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PROBABILITY SEMINARS Seminars: 2009-10; 2008-09; 2007-08; 2005-06; earlier. Seminar coordinators: Denis Denisov (Heriot-Watt University) and Serguei Foss (Heriot-Watt University).     Thursday 08 October 2009 Heriot-Watt University CM T.01 4:15-5:15pm Edward Omey Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Regular Variation of order n and applications Slides , paper Wednesday 14 October 2009 Heriot-Watt University CM G.01 3:15-4:15pm Henrik Hult KTH Stockholm Efficient calculation of risk measures by importance sampling - the heavy tailed case (Joint with Seminar in Actuarial and Financial Mathematics) Thursday 22 October 2009 Heriot-Watt University CM S.01 4:15-5:15pm Vladas Sidoravicius CWI, Amsterdam On non-uniqueness for specifications (g-functions or chains with infinite connections) Friday 30 October 2009 Heriot-Watt University CM T.01 4:15-5:15pm Neil O'Connell Warwick Directed polymers and the quantum Toda lattice Thursday 05 November 2009 Heriot-Watt University CM S.01 4:15-5:15pm Jerzy Jaworski Adam Mickiewicz University and Heriot-Watt University Random Intersection Graphs