About the Meeting
India has a rich and long heritage in probability theory and stochastic Processes. Indian researchers, working both within India and abroad, are making quality contributions to the subject individually as well as collaboratively. To sustain this effort it is imperative to expose the young research scholars of India to the latest techniques and advances in the subject as well as increase the interaction between researchers in India. In order to achieve this and create collaborative probability groups within India, we believe that there is a need to have annually organized workshops.
Lectures in probability and stochastic processes is an annual event, started in 2006, in probability and related topics. This year it will be the 17th edition. It is designed to have two mini-courses on topics of recent interest given by experts in the respective areas. Information about the past editions of the school are available at https://www.icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/lps.
These courses are expected to expose the participants to the important problems being considered in the current literature, as well as the available techniques to work with them. A large audience, which includes research scholars and young PhDs from different institutes and universities within India, as well as a few foreign participants, are invited to the workshop. It is expected that this gathering will initiate collaborative work across different research centers across India. To facilitate this activity, the workshop has sufficient time for sessions, where researchers can pose and discuss problems that can be of interest to others in the audience.
There is a huge potential of Probability Theory in solving problems from diverse scientific fields such as Statistical Physics, Networking and Electrical Engineering, Financial Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Genetics, and Computer Science. The workshop tries to invite people from these fields to initiate fruitful interdisciplinary research work, which has practical applications of Probability Theory. We are confident that this workshop series will continue to act as a fulcrum to build a strong school of probabilists in India and further our long tradition of strong contributions to the subject.