Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 2003-04

Monday, September 15   Eugene Dynkin, Cornell University
Recent progress on nonlinear PDEs due to new results on superdiffusions
Wednesday, September 24   Leonid Mytnik, Technion
Regularity and irregularity of (1 + beta)-stable super-Brownian motion
Monday, September 29   Gregory Lawler, Cornell University
On the Beurling estimate for random walks
Friday, October 17   Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania
More rigorous results on the NK model
Monday, October 20   Tom Pfaff, Ithaca College
A mean field model for species abundance
Monday, October 27   Brian Rider, Duke University
Concentration of permanent estimators for certain large matrices
Monday, November 3   Richard Durrett, Cornell University
Bipartite random graphs
Monday, November 10   Harry Kesten, Cornell University
A phase transition in a model for the spread of an infection
Monday, November 17   Takashi Kumagai, Kyoto University and Cornell University
Stability of sub-Gaussian heat kernel estimates and their applications to stochastic models
Monday, December 1   Michael Kozdron, Cornell University
Excursion measure in the plane
Monday, February 2   Gregory Lawler, Cornell University
Brownian loops and conformal field theory
Friday, February 6   Scott Sheffield, Microsoft Research
Cluster swapping and domino tilings
Monday, February 16   Yasunari Fukai, Kyushu University
Hitting time of a half-line by a two-dimensional random walk
Monday, February 23   Naoki Matsuda, University of Tokyo
Return times of random walk on generalized random graphs
Monday, March 8   Richard Durrett, Cornell University
A phase transition in genome rearrangement
Monday, March 15   Jose Trujillo-Ferreras, Cornell University
New recipes for Brownian loop soup
Monday, March 29   Hans F�llmer, Humboldt Universit�t, Berlin
American options and non-linear potential theory
Monday, April 5   Christian Benes, Cornell University
Counting planar random walk holes
Monday, April 19   Jason Schweinsberg, Cornell University
Family size distributions for multitype Yule processes
Monday, April 26   Huyen Pham, University of Paris VI
A large deviations control problem arising from risk management
Monday, May 3   Ed Perkins, University of British Columbia
Lotka-Volterra models and super-Brownian motion