Past LPS Conferences
LPS I
November 25 – 27, 2006
ISI Delhi
First gathering of 22 participants. Funding came from research and institutional grants plus personal contributions. Minicourses: Arup Bose (Random Matrices) and Siva Athreya (Random Graphs).
LPS II
November 23 – 27, 2007
ISI Bangalore
Attendance rose to 26. Supported by NBHM. Minicourses: B. V. Rao (Random Energy Model) and Antar Bandyophyay (Local Weak Convergence). Five‑day format introduced.
LPS III
November 20 – 24, 2008
ISI Kolkata
40 participants. First external expert invited. Minicourses: Alain‑Sol Sznitman (Random Walks, Interlacements & Interfaces) and Abhay G. Bhatt (Martingale Problems).
LPS IV
November 20 – 24, 2009
ISI Delhi
50+ participants; poster sessions introduced. Minicourses: Rahul Roy (Boolean Models) and Rajesh Sundaresan (Information Theory).
LPS V
December 23 – 27, 2010
ISI Bangalore
75+ attendees, 10 posters, first Best Poster award. Minicourses: Krishanu Maulik (Heavy‑Tailed Distributions) and S. R. S. Varadhan (Schramm–Loewner Equations).
LPS VI
December 16 – 20, 2011
ISI Kolkata
50+ participants. Minicourses: Manjunath Krishnapur (Zeros of Random Polynomials) and Pablo Ferrari (Point Processes). Best Poster: Ghurumuruhan Ganesan.
LPS VII
December 10 – 14, 2012
ISI Delhi
50+ participants. Minicourses: Nina Gantert (Random Walks in Random Media) and Anish Sarkar (Directed Trees). Two Best Poster awards.
LPS VIII
December 6 – 10, 2013
ISI Bangalore
Nearly 60 researchers. Minicourses: Vivek Borkar (Ergodicity of Diffusions) and Parthanil Roy (Stable Random Fields). Best Poster: Kumarjit Saha.
LPS IX
December 12 – 16, 2014
ISI Kolkata
Minicourses: Gennady Samorodnitsky (Long‑Range Dependence) and S. Ramasubramanian (Skorohod Problem). Joint Best Posters: Kartick Adhikari and Ayan Bhattacharya.
LPS X
December 13 – 16, 2015
IISc Bangalore
Single minicourse by Yuval Peres (Markov Chains). Lectures videotaped and posted online; five posters presented.
LPS XI
November 25 – 29, 2016
ISI Delhi
65 participants, 13 short talks, 3 posters. Minicourses: Davar Khoshnevisan (Parabolic SPDEs) and Mokshay Madiman (Convexity of Probability Measures).
LPS XII
December 15 – 19, 2017
ISI Kolkata
75 participants. Minicourses: Arvind Ayyer (Exclusion Processes with Drift) and Nathanaël Berestycki (Gaussian Free Field & Liouville Quantum Gravity).
LPS XIII
December 7 – 11, 2018
ISI Bangalore
77 participants. Minicourses: Deepak Dhar (Minority Game) and Kavita Ramanan (Scaling Limits). Group hike to Ramanagara included.
LPS XIV
December 2 – 6, 2019
ISI Delhi
Minicourses: Ron Peled (Statistical Physics on ℤd Lattices) and Srikanth Iyer (Geometric Random Graphs). 44 participants, 8 short talks, 7 posters, and an excursion to Purana Qila.
LPS XV
December 2 – 6, 2022
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Minicourses: Rongfeng Sun (National University of Singapore). Scaling limit of the directed polymer and SHE in dimension 2+1
Piyush Srivastava, (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research). Markov chains for sampling: some recent developments
LPS XVI
November 17– 21, 2023
ICTS Bengaluru
Minicourses: Jayakrishnan Nair, IIT Bombay (Fundamentals of Heavy-tails: Properties, Emergence, and Identification) and Souvik Dhara, Purdue University (Modern methods in Network Science).