Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 2005-06

Monday, September 5   Gregory Lawler, Cornell University
Conformal invariance and two-dimensional polymers
Monday, September 12   Joan Lind, Cornell University
The geometry of Loewner evolution
Monday, September 19   David White, Cornell University
Processes with inert drift
Monday, September 26   Josh Rushton, Cornell University
A Chung-type functional LIL for alpha-stable processes, and related invariance results
Monday, October 3   Paul Jung, Cornell University
The contact process on non-amenable graphs
Monday, October 17   Lea Popovic, Cornell University
Continuum trees from catalytic population models
Monday, October 24   Raazesh Sainudiin, Cornell University
A randomized enclosure algorithm: Moore rejection sampling
Monday, October 31   Kazumasa Kuwada, Kyoto University and Cornell University
Large deviations for random currents induced from stochastic line integrals
Monday, November 7   Gady Kozma, Institute for Advanced Study
The scaling limit of loop-erased random walk in three dimensions
Friday, November 11   Julien Dubedat, Courant Institute
Commutation of Schramm-Loewner evolutions
Monday, November 21   Richard Durrett, Cornell University
Waiting for ATCAAAG
Monday, January 23   Nicolas Lanchier, Rouen and Minnesota
Stochastic spatial models for host-symbiont interactions
Monday, January 30   Anja Sturm, University of Delaware
Spatial coalescents with multiple mergers
Monday, January 30   Serge Cohen, Toulouse
Gaussian approximation of multivariate L�vy processes
Monday, February 13   Antar Bandyopadhyay, Chalmers University (Sweden)
Random walk in dynamic Markovian random environment
Thursday, February 16   Davar Khoshnevisan, Utah
A coupling and the Darling-Erdos conjectures
Monday, March 6   Ted Cox, Syracuse University
Renomalization of a stochastic Lotka-Voleterra model the two-dimensional case
Friday, March 10   Mihai Sirbu, Columbia University
On the two-times differentiability of the value functions in the problem of optimal investment in incomplete markets
Monday, March 13   X. Chen, Tennessee
Large deviations for Brownian intersection local times and related problems
Monday, March 27   Jason Schweinsberg, University of California, San Diego
The loop-erased random walk and the uniform spanning tree on the four-dimensional discrete torus
Monday, April 3   Benedek Valko, University of Toronto
Limits of random trees from real-world networks
Monday, April 10   Michael Reed, Duke University
Why cell biology needs mathematicians
Monday, April 17   Joe Yukich, Lehigh University
Limit theory for some problems in geometric probability - an overview
Monday, April 24   Michael Roeckner, Purdue University
Stochastic porous media and fast diffusion equations
Tuesday, May 9   Dominique Bakry, Universit� Paul Sabatier
From Log-Sobolev inequalities to Li-Yau's parabolic Harnack ones