Math Physics and Probability Seminars

Spring 2010 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, February 5 Boris Rozovskii, Brown
Friday, February 12 Balint Virag, Toronto
Friday, March 5 Gautam Iyer, Carnegie Mellon

Fall 2009 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, September 4 Wolfgang Spitzer, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Absolutely continuous spectrum for Schroedinger operators on tree graphs.
Friday, September 11 Carl Mueller, UR Recent breakthoughs on random matrices by Tao, Yau, and others.
Friday, September 18 Ang Wei, UR On the number of zeros of a random harmonic function.
Friday, September 25 Carl Mueller, UR More on random matrices: ideas of L. Erdos, Ramirez, Schlein, and H.T. Yau.
Friday, October 9 Shannon Starr, UR Evolution of quantum lattice systems.
Friday, October 30 Paul Chow, Wayne State Unbounded positive solutions of nonlinear parabolic Ito equations
Friday, November 20 Marco Merkli, Memorial University of Newfoundland TBA

Spring 2009 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Monday, January 20 Davar Khoshnevisan, Utah From fractals and probability to stochastic analysis.
Tuesday, January 27 Kay Kirkpatrick, MIT Bose-Einstein condensation: from quantum particles to a quantum "super-particle".
Friday, February 6 Ed Perkins, UBC Pathwise uniqueness for stochastic PDE's with Holder continuous coefficients.
Friday, February 27 Shannon Starr, UR Hammersley's interacting particle process and longest increasing subsequences.
Friday, March 20 Suneeta Vardarajan, Alberta Geometric Flows and string theory.
Friday, April 10 Martin Hairer, Courant How hot can a heat bath get?
Friday, April 16 Michael Weinstein, Columbia Dynamics of coherent structures in NLS / GP.
Friday, April 16 Jonathan Dimock, Buffalo Renormalization group methods.
Friday, April 24 Roland Roeder, Toronto 2D rational dynamics for the Lee-Yang zeros---study of a model magnetic material.

Fall 2008 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, September 12 Carl Mueller, UR Non-uniqueness for some stochastic PDE.
Friday, September 19 Mark Bowick, Syracuse Minimal Energy Distributions on 2d Manifolds.
Thursday, October 2 Shannon Starr, UR Symmetry in Probability Theory.
Friday, October 10 Brigitta Vermesi, UR Non-intersecting random walks: a coupling result.
Thursday, October 16 Bruce Driver, UC San Diego Analysis on infinite dimensional Heisenberg groups.
Friday, October 17 Huibin Li, UR Invariant Measure of Burgers' System of Equations.
Friday, October 31 Louis-Pierre Arguin, CIMS Competing Particle Systems.
Friday, November 7 Manjunath Krishnapur, Toronto From Random Matrices to Random Analytic Functions.
Friday, November 14 Yuri Bakhtin, Georgia Tech Noisy heteroclinic networks: small noise asymptotics.
Thursday, November 20 Sarada Rajeev, UR Physics Non-Linear Wave Equations on Solvable Groups.
Tuesday, November 25 Davar Khoshnevisan An asymptotic theory for randomly-forced discrete nonlinear heat equations.

Spring 2008 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Thursday, January 17 Allan Greenleaf, UR The Cheshire cat's NGRIN: nontunnelling for highly singular potentials.
Friday, January 25 Shannon Starr, UR About a conjecture of Aldous for the spectral gap of the interchange process.
Friday, February 1 Carl Mueller, UR Regularity of the density for the stochastic heat equation.
Thursday, February 7 Raj Rao, MIT Applications of random matrix theory to signal processing.
Friday, February 15 Konstantin Khanin, Toronto Burger's turbulence.
Thursday, February 28 Miguel Alonso, Optics, UR Focused monochromatic fields: new approaches to describe an old, simple problem.
Friday, March 21 Gideon Amir, Toronto The speed process of the Totally Asymmetric Exclusion Process(TASEP).
Thursday, March 27 Kevin Short, U. New Hampshire Cupolets, Signal Processing and Compression
Friday, March 28 Rick Lavine, UR The Eigenvalue Gap
Friday, April 4 David Nualart, Kansas Fractional martingales and characterization of the fractional Brownian motion
Friday, April 11 Daniel Stefankovic, UR Density estimation in linear time/estimation of L1 distancesusing stochastic integrals
Thursday, April 16 James Fienup, UR Optics The phase retrieval problem

Fall 2007 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, September 21 Robin Pemantle, Penn Random tilings, and other ensembles whose generating functions have conic singularities.
Thursday, October 4 Leonard Gross, Cornell Holomorphic function representations of Fock-like spaces - from Fock to the present.
Friday, October 26 Bernhard Bodmann, U. of Houston C*-Embeddings as rate-distortion codes for quantum channels
Thursday, November 1 Gerald Dunne, U. of Connecticut Worldline instantons, vacuum pair production and Gutzwiller's trace formula
Friday, November 16 Fred Cohen, UR Existence Proofs: Clock and Phase Synchronization across Multi-Hop Networks
Friday, November 30 Nicola Kistler, ENS Lyon On the issue of ultrametricity in mean field models of spin glasses
Wednesday, December 5 Marco Merkli, Memorial U. of Newfounland Random Matrix Products and Quantum Dynamics

