Consolidated as a relevant activity for training and professional development of new researchers in probabilities’ field, the Second Mini Summer School in Probability and Stochastic Processes finished.
The activity took place between January 6 and 8, 2016 and was organized by Universidad de Chile Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) and Núcleo Milenio Modelos Estocásticos de Sistemas Complejos y Desordenados.
While the speakers came from different universities in Chile, Brazil, and Mexico, the activity was attended by researchers, academics and students from Santiago, Concepción, and Valparaiso.
Among the discussed topics were a short introduction to paracontrolled distributions, by Gregorio Moreno, researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Branching processes in random environment, by Juan Carlos Pardo, researcher at Research Center of Mathematics, Mexico; and Cube Root Asymptotics for Hammersley’s Model, by Leandro Pimentel of the Institute of Mathematics of the Universidad Federale de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“The idea was to have a bigger school than last year. The topics of the courses and talks were different from last year, but still focused on current issues in research,” said Daniel Remenik, CMM researcher and organizer of this Mini School. According to him, this activity will serve to boost research and development of new scientific initiatives within Chilean and foreign universities.
For Amitai Linker, PhD student at Universidad de Chile, this event “is not only important for spreading and teaching of current issues, but is also essential in the training of new researchers focused on probability. I think these issues were received with great interest by attendees, mainly because of its diversity, which allows for a slightly more general look at the area.”
