Probability Seminar Spring 2003

STAT 691S: Probability Seminar

Mondays, 3:30 PM, REC 227 The probability seminar is organized this year by Professor Thomas Sellke.

The Probability Seminar meets in the Spring 2003 Semester on Mondays at 3:30 - 4:20 PM in REC 227

Schedule

Monday, January 24, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Pierre Del Moral, Visiting Purdue University
Feynman-Kac Formulae Genealogical and Interacting Particle Models

Monday, February 10, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Pierre Del Moral, Visiting Purdue University
A New Class of Genealogical and Interacting Metropolis Particle Models

Monday, February 24, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Pedro J. Méndez, University of Utah, Salt Lake
An Isoperimetric Inequality for Riesz Capacities and Hitting Times of Symmetric Stable Processes

Monday, March 3, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Majid Hosseini, Purdue University
A Sharp Inequality Involving Heat Content

Monday, March 10, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Krzysztof Szajowski, Visiting Purdue University
On Stopping Games Related to the Secretary Problem

Monday, March 24, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Jiyeon Suh, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana
A Sharp Weak Type Inequality for Martingale Transforms

Monday, March 31, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Jan Wehr, The University of Arizona
Central Limit Theorems: From Pascal's Gambling Escapades to Conductivity of Disordered Systems
Joint with Department of Statistics, Research Colloquia

Monday, April 7, 2003, 3:30 in REC 227
Professor Alexander Gnedin, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Stick-Breaking Composition Structures