Probability Seminar Fall 2001

STAT 598N: Probability Seminar. The probability seminar is organized this year by Professor Bañuelos. For a complete schedule see: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~banuelos/seminar.html. With his permission, we duplicate his page here.

The Probability Seminar meets in the Fall 2001 Semester on Mondays at 3:30 - 4:20 PM in REC 226. The first meeting is August 27.

Schedule

Monday, August 27, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor R. Banuelos, Purdue University
Space-Time Brownian Motion and the Nazarov-Volberg Estimate on the Beurling-Ahlfors Operator

Monday, September 3, 2001
Labor Day

Monday, September 10, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor F. Viens, Purdue University
Lower (and Hopefully Sharp Upper) Bounds on the Almost Sure Lyapunov Exponent for a Stochastic PDE

Monday, September 17, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor R. Sowers, University of Illinois, Urbana
Averaging, Glueing Conditions and Singular Perturbations

Monday, September 24, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor S. Torres, Purdue University
On the Existence of Solutions for Reflected Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with Super-Linear Quadratic Coefficient

Monday, October 1, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor T. Kulczycki, Instytut Matematyki, POLAND
Symmetric Stable Processes have Thorns

Monday, October 8, 2001
October Break

Monday, October 15, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor K. Bogdan, Purdue University
Censored Stable Processes

Monday, October 16, 2001, (Special Probability Seminar) 3:30 in REC 226
Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Brown University
Limit Theorems and Some Spectral Theory for Geometrically Ergodic Markov Processes

Monday, October 29, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor A. Baernstein, Washington University, St. Louis
A Majorization of Sequences, Sharp Vector Khinchin Inewqualities, and Bisubharmonic Functions

Monday, November 5, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor D. L. Burkholder, University of Illinois, Urbana
The Best Constant in the Davis Inequality for the Expectation of the Martingale Square Function

Monday, November 12, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor D. You, Purdue University
Sharp Inequalities for Partition Functions of Schrodinger Operators

Monday, November 19, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Ms. O. Korosteleva
Limit Thorem for the Spread of a Branching Diffusion with Standard drift

Monday, November 26, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor M. Pascu, Purdue University
Scaling Coupling of Reflected Brownian Motions and the Hot Spots Conjecture

Monday, December 3, 2001, 3:30 in REC 226
Professor T. Sellke, Purdue University
Weak survival of anisotropic contact processes on trees