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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Diaconis Conference

UCSD

The Mathematics of Persi Diaconis

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\parindent=0pt {\bf SCHEDULE Thursday, January 27, 2005} Natural Sciences Building, Room 1205 1:30-2:00 p.m.: Registration 2:05-2:15 p.m.: Welcoming remarks 2:15-3:15 p.m.: Susan Holmes, "Even Odds" 3:15-4:00 p.m.: Refreshment Break 4:00-5:00 p.m.: Ron Graham, "Unfinished Business" \vskip .1in \parindent=0pt {\bf Friday, January 28, 2005} Natural Sciences Building, Room 1205 9:30-10:30 a.m.: Eric Rains, "Random Matrix Perturbations" 10:30-11:15 a.m.: Refreshment Break 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Laurent Saloff-Coste, "Some Problems Concerning Gaussian Convolution Semigroups on Compact Groups" 12:15-1:45 p.m.: Lunch Break (on your own) 1:45-2:45 p.m.: Donald Ylvisaker, "Lotteries" 2.45-3:30 p.m.: Refreshment Break 3:30-5:00 p.m.: Open session to discuss connections with Diaconis' work 5:30-6:30 p.m.: No host bar, UCSD Faculty Club 6:30 p.m.: Conference Dinner, UCSD Faculty Club (\$25 per person -- prepayment required by January 12, 2005). \vskip .1in \parindent=0pt {\bf Saturday, January 29, 2005} Center Hall, Room 115 (note change of room from that on Thursday and Friday) 9:30-10:30 a.m.: Robin Pemantle, "Multivariate asymptotics (why probabilists need to know math)" 10:30-11:00 a.m.: Refreshment Break 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon: Barry Mazur, "It is a Story" 12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.: Lunch Break (on your own) 2:00-3:00 p.m.: David Aldous, "Constrained Ising Models: From One-Dimensional Theory to Storage in Ad Hoc Networks" 3:00-3:30 p.m.: Break 3:30-4:30 p.m.: Persi Diaconis, "A Few of My Favorite Things"

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January 27, 2005

12:30 PM

1205 NSB

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