Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 1994-95

Mon., September 5   Persi Diaconis, Harvard Univ.
Geometry and randomness
Mon., September 12   Eugene Dynkin / Sergei Kuznetsov, Cornell/Cornell visitor
Superdiffusions and removable boundary singularities for quasilinear pde�s
Mon., September 19   Mathew Penrose, Univ. of Durham
Critical values on spread-out lattices
Mon., September 26   Peter Antal, Math. Sci. Institute
Trapping problems for the simple random walk
Mon., October 3   Zhenqing Chen, Cornell
Quasi-homeomorphisms of Dirichlet spaces
Mon., October 24   Joseph Yukich, Lehigh Univ
Limit theorems in geometric probability
Mon., October 31   Itai Benjamini, MSI
Harmonic functions on graphs and manifolds
Mon., November 7   Lincoln Chayes, UCLA
Title to be announced
Mon., November 14   Rick Durrett, Cornell
Interface problems
Mon., November 21   A. Pisztora, Courant Institute
Surface order large deviations for the Ising model and percolation in 3 or more dimensions
Mon., November 28   Sungchul Lee, Cornell
The central limit theorem for minimal spanning trees
Mon., February 6   Harry Kesten, Cornell
A growth model with rates depending on the number of occupied neighbors
Mon., February 13   Sunder Sethuraman, New York Univ.
A central limit theorem for simple exclusions and zero-range dynamics
Mon., February 20   Dan Stroock, MIT
Toward a Riemannian geometry on the space of loops
Mon., February 27   Sing-gang Kou, Columbia Univ.
On the pricing of contingent claims under constraints
Mon., March 6   Ted Cox, Syracuse Univ.
Local extinction for a class of interacting diffusions
Mon., March 13   Zhongzin Zhao, Univ. of Missouri/St. Louis
A trace formula for multidimensional Schrodinger operators
Mon., March 27   Charles Newman, Courant Institute
Remarks on first-passage percolation
Mon., April 3   Sergei Kuznetsov, Cornell visitor
Linear additive functionals of superdiffusions and related nonlinear PDE�s
Mon., April 17   T.S. Mountford, Univ. of Calif/Los Angeles
An argument of Gray and Ekhaus and ./GI/1 queues
Mon., April 24   Ken Alexander, Univ. of Southern California
Qualitative structure of level lines of 2D random fields