPPI Moscow |
| Rajaniemi, Hannu | University of Edinburgh |
| Reittu, Hannu | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
| Rybko, Alexandre | Institute for Information Transmission Problems |
| Sapozhnikov, Artem | University College Cork |
| Shneer, Seva | Heriot-Watt University |
| Sousi, Perla | École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| Stolyar, Alexander | Bell Labs |
| Tsoukatos, Kostas | University of Thessaly |
| Utev, Sergey | University of Nottingham |
| Valkeila, Esko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Vladimirov, Alexander | Institute for Information Transmission Problems |
| Zachary, Stan | Heriot Watt University |
| Zuyev, Sergei | University of Strathclyde |
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