PAST PROBABILITY SEMINARS (1999-00)
FALL 1999

  • Thursday, November 4, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218.
    Enrique Andjel (visiting UCLA)
    "A zero range process in a nonhomogenuous environment"

  • Thursday, November 11, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218. Probability/Stochastic Networks Seminar
    Ilze Ziedins (University of Auckland)
    "Virtual partitioning -- dynamic priorities for unbuffered resources"
    For an abstract of this talk, click here.

  • Thursday, November 18, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218.
    Tucker McElroy (UCSD Graduate Student)
    "Subsampling and Self-Normalization in Heavy-Tailed Time Series"

  • Thursday, December 2, 1999, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218
    Andreas Eberle (visiting UCSD)
    "Spectral gaps on loop spaces : A counterexample"

  • Sunday, December 5, 1999
    Southern California Probability Symposium to be held at the University of Southern California.
    WINTER 2000

  • Thursday, January 20, 2000, 10 am, AP&M 6218 (PLEASE NOTE THAT START TIME IS TEN MINUTES EARLIER THAN USUAL)
    Vladimir Rotar (visiting UCSD)
    "On Optimality in Probability and Almost Surely for Controlled Stochastic Processes with a Communication Property"

  • Thursday, January 27, 2000, 10.10 am, AP&M 6218
    (SPECIAL PROBABILITY COLLOQUIUM)
    A. J. Lawrance (University of Birmingham)
    "Chaos, communications and randomness"

  • Thursday, February 10, 2000, 10.10 am, AP&M 6218
    Andrea Brose (visiting UCLA)
    "A Stochastic Model Describing Collision and Coalescence of Cloud Drops in a Gravitational Field"

  • Thursday, February 17, 2000, 10.10 am, AP&M 6218
    Ander Holroyd (UCLA)
    "Rigidity Percolation and Boundary Conditions"

  • Thursday, February 24, 2000, 10.10 am, AP&M 6218
    Amber Puha (California State University, San Marcos)
    "Analysis of Fluid Models for Processor Sharing Queues"

  • Thursday, March 2, 2000, 10.10 am, AP&M 6218
    Balint Virag, UC Berkeley
    "Brownian Beads"
    For an abstract of this talk, click here.

  • Tuesday, March 7, 2000, 3 p.m., AP&M 7421, COLLOQUIUM
    W. Hansen, University of Bielefeld
    Harnack inequalities for Schrodinger equations

  • Thursday, March 9, 2000, 10.10 am, AP&M 6218
    W. Hansen, University of Bielefeld
    Liouville property for spherical averages in the plane

  • Friday, March 10, 2000, 2.30 p.m. AP&M 6218
    W. Hansen, University of Bielefeld
    "Potentials with given oscillation"

  • March 16-18, 2000: Seminar on Stochastic Processes, University of Utah

    SPRING 2000

  • Thursday, April 6, 2000
    H. Heyer (University of Tubingen)
    On the convergence of noncommutative triangular arrays of group valued random variables.

  • April 10-14, 2000
    Persi Diaconis and Susan Holmes, both from Stanford University, will be visiting during the week of April 10-14. A number of talks will be organized (see details below).

  • Monday, April 10, 1-2 p.m., SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER AUDITORIUM
    (Joint seminar sponsored by the Mathematics Department and the Computational Science Seminar Series)
    Susan Holmes (Stanford University)
    "Computing with Trees" (joint work with Persi Diaconis)
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 2.30-3.30 p.m., AP&M 7421.
    (Joint seminar sponsored by the Mathematics Department and the Mathematics and Science Education Doctoral Program)
    Susan Holmes (Stanford University)
    "Probability by Surprise: Teaching with Paradoxes".
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 4-5 p.m., AP&M 7421, Mathematics Colloquium
    Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
    "The Mathematics of Solitaire"
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 12.05pm, AP&M 7421
    Special Probability Seminar
    Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
    "Random walk and Hecke algebras"
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, April 13, 2000, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 7421
    Probability Seminar
    Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
    "New relations between unitary matrices and the zeros of Riemann's zeta function"
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, April 13, 2000, 4 p.m., AP&M 7421, Mathematics Colloquium
    Susan Holmes (Stanford University)
    "Geometry of the Space of Family Trees" (joint work with Louis Billera and Karen Vogtmann)
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, April 20, 2000, 10 a.m., AP&M 6218. (NOTE EARLIER TIME THAN USUAL)
    Yurii Kabanov University of Besancon, France; and Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
    "On a mathematical modeling of financial markets with transaction costs"

  • Thursday, April 27, 2000, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218.
    Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington
    "Heat equation and reflected Brownian motion in time dependent domains"
    For an abstract of this talk, click here.

  • Thursday, May 4, 2000, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218.
    Amir Dembo (Stanford)
    "Quenched versus Annealed Probabilities for Random Walk on Galton-Watson trees".

  • Thursday, May 11, 2000, 10.10 a.m., AP&M 6218.
    Vlada Limic (Cornell University)
    "Random walks with quadratic reinforcement are sticky on any graph."

  • May 15-20, 2000: Bernoulli Society Congress, Guanajuato, Mexico

  • Thursday, May 25, 2000, 10.10am, AP&M 6218.
    Tusheng Zhang (visiting UC Irvine)
    "On the small time asymptotics of semigroups and diffusions"

  • Thursday, May 25, 4pm, AP&M 7421, COLLOQUIUM
    Jean Carlson (UC Santa Barbara)
    "Complexity and robustness"

  • Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11, 2000
    Conference in Honor of Ron Getoor
    For details click here.

  • Conference and Workshop on Stochastic Networks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 19-30, 2000.
    SUMMER 2000
  • Thursday, August 31, 1.30pm, AP&M 7421
    Hermann Thorisson, University of Iceland
    "Taboo Stationarity", click here for an abstract.