Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 1998-99

Monday, September 7		Ted Cox, Syracuse University Rescaled voter models converge to super-Brownian motion
Monday, September 14		Ken Brown, Cornell University Random walks and ring theory
Monday, September 21		Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University When are multiple stochastic integrals independent?
Monday, September 28		Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University The number of visited sites and exotic behaviors of random walks on Cayley graphs
Monday, October 5		Eugene Dynkin, Cornell University Super-Brownian motion and Riemannian geometry
Monday, October 19		Jochen Geiger, Frankfort The genealogy of the voter model
Monday, October 26		Radhu Zharapol, Binghamton The existence of attractive probability measures for iterated function systems
Monday, November 2		Mark Huber, Cornell University Exact sampling from Markov chains using coupling from the past
Monday, November 9		Haya Kaspi, Technion and Cornell University Nonlinearly skewed Brownian motion
Monday, November 23		Walker White, Cornell University Radically finite probability (an explanation for probabilists)
Monday, November 30		Ted Cox, Syracuse University Rescaled voter models converge to super-Brownian motion
Monday, February 1		Eric van den Berg, Cornell University Heavy tail modeling in time series and telecommunications
Monday, February 8		Chris Hoffman, University of Maryland Return probabilities of simple random walk on percolation clusters
Monday, February 15		Y. M. Suhov, University of Cambridge and UC Santa Barbara The spectrum of the generator of an infinite-dimensional diffusion
Monday, February 22		Thomas Deck, University of Manheim and Cornell University Solving stochastic parabolic differential equations with methods from white noise analysis
Monday, March 1		Steve Evans, University of California at Berkeley Random spanning trees of Cayley graphs and compactifications of groups
Monday, March 8		Gerard Letac, University of Toulouse and Pennsylvania State University Stationary sequences with joint Poisson distributions
Monday, March 15		Rick Durrett, Cornell University Goo Movies: Convergence of rescaled particle systems to measure-valued diffusions
Monday, March 29		Antal Jarai, Cornell University Incipient infinite clusters in percolation
Monday, April 5		Ilya German, Cornell University Hedging options with small transaction costs
Monday, April 12		Sebastien Blachere, Cornell University Internal diffusion limited aggregation
Monday, April 19		Michael Marcus, CUNY A generalized Ray-Knight theorem and the most visited site of a Levy process
Monday, April 26		David Stephenson, Cornell University Annihilating and coalescing random walk
Monday, May 3		Dan Brown and Todd Vision, Cornell University Sampling from genetic mapping populations via stochastic optimization: applications, methods and results
Monday, May 10		I. Evstigneev, Central Mathematics and Economics Institute, Russian Academy (Moscow) A functional central limit theorem for equilibrium paths of economic dynamics