\parindent=0pt {\bf schedule thursday, january 27, 2005} natural sciences building, room 1205 1:30-2:00 p.m.: registration 2:05-2:15 p.m.: welcoming remarks 2:15-3:15 p.m.: susan holmes, "even odds" 3:15-4:00 p.m.: refreshment break 4:00-5:00 p.m.: ron graham, "unfinished business" \vskip .1in \parindent=0pt {\bf friday, january 28, 2005} natural sciences building, room 1205 9:30-10:30 a.m.: eric rains, "random matrix perturbations" 10:30-11:15 a.m.: refreshment break 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: laurent saloff-coste, "some problems concerning gaussian convolution semigroups on compact groups" 12:15-1:45 p.m.: lunch break (on your own) 1:45-2:45 p.m.: donald ylvisaker, "lotteries" 2.45-3:30 p.m.: refreshment break 3:30-5:00 p.m.: open session to discuss connections with diaconis' work 5:30-6:30 p.m.: no host bar, ucsd faculty club 6:30 p.m.: conference dinner, ucsd faculty club (\$25 per person -- prepayment required by january 12, 2005). \vskip .1in \parindent=0pt {\bf saturday, january 29, 2005} center hall, room 115 (note change of room from that on thursday and friday) 9:30-10:30 a.m.: robin pemantle, "multivariate asymptotics (why probabilists need to know math)" 10:30-11:00 a.m.: refreshment break 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon: barry mazur, "it is a story" 12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.: lunch break (on your own) 2:00-3:00 p.m.: david aldous, "constrained ising models: from one-dimensional theory to storage in ad hoc networks" 3:00-3:30 p.m.: break 3:30-4:30 p.m.: persi diaconis, "a few of my favorite things"