Spring 2007 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, January 19 Alexandre Pouget, UR, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Optimal statistical inference in the brain
Monday, January 29 Michael Kozdron, University of Regina The configurational measure on mutually avoiding SLE paths
Friday, February 2 Daniel Stefankovic, UR Computer Science Adaptive annealing: a near-optimal connection between sampling and counting partition functions
Friday, February 23 Brian Rider, Colorado Beta Tracy-Widom Laws, Random Schrodinger equations, and diffusions
Friday, March 9 Carl Mueller, UR The speed of a random traveling wave
Friday, March 9 Jessica Zuniga, Cornell Convergence of some time inhomogeneous Markov chains via spectral techniques
Friday, March 23 Ben Chan, Cornell Coexistence for competing contact processes
Friday, April 13 Omer Angel, Toronto Global Divergence of Spatial Coalescents
Saturday, April 14 Charles Newman, Courant The Brownian Web and Related Models
Saturday, April 14 Elizabeth Meckes, Cornell Stein's Method and Continuous Symmetries
Wednesday, April 18 Zhixin Wu, UR Ph.D. Defense: Hitting and fractal properties of a random string with colored noise
Friday, May 4 Tom Kurtz, Wisconsin Applications of a Markov mapping theorem
Friday, May 11 Yonathan Shapir, UR Scale invariance of Fluctuating Surfaces and Random Diffusion
Friday, June 1 Carl Mueller, UR Limits of Random Graphs: work of Benjamini and Schramm
Wednesday, June 20 Naiji Lu, UR Ph.D. Defense: Models Based on Pure Birth and Branching Process
Friday, June 22 Heng Xue, UR Ph.D. Defense: Extension of Stochastic Integrals as Distributions in Bessel Space and Applications to SPDEs
Monday, June 25 Lei Liang, UR Ph.D. Defense: Comparison Principle for Stochastic Heat Equations

Fall 2006 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, September 22 Shannon Starr, UR On a conjecture of Aldous
Friday, October 6 Carl Mueller, UR Stochastic PDE taking values on manifolds
Friday, October 20 Parthanil Roy, Cornell Ergodic Theory, Group Theory and Extremes of Stable Random Fields
Friday, October 27 Louis-Pierre Arguin, Princeton Ruelle's probability cascades
Friday, November 3 Soumik Pal, Cornell Computing strategies for achieving acceptability
Friday, November 17 Brigitta Vermesi, UR Intersection exponents for Brownian motion and random walk
Friday, December 8 Xi Zhao, UR Stochastic Delay Equations and Invariant Measure for the Wave Equation with Noise

Spring 2006 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, January 20 Eugene Strahov, Caltech Random matrices, random partitions, and representation theory
Tuesday, January 24 Rongfeng Sun, Eurandom, Netherlands Voter model, coalescing random walks and the Brownian web
Thursday, January 26 Tai Melcher, UC Berkeley Malliavin calculus and gradient estimates
Friday, January 27 Christian Gromoll, Stanford Measure valued processes, queues, and limit theorems
Thursday, February 23 Jay Rosen, CUNY L^p smoothness of local times and Gaussian processes
Friday, February 24 Shannon Starr, UCLA Mean field spin glasses: how a frustrated committee makes decisions
Friday, March 31 Xi Zhao, UR Coupling for the heat equation with noise
Friday, April 14 Heng Xue, UR Regularity for stochastic Volterra equations with delay
Friday, April 21 Naiji Lu, UR A Critical Branching Process Model
Friday, April 28 Richard Sowers, Illinois Random ducks
Friday, May 5 Lei Liang, UR Comparison Principle in SPDEs and SDE
Wednesday, May 10 Carl Mueller, UR Camia and Newman's work on scaling limits of percolation
Wednesday, May 22 Heng Xue, UR A Class of Stochastic Heat Equations
Wednesday, May 31 Haijun Huang, UR Stochastic Partial Differential Equations with Noise on a Fractal
Monday, June 12 Naiji Lu, UR The Isoperimetric Inequality on Graphs
Wednesday, June 14 Aurel Stan, Ohio State Marion Moments and Commutators of a Probability Measure

Fall 2005 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, September 9 Ashkan Nikeghbali, Rochester Filtrations and random times
Thursday, September 15 Carl Mueller, Rochester The speed of a random traveling wave
Thursday, September 22 Stratos Prassidis, Canisius College Random walks on groups and graphs
Friday, September 30 Bin Fang, Rochester Wave equation with white noise potentials and fractional white noise potentials
Thursday, October 6 Stratos Prassidis, Canisius College Random walks on groups and graphs II
Friday, October 7, at Rochester Institute of Technology Peter Winkler, Dartmouth What is probability?
Friday, October 28 Zhixin Wu, Rochester Intersections of Brownian motion
Thursday, November 17 Aurel Stan, Ohio State at Marion A combinatorial identity and its application to Gaussian measures
Friday, November 18 Aurel Stan, Ohio State at Marion A characterization of probability measures in terms of Wick product inequalities
Friday, December 2 Haijun Huang, Rochester Laplacian on Sierpinski Gasket
Friday, December 9 Rui Chen, Rochester Heat Equation With White or Fractional Noise Potentials

Spring 2005 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, January 14 Karen Ball, Indiana University Monotone factors of i.i.d. processes
Monday, January 17 Dimitri Gioev, Courant Institute Random matrix theory: applications, methods, universality
Tuesday, January 18 Yevginiy Kovchegov, UCLA Edge-reinforced multi-particle processes
Friday