Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 1996-97

Mon., September 9		Yosi Rinott, University of California at San Diego A CLT for dependent summands and applications to the anti-voter model and other models
Mon., September 16		S. Srithan, University of Colorado and U.S. Navy The martingale problems of turbulence, its prediction and optimal control
Mon., September 30		Laurent Saloff-Coste, Universit\�e Paul Sabatier Diffusions on infinite products
Mon., October 7		Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University Green's function estimates for alpha-stable processes in bounded domains
Mon., October 21		Harry Kesten, Cornell University Reimer's inequality for disjoint occurence of events
Mon., October 28		Igor Pak, Harvard University Random walks on groups: strong stationary time approach
Mon., November 4		C. R. Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taipei Convergence rates for some Monte Carlo Markov chains
Mon., November 11		Ted Cox, Syracuse University A spatial model for the abundance of species
Mon., November 18		Ren-min Song, University of Michigan Intrinsic ultra-contractivity and conditional gauge for symmetric stable process
Mon., November 25		Nikhil Shah, Cornell University Predator mediated coexistence
Mon., December 2		Richard Durrett, Cornell University Probability problems arising from the study of DNA sequences
Mon., January 27		Alexander Yushkevich, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Blackwell optimality in Markov decision processes
Mon., February 3		Zhenqing Chen, Cornell University Estimates on distance between two diffusion kernels
Mon., February 10		Alexander Teplyaev, Cornell University Eigenfunctions on Sierpinski lattices
Mon., February 17		Persi Diaconis, Cornell and Harvard University Measures for measures
Mon., February 24		Jason Fulman, Harvard University, visiting Cornell Probability in classical groups over finite fields
Mon., March 3		Donald Turcotte, Cornell University Self-organized criticality and the statistics of natural hazards
Mon., March 10		Rick Durrett, Cornell University Chutes and ladders in Markov chains
Mon., March 24		Sergei Kuznetsov, Cornell visitor Polar boundary sets for superdiffusions and removable lateral singularities for nonlinear parabolic PDE's
Mon., March 31		Susan Holmes, Cornell University Charles Stein's method for birth and death chains
Mon., April 7		Jeff Steif, Chalmers University Dynamical percolation
Mon., April 14		David Heath, Cornell University Risk measures for use in regulating financial institutions
Mon., April 21		Martin Hildebrand, SUNY at Albany A directed version of the Metropolis algorithm
Mon., April 21		Glen Swindle, Cornell University Some nonlinear PDEs arising from finance
Mon., April 28		Robert Battig, Cornell University Completeness of securities market models: an operator point of view
Mon., May 5		Maria Gordina, Cornell University Diffusions and holomorphic functions on infinite dimensional groups