North-East Probability day

1 October 2014

Held at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, in CG83.

Organizers: Ostap Hryniv and Andrew Wade.

Download the poster.

These people attended the meeting.

Programme

12:50–13:30
Lunch available in CM211
13.30–14.20
John Biggins (University of Sheffield)
Branching, smoothing and endogeny
14:20–15:10
James Cruise (Heriot-Watt University)
Probabilistic consensus via polling and majority rules
15:10–15:30
Tea and coffee
15:30–16:20
Nicholas Georgiou (Durham University)
Skew-product diffusion limits for random walks with anomalous recurrence properties
16:20–17:10
Martín López-García (University of Leeds)
Random walks in ecology and cell biology