Overview
As part of the Homi Bhabha Centenary Celebrations we are planning to have a school and a workshop on Stochastic Methods: Analysis and Algorithms at TIFR from September 2 to 5, 2009. .
Short Courses
The first three days (Sep 2-4) we will have three short courses (each of five hour duration) conducted by:
- Venkat Anantharam, Professor, UC Berkeley
Topic: Information Theory - Soren Asmussen, Professor of Applied Probability, Aarhus University
Topic: Risk and Dependence - Peter W Glynn, Thomas W. Ford Professor, Stanford University:
Topic: Introduction to SDEs: Numerics, Statistics, and Control
The lectures would be aimed at doctoral students and will assume a basic mathematical background.
Workshop
On September 5, we will have research seminars by the above visitors as well as the following speakers
- Professor Gopal Basak, ISI Kolkata
- Professor M. K. Ghosh, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Professor Rahul Roy, ISI Delhi,