Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 1996-97

Mon., September 9   Yosi Rinott, University of California at San Diego
A CLT for dependent summands and applications to the anti-voter model and other models
Mon., September 16   S. Srithan, University of Colorado and U.S. Navy
The martingale problems of turbulence, its prediction and optimal control
Mon., September 30   Laurent Saloff-Coste, Universit\�e Paul Sabatier
Diffusions on infinite products
Mon., October 7   Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University
Green's function estimates for alpha-stable processes in bounded domains
Mon., October 21   Harry Kesten, Cornell University
Reimer's inequality for disjoint occurence of events
Mon., October 28   Igor Pak, Harvard University
Random walks on groups: strong stationary time approach
Mon., November 4   C. R. Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taipei
Convergence rates for some Monte Carlo Markov chains
Mon., November 11   Ted Cox, Syracuse University
A spatial model for the abundance of species
Mon., November 18   Ren-min Song, University of Michigan
Intrinsic ultra-contractivity and conditional gauge for symmetric stable process
Mon., November 25   Nikhil Shah, Cornell University
Predator mediated coexistence
Mon., December 2   Richard Durrett, Cornell University
Probability problems arising from the study of DNA sequences
Mon., January 27   Alexander Yushkevich, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Blackwell optimality in Markov decision processes
Mon., February 3   Zhenqing Chen, Cornell University
Estimates on distance between two diffusion kernels
Mon., February 10   Alexander Teplyaev, Cornell University
Eigenfunctions on Sierpinski lattices
Mon., February 17   Persi Diaconis, Cornell and Harvard University
Measures for measures
Mon., February 24   Jason Fulman, Harvard University, visiting Cornell
Probability in classical groups over finite fields
Mon., March 3   Donald Turcotte, Cornell University
Self-organized criticality and the statistics of natural hazards
Mon., March 10   Rick Durrett, Cornell University
Chutes and ladders in Markov chains
Mon., March 24   Sergei Kuznetsov, Cornell visitor
Polar boundary sets for superdiffusions and removable lateral singularities for nonlinear parabolic PDE's
Mon., March 31   Susan Holmes, Cornell University
Charles Stein's method for birth and death chains
Mon., April 7   Jeff Steif, Chalmers University
Dynamical percolation
Mon., April 14   David Heath, Cornell University
Risk measures for use in regulating financial institutions
Mon., April 21   Martin Hildebrand, SUNY at Albany
A directed version of the Metropolis algorithm
Mon., April 21   Glen Swindle, Cornell University
Some nonlinear PDEs arising from finance
Mon., April 28   Robert Battig, Cornell University
Completeness of securities market models: an operator point of view
Mon., May 5   Maria Gordina, Cornell University
Diffusions and holomorphic functions on infinite dimensional groups