Welcome to CPSS 2013
All participants are encouraged to register by April 8, 2013. Funding is available to support local expenses of some advanced graduate students and young researchers. Applications for funding will be accepted during the registration process.

Main Lecturers
Three main lecturers will each give six 75-minute lectures:
- Alexei Borodin (MIT)
- Antal Járai (University of Bath)
- Elchanan Mossel (Berkeley)
Other speakers will include Ivan Corwin (MIT), Vadim Gorin (MIT), Jason Miller (MIT), Cris Moore (Santa Fe Institute), Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge), and Omer Tamuz (Weizmann Institute in Israel).
Organizers
The scientific organizers are Laurent Saloff-Coste and Lionel Levine. Please contact conference secretary Anastasia Raymer with any questions regarding the summer school.
Acknowledgements

This meeting is partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the probability group at Cornell University and cosponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Thanks also to the staff at the Cornell Department of Mathematics for handling much of the organization of the meeting.