Stochastic Seminar, University of Utah, Fall 06

Mondays, 12:55-1:45 PM, LCB 225

Friday September 1. Stochastics Seminar. 3:30-4:25 pm. LCB 215
Timo Seppäläinen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Current fluctuations in the asymmetric simple exclusion process" (Abstract)

Monday September 11. Joint Applied Math and Stochastics Seminar. 4:15-5:05 pm. LCB 215
Eulalia Nualart, University of Paris XIII
"Potential theory for non-linear stochastic heat equations" (Abstract)

Monday September 18. Stochastics Seminar. 12:55-1:45 pm. LCB 225
Mohammud Foondun, University of Utah
"Harnack inequality for a class of integro-differential operators" (Abstract)

Monday September 25. Stochastics Seminar. 12:55-1:45 pm. LCB 225
Pedro J. Méndez, University of Costa Rica
"Hot-spots for conditioned Brownian motion" (Abstract)

October 7-8. AMS 2006 Fall Western Section Meeting. "Random Motion in Random Media"
October 7-8. AMS 2006 Fall Western Section Meeting. "Interface of Stochastic PDEs and Gaussian Analysis"
October 7-8. AMS 2006 Fall Western Section Meeting. "Harmonic Analysis: Trends and Perspectives"

Monday October 9. Joint Applied Math and Stochastics Seminar. 12:55-1:45 pm. LCB 225
Pierre Seppecher, University of Toulon-Var
"A closed notion of locality for Dirichlet forms in the one dimensional case" (Abstract)

Monday October 16. Stochastics Seminar. 12:55-1:45 pm. LCB 225
Mohammud Foondun, University of Utah
"Heat kernel estimates and Harnack inequalities for some Dirichlet forms with non-local parts" (Abstract)

Monday October 30. Stochastics Seminar. 12:55-1:45 pm. LCB 225
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah
"Dynamical percolation on general trees" (Abstract)

Monday November 20. Stochastics Seminar. 12:55-1:45 pm. LCB 225
Stewart Ethier, University of Utah
"Absorption-time distribution for an asymmetric random walk" (Abstract)

Thursday November 30. Departmental Colloquium. 4:15-5:15 pm. JWB 335
David Aldous, University of California-Berkeley
"Coherent models of macroevolution" (Abstract)

Friday December 1. Stochastics Seminar. 2-3 pm. LCB 215 (NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
David Aldous, University of California-Berkeley
"Percolating paths through random points" (Abstract)

Monday December 4. Stochastics Seminar. CANCELED!