Stochastic Seminar, University of Utah, Spring 07

Fridays, 3-4 PM, LCB 219

Monday February 12. Joint Applied Math and Stochastics Seminar. 4:20-5:10 pm. LCB 215
(NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah
"An approach to the almost-sure invariance principle for random walk in random environment" (Abstract)

Friday February 23. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Noam Berger, University of California-Los Angeles
"Quenched invariance principle for high dimensional random walk in random environment" (Abstract)

Monday February 26. Joint Applied Math and Stochastics Seminar. 4:20-5:10 pm. LCB 215
(NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
Martin Wainwright, University of California-Berkeley
"Sparsity recovery in the high-dimensional and noisy setting: Practical and information-theoretic limitations" (Abstract)

Friday March 2. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Zoran Vondraček, University of Zagreb
"On infima of Lévy processes and application in risk theory" (Abstract)

Friday March 16. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Yevgeniy Kovchegov, Oregon State University
"Mixing times via super-fast coupling" (Abstract)

Friday March 30. Stochastics Seminar. 2-3 pm. JWB 335
(NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
José Ramírez, University of Costa Rica
"Beta ensembles, stochastic Airy spectrum, and a diffusion" (Abstract)

Friday March 30. Early Research Directions. 3-4 pm. LCB 121
Mohammud Foondun, University of Utah

Wednesday April 4. Undergraduate Colloquium. 12:55-1:45 pm. LCB 222
Michael Purcell, University of Utah
"Intuition and Conditional Probability: an examination of the Monty Hall Problem" (Abstract)

Friday April 6. Stochastics Seminar. 2-3 pm. JWB 335
(NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
Wenbo V. Li, University of Delaware
"Spectral analysis of Brownian motion with jump boundary" (Abstract)

Friday April 6. Early Research Directions. 3-4 pm. LCB 121
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah
"Diffusion in random and non-random media"

Wednesday April 11. Stochastics Seminar. 2-3 pm. JWB 335
(NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
Piotr Kokoszka, Utah State University
"Tests of independence for functional observations" (Abstract)

Friday April 13. Early Research Directions. 3-4 pm. LCB 121
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah

Wednesday April 18. Undergraduate Colloquium. 12:55 pm. LCB 222
Karim Khader, University of Utah
"Rademacher functions and a sequence of independent coin flip" (Abstract)

Thursday April 19. Stochastics Seminar. 2-3 pm. LCB 219
(NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME)
Zsuzsanna Horváth, University of Utah
"Ratio tests for change point detection" (Abstract)

Friday April 20. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Timo Seppäläinen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Increasing path models and interacting particle systems" (Abstract)