Thursday
Friday
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Markov Processes and Markov Decision Processes
* Point Processes
* Particle Systems
* Stochastic Geometry
* Stochastic Comparison
* Stochastic Control and Games
* Discrete Event Systems
* Queueing Networks and Stochastic Petri Nets
* Fluid Models
* Large Deviations and Extreme Values
* Financial Engineering
* E-Commerce
* Insurance and Financial Models
* Probabilistic Models in Biology and Medicine
* Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems
* Modeling of Manufacturing Systems
* Modeling of Transportation Systems
* Inference for Stochastic Models
* Stochastic Simulation
* Perturbation Analysis
* Applications of Stochastic Differential Equations
* Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization
* Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms
* Stochastic Scheduling
* Reliability, Risk and Survival Analysis
Plenary Speakers include
* John Hull (U. Toronto, Canada. Director, Bonham Centre for Finance),
author of "Options, Futures and other Derivatives".
* Tom Leighton (MIT, Akamai.com)
* Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale U., IBM Research)
* Ward Whitt (AT&T Labs-Research)