Schedule for Fall 2009

September 11 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Lidia Rejto University of Delaware
Title: Estimating Survival Chances based on data of the Hungarian Cancer Register
September 14 4:50-5:50 336 Ewing
Thomas M. Liggett University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Two Problems on Stirring Processes -- and their Solutions
September 25 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Wlodek Bryc University of Cincinnati
Title: Large deviations for a Markov chain
October 2 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Vladislav Vysotsky University of Delaware
Title: On integrated random walks that stay positive
October 9 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Wenbo V. Li University of Delaware
Title: Small Value Phenomenons in Probability and Statistics
October 16
Midwest Probability Colloquium
October 23
Eastern Section AMS Meeting, Penn State
November 12 3:30-4:30 336 Ewing
Dennis Cox Rice University
Title: Convergence of Gibbs Measures Associated with Simulated Annealing
November 13 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Lisa Marano West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Title: An insightful proof of Levy's modulus of continuity and the law of iterated logarithm
November 20
Northeast Probability Conference, New York
November 25 4:00-5:00
Ang Wei University of Rochester
Title: A Gaussian inequality and the multivariate Gaussian estimation
December 4 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Title: TBA.
December 11 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Oana Mocioalca Kent State University
Title: TBA.
December 18 2:30-3:30 336 Ewing
Dongsheng Wu University of Alabama in Huntsville
Title: TBA.

Schedule for Spring 2009



February 20 5:00 336 Ewing
Nevena Maric University of Missouri
Title: Existence of quasi-stationary distributions.
February 27 5:00 336 Ewing
Manfred Denker Pennsylvania State University
Title: Some new local limit theorems.
March 5 3:30 117 Gore Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Michael Steele Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title: A streetwise gambler goes to Wall Street.
March 6 3:30 117 Gore Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Michael Steele Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Probability theory of minimal spanning trees.
March 20 5:00 336 Ewing
Fuchang Gao University of Idaho
Title: How many Laplace transforms of bounded measures are there?
April 10 5:00 336 Ewing
Vincent Lariccia University of Delaware
Title: Strong approximations to the smoothing spline with applications to confidence bands.
April 20 5:00 Smith 221
Horng-Tzer Yau Harvard University
Title: Eigenvalue statistics of random matrices.
April 24 5:00 336 Ewing
Joel Zinn Texas A&M University
Title: The Gaussian correlation conjecture.
May 1 5:00 336 Ewing
Andrew Pollington NSF, Program Director
Title: Diophantine approximation and Probability.
May 8 5:00 336 Ewing
Carole Bernard University of Waterloo
Title: Mr Madoff's amazing returns: an analysis of the split-strike conversion strategy.
May 15 5:00 336 Ewing
Zhujia Lu Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, China
Title: Mathematical Translations.
May 22 5:00 336 Ewing
Tai Melcher University of Virginia
Title: Heat kernel analysis for semi-infinite Lie groups.


Schedule for Fall 2008

September 5 12:15 336 Ewing
David Stockman Department of Economics, University of Delaware
Title: SRB measures for inverse limit spaces.
September 12 12:15 336 Ewing
Anja Sturm University of Delaware
Title: Interface tightness for long-range voter models with exclusion dynamics.
September 22 12:15 336 Ewing
Anita Winter University or Erlangen
Title: Spatial coalescents arising in the study of diffusive clustering.
September 26 12:10 336 Ewing
Mikhail Lifshits Georgia Tech and St.Petersburg University
Title: Finite rank approximation of tensor-type and additive random fields.
October 3 12:10 336 Ewing
Vlad Vysotsky University of Delaware
Title: A limit theorem for the trajectory of a particle moving in random medium.
October 10 12:10 336 Ewing
Sivan Leviyang Georgetown University
Title: A coalescent analysis of the populations genetics statistic Fst.
October 17 12:10 336 Ewing
Ang Wei University of Delaware
Title: From random harmonic rational function to gravitational lensing effect.
October 31 12:10 336 Ewing
James Kuelbs University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Limit theorems for high dimensional data.
November 7 12:10 336 Ewing
Scott McKinley Duke University
Title: Diffusion in soft matter.
November 14 12:10 336 Ewing
Jan Swart UTIA Prague
Title: The contact process seen from a typical infected site.
November 19 3:30 336 Ewing
Shige Peng Shandong University
Title: Why Gaussian distributions are widely applied under distribution uncertainties.
December 3 3:30
Jun Peng Central South University, China
Title: Diffusions with holding and jumping boundary.
December 19 12:00 336 Ewing
Olympia Hadjiliadis Brooklyn College, CUNY
Title: One shot schemes for decentralized quickest change detection.

Schedule for Spring 2008

February 28 3:30 Ewing 336
Xiaoyuan Qian Dalian University of Technology
Title: Multivariate fractal interpolation functions and probability.
March 6 3:30 Ewing 336
Anja Sturm University of Delaware
Title: Coexistence and convergence for voter models with selection.
March 13 3:30 Ewing 336
Wenbo Li University of Delaware
Title: An overview on small ball probabilities.
March 20 2:20 Ewing 336
Bo'az Klartag Princeton University
Title: On Dvoretzky's theorem and small ball probabilities.
March 20 3:30 127 Memorial Hall - Colloquium talk
Patrick Harker University of Delaware
Title: A gradient based method for analyzing stochastic variational inequalities.
March 26 10:00 TBA
Xinyi Zhang University of Delaware
Title: Expected length of minimum spanning tree.
March 26 5:00 Ewing 336
Qi-Man Shao University of Oregon
Title: Stein's method of exchangeable pairs with application to the Curie-Weiss model.
April 3-5 Purnell Hall
Seminar on stochastic processes

April 8 3:30 Ewing 336
Anita Winter University of Erlangen
Title: Subtree prune and regraft.
April 17 3:30 Ewing 336
Wei-Shih Yang Temple University
Title: Limiting behavior of decoherent quantum walks.
April 24 3:30 Ewing 336
Robin Pemantle University of Pennsylvania
Title: An upper bound for Pomerance's random squares problem.
May 1 3:30 Ewing 336
Artem Zvavitch Kent State University
Title: Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities for Gaussian measure.
May 8 3:30 Ewing 336
Y.J. Leung University of Delaware
Title: An Overview on Perron-Frobenius Theorem for Stochastic Matrices.
May 15 3:30 Ewing 336
Kavita Ramanan Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Characterizations of reflected diffusions.

For more information contact:
Anja Sturm (sturm_at_math.udel.edu) or Wenbo Li (wli_at_math.udel.edu)

Past seminars:

2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001

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