PAST PROBABILITY SEMINARS (1998-99)

FALL 1998

  • Thursday, October 1, 1998
    Vlada Limic (UCSD)
    "Eternal multiplicative coalescent processes".

  • Thursday, October 8, 1998
    Amber Puha (UCSD)
    "Critical Exponents for a Reversible Interacting Particle System".

  • Thursday, October 15, 1998
    Patrick Fitzsimmons (UCSD)
    "Hermite martingales"

  • Thursday, October 29, 1998
    Weian Zheng (UCI)
    "Multidimensional Stochastic Partial Differential Equations" (to download a postscript file of the paper on which this talk is based, click here).

  • Thursday, November 5, 1998
    Brian Hall (UCSD)
    "An example of stochastic methods in quantization".

  • Thursday, November 12, 1998
    No seminar this week.

  • Thursday, November 19, 1998
    A. Sholomitsky (UCSD)
    "Necessary conditions in some martingale limit theorems".

  • Thursday, November 26, 1998
    No seminar this week -- Thanksgiving holiday

  • Thursday, December 3, 1998
    No seminar this week -- due to Southern California Probability Symposium on Sunday, December 6, 1998.

    WINTER 1999 SCHEDULE

  • Thursday, January 14, 1999
    T. Liggett (UCLA)
    "Threshold Voter Models, Revisited"

  • Tuesday, January 26, 1999, 4 p.m. AP&M 7421
    Mathematics Colloquium
    Steven Evans (UC Berkeley)
    "Gaussian measures and Brownian motion on local fields"

  • Wednesday, January 27, 1999, noon, AP&M 7421
    (Special seminar -- joint mathematics and biology seminar)
    Steven Evans (University of California, Berkeley)
    "Constructing and counting phylogenetic invariants"

  • Thursday, January 28, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218
    Steven Evans (University of California, Berkeley)
    "Coalescing exchangeable partitions and random trees"

  • Thursday, February 4, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218
    Maury Bramson (University of Minnesota)
    "A stable queueing network with unstable fluid model".

  • Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 3 p.m., EBU I, Rm 5101
    Special Mathematical Finance Seminar
    R. J. Elliott (University of Alberta)
    "COMMODITY PRICING AND NEW FINITE DIMENSIONAL FILTERS"

  • Thursday, Feburary 18, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218
    T. Puhalskii (University of Colorado, Denver)
    "Maxingales, maxingale problems and large deviations".

  • Thursday, February 25, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218
    B. Oksendal (University of Oslo, visiting UCI)
    "A short introduction to Malliavin calculus and its application to finance"

  • Thursday, March 4, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218
    L. Heyer (USC)
    "Probabilistic Behavior of Sequence Analysis Algorithms".

    SPRING 1999 SCHEDULE

  • Thursday, April 8, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218
    Ron Getoor (UCSD)
    An Extended Generator and "Applications".

  • Thursday, May 20, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218 A. Eberle (visiting UCSD)
    Global short-time asymptotics of logarithmic derivatives of heat kernels on spheres

  • Thursday, May 27, 1999, 9.30 a.m., AP&M 6218 Robert Dalang (visiting UCLA)
    Process solutions to the wave equation driven by spatially homogeneous noise

  • Thursday, May 27, 10.30 a.m., AP&M 6218
    Neil O'Connell (BRIMS, HP Labs UK)
    Some large deviations results for sparse random graphs