Probability Seminar
List of Talks given in 2011-12
| Monday, August 29 | Susan Hunter, Cornell University Large-deviation sampling laws for constrained simulation optimization on finite sets |
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| Monday, September 12 | Takashi Kumagai, RIMS, Kyoto Convergence of mixing times for sequences of random walks on finite graphs |
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| Monday, September 19 | Janna Lierl, Cornell University Estimates for the heat kernel with Dirichlet boundary condition |
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| Monday, October 3 | Yi Shen, Cornell University On the location of the path supremum of stationary processes |
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| Monday, October 17 | Rolf Waeber, Cornell University A bisection approach to stochastic root-finding |
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| Monday, October 24 | Zhen-Qing Chen, University of Washington Brownian motion with darning and its application to conformal mappings |
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| Monday, October 31 | Anita Behme, TU Braunschweig and Michigan State University Exponential functionals of Lévy processes |
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| Tuesday, November 1 | Qi-Man Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Normal and non-normal approximation by Stein’s method |
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| Monday, November 7 | Partha Dey, New York University Multiple phase transitions for long-range first-passage percolation on lattices |
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| Monday, November 14 | Patrick Driscoll, University of Virginia Smooth densities for processes driven by fractional Brownian motion |
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| Monday, November 21 | Wenbo Li, University of Delaware Probabilities of all real zeros for random polynomials |
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| Monday, November 28 | Marten Wegkamp, Cornell University Joint variable and rank selection for parsimonious estimation of high dimensional matrices |
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| Monday, December 5 | Hamed Amini, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Epidemics and percolation in weighted random graphs |
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| Monday, January 23 | Daniel Fresen, University of Missouri Variation of random polytopes in the space of convex bodies |
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| Monday, February 6 | Nathaniel Eldredge, Cornell University Widder’s theorem for Dirichlet spaces |
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| Monday, February 20 | Tianyi Zheng, Cornell University Return probability for random walk on wreath product and related groups |
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| Monday, March 12 | Avner Peleg, University at Buffalo Interplay between bit-pattern randomness and pulse collisions in broadband fiber optics transmission lines |
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| Monday, March 26 | Michael Hinz, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and University of Connecticut Vector analysis on fractals and applications |
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| Monday, April 9 | Martin Hildebrand, University of Albany On a lower bound for the Chung-Diaconis-Graham random process |
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| Monday, April 16 | Yimin Xiao, Michigan State University Some results on the excursion probabilities of Gaussian random fields |
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| Monday, April 30 | Clinton Conley, Cornell University Translation-invariant random colorings of Cayley graphs |
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| Monday, May 7 | Richard Ellis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst From large deviations to statistical mechanics: what is the most likely way for an unlikely event to happen? |