II ESCOLA BRASILEIRA DE PROBABILIDADE

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Projeto Tematico da FAPESP 95/0790-1 "Fenomenos Criticos em Processos Evolutivos e Sistemas em Equilibrio" - Nucleo de Excelencia (Pronex 41.96.0923.00) ``Fenomenos Criticos em Probabilidade e Processos Estocasticos''

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BARRA DO SAHY - SAO PAULO - AUGUST 2-7, 1998

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Hotel Aldeia de Sahy - Rua Adelino Tavares, 64 - Sao Sebastian - SP - Brasil

Tel : (012) 463 63 66 - Fax: (012) 463 66 57 - Tel (Sao Paulo): (011) 822 1777

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The school is intended as a forum to discuss new developments in probability and related areas, and an opportunity to detect new directions of research and to establish new collaborations. Activities will include three mini courses, plenary talks - with emphasis in problems from other areas - and short talks by researchers of different Brazilian groups.

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Minicourses

• P. Ney (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) : Topics in large deviations for Markov chains.
• C. Landim (IMPA, RJ) : Topics on the hydrodynamical limit.
• A. Klein (Univ. of California, Irvine) ; Localization of classical waves.

Scientific Commitee

• Chang Dorea (Univ. de Brasilia)
• Roberto Fernandez (USP)
• Pablo Ferrari (USP)
• Antonio Galves (USP)
• Arnaldo Nogueira (UFRJ)
• Enzo Olivieri (Univ. di Roma II 'Tor Vergata')
• Pierre Picco (CNRS, Marseille)
• Maria Eulalia Vares (IMPA, RJ)

Organizing Commitee

• Xavier Bressaud (IME-USP)
• Roberto Fernandez (IEA-USP)
• Herve Guiol (IMECC-UNICAMP)
• Luiz Renato Fontes (IME-USP)
• Nancy Lopes Garcia (IMECC-UNICAMP)

Supporting Agencies

• FAPESP
• CNPq
• IME, USP
• IEA, USP

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PROGRAM

(Mon., Tues., Wed., Thur., Fri.)

Monday

9:00 - 10:10 : Topics in large deviations for Markov Chains 1 (Peter Ney)

10:20 - 11:30 : Topics in hydrodynamical limits 1 (Claudio Landim)

11:40 - 12:20 : Stochastic models in synthetic aperture radar image classification (Alejandro C. Frery)

12:20 - 12:30 : "Abertura"

16:00 - 16:40 : Hydrodynamic behavior of disordered exclusion processes (Timo Seppalainen)

16:50 - 17:00 : Others properties k step exclusion Processes (Herve Guiol)

17:00 - 17:10 : Shock in the Hammersley Process (Jesus Garcia)

17:10 - 17:20 : Brazil Nuts (Laura Ramos)

17:20 - 17:30 :  A mechanical system with two types of particles in one dimension. (Luiz Renato Fontes)

Tuesday

9:00 - 10:10 : Topics in large deviations for Markov Chains 2 (Peter Ney)

10:20 - 11:30 : Topics in hydrodynamical limits 2 (Claudio Landim)

11:40 - 12:20 : Typical Configurations for the Random Field Kac Model (Pierre Picco)

12:20 - 12:30 : Asymptotic reliability using martingale techniques (Vanderlei da Costa Bueno)

16:00 - 16:40 : Equilibrium Fluctuation for the Ginzburg-Landau interface model (Stefano Olla)

16:50 - 17:00 : Invariant measures for the action of SL(n,Z) on Rⁿ (Arnaldo Nogueira)

17:00 - 17:10 : Extension on results on inequalities for hitting times in mixing dynamical systems (M. Abadi)

17:10 - 17:20 : A sampling theorem for rotation numbers of linear processes in R² (Paulo Ruffino)

17:20 - 17:30 : Invariance of the Lyapunov spectrum and rotation numbers for general differentiable maps (Edson A. Coayla Teran)

17:40 - 17:50 :  Space reduction for non-homogeneous chains (Chang C. Y. Dorea)

17:50 - 18:00 : Validated Methods for Pascal and truncated Poisson Probability Distributions (M. A. Campos)

18:00 - 18:10 :  A branching process and a model for transport of pollutants (Eliane R. Rodrigues)

18:10 - 18:20 : Analise Multivariada de Vetores Aleatorios com Estrutura de Associacao entre suas Componentes (Veronica A. Gonzalez-Lopez)

Wednesday

9:00 - 10:10 : Topics in large deviations for Markov Chains 3 (Peter Ney)

10:20 - 11:30 : Localization of classical waves 1 (Abel Klein)

11:40 - 12:20 : Random and Pseudorandom Structures in Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science (Y. Kohayakawa)

12:20 - 12:30 : A Statistical-Physics Approach to Language Acquisition and Language Change (A. Galves)

Thursday

9:00 - 10:10 : Localization of classical waves 2 (Abel Klein)

10:20 - 11:30 : Topics in hydrodynamical limits 3 (Claudio Landim)

11:40 - 12:20 : Inferencia robusta en el modelo lineal (Ricardo Maronna)

12:20 - 12:30 : Estimativa estatistica a solucao do filtro de kolmogorov-wiener regularizado (V. L. Girko)

16:00 - 16:40 : Integrable stochastic many-body systems and quantum spin chains (Gunter M. Schütz)

16:50 - 17:00 : The Falicov--Kimball Model of Electrons and Nuclei: Exact Results (Domingos Marchetti)

17:00 - 17:10 : Contour arguments in quantum statistical mechanics (Roberto Fernandez)

17:10 - 17:20 :  Loss network representation of some spatial birth and death processes (Nancy L. Garcia)

17:20 - 17:30 :  Relaxation speed for chains with complete connections (Xavier Bressaud)

17:40 - 17:50 : Estimativas para um modelo de crescimento (Fabio Machado)

17:50 - 18:00 : Percolacao em particoes do plano que evoluem com o tempo (Eduardo Jordao Neves)

18:00 - 18:10 : Some Basic Inflated-Parameter Discrete Distributions. (Nikolai Kolev)

18:10 - 18:20 : An isomorphism between the Wiener space and sequences of real numbers (Alexandre de Andrade)

Friday

9:00 - 10:10 : Localization of classical waves 3 (Abel Klein)

10:20 - 11:00 : MCMC: aplicacoes estatisticas e perspectivas probabilisticas (Dani Gamerman)

11:10 - 11:20 : Loss network representation of Peierls contours (P.A. Ferrari)

11:20 - 11:30 : Stability in random interactive systems (Andre Toom)

11:30 - 11:40 :  An exactly solvable cellular automaton that models a two-lane traffic (Vladimir Belitsky)

11:40 - 11:50 :  Random walks in a random environment and reinforced random walks on trees (M. Menchikov)

12:00 - 12:10 : Many-dimensional branching random walks in random environment (Serguei Popov)

12:10 - 12:20 : One problem about long range percolation on the 2 dimensional lattice (Marina Vachkovskaia)

12:20 - 12:30 : Some results on the thermodynamics of the Hopfield model (G. R. Guerberoff)

12:30 - 12:40 : Ising Systems with Kac Potentials (Adilson Simonis)