Probability Seminar (MATH 771-772)

List of Talks given in 2000-01

Monday, September 4		Anita Winter, University of Erlangen (Germany) Spatial branching models under the palm distribution: how to bring into focus the exceptional 'surviving mass'?
Monday, September 11		Wolfgang Woess, Technische Universitaet Graz (Austria) Identifying the Poisson boundary of random walks on graphs
Monday, September 18		Masanori Hino, Kyoto University (Japan) Exponential decay of positivity preserving semigroups on L^p
Monday, September 25		Phil Protter, Cornell University Superhedging in incomplete markets
Monday, October 2		Krishna Athreya, Cornell University Random logistic maps
Monday, October 16		Peter Winkler, Bell Labs Hard constraints on the Bethe lattice
Monday, October 23		Vlada Limic, Cornell University Attracting edge property for a class of reinforced random walks
Monday, October 30		Ed Perkins, University of British Columbia (Canada) Super-chains and degenerate stochastic differential equations
Monday, November 6		David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin A mathematical model for traffic jams: some results and conjectures
Monday, November 13		Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University Strange intervals of a stochastic process and long range dependence
Monday, November 20		Richard Durrett, Cornell University Some new results for the stepping stone model
Monday, November 27		Orjan Stenflo, Georgia Institute of Technology Invariant measures of iterated function systems
Monday, December 4		S. Assing, University of Bielefeld (Germany) Infinite dimensional Langevin equations: uniqueness and rate of convergence for finite dimensional approximations
Monday, January 29		David Revelle, Cornell University Rate of escape of random walk on wreath products
Monday, February 5		Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University Lower bound for convergence in total variation: D. Wilson's lemma
Monday, February 12		Joseph Yukich, Lehigh University Limit theory for random sequential packing
Monday, February 19		Tom Salisbury, York University (Canada) Conditioned super Brownian motion
Monday, February 26		Jose Ramirez, Cornell University Short term Gaussian behavior of reversible processes
Monday, March 5		Vygantas Paulauskas, Vilnius University (Lithuania) and Georgia Institute of Technology On random convex compact sets in Banach spaces
Monday, March 12		Balint Virag, MIT Fast graphs for the random walker
Monday, March 26		Alexander Bendikov, Cornell University Short time behavior of Brownian motion on compact groups
Monday, April 2		Martin Grothaus, University of Bonn (Germany) and University of Bielefeld (Germany) Scaling limit of stochastic dynamics in classical continuous systems
Monday, April 9		Christophe Pittet, University of Toulouse (France) and Cornell University Random walks on finitely generated groups
Monday, April 16		Harold Widom, University of California at Santa Cruz A growth model in a random environment
Monday, April 23		Vladas Sidoravicius, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (Brazil) Mixing properties for mechanical motion of a charged particle in a random medium
Monday, April 30		Rafail Khasminskii, Wayne State University On the averaging principle for diffusion processes with null-recurrent fast component