Probability Seminar

List of Talks given in 2007-08

Monday, September 3		Jan Rosinski, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Sample path asymptotic bounds for infinitely divisible sequences
Monday, September 10		Soumik Pal, Cornell University Brownian motions interacting through ranks and a phase transition phenomenon
Monday, September 17		Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin Fluctuation results for some models of random environments and interaction
Monday, September 24		Mark Kelbert, University of Swansea Large-time behavior of a branching diffusion on a hyperbolic space
Monday, October 1		Sungchul Lee, Yonsei University and Cornell University Rates of convergence of means of Euclidean functionals
Monday, October 15		Richard Durrett, Cornell University Waiting for k mutations
Monday, October 29		Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA A problem in one-dimensional DLA and positive recurrence of Markov chains
Monday, November 5		Souvik Ghosh, Cornell University The effect of memory on moving average processes
Monday, November 12		Sebastien Roch, University of California at Berkeley Cascade processes in networks: on a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos
Monday, November 19		Daniel Remenik, Cornell University The contact process in a dynamic random environment
Monday, November 26		Jessica Zuniga, Cornell University Convergence of some inhomogeneous Markov chains via spectral techniques
Monday, January 28		Ron Peled, University of California at Berkeley Gravitational allocation to Poisson points
Monday, February 11		Jon Peterson, University of Minnesota Quenched limits for a one-dimensional transient random walk in random environment
Monday, February 18		John Mayberry, University of Southern California Stochastic integrate-and-fire models: a spectral approach
Monday, February 25		Jim Kuelbs, University of Wisconsin Some remarks on the CLT and the compact LIL
Monday, March 3		Shankar Bhamidi, University of California at Berkeley Flows through random networks: some probabilistic and statistical problems
Monday, March 10		Alex Scheid, Cornell University Analysis of an optimal control problem arising in portfolio optimization
Monday, March 24		Richard Durrett, Cornell University Coexistence in stochastic spatial models
Monday, March 31		Sourav Chatterjee, University of California at Berkeley A different approach to strong embeddings
Monday, April 7		David McDonald, University of Ottawa Sharp asymptotics for the probability a network overloads
Monday, April 7		Movie: Wolfgang Doeblin — a mathematician rediscovered
Wednesday, April 16		David Aldous, University of California at Berkeley When knowing early matters: gossip, percolation, and Nash equilibria
Monday, April 21		Philippe Soulier, University of Paris X On the existence of some ARCH(infinity) processes
Monday, May 5		Vlada Limic, Marseille The Lambda-coalescent speed of coming down from infinity