Program in Probability and Its Applications Seminar Series

July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 210

Schedule

Past Talks

Wednesday, June 9th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	State Dependent Multitype Spatial Branching Donald Dawson, Carleton University

Wednesday, June 2nd, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Relaxation to equilibrium for interacting random walks Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto

Wednesday, May 26th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Slice sampler Markov chains Jeffrey Rosenthal, University of Toronto

Wednesday, May 19th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Quasi-potential of the Fleming-Viot process with neutral mutation and selection Kenji Handa

Thursday, May 13th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Level sets of additive Levy processes Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah

Wednesday, May 5th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Layout problems on random geometric graphs Mathew Perose, Durham University

Wednesday, April 28th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Optimal approximation of stochastic differential equations by adaptive step-size control Norbert Hofmann

Wednesday, April 14th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Assymptotic properties of integral functionals of geometric stochastic processes. Miklos Csorgo, Carleton University
14:00 to 15:00	Random spanning trees of Cayley graphs and compactifications of groups Steven Evans, University of California Berkeley
14:00 to 15:00	Forward and backward integrals revisited. Terry Lyons, University of Oxford

Wednesday, April 7th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	p-variation, integration and stock price modelling Rimas Norvaisa

Wednesday, March 31st, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	On the long-term behaviour of superprocesses with a general branching mechanism Yongjin Wang, Nankai University
14:00 to 15:00	Elements of free probability Alexandru Nica, University of Waterloo

Wednesday, March 24th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	How does the Vervaat process really behave? Ricardas Zitikis, Western University
14:00 to 15:00	An Introduction to Set-Indexed Strong Submartingales. Dean Slonowsky, The Fields Institute

Wednesday, March 17th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Vertex Reinforced Random Walks: the techniques. Stanislav Volkov, Lund University

Wednesday, March 3rd, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Skew Convolution Semigroups and Immigration Processes Zenghu Li
14:00 to 15:00	Some results for long range percolation and maniscale models Mikhail Menchikov

Wednesday, February 24th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Trapping and saturation in a random media Alejandro Ramirez
14:00 to 15:00	Vertex-Reinforced Random Walks: What's New? Stanislav Volkov, Lund University

Wednesday, February 17th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Steiner distances in random trees Amram Meir, York University
14:00 to 15:00	Diffusions and heat kernel analysis on an infinite dimensional group. Masha (Maria) Gordina, University of Connecticut

Wednesday, February 10th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	A Microscopic Model For Porous Medium Equation Shui Feng, McMaster University

Tuesday, February 2nd, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Graph Colouring with the Probabilistic Method Michael Molloy, University of Toronto

Wednesday, January 20th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Generalizing the Martingale Central Limit Theorem. Dean Slonowsky, The Fields Institute
14:00 to 15:00	Liouville property and a conjecture of de Giorgi Martin Barlow, University of British Columbia

Tuesday, January 19th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Parabolic SPDE Min Kang, North Carolina State University

Wednesday, January 6th, 1999
14:00 to 15:00	Conditioning Super Brownian Motion Tom Salisbury, York University

Wednesday, December 9th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Large Time Asymptotics of the Nonlinear Filter Rami Atar, Technion
14:00 to 15:00	Metastability and Droplet Growth Frank den Hollander, University of Oxford

Wednesday, November 25th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Labyrinths Stanislav Volkov, Lund University

Wednesday, November 18th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	The lace expansion and oriented percolation. Eric Derbez, McMaster University / Fields Institute
14:00 to 15:00	Duality for a stochastic p.d.e. with density dependent branching noise Siva Athreya, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

Wednesday, November 4th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Random walks in a field of traps: from simple random walk on Z^d to any Markov chain Stanislav Volkov, Lund University
14:00 to 15:00	Large deviations for observation and related processes George L. O'Brien, York University

Wednesday, October 14th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Large Deviation methods in Risk Theory Anders Martin, Stockholm University

Tuesday, October 13th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	On a Conjecture of B. Jorgensen and A.D. Wentzell: from Extreme Stable Laws to Tweedie Exponential Dispersion Models Vladimir Vinogradov, Ohio University

Wednesday, September 23rd, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Infinite Systems of Diffusions in Population Biology Jan Swart, Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the ASCR (UTIA)
14:00 to 15:00	Ruelle's probability cascades and an abstract cavity method Erwin Bolthausen, Universität Zurich
14:00 to 15:00	Self-diffusion for Brownian Motions with Local Interaction Ilie Grigorescu

Wednesday, September 16th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Moment asymptotics for the Anderson model Wolfgang Koenig, Technical University of Berlin

Wednesday, September 9th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	A Pattern Theorem for Lattice Clusters Neal Madras, York University

Tuesday, August 25th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Strict concavity of the Brownian motion intersection exponent Gregory Lawler, University of Chicago

Wednesday, August 19th, 1998
14:00 to 15:00	Mean-field lattice trees Remco van der Hofstad, Eindhoven University of Technology

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