Probability Seminar 2009-10
List of Talks given in 2009-10
| Wednesday, August 26 | Alexander Bendikov, Wroclaw University Spectral properties of random walks on locally finite groups |
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| Monday, August 31 | Edward Waymire, Oregon State University Tree polymers |
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| Monday, September 14 | Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University Excursion sets over high levels of non-Gaussian infinitely divisible random fields: extreme values, algebra, and geometry |
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| Monday, September 21 | Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University Bridges of random walks in a random environment |
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| Monday, September 28 | Steve Lalley, University of Chicago Return probabilities of random walks on some tree-like graphs and groups |
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| Monday, October 5 | Ping Li, Cornell University Compressed counting and random projections in data stream computations and entropy estimation |
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| Monday, October 19 | Erhan Bayraktar, University of Michigan Strict local martingale deflators and pricing American call-type options |
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| Monday, October 26 | Ted Cox, Syracuse University Intermediate range random walk on the two-dimensional torus |
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| Monday, November 9 | John Mayberry, Cornell University Traveling waves of selective sweeps |
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| Monday, November 16 | Daniel Remenik, Cornell University Brunet-Derrida particle systems, free boundary problems and Wiener-Hopf equations |
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| Monday, November 23 | Russ Thompson, Cornell University Critical constants for recurrence on groups of polynomial growth |
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| Monday, November 30 | Sergio Pulido, Cornell University Bubbles and futures contracts in markets with short-selling constraints |
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| Tuesday, December 1 | Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research Cutoff phenomena for random walks on random regular graphs |
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| Monday, January 25 | Ben Steinhurst, University of Connecticut Diffusions and Laplacians on Laakso spaces |
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| Monday, February 1 | Michael Lugo, University of Pennsylvania Singularity analysis and analytic combinatorics of discrete random structures |
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| Monday, February 8 | Amanda Redlich, MIT Unbalanced allocations |
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| Monday, February 15 | Mang Wu, University of Connecticut Brownian motion on the group of diffeomorphisms of the unit circle |
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| Monday, February 22 | Philip Protter, Cornell University Absolutely continuous compensators |
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| Monday, March 1 | Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University Current fluctuations for a system of one-dimensional random walks in a random environment |
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| Monday, March 8 | Tai Melcher, University of Virginia and Cornell University Some results for heat kernel measures on a class of infinite dimensional Lie groups |
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| Monday, March 15 | Christian Gromoll, University of Virginia and Cornell University Invariance of fluid limits for shortest remaining processing time queues |
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| Monday, March 29 | Maria Gordina, University of Connecticut and Cornell University Levy processes in Lie groups |
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| Monday, April 5 | Richard Durrett, Cornell University Progression to cancer and evolution of resistance in exponentially growing cell populations |
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| Monday, April 19 | Assaf Naor, New York University Dvoretzky’s theorem in metric spaces |
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| Monday, April 26 | Alexander Fribergh, New York University The speed of a biased random walk on a percolation cluster |
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| Monday, May 3 | Eric Kolacyz, Boston University Drug target prediction: finding biological needles in a haystack of networks |