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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This is announcement for a Thematic program on Challenges and
Perspectives in Probability to be held at the CRM in <st1:City w:st="on">Montreal</st1:City>
and PIMS-UBC in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:place></st1:City>
in May - July 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'><a href="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/CARP09/index_e.php"
target="_blank" title="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/CARP09/index_e.php"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Combinatorics,
Randomization, Algorithms and Probability</span></font></a></span></font></i><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/CARP09/index_e.php">http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/CARP09/index_e.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Organisers: L. Addario-Berry (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Montreal</st1:City></st1:place>), L. Devroye (McGill), B. Reed
(McGill)<br>
At CRM: May 4-8, 2009<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>New Directions in Random
Spatial Processes</span></i></b><br>
Organisers: O. Angel (UBC), A.E. Holroyd (UBC), A. Járai (Carleton)<br>
At CRM: May 11-15, 2009<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'><br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Stochastics09/index_e.shtml"
target="_blank" title="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Stochastics09/index_e.shtml"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Interacting
Stochastic Particle Systems</span></font></a></span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Stochastics09/index_e.shtml">http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Stochastics09/index_e.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>This workshop is part of the CRM Program on
Probabilistic Methods in Mathematical Physics and may be of interest to
participants in the above two workshops.<br>
Organisers: K. Khanin (<st1:City w:st="on">Toronto</st1:City>), J. Lebowitz
(Rutgers), J. Quastel (<st1:City w:st="on">Toronto</st1:City>), T. Seppalainen
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Madison</st1:City></st1:place>)<br>
At CRM: May 18 - 23, 2009<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Random Walks in Random
Environments</span></i></b><br>
Organisers: M.T. Barlow (UBC) , <st1:place w:st="on">E. Bolthausen</st1:place>
(Zürich), O. Zeitouni (Technion/Minneapolis)<br>
At PIMS-UBC: June 15-19, 2009<br>
<a
href="http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/%7Esalmhof/SymposiumBrydgesFeldman.html"
target="_blank"
title="http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~salmhof/SymposiumBrydgesFeldman.html"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><br
title="http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~salmhof/SymposiumBrydgesFeldman.html">
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Symposium in Honour of
David Brydges and Joel Feldman</span></i></b></span></font></a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~salmhof/SymposiumBrydgesFeldman.html">http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~salmhof/SymposiumBrydgesFeldman.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Organisers: R. Froese (UBC), T. Kennedy (<st1:City
w:st="on">Tucson</st1:City>), M. Salmhofer (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Heidelberg</st1:City></st1:place>), G. Slade (UBC)<br>
At PIMS-UBC: July 5, 2009<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The Renormalization
Group and Statistical Mechanics</span></i></b><br>
Organisers: D.C. Brydges (UBC), J. Feldman (UBC), A. van Enter (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Groningen</st1:City></st1:place>)<br>
At PIMS-UBC: July 6-10, 2009<br>
<u><br>
</u><a
href="http://www.birs.ca/birspages.php?task=displayevent&event_id=09w5062"
target="_blank"
title="http://www.birs.ca/birspages.php?task=displayevent&event_id=09w5062"><b><i><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;
text-decoration:none'>Mathematical Challenges from Molecular Biology and
Genetics</span></font></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.birs.ca/birspages.php?task=displayevent&event_id=09w5062">http://www.birs.ca/birspages.php?task=displayevent&event_id=09w5062</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Organisers: R. Durrett (Cornell), E. Perkins (UBC)<br>
At BIRS: September 6-10, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<h3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Summer School <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <a
href="http://www.math.ubc.ca/%7Edb5d/SummerSchool09/index.html" target="_blank"
title="http://www.math.ubc.ca/~db5d/SummerSchool09/index.html"><font
color=black><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>2009 Summer School
in Probability</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none'> </span></font></a>will take place at PIMS-UBC, June 8 to
July 3, 2009, with two 30-hour graduate courses: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.math.ubc.ca/~db5d/SummerSchool09/index.html">http://www.math.ubc.ca/~db5d/SummerSchool09/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Renormalisation Group and Related Topics </span></font></i></b>,
David Brydges (UBC) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Stochastic Population Systems </span></font></i></b>, Don
Dawson (Carleton and McGill) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Deadline for funding requests Dec 31.
Instructions on website listed above.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Scientific
Activities <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Janson/"
target="_blank" title="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Janson/"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Aisenstadt Chair Svante Janson</span></i></a> will
visit the CRM October 13-25, 2008<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>PIMS
Distinguished Chair Don Dawson</span></font></i> will visit PIMS-UBC during the
2009 Summer School.<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Postdoctoral
Programme</span></i> in the Probability Group at UBC has been expanded during
2008-09. Those interested in future postdoctoral appointments should apply as
described here: <a href="http://www.math.ubc.ca/Research/Probability/">http://www.math.ubc.ca/Research/Probability/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Scientific
Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>David Brydges and Gordon Slade (co-chairs, UBC)<font
color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'><br>
</span></font>Martin Barlow (UBC)<br>
Erwin Bolthausen (Zürich)<br>
Luc Devroye (McGill)<br>
Frank den Hollander (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Leiden</st1:City></st1:place>)<br>
Greg Lawler (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chicago</st1:City></st1:place>)<br>
Yvan Saint-Aubin (Montréal) <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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