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List of Talks
given in 1997-98
| Mon., September 8 |
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Persi Diaconis, Cornell University
Random iterations: a simple idea in Markov chain theory |
| Mon., September 15 |
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Rinaldo Schinazi, University of Colorado
A spatial stochastic model for sickle cell disease |
| Mon., September 22 |
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Persi Diaconis, Cornell University
Random iterations: examples of a simple idea in Markov chain theory |
| Mon., September 29 |
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Ken Brown, Cornell University
Random walk and hyperplane arrangement |
| Mon., October 6 |
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Ken Brown, Cornell University
Random walk and hyperplane arrangement, part II |
| Mon., October 13 |
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David Steinsaltz, University of Berlin
Zenos walk and iterated function systems |
| Mon., October 20 |
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Thomas Yan,
Demonic algorithms for efficient simulation of complex Markov chains |
| Mon., October 27 |
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Ed Weymeier, Oregon State University
Multiplicative cascades |
| Mon., November 3 |
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Divakar Viswanath, Cornell University
Random Fibonacci sequences and the number 1.3198824... |
| Mon., November 10 |
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Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University
Weak convergence of reversible diffusions |
| Mon., November 17 |
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Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University
Weak convergence of reversible diffusions II |
| Mon., November 24 |
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Kris Burdzey, Seattle
Hot bodies |
| Mon., December 1 |
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Gennady Samorodnitsky,
Large deviations explain how system performance is affected by
the interplay of averages in a fluid queue with long range dependence
induced by heavy tails |
| Mon., January 26 |
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Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University
First passage distributions and reflected Dirichlet spaces |
| Mon., February 2 |
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H. Matzinger, Cornell University
Reconstruction of a 3 color random scenery on Z, seen along the
path of a symmetric random walk |
| Mon., February 9 |
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T. Povel, ETH Zurich and MIT
Large deviation principle for random walk in a quenched random
environment in the low speed regime |
| Mon., February 16 |
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Min Kang, Cornell University
Weak convergence of solution for a parabolic stochastic PDE with
boundary condition |
| Mon., February 23 |
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Leonid Mytnik, University of British Columbia
A duality approach to proving uniqueness |
| Mon., March 2 |
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Richard Durrett, Cornell University
Scaling limits of particle systems |
| Mon., March 9 |
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Christian Meise, University of Bielefeld
Parallel simulated annealing and genetic algorithms |
| Mon., March 30 |
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E.B. Dynkin, Cornell University
Positive solutions of nonlinear PDE's: history and recent developments |
| Mon., April 6 |
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S. Kuznetsov, Cornell University
Fine trace on the boundary for solutions of nonlinear PDE's |
| Mon., April 13 |
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Eknath Belbase, Cornell University
Existence of stationary distributions in reaction-diffusion processes
via a hydrodynamic limit |
| Mon., April 20 |
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Ronitt Rubinfeld, Cornell University
Testing 'properties' using probability |
| Mon., April 27 |
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Harry Kesten, Cornell University
How far apart are the trees in a uniform spanning forest? |
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March 30, 2004
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