2004 Special Year for Probability and its Applications

CMA National Research Symposium - A Celebration of Modelling and Applied Probability

14 - 15 December 2004

The Shine Dome, Gordon Street
Australian National University campus, Canberra

Supported by ANZIAM, and the Statistical Society of Australia Inc.


Late registration: contact cmaoffice@maths.anu.edu.au

Modelling and Applied Probability have long been associated with ANU Statistics and (now) Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, not least in its earlier and more recent stages due to the involvement of Professor Joe Gani. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, this Symposium celebrated both the subject and, more especially, contributions by Joe. His work in establishing, editing, and chairing the Applied Probability Trust has fostered this area of research, and is a singular contribution to a discipline from a man who arrived in what is now his adopted homeland as a refugee in 1948. The invited speakers covered a range of current topics.

International Invited Speakers
John Blake, Birmingham
Valerie Isham, UCL
Zari Rachev, Karlsruhe and UCSB

(For the full list of speakers, see the list of participants)

Program
The program and abstracts have now been finalised (updated 8 December 2004).

Symposium dinner
The dinner in honour of Joe's birthday was held at 6:30pm on Tuesday 14 December 2004, in the Great Hall of University House, Balmain Crescent, ANU.

Organising committee
Bob Anderssen, CSIRO/ANZIAM
Ann Cowling, ANU/SSAI
Daryl Daley, ANU
Markus Hegland, ANU/ANZIAM
Chris Heyde, ANU
Mike Osborne, ANU
Rod Weber, ADFA/ANZIAM