Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 2006-07

Monday, September 4		Igor Pak, MIT Generating random group elements
Monday, September 11		Elchanan Mossel, University of California at Berkeley Computational hardness via Gaussian isoperimetric inequalities
Monday, September 18		Soumik Pal, Cornell University A Monte-Carlo approach for computing strategies with convex constraints
Monday, September 25		Vicky Fasen, Technische Universität München Asymptotic results for sample autocovariance functions and extremes of generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes
Monday, October 2		Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University Degenerately forced stochastic PDEs: ergodicity and the spread of randomness
Monday, October 16		Marek Biskup, UCLA Harmonic embedding and random walk on infinite percolation cluster
Monday, October 23		Rene Carmona, Princeton University HJM: A unified approach to dynamic models for fixed income, credit, and equity markets
Monday, October 30		Elizabeth Meckes, American Institute of Mathematics and Cornell University An infinitesimal version of Stein's method of exchangeable pairs
Monday, November 6		Sebastien Roch, University of California at Berkeley Broadcasting on trees: On the tightness of a bound of Kesten and Stigum
Monday, November 13		Parthanil Roy, Cornell University Ergodic theory, abelian groups and extremes of stable random fields
Monday, November 20		Jason Schweinsberg, University of California, San Diego Mutation patterns in populations with large family sizes
Monday, November 27		Philip Protter, Cornell University Completeness and incompleteness of markets through the lens of option prices
Monday, January 29		Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University The cut-off phenomenon for birth and death chains
Monday, February 12		Anja Sturm, University of Delaware Voter models with heterozygosity selection
Monday, February 19		Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve and Cornell University Random matrices and geometric functional analysis
Monday, February 26		Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University Tails of infinite sums
Monday, March 5		Sebastien Blachere, Eurandom Asymptotic properties of the Green distance on discrete groups
Monday, March 12		Lea Popovic, Cornell University Some degenerate diffusions arising from the study of gene duplication
Monday, March 26		Sourav Chatterjee, University of California at Berkeley Spin glasses and Stein’s method
Monday, April 2		Guan-Yu Chen, National Tsing Hua University The L^2-cutoff for finite Markov chains
Monday, April 9		Antal Jarai, Carleton University Random walk on the incipient infinite cluster for oriented percolation in high dimensions
Monday, April 23		Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington A particle representation for the heat equation solution
Monday, April 30		Nevena Maric, Syracuse University Quasi-stationary distributions and Fleming-Viot processes in countable spaces