The 29th Finnish Summer School on Probability Theory will be arranged at the Nagu Gammelgård conference center in Nagu/Nauvo from June 4th to June 8th, 2007.

The course program is mainly made up of three series of lectures, about 6 h each. A couple of lectures by some of the course attendants will also be held.

The school is arranged by The Finnish Graduate School in Stochastics and Statistics (FGSS).

The venue is Nagu Gammelgård.

The summer school begins on Monday June 4th at 12 noon with lunch. The school ends on Friday June 8th around 1 p.m.

Registrations are due by May 18th 2007.

The course fee (15 €) is to be paid on location.

Confirmed speakers:

• P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will speak about Capacity and Architecture of Wireless Networks.
  
  
• Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) will speak about Optimal Stopping Games.
  
  
• Marc Yor (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) will speak about Penalisations of Brownian Paths.
  
  

Lectures by course attendants:

• Jacques Du Toit (University of Manchester) will speak about A Time-domain Prediction Problem for Brownian Motion with Drift (1 h).
  
  
• Céline Jost (University of Helsinki) will speak about Volterra Gaussian Processes, Measure-preserving Transformations and Bridges (2 h).
  
  
• Jukka Lempa (Turku School of Economics) will speak about On Optimal Stopping and Stochastic Control of Linear Diffusions (2 h).
  
  
• Olli Wallin (University of Oslo) will speak about A Probabilistic Comparison Principle in Optimal Stopping of Markov Processes, with Applications to Viscosity Solutions (1 h).
  
  

Excursion

On Wednesday, June 6th, there will be an excursion to Korpoström Archipelago Centre.

Timetables

• Bus timetables
  
• Train timetables

Nagu/Nauvo

• Nagu/Nauvo
• Nagu/Nauvo municipality's home page
• The Finnish Archipelago

Welcome to Nagu!

Göran Högnäs

Previous summer schools on the web