Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 2004-05

Monday, September 6		Gregory Lawler, Cornell University Two-sided SLE_{8/3} and self-avoiding polygons in the plane
Monday, September 13		Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University Cut-off phenomena
Monday, September 20		Robert Bauer, University of Illinois Radial stochastic Loewner evolution in multiply connected domains
Monday, September 27		Wendelin Werner, Orsay Loop-soups and conformal field theory
Monday, October 4		Paul Jung, Cornell University Adding edges to the contact process
Monday, October 18		Harry Kesten, Cornell University A problem in one-dimensional diffusion limited aggregation and positive recurrence of Markov chains
Monday, October 25		Anja Sturm, University of Delaware The coalescent for a model with mutation and selection
Monday, November 1		Edward Waymire, Oregon State University and Cornell University Branching random walk and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Monday, November 15		Federico Camia, EURANDOM The full scaling limit of 2D critical percolation
Monday, November 22		Sunder Sethuraman, Iowa State University Diffusive estimates for a tagged particle in asymmetric zero-range systems
Monday, November 29		Lee Gibson, Cornell University Survival among traps on an infinite graph
Monday, January 31		Edward Waymire, Oregon State University and Cornell University Heterogeneous dispersion and skew diffusion
Monday, February 7		Gregory Lawler, Cornell University The lambda-SAW walk
Monday, February 14		Sharad Goel, Cornell University Mixing times for top to bottom shuffles
Monday, February 21		Eugene Dynkin, Cornell University A class of harmonic functions on the space of measures associated with a superdiffusion
Monday, February 28		David Aldous, University of California at Berkeley A tractable complex network model
Monday, March 7		Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University Ergodicity of stable processes
Monday, March 14		Toufic Suidan, New York University A GUE central limit theorem and universality of last passage percolation fluctuations in thin rectangles
Monday, March 28		Julien Berestycki, University of Paris VI Small time behavior for beta-coalescents
Monday, April 4		Stas Volkov, University of Bristol A polling system with 3 queues and 1 server is a.s. periodic when transient: dynamical and stochastic systems, and chaos
Monday, April 11		Dan Stroock, MIT Much ado about a simple PDE
Monday, April 18		Haya Kaspi, Technion Splitting and coalescence associated with skew Brownian motion
Monday, April 25		Richard Durrett, Cornell University Life in a small world
Monday, May 2		Henrik Hult, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) Extremal behavior of stochastic integrals driven by multivariate regularly varying Levy processes