“Frontier Probability Days 2016” (FPD’16) is a regional workshop, taking place at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT on May 9-11, 2016. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the US.
Plenary Speakers:
- Mu-Fa Chen (Beijing Normal University)
- Alan Hammond (University California, Berkeley)
- Kay Kirkpatrick (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Tai Melcher (University of Virginia)
- Soumik Pal (University of Washington)
- Sebastien Roch (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University)
- Bálint Virág (University of Toronto)
Registration is required but is free.
Travel and lodging expenses may be partially covered from a grant from the National Science Foundation. If you would like to be considered for financial support, fill out a registration form before April 1, 2016 and check the corresponding button. See the Support page for more information.
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are especially encouraged to apply.
Organizers:
Tom Alberts,
Davar Khoshnevisan,
Firas Rassoul-Agha (U Utah),
Sunder Sethuraman (U Arizona),
Edward C Waymire (Oregon State).