Permanents and modeling probability distributions August 31 to September 4, 2009 American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA Organizers: Alon Orlitsky, Narayana Santhanam, and Krishnamurthy Viswanathan Description: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will study the problem of estimating a probability distribution from a small data sample it generates. The workshop will investigate consolidating a theoretical and algorithmic framework for this topic. Deadline: May 15, 2009 Details: http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/permanents.html