Jim Pitman’s career research has encompassed many topics within Probability Theory: Markov chains,
Brownian motion and related diffusions (in extensive joint work with Marc Yor) and the field of Combinatorial Stochastic Processes initiated in his 2002 St Flour lectures. This meeting celebrates his work with invited talks by Jean Bertoin, Chris Burdzy, Alexander Gnedin, Christina Goldschmidt, Priscilla Greenwood, Lancelot James, Gregory Miermont, Soumik Pal, and Jim himself. See website for details.