Previous UIUC Stochastic Analysis Seminars

1996

August 8
Professor Yaozhong Hu, University of California, Irvine
Interpolation inequalities for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator

September 3
Professor Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue University
Extremal problems arising from exit times of Brownian motion

September 10
Professor Robert Kaufman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sobolev spaces, packing dimensions, and a random process

September 17
Professor Bjorn Schmalfuß, University of Bremen
Attractors for Random Dynamical Systems

September 24
Professor Burgess Davis, Purdue University
Self-interacting random walks

October 1
Arthur Lindeman II, Purdue University
Martingales and the Beurling-Ahlfors transform

October 8
Robert Bauer
Observability in real-time target tracking

October 15
Professor Richard Sowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Some probabilistic thoughts about mean curvature

October 22
Professor Thaleia Zariphopoulou, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stochastic Control Methods in Derivative Pricing

October 29
Professor Mihail Kolountzakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Infinite patterns that can be avoided by measure

November 5
Professor P.R. Kumar, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Quasi-statically cooled Markov chains

November 12
Professor Salah-Eldin Mohammed, Southern Illinois University
Growth Rates for Solutions of Stochastic Delay Equations

November 19
Professor Philip Protter, Purdue University
An extension of Ito's formula

December 5 (Mathematics Colloquium, 4:00, 314 Altgeld Hall)
Professor Kai Lai Chung, Stanford University
Probability and Doob

1997

January 14
Professor Renming Song, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Directed Polymers in Random Environments

February 18
Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Martingale representation and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities

February 25
Professor N. V. Krylov (tentative), University of Minnesota
On a result of C. Mueller and E. Perkins

March 4
Professor Frank Knight, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On a Brownian problem of Pitman and Yor, I.

March 11
Professor Frank Knight, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On a Brownian problem of Pitman and Yor, I.

March 18
Professor Vivek Borkar, Indian Institute of Science
Average cost control of stochastic differential equations

April 15
Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University
Backward Stochastic Partial Differential Euqations with Applications to Finance

April 22
Mr. David Ford, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
Averaging the Navier-Stokes Equation

September 16
Professor Renming Song, Department of Mathematics
Estimates on the Green function and Poisson kernels of symmetric stable processes.

September 30
Professor Jeff Collamore, Department of Statistics
Large deviation estimates for first passage times in Euclidean space

November 10
Professor Peter Imkeller, Humboldt University of Berlin
Rotation numbers for stochastic differential equations

November 17 (Monday, 4 P.M., Altgeld 445)
Professor Alok Goswami, Indiana University
Random continued fractions and an analysis of their equilibrium distribution



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