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PROBABILITY SEMINARS Seminars: 2010-11; 2009-10; 2008-09; 2007-08; 2005-06; earlier. Seminar coordinators: Stan Zachary (Heriot-Watt University) and Serguei Foss (Heriot-Watt University).     Wednesday 15 September 2010 Heriot-Watt University CM T.01 4:00-5:00pm Jerzy Jaworski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Classical Random Mappings and their Applications 1 Wednesday 22 September 2010 Heriot-Watt University CM T.01 3:30-4:30pm Jerzy Jaworski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Classical Random Mappings and their Applications 2 Wednesday 29 September 2010 Heriot-Watt University CM G.01 3:15-4:15pm Sandeep Juneja Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Estimating Mean of Non-Linear Function of a Conditional Expectation with Applications to Portfolio Risk Measurement Thursday 7 October 2010 Heriot-Watt University CM G.01 4:15-5:15pm Sandeep Juneja Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai The Concert Queuing Game: To Wait or To be Late Thursday 11 November 2010 Heriot-Watt University CM S.01 4:15-5:15pm Andrew Wade University of Strathclyde Non-homogeneous random walks Thursday 25 November 2010 Heriot-Watt University CM S.01 4:15-5:15pm Terence Chan Heriot-Watt University Ruin probability asymptotics and bounds with investment of surplus Thursday 20 January 2011 Heriot-Watt University CM S.01 4:15-5:15pm Dimitrios Konstantinides University of the Aegean Precise large deviations for sums of negatively dependent random variables with common long tailed distributions Thursday 27 January 2011 Heriot-Watt University CM S.01 4:15-5:15pm Jonathan Jordan University of Sheffield Geometric preferential attachment random graphs Monday 21 March 2011 Heriot-Watt University EM G61 3:15-4:15pm Guenter Last Karlsruhe Institute of Technology On the chaos expansion on general Poisson spaces Thursday 26 May 2011 Heriot-Watt University CM T01 1.00-2.00pm Neil Walton University of Amsterdam Insensitive, maximum stable allocations converge to proportional fairness Tuesday 31 May 2011 Heriot-Watt University CM T01 2.00-3:00pm Michel Mandjes University of Amsterdam Birthday Surprises Monday 20 June 2011 Heriot-Watt University CM G01 4.15-5:15pm Damon Wischik University College London What mathematicians should know about the design principles of the Internet