Probability Seminar Fall 2002

STAT 691: Probability Seminar

Mondays, 3:30 PM, REC 113 The probability seminar is organized this year by Professor Thomas Sellke.

The Probability Seminar meets in the Fall 2002 Semester on Mondays at 3:30 - 4:20 PM in REC 113.

Schedule

Monday, August 26, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Frederi Viens, Purdue University
Stochastic PDE with Infinite-Dimensional Fractional Brownian Motion: Existence and Regularity

Monday, September 2, 2002
Labor Day Holiday: No Seminar

Monday, September 9, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University
Representations and Regularities for Solutions to BSDEs with Reflections

Monday, September 16, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University
L2-Modulus Regularity and a Numerical Method for BSDEs with Reflections

Monday, September 23, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Stephen M. Samuels, Purdue University
Two [or three or four] Quite Different Best-Choice Problems are Surprisingly Similar

Monday, September 30, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Anastasia A. Ruzmaikina, Purdue University
Edge Distribution of Eigenvalues of Wigner Random Matrices with Polynomially Decaying Distributions of Entries

Special Probability Seminar
Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 3:30 in REC 317
Professor Pat McDonald, New College, Florida
Brownian Motion, Dirichlet Spectrum and Heat Content
Note Unusual Day and Place

Monday, October 21, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Paul-Andre Monney, Visiting Purdue University
Basic Concepts of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence and the Theory of Hints

Monday, November 4, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Russell Lyons, Indiana University and Georgia Tech
Stationary Determinantal Processes (Fermionic Lattice Gases)

Monday, November 11, 2002, 3:30 in REC 317
Professor Aaron Yip, Purdue University
Stochastic Equations for Epitaxial Thin Film Growth
Note Unusual Date.

Monday, November 18, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Jang-Mei Wu, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
p-Harmonic Measure and Fatou Theorem on Trees

Monday, December 2, 2002, 3:30 in REC 113
Professor Anastasia Ruzmaikina, Purdue University
The Characterization of Invariant Measure at the Leading Edge for Particle Systems in One Dimension