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MBM Probability Days will be held on May 19 and May 20, 2018, at the Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences (IMBM), Boğaziçi University. The purposes of the meeting are: - to get engaged with people working on probability theory and related fields, - to give the students the chance to see several new topics and meet probability related people in Istanbul. - to have various expository seminars discussing certain topics in classical and modern probability theory,
PROGRAM
May 19
09:30- Mine Çağlar (Koç University): An Introduction to Levy processes 10:45- Mohan Ravichandran (Mimar Sinan University): Suprema of Gaussian processes and applications 12:00-13:15 Lunch 13:15- Mehmet Akif Yıldız (Boğaziçi University): Hitting times, cover times and random walks on graphs 14:30- Murad Ramanovski (Koç University): Density dependent jump Markov processes and epidemic models 15:15- Arda Akdemir (Boğaziçi University): Search engines and NLP around Pagerank and LexRank 16:00- Sonya Javadi (Sabancı University): Probability and philosophy 16:45- Ümit Işlak (Boğaziçi University) Stein's method and exchangeable pairs
May 20
9:30- Hakan Kalaycı (Boğaziçi University) The Lovasz Local Lemma: Applications & A constructive proof 10:45- Sinan Yıldırım (Sabancı University): Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods 12:00-13:15 Lunch 13:15- Taylan Cemgil (Boğaziçi University): Poisson Process, graphical models and non-negative matrix factorization 14:30- Ella Hiesmayr (Koç University): Stein's method and distributional approximations for hitting times 15:15- Bora Örgen (Boğaziçi University) Introduction to branching processes and Mandelbrot percolation 16:00- Özgür Asar (Acıbadem University) Statistical modelling for population and personalised health 16:45- Ümit Işlak (Boğaziçi University): Backward processes and convergence rates for Markov chains

Ümit Işlak: umit.islak1@boun.edu.tr