Probability, Spring 2009

Schedule

Monday, February 16, 2009, 03:30 PM in REC 315
Professor Frederi Viens, Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
Malliavin calculus and the density of the supremum of a Gaussian vector

Monday, February 23, 2009, 03:30 PM in REC 316
Professor Frederi Viens, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Variations and estimators for selfsimilarity parameters via Malliavincalculus

Monday, March 2, 2009, 03:30 PM in REC 316
Ms. Alexandra Chronopoulou, Department of Statistics PhD Graduate Student, Purdue University
Variations and Hurst index estimation for a Rosenblatt process using longer filters

Monday, March 9, 2009, 03:30 PM in REC 316
Professor Matt Cecil, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
An Introduction to the Taylor map

Monday, March 23, 2009, 03:30 PM in LWSN 1142
Professor Steve Lalley, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
Spatial Epidemics: Critical Behavior

Monday, March 30, 2009,
No Probability Seminar

Monday, April 6, 2009, 03:30 PM in REC 316
Professor Samy Tindel, Département de Mathématiques, Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy)
Approximations of fractional differential equations

Monday, April 27, 2009, 03:30 PM in REC 316
Professor Mark Ward, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
The Average Case Analysis of Cousins in Retrieval Trees and Suffix Trees