Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 1995-96

Mon., September 11   Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University
Symmetrization, concentration inequality and 0-1 laws for Levy chaos
Mon., September 18   Vladimir Anisimov, Kiev University
Switching stochastic systems: asymptotic results and applications
Mon., September 25   Richard Durrett, Cornell University
Super-tree random measures
Mon., October 2   Harry Kesten, Cornell University
Percolation of arbitrary words in {0,1}^N
Mon., October 9   Mu-Fa Chen, Beijing Normal University
Estimate of spectral gap for elliptic operators by coupling
Mon., October 16   Eugene Dynkin, Cornell University
On positive solutions of \Delta u=u^\alpha in a domain of R^d and on a Riemannian manifold
Mon., October 23   Sergei Kuznetsov, Cornell University
Linear additive functionals of superdiffusions and their applications
Mon., October 30   Mike Cranston, University of Rochester
Geometric properties of stochastic flows
Mon., November 6   Carl Mueller, University of Rochester
Some qualitative properties of stochastic partial differential equations
Mon., November 13   Richard Gundy, Rutgers University
Dilation equations: wavelets for probabilists
Mon., November 20   Leonard Gross, Cornell University
Hall's transform via stochastic analysis
Mon., November 27   Fabio Machado, Cornell visitor
Asymptotic results for the branching exclusion process on $Z^d$
Mon., December 4   Richard Durrett, Cornell University
Measure-valued diffusion limits of the contact process with applications to asymptotics for critical values
Mon., January 29   Pierre Picco, Marseille, FRANCE
Large deviations for the random field Kac model
Mon., February 5   Harry Kesten, Cornell University
Distinguishing sceneries by observing them along a random walk path
Mon., February 12   NungKwan Yip, Princeton University
Stochastic perturbations in curvature driven flows � variational approach
Mon., February 19   Alejandro Ramirez, New York University
Relative entropy and mixing properties of some infinite dimensional spaces
Mon., February 26   Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University
On semilinear elliptic equations with nonlinear drift terms
Mon., March 4   Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University
Long range dependence, heavy tails and renewal theorems
Mon., March 11   Hassan Allouba, Cornell University
Settling the Yamada-Watanabe uniqueness result for different types of SPDEs
Mon., March 25   Pawel Kroeger, Cornell visitor
Space-time Brownian motion, irregularity of boundary points and exit distributions
Mon., April 1   Zbigniew Jurek, University of Wroclaw (Poland)
Operator limit distributions and semigroups
Mon., April 15   JHB Kemperman, Rutgers University
Statistics, information theory and related inequalities
Mon., April 22   Frank Knight, University of Illinois
Approximation of Brownian local time using the skeletal random walks
Mon., April 29   Carlos Sin, Cornell University
Strictly local martingales on models for securities prices
Mon., May 6   Maury Bramson, IAS and University of Wisconsin
Convergence to equilibria for fluid models of FIFO queueing networks
Mon., May 6   Ron Getoor, University of California at San Diego
Some occupation time distributions for excursions of Levy processes
Mon., May 6   Claudia Neuhauser, IAS and University of Wisconsin
The genealogy of samples in models with selection