The Cincinnati Symposium on Probability Theory and Applications 2009 will
take place March 20-23, 2009 at the University of Cincinnati, and is part
of a year-long research seminar in probability theory sponsored by the
Charles Phelps Taft Research Center. The Symposium will serve as a forum
for dissemination and exchange of ideas, questions, and approaches in some
active research areas in probability theory, focusing on high impact areas
chosen because of their scientific and practical interest as well as to
their relationship with other fields. These areas are
- New advances in studying the structure of a stochastic process
via a
martingale approximation, connections to ergodic theory;
- Limit theorems and applications in statistics, finance, and
statistical inference for random processes which may exhibit strong or
long-range dependence, nonlinearity, heavy tails and other features;
- Probability Theory in DNA Forensics;
- Large-dimensional random matrices.
A unique feature of our symposium is a series of four talks by experts on
forensic genomics. These talks will introduce graduate students and junior
faculty to an emerging and exciting area of mathematical biology which
relies on sophisticated probabilistic techniques. By combining together
four fairly focused research areas, we also expect to foster interactions
between specialists in limit theorems, random matrices, and the
researchers who apply probabilistic methods to Forensic Genomics.
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