Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar
The Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar will be held at
C.P. Davis Auditorium in the Schapiro Center at Columbia University
Thursday and Friday November 19th and 20th, 2009.
The conference is sponsored by the Department of Statistics of
Columbia University and supported the Center for Applied
Probability and NSF Local Organizing Committee Victor de la Pena
and Julien Dubedat.
We have four invited speakers and have again made time for short
(about 10 minutes), informal presentations, as is our custom, modeled
after that at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes.
- Social activities:
A reception and dinner are planned for Thursday night after the activities.
- Schedule
| Thursday, Nov. 19th: | ||
| Morning Session: Chair Victor de la Peña, Columbia | ||
| 9:30 – | 10:15 am | Registration, light refreshments |
| 10:15 – | 10:30 am | Opening Remarks by David Madigan |
| Chairperson of the Department of Statistics at Columbia | ||
| 10:30 – | 11:30 am | Craig Tracy (University of California, Davis) |
| “Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process: Integrable Structure and Limit Theorems” | ||
| 11:30 – | 11:45 pm | break |
| 11:45 – | 12:45 pm | Giovanni Peccati (Université Paris Ouest) |
| “Universality of the Gaussian Wiener chaos” | ||
| 12:45 – | 2:15 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Chair Carl Mueller, Univ. of Rochester | ||
| 2:15 – | 3:15 pm | 10 minute informal talks and discussion |
| 3:15 – | 3:30 pm | break |
| 3:30 – | 4:30 pm | 10 minute informal talks and discussion |
| Including presentations by these supported postdocs and graduate students: | ||
| Iddo Ben Ari (University of Connecticut) Perturbations to Perron Eigenvalue through | ||
| Additive functionals: Probabilistic methods in study of positive matrices | ||
| Jonathon Peterson (Cornell) Bridges of random walks in a random environment | ||
| Alejandro Gomez (University of Rochester) A 1-dimensional non-linear stochastic wave equation | ||
| Ang Wei (University of Rochester) A Gaussian inequality and related multivariate Gaussian estimation | ||
| 5:00 – | 6:00 | Conference Reception |
| 6:30 – | Conference Dinner | |
| DARNA | ||
| 600 Columbus Ave at 89th Str. | ||
| 212-721-9123 | ||
| Friday, Nov. 20th | ||
| Morning Session: Chair Gérard Ben Arous, NYU | ||
| 9:30 – | 10:30 am | Rick Kenyon (Brown University) |
| “The vector-bundle Laplacian on a graph” | ||
| 10:30 – | 11:00 am | Refreshments |
| 11:00 – | Noon | Claudia Neuhauser (University of Minnesota) |
| “When Genealogy Meets Ecology” | ||
| Noon – | 1:30 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Chair Wenbo Li, Univ. of Delaware | ||
| 1:30 – | 2:15 pm | 10-15 minute informal talks and discussion |
| 2:15 – | 2:30 pm | break |
| 2:30 – | 3:30 pm | 10-15 minute informal talks and discussion |
| Including presentations by these supported postdocs and graduate students: | ||
| Vlad Vysotsky (University of Delaware) Clustering in the stochastic model of sticky particles | ||
| Nate Eldredge (Cornell) Hypoelliptic heat kernels and Lévy area | ||
| Mang Wu (University of Connecticut) A Brownian motion on Diff(S1) | ||
| Sergio Pulldo (Cornell) Bubbles and Futures contracts | ||
| in markets with short-selling constraints | ||
