Symposium in honour
of Sir John Kingman, FRS
16 May 2001
This meeting is organised to mark the occasion of Sir John Kingman leaving Bristol to take up the Directorship of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. The programme will focus on topics of current interest in probability and related fields where John Kingman's own work has been particularly influential.

The programme of talks will include:

  • 2.00 Simon Tavare' (Departments of Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California) The coalescent and other GEMs: adventures in population genetics
  • 3.15 David Williams (Swansea) Achievements and challenges
  • 4.45 Wilfrid Kendall (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick) Evolving backwards into the past: a retrospective

    The meeting will be held in lecture theatre SM2 in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, and will conclude at about 6pm; attendance is free of charge.

    To assist us in planning, please send an email to Peter Green, via Email link, mentioning JFCK in the subject field, if the probability of your attending is at least 0.5.

    Maps of central Bristol and University precinct
    The symposium is organised by Peter Green and Bernard Silverman
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