The 30th Finnish Summer School on Probability Theory will be arranged at Ahlmanin kartano in Tampere from June 2nd to June 6th, 2008.

The course program is mainly made up of four series of lectures, about 6 h each.

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

The venue is Ahlmanin kartano.

The summer school begins on Monday June 2nd at 12 noon with lunch. The school ends on Friday June 6th around 1 p.m.

Registrations are due by May 2nd 2008.

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

Confirmed speakers:

• Paul Embrechts (ETH Zürich) will speak about Quantitative Risk Management: on Extremes and Dependence. (6 h) Lectures (1/2); Lectures (2/2)
  
  
• Sergey Foss (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russian Academy of Sciences) will speak about An Overview on Stability Methods, with Applications. (6 h) Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3; Lecture 3 Appendix; Lecture 4; Lecture 5; Lecture 6; Open problems
  
  
• R. T. Rockafellar (University of Washington) will speak about Approaches to Risk in Optimization under Uncertainty. (6 h)
  
  
• Shripad Tuljapurkar (Stanford University) will speak about Stochastic Models in Population Biology and Demography. (6 h) Lecture 1; Lectures 2 & 3
  
  

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Tampere

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Welcome to Tampere!

Göran Högnäs

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