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