Prokhorov and Contemporary Probability Theory

Part I Scientific Papers: David J. Aldous: When Knowing Early Matters: Gossip, Percolation and Nash Equilibria.- Vadim Arkin and Alexander Slastnikov: A Mathematical Model of Investment Incentives.- Guus Balkema, Paul Embrechts and Natalia Nolde: The Shape of Asymptotic Dependence.- Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Jose Manuel Corcuera and Mark Podolskij: Limit theorems for functionals of higher order differences of Brownian semi-stationary processes.- Jean Bertoin and Marc Yor: Retrieving Information from Subordination.- Algimantas Bikelis: Asymptotic Expansions for Distributions of Sums of Independent Random Vectors.- Alexandr A. Borovkov and Konstantin A. Borovkov: An Extension of the Concept of Slowly Varying Function with Applications to Large Deviation Limit Theorems.- Ekaterina Bulinskaya: Optimal and Asymptotically Optimal Control for Some Inventory Models.- Suzanne Cawston and Lioudmila Vostrikova: Levy Preservation and Associated Properties for f -divergence Minimal Equivalent Martingale Measures.- Francesco Cellarosi, Yakov G. Sinai: Non-Standard Limit Theorems in Number Theory.- Linan Chen and Daniel W. Stroock: Additive Functions and Gaussian Measures.- Gennadii Chistyakov and Friedrich Gotze: Free Infinitely Divisible Approximations of n-fold Free Convolutions.- Gerd Christoph, Vladimir V. Ulyanov and Yasunori Fujikoshi: Accurate Approximation of Correlation Coefficients by Short Edgeworth-Chebyshev Expansion and Its Statistical Applications.- Shakir K. Formanov and Tamara A. Formanova: The Stein-Tikhomirov Method and Berry-Esseen Inequality for Sampling Sums from a Finite Population of Independent Random Variables.- Nicko Gamkrelidze: On One Inequality for Characteristic Functions.- Bronius Grigelionis: On the Nonlinear Filtering Equations for Superprocesses in Random Environment.- Vijay Gupta and Tengiz Shervashidze: Upper Bounds for Bernstein Basis Functions.- Ildar Ibragimov and Dmitry Zaporozhets: On Distribution of Zeros of RandomPolynomials in Complex Plane.- Peter Jagers and Fima C. Klebaner: Dependence and Interaction in Branching Processes.- Gyula O.H. Katona: Testing Functional Connection between Two Random Variables.- Kalyanapuram R.Parthasarathy: The Symmetry Group of Gaussian States in L2(Rn).- Ernst Presman: Solution of the Optimal Stopping Problem for One-dimensional Diffusion Based on a Modification of the Payoff Function.- Part II Interviews: Friedrich Götze and Willem R. van Zwet: The times of Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov.- Larry Shepp: A Conversation with Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov.