Ninth Northeast Probability Seminar
The Ninth Northeast Probability Seminar will be held at CUNY’s
Graduate Center Thursday and Friday November 18th and 19th, 2010.
The conference is sponsored by the NSF
Schedule
Thursday, Nov. 18th:
Morning Session: Chair Richard Bass UConn
9:30 – 10:15 am Registration, light refreshments
10:15 – 10:30 am Opening Remarks, Richard Rothbard, President, CUNY Research Foundation
10:30 – 11:30 am Edwin Perkins (University of British Columbia)
“Uniqueness and non-uniqueness for parabolic Stochastic PDE”
11:30 – 11:45 pm break
11:45 – 12:45 pm Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge University)
“Asymptotic behaviour of near-critical branching Brownian motion”
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:
Mariya Bessonov (Cornell/Duke): Stationary distributions for a
quadratic contact process in two dimensions
Shirshendu Chatterjee (Cornell) The threshold-two contact process on a
random regular graph has a first order phase transition
Kunwoo Kim (UIUC) A stochastic Stefan problem
Ruoting Gong (Georgia Tech) Small-time Expansions of the Distributions
Densities, and option prices of stochastic volatility models with Levy jumps
Omar Abuzzahab (University of Pennsylvania) Analyzing a Rule for
Finding Linear Dependences Among Binary Vectors
4:45 – 5:45 Conference Reception, Math Deparment Lounge 4th Floor
6:30 – Conference Dinner
DARNA
600 Columbus Ave at 89th Str.
212-721-9123
Friday, Nov. 19th
Morning Session: Chair Sourav Chatterjee
9:30 – 10:30 am Yves Le Jan (Universite Paris Sud)
“The determinant of the Green function”
10:30 – 11:00 am Refreshments
11:00 – Noon Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
“On Adding a List of Numbers (and other one-dependent determinental processes)”
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:
Ang Wei (Rochester) On real, complex, quaternion Gaussian variables
and their generalizations.
Sergio Almeda (Georgia Tech) Asymmetries in the Small Noise Limit of an Hyperbolic Equation
Dongsheng Wu (Alabama, Huntsville) On the Solution Process of a
Stochastic Fractional Partial Differential Equation Driven by
Space-Time White Noise
Luis Lopez-Oliveros (Cornell) On the superimposition of heterogeneous
traffic at large time scales
Janna Lierl (Cornell) Estimates for the heat kernel on inner uniform
domains
The program was chosen by the seminar’s scientific committee: Gerard
Ben Arous, Richard Bass, Sourav Chatterjee, Carl Mueller, Daniel
Ocone, Robin Pemantle, Victor de la Pea, Wenbo Li and Jay Rosen.
