Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 1999-2000

Monday, September 6   Vlada Limic, Cornell University
LIFO queue in heavy traffic, branching and measure-valued processes
Monday, September 13   Bruce Driver, University of California at San Diego
Quasi-invariance of heat kernel measure on loop groups
Monday, September 20   Claudia Neuhauser, University of Minnesota
Diversity, stability and coexistence in competitive multispecies models
Monday, September 27   Radu Zaharopol, Binghamton University
What is the support that an attractive probability (measure) gets?
Monday, October 4   Maury Bramson, University of Minnesota
Application of fluid models to recurrence and central limits for queueing networks
Monday, October 18   Antal Jarai, Cornell University
The invasion percolation cluster
Monday, November 1   Rick Durrett, Cornell University
Chutes and ladders in Markov chains
Monday, November 8   Michael Nussbaum, Cornell University
Asymptotic equivalence of statistical experiments
Monday, November 15   Yasunari Fukai, Kyushu University
Potential kernel and hitting distribution of two-dimensional random walk
Monday, November 22   Sid Resnick, Cornell University
The infinite source Poisson model for data communications
Monday, November 29   Percy Deift, New York University
Asymptotics for random permutations
Monday, January 31   Ken Brown, Cornell University
The Moran model (work of Aldous)
Monday, February 7   Bruce Driver, University of California at San Diego
Comparing heat kernel and pinned Wiener measure on loop groups
Monday, February 14   Jose Ramirez, New York University
Short time asymptotics in Dirichlet spaces
Monday, February 21   Yuri Kondratiev, Bonn University
Stochastic analysis on configuration spaces
Monday, February 28   Sebastien Blachere, University of Toulouse
Internal diffusion limited aggregation on hypercubic lattices
Monday, March 6   Yuji Hamana, Kyushu University and Cornell University
Some asymptotics of the range of random walks
Monday, March 13   Alexander Bendikov, University of Erlangen and Cornell University
Elliptic diffusions on infinite products
Monday, March 27   Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College and Cornell University
The discrepancy metric and random walks by irrational rotation
Monday, April 3   Radu Zaharopol, Binghamton University
What does the support tell us about the uniqueness of the invariant probability measure?
Monday, April 10   Konstantin Rybnikov, Cornell University
Tension percolation
Monday, April 17   Mike Cranston, University of Rochester
Dispersion for stochastic flows
Monday, April 24   Konstantin Rybnikov, Cornell University
Bootstrap percolation of iterated convex hulls
Monday, May 1   Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA Brasil
Glauber dynamics at zero temperature