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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4
9:30 Welcome: John Rice
9:40-10:20 Larry Shepp: Revelations of some problems of Lester
10:20 Coffee
10:40-11:20 Idris Assani: Convergence of weighted averages
11:25-12:00 David Aldous: Up The River to Self Organized Criticality
12:00 Lunch
2:00-2:35 Elwyn Berlekamp: Team hat-guessing problems
2:40-3:20 Tom Ferguson: Gleason's Game
3:20 Tea (and transfer to room 60, Evans Hall)
3:45-4:05 Leo Breiman: Remarks on working with David Blackwell (In room 60, Evans Hall)
4:10-4:55 Persi Diaconis: A gem from Lester (In room 60 Evans Hall)
5:00-7:30 Reception at Women's faculty club, including:
[6:00 Remarks by former students of D. Blackwell and L. Dubins]
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
9:30-10:05 Yuval Peres: New coins from old; computing with unknown bias
10:05 Coffee
10:30-11:10 David Gilat: From Hardy and Littlewood, via Doob, to Blackwell and Dubins, and beyond.
11:20-12:00 Tom Salisbury: The complement of the Planar Brownian path
12:00 Lunch
2:00-2:40 Ted Hill: Games and gambling; cake-cutting and convexity.
2:45-3:30 Francis Su: Fair Division using Combinatorial Topology
3:30 Tea
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
9:30-10:10 Benjamin Weiss: Universal prediction of stationary processes
10:10 Coffee
10:30-11:10 Meir Smorodinsky: On two ways of encoding a process from an i.i.d process
11:15-11:50 Amir Dembo: Coupling, information inequalities and concentration of measure
12:00 Lunch
2:00-2:35 Jack Feldman: Continuous martingales and Brownian motion.
2:40-3:20 Isaac Meilijson: On stability for optimization problems
3:20-3:40 Tea
3:40-4:15 Dana Randall: Random Dyadic Tilings of the Unit Square
4:20-4:55 Jim Pitman: The Chinese restaurant process
4:55 Closing
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21 March 2002
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