Stochastics Seminar, Spring 2012

Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

Fridays, 3-4 PM, LCB 219

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Thursday January 12. Departmental Colloquium. 4:15-5:15 pm. JWB 335
Hailin Sang, Indiana University
"Autoregressive model selection with simultaneous sparse coefficient estimation"

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Friday January 13. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Hailin Sang, Indiana University
"Asymptotics of linear processes with applications in statistics"

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Friday January 20. No Seminar.

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Thursday January 26. Departmental Colloquium. 4:15-5:15 pm. JWB 335
Hongxiao Zhu, Duke University and SAMSI
"Bayesian graphical models for multivariate functional data"

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Friday January 27. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Hongxiao Zhu, Duke University and SAMSI
"Robust, adaptive models for complex functional data"

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Friday February 3. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Atilla Yılmaz, Boğaziçi University
"Harmonic functions, h-transform and large deviations for RWRE"

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Friday February 10. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Nicos Georgiou, University of Utah
"Large deviations for the log-gamma polymer in 1+1-dimensions"

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Friday February 17. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Marie Hušková, Charles University in Prague
"Goodness-of-fit tests based on empirical characteristic functions"

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Friday February 24. No Seminar.

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Thursday March 1. Departmental Colloquium. 4:15-5:15 pm. JWB 335
Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
"The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and its universality class"

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Friday March 2. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
"Variational problems for Airy processes"

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Wednesday March 7. Ph.D. Thesis Defense. 2-3 pm. JWB 208 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE)
Anna Schoening, University of Utah
"Quenched invariance principle for random walk in mixing random environment"

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Friday March 9. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Michael Hinz, University of Jena, Germany
"Magnetic Schroedinger operators on fractals and related stochastic analysis"

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Friday March 16. No Seminar. Spring Break.

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Thursday March 22. Joint Applied Math and Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 215
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND PLACE)
Boris Rozovsky, Brown University
"On unbiased stochastic perturbations of Navier-Stokes equation"

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Friday March 23. Joint Applied Math and Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Yuri Bakhtin, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Randomly forced Burger's equation in noncompact setting"

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Thursday March 29. Oral Examination. 12-1pm. TBA (NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE)
Greg Rice, University of Utah
"Weak convergence of partial sums in Hilbert spaces"

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Friday March 30. MStat Thesis Defense. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Jia Wang, University of Utah
"A panel data analysis of the Gini coefficient"

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Friday April 6. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Gregorio R. Moreno Flores, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Directed polymers in random environment and the KPZ equation"

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Friday April 13. No Seminar.

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Friday April 27. No Seminar. Classes ended.

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