Workshop: Random Dynamics and Other Recent Developments

这是为2018年4月在谢菲尔德大学举行的为期5天的概率研究研讨会申请部分资金的申请，该研讨会名为随机动力学和其他最新发展。这次会议将通过促进英国和国际专家对概率论的最新发展和未来研究方向的互动，使英国数学受益。特别强调女性学者和早期职业研究人员的参与。英国是全球公认的概率研究的领先中心，但始终需要跟上国际发展的步伐。我们的研讨会集中在随机几何，随机强化过程和随机动力系统的相互关联的主题。这三个领域最近在国际概率论界都很活跃，不仅因为它们的理论意义，也因为它们在数据科学、社交网络和机器学习等应用中的重要性。研讨会围绕上述三个主题，由国际知名研究人员提供三门迷你课程。迷你课程还将邀请顶尖研究人员进行个人演讲，同时博士生和早期职业研究人员也有机会发表演讲或在海报上发表演讲。此外，工作坊的建议时间表包括每天的分组会议和讨论小组，以促进探索新的研究方向和支持新的合作的形成。

This is an application for partial funding for a 5-day research workshop in probability entitled Random Dynamics and Other Recent Developments, to be held at the University of Sheffield in April 2018. The meeting will benefit UK mathematics by stimulating interactions between UK and international experts on the latest developments and future research directions within probability. Particular emphases is placed on the participation of female academics and early career researchers.The UK is recognized globally as a leading center for research in probability, but there is a constant need to keep abreast of international developments. Our workshop focuses on the inter-related themes of random geometry, random reinforced processes and stochastic dynamical systems. All three of these areas have seen intense recent activity within the international probability community, both for their theoretical significance and for their importance in applications such as data science, social networks and machine learning.The workshop is centered around three mini-courses, given by internationally distinguished researchers, corresponding to the three themes mentioned above. The mini-courses will be complemented by invited individual talks from leading researchers, alongside opportunities for PhD students and early career researchers to give contributed talks or present at a poster session. Additionally, the proposed schedule of the workshop contains time set aside on each day for break-out sessions and discussion groups, to facilitate exploration of new research directions and to support the formation of new collaborations.