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<p class="MsoNormal">From a highly successful 2014 meeting in Buenos Aries,
Argentina the conference moves to Oxford, UK for
2015.<o:p /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/spa2015-registration">Registration is
open and talk submissions are invited</a> for the 38<sup>th</sup> Conference on
Stochastic Processes and their Applications (<a href="http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/">SPA2015</a>)<o:p /></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; line-height: 115%;" class="MsoNormal">The
conference will convene at the University of Oxford, UK and is jointly hosted by
the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, the Mathematical Institute and
the Department of
Statistics,
and is organised under the auspices of the Bernouilli Society for Mathematical
Statistics and
Probability.<o:p /></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%;" class="MsoNormal">This conference brings together,
from across the generations, some of the best in the area and in mathematical
sciences as a whole. All participants will be encouraged to contribute whether
through poster
sessions,
talks, plenary lectures or informal conversations with plenty of opportunities
to communicate and assimilate new progress in theory and
applications.<o:p /></p>
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<p style="line-height: 115%;" class="MsoNormal">The Scientific Committee, chaired
by Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia) has put together an excellent
programme
of
<a href="http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/people/plenary-speakers"><span style="color: blue;">plenary speakers</span></a>
including:
<b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">Alexei
Borodin
</span></b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">(Massachusetts
Institute of Technology),</span><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);"> Michael Cranston
-</span><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">Itô Prize Lecture (UCI), </span><b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">Bénédicte
Haas
</span></b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">(Université
Paris-Dauphine)</span><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">,
</span><b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">Alan
Hammond
</span></b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">(UC
Berkeley),</span><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">
</span><b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">Haya
Kaspi
</span></b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">(Technion
- Israel Institute of
Technology),
<b>Michel Ledoux - Schramm Lecture </b>(Université de Toulouse), <b> Régine
Marchand
</b>(Université de Lorraine)<b>, Grégory Miermont - IMS Medallion Lecture
</b>(École Normale Supérieure de
Lyon),
<b>Jason Miller </b>(Massachusetts Institute of Technology),</span><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">
</span><b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">Sandrine
Péché
</span></b><span style="color: rgb(78, 117, 52);">(Université
Paris
Diderot),
<b>Christophe Sabot </b>(Université Lyon 1), <b>Scott Sheffield - IMS Medallion
Lecture
</b>(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), <b>Andrew Stuart </b>(University of
Warwick),
<b>Terence Tao - Doob Lecture </b>(UCLA)<b>, Augusto Teixeira </b>(IMPA) and<b>
Boris Tsirelson - Lévy
Lecture
</b>(Tel Aviv
University).</span><o:p /></p>
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<p style="line-height: 115%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The draft
conference programme is available to
view
<a href="http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/programme"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.<o:p /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(88, 166, 24);"><o:p>
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<p style="line-height: 115%;" class="MsoNormal">I have attached the current poster
and call for papers – please feel free to circulate or print and display
as
appropriate.<o:p /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please visit the <a href="http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/">
SPA2015 website</a> for further
information.<o:p /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to welcoming you to the University of
Oxford, UK later this
year.<o:p /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please accept my apologises for cross-posting and do not
hesitate to contact me directly should you have any
queries.<o:p /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kindest
regards,<o:p /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wendy<o:p /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Wendy
Ball<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">SPA 2015 Event
Organiser<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">38<sup>th</sup> Conference on
Stochastic Processes and their
Applications<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:Spa2015@oxford-man.ox.ac.uk">Spa2015@oxford-man.ox.ac.uk</a><o:p /></span></p>
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