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.

   
                                SECOND ANNUAL
                        SOUTHEAST PROBABILITY DAYS

                       February 21 & 22, 1997 

                      CENTER FOR APPLIED PROBABILITY
                              Georgia Tech
                            Atlanta, Georgia


                           CONFERENCE PROGRAM

We are holding our second annual meeting of probabilists in the
Southeast.  The keynote speakers this year will be E. Cinlar and
D. W. Stroock.  Each will be giving two talks.  Professor Cinlar is
planning to speak about "Stochastic flows and mass transport;"
Professor Stroock intends to speak about "Analysis of Pathspace over
Reimannian Manifolds." 

  
The conference will be loosely structured, with opportunities for
contributed talks and an open problem session.  The main objective is to
make/renew contacts and exchange ideas.

SCHEDULE:
Friday                             
 8:30am         Coffee/Registration        
 9:00 - 10:00   E. Cinlar           
10:00 - 10:15   Break             
10:15 - 10:45   Leonid Bunimovich  
                "Localization in Lorentz Lattice Gases"
10:45 - 11:15   David McDonald
                "Connection Admission Control for Constant Bit Rate 
                Traffic at a Multi-Buffer Multiplexer using the 
                Oldest-Cell-First Discipline" 
11:15 - 11:45   William A. Massey
                "A Steady State Analysis of Regulated Markov Chains in 
                Light and Heavy Traffic"
11:45 -  2:00pm Lunch              
 2:00 -  3:00   D. W. Stroock      
 3:00 -  3:15   Break               
 3:15 -  3:45   Jin Feng 
                "Martingale Problems and Viscosity Solutions in Large 
                Deviations of Markov Processes"
 3:45 -  4:15   Volker Wihstutz
                "On the Doeblin condition for degenerate stochastic systems"
 4:15 -  4:45   Alexander Yushkevich
                "Blackwell optimality in Markov decision processes"
 6:00 -  8:00   Conference Reception/Buffet in Alumni/Faculty House

Saturday  
 8:30am         Coffee
 9:00 - 10:00   Erhan Cinlar
10:00 - 10:15   Break
10:15 - 10:45   Isaac Sonin
                "The Elimination Algorithm and Its Applications"
10:45 - 11:15   Mehdi Hoseyni-Nasab
                "Asymptotic Behavior of Coupling Times of Markovian 
                Queueing Networks"
11:15 - 11:45   P. Patrick Wang
                "Approximation of queue length probabilities of two 
                parallel queues"
11:45 -  2:00pm Lunch
 2:00 -  3:00   D. W. Stroock
 3:00 -  3:15   Break
 3:15 -  ?      Open Problem Session

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