If you plan to attend the conference even if you're not speaking, please let Lorraine (lshaw@isye.gatech.edu) know so that we can accurately estimate amount of refreshments and food for the breaks and reception.

   
                                FIRST ANNUAL
                        SOUTHEAST PROBABILITY DAYS

                        September 29 and 30, 1995

                      CENTER FOR APPLIED PROBABILITY
                              Georgia Tech
                            Atlanta, Georgia


                           CONFERENCE PROGRAM


Friday, September 29, 1995

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Registration / Coffee
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	L. Shepp (Bell Labs) "Tomography
			as an Application of Probability"
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Discussion / Questions
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Jerzy Szulga and Fred Molz (Auburn University) "The 
			Weierstrass-Mandelbrot Function Revisited"
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Leonid A. Bunimovich (Georgia Tech) 
			"Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorems on Diffusion and
			Viscosities"
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Shen Zheng and Andrew F. Seila (University of Georgia)
			"An Optimal Allocation Procedure for Estimating Mean 
			Waiting Time in M/M/1 Queues"
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Coffee Break
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Peter Kiessler (Clemson) "Markov renewal processes 
			with slowly varying covariance functions"
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Jan Rosinski (University of Tennessee) "Concentration
			Inequality for Random Multilinear Forms with 
			Applications to 0-1 Laws for Levy Chaos"

Saturday, September 30, 1995

 9:00 am - 10:00 am	Coffee
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Larry Shepp (Bell Labs) "Some Diffusions Arising on 
			Graphs"
11:00 am - 11:15 am	Discussion / Questions
11:30 am - 12:00	Fengzhu Sun (Emory University) "Mutations in 
			Polymerase Chain Reaction"
12:00 am - 12:30 pm	Pawel Hitczenko (North Carolina State University) 
			"Sharp Inequalities for Moments ofRandomly Stopped 
			Sums of Independent Variables"
12:30 pm -  2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm -  3:00 pm	Open Problem Session
3:00 pm -  3:30 pm	Nikolai Chernov (University of Alabama) "Limit 
			Theorems and Markov Approximations for Chaotic 
			Dynamical Systems"
3:30 pm -  4:00 pm	Jie Xiong (University of Tennessee) "Some Properties 
			for a System of Conuclear Space Valued Diffusions with
			Mean-Field Interaction"
4:00 pm -  4:15 pm	Break
4:15 pm -  4:45 pm	William McCormick (University of Georgia) "A Geometric
			Approach for Extremes for a Class of Random Fields"
4:45 pm -  5:15 pm	Ted Hill (Georgia Tech) "Alternative Empirical 
			Distribution Functions"


Talks will be held at the Student Services Building on campus (next to the
Student Center), Room 117.

Half hour talks should include 5-10 minutes for questions.  In the Open
Problem Session, participants are invited to describe briefly (5 minutes)
their favorite problem.

An informal buffet will be held at Ted Hill's house (on campus) Friday
evening. Maps will be available at the conference registration table.

Directions and a list of participants will be forthcoming.

More information about this conference and the Center for Applied
Probability at Georgia Tech can also be found on web page at 
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~dai/cap


                                HOTEL SUGGESTIONS

Days Inn, 683 Peachtree St., NE, (404)874-9200, $69/single, $79/double.

Renaissance Hotel, W. Peachtree St., (404)881-6000, $89/single.

Mariott Courtyard, 1132 Techwood Dr., (404)607-1112, $75/single weekdays,
$69/single weekends.

Villager Lodge, Downtown 144 14th St., NW, (404)873-4171, $43/single,
$48/double.

--------------------
Lorraine V. Shaw
Voice: (404) 894-9317
Fax: (404) 894-2301
lshaw@isye.gatech.edu