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2027 INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference
Plenary Speakers
Invited lectures at the twenty-third INFORMS Applied Probability Conference.
Four plenary lectures are delivered to the whole conference, one on each morning, alongside the parallel session programme. They include the 2027 IMS Medallion Lecture. Speakers are announced here as they are confirmed.
Details of the full schedule, including when each lecture takes place, are on the programme overview page.
Confirmed speakers
2027 IMS Medallion Lecture
Tom Hutchcroft
Princeton University, United States
New approaches to critical percolation
Abstract
To be announced.
Biography
Tom Hutchcroft is a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He attained his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2017 under the supervision of Asaf Nachmias and Omer Angel, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge. His work covers a range of topics including statistical mechanics, random geometry, and interactions between probability and geometric group theory.
The IMS Medallion Lecture is awarded annually by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and delivered at a meeting of the awardee’s choosing. The Institute has confirmed that the 2027 lecture will be given at APS 2027 in Durham.
Plenary lecture
Rami Atar
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Interacting particle systems: Free boundary and free obstacle problems
Abstract
To be announced.
Biography
To be announced.
Plenary lecture
Sarah Penington
University of Bath, United Kingdom
Lecture title to be announced
Abstract
To be announced.
Biography
To be announced.
Further speakers
The organising committee is finalising the plenary programme. The fourth speaker will be announced on this page once confirmed.
To be announced
Plenary lecture
Society prize lectures
The Applied Probability Society presents its prize lectures during the conference, including the Markov Lecture and lectures by the recipients of the Erlang, Nicholson and Blackwell Prizes. Recipients are announced by the society ahead of the conference and will be listed here.
Further information about the society’s awards is on the Applied Probability Society pages.