Stochastic Seminar, University of Utah, Spring 08

Fridays, 3-4 PM, LCB 219

Friday January 11. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Atilla Yilmaz, Courant Institute, New York University
"Large deviations for random walk in a random environment" (Abstract)

Friday January 18. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Lajos Horváth, University of Utah
"Detecting changes in the mean of functional observations" (Abstract)

Thursday January 24. Stochastics Seminar. 2-3 pm. LCB 219 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME)
Jon Peterson, University of Minnesota
"Quenched limits for a one-dimensional, transient, random walk in random environment" (Abstract)

Thursday January 24. Departmental Colloquium. 4:15-5:15 pm. JWB 335
Richard Nickl, University of Connecticut
"Adaptive estimation of the distribution function and the density of a random variable" (Abstract)

Friday January 25. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Richard Nickl, University of Connecticut
"Uniform central limit theorems for density estimators" (Abstract)

Friday February 1. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Tom Alberts, Courant Institute, New York University
"Hausdorff dimension of the SLE curve intersected with the real line" (Abstract)

Friday February 8. No Seminar.

Monday February 11. Joint Mathematical Biology and Stochastics Seminar. 3:30-4:30 pm. LCB 219
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME)
John Mayberry, University of Southern California
"Stochastic integrate-and-fire models: a spectral approach" (Abstract)

Friday February 22. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Siegfried Hörmann, University of Utah
"On pathwise limit theorems" (Abstract)

Friday February 29. No Seminar.

Friday March 7. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Brian Rider, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Diffusion at the random matrix hard edge" (Abstract)

Friday March 14. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah
"Charged polymers and random walk in random scenery" (Abstract)

Friday March 21. No Seminar. Spring Break.

Friday March 28. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Jingyi Zhu, University of Utah
"A Markov chain/PIDE model for credit rating migration" (Abstract)

Monday April 7. Joint Mathematical Biology and Stochastics Seminar. 3:30-4:30 pm. LCB 219
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME)
Joseph Stover, University of Arizona
"Invasions and Attractiveness" (Abstract)

Friday April 11. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Jan Rosinski, University of Tennessee
"On a cancellation property of sigma-finite measures with applications to inverse problems for regular variation of linear filters and identification of stable laws." (Abstract)

Wednesday April 23. Joint Mathematical Biology and Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 225
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND PLACE)
Arjun Raj, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
"Stochastic gene expression and cell fate--or, why are identical twins so identical?" (Abstract)