Southern California Probability Symposium

This year's Southern California Probability Symposium will be special in two ways. First, it will be held Sunday February 11, 2007, at USC, in place of its usual December date. Second, and more important, it will be held in memory of Ted Harris, including a special lunch event from 12:00 - 1:30. Speakers will include:

• David Aldous (U.C. Berkeley), "Probability and Spatial Networks"
• Peter Baxendale (USC), "Stirring processes and random sources for stochastic flows"
• Tom Liggett (UCLA), "Correlation Inequalities and the Contact Process: Ted Harris and Beyond"
• Nikolaos Zygouras (USC), "Lyapounov norms for random walks in a random potential and dimension greater than three"

There will also be short non-technical presentations at the luncheon about Ted's life and career. We have not received many updates to the email list. Please reply with additions--graduate students, former graduate students with new addresses, postdocs, and new faculty who would not have been on the list a year ago. Please forward this announcement to these new additions to the list, in your department.

This year's organizers are Ken Alexander (alexandr@usc.edu), Richard Arratia (rarratia@usc.edu), and Peter Baxendale (baxendal@usc.edu).