Stochastic Seminar, University of Utah, Spring 09

Fridays, 3-4 PM, LCB 219

Friday January 16. Joint Applied Math and Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Nicolai Krylov, University of Minnesota
"On the regularity properties of conditional densities for partially observable uniformly nondegenerate diffusion processes with Lipshitz coefficients" (Abstract)

Friday January 23. Master's Project Defense. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Michael Purcell, University of Utah

Friday January 30. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Mathew Joseph, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Independent particles in a dynamical random environment" (Abstract)

Thursday February 5. Departmental Colloquium. 4:15-5:15 pm. JWB 335
Mark Huber, Duke University
"Exact uniform generation of linear extensions of a poset" (Abstract)

Friday February 6. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Mark Huber, Duke University
"Perfect simulation of Matérn Type III point processes" (Abstract)

Friday February 13. Stochastics Seminar. 1-3 pm. JWB 208
Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania
"An informal talk on probabilistic number theory" (Abstract)

Friday February 13. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania
"Quantum random walks on the two-dimensional lattice" (Abstract)

Friday February 20. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Mu-Fa Chen, Beijing Normal University
"Coupling methods and probability metrics" (Abstract)

Friday February 27. No Seminar.

Friday March 6. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Daniel Conus, University of Utah
"The non-linear wave equation in high dimensions: existence, Hölder-continuity and Itô-Taylor expansion" (Abstract)

Friday March 13. Special FPD09 Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Sunder Sethuraman, Iowa State University
"Large deviations for a tagged particle in one dimensional symmetric simple exclusion" (Abstract)

Friday March 15-17. Frontier Probability Days 2009

Friday March 20. No Seminar. Spring Break.

Friday March 27. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Tolga Taşdizen, University of Utah
"Image denoising and feature extraction with subspaces of image patches" (Abstract)

Friday April 3. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Shang-Yuan Shiu, University of Utah
"Asymptotic behavior of optimal reward on a tree with Gaussian random weights" (Abstract)

Friday April 10. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Sourav Chatterjee, University of California-Berkeley
"Chaos, concentration and multiple valleys" (Abstract)

Friday April 17. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Siegfried Hörmann, University of Utah
"'Split' invariance principles for stationary processes" (Abstract)

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Friday April 24. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Karim Khader, University of Utah
"Laplace's equation with white noise on the boundary" (Abstract)