Announcement

Following the previous seven AProC meetings [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8], we are again organizing this year’s one-day event, centered around three top-quality talks in probability and its interface with other active areas of current research activity. The main aim is to bring together all near-Athens-based researchers in probability and related areas of mathematics and applications.

All interested faculty, post-docs and students are welcome and encouraged to attend

The talks are intended for a general (math/stat) audience and will be accessible to students without particular expertise in the specific areas of the topics discussed. Also, there will be ample time for free interaction and discussion among the participants.

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Location

Schedule

All talks will take place in Auditorium of the Library of the School of Philosophy on the University of Athens campus

On Saturday, January 13, 2024

11:10-12:10	Aggeliki Menegaki (Imperial College London)	Abstract TBA
12:10-13:00	coffee break	coffee break
13:00-14:00	Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto)	Abstract TBA
14:00-15:30	lunch	lunch
15:30-16:30	Victor Panaretos (EPFL)	Abstract TBA

After the last talk, there will be another coffee break to wrap up, get yet another chance to chat and say goodbye

Arrangements for coffee and refreshments will be made locally by the organizers. Lunch will be provided at the University Cafeteria, at a cost of €3 per person

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Speakers

Aggeliki Menegaki is a Chapman Fellow at Imperial College London, where she is affiliated with the Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics department. She works on partial differential equations and mathematical physics. Her research interests include in particular non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, wave kinetic theory, functional inequalities and hydrodynamical limits.

Jeremy Quastel is a Professor at the University of Toronto. He is a specialist in probability theory, stochastic processes and partial differential equations. His research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations, recently concentrating on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, where he and collaborators discovered the first exact solutions of the KPZ equation, the polymer endpoint distribution, and, more recently the general solution of the model TASEP, and through it the fixed point of the universality class. He was an invited session speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2010), gave the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011) and St. Flour lectures (2012) and was plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics (2012). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2021) and won the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018) and the Jeffery-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society (2019).

Victor Panaretos is a Full Professor of mathematical statistics at EPFL. He works at the interface of nonparametric statistics, random processes, and stochastic geometry. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was a recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award in 2010, and the 2019 Bernoulli Society Forum Lecturer.

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RSVP

There is NO registration fee and everyone interested is welcome to participate. But we ask, for planning purposes, that you please let us know that you plan to attend by completing the

RSVP form

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Organizers:

Dimitris Cheliotis (ΕΚΠΑ)

Lampros Gavalakis (U Gustave Eiffel)

Ioannis Kontoyiannis (U of Cambridge)

Michalis Loulakis (ΕΜΠ)

The colloquium is supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant” (Project SCALINCS - #1034).