This is a recap of the tenth Northwest Probability Seminar was a one-day mini-conference organized by the University of Washington (opens in new tab), the Oregon State University (opens in new tab), the University of British Columbia (opens in new tab), the University of Oregon (opens in new tab), and the Theory Group at Microsoft Research. Usually the conference is hosted at the University of Washington, but this year the conference was hosted at Microsoft.
Supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (opens in new tab) (MSRI),
Microsoft Research, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (opens in new tab) (PIMS).
The Birnbaum (opens in new tab) Lecture in Probability was given by Laurent Saloff-Coste (opens in new tab) (Cornell). The other speakers were Omer Angel (opens in new tab) (UBC), Eyal Lubetzky (MSR), Soumik Pal (opens in new tab) (UW), and Edward Waymire (opens in new tab) (OSU).
[Speaker photographs (opens in new tab)] [Past Birnbaum speakers (opens in new tab)]
The Scientific Committee for the 2008 NW Probability Seminar consisted of Martin Barlow (opens in new tab) (U British Columbia), Chris Burdzy (opens in new tab) (U Washington), Zhen-Qing Chen (opens in new tab) (U Washington), Yevgeniy Kovchegov (opens in new tab) (Oregon State U), David Levin (opens in new tab) (U Oregon), and Yuval Peres (Microsoft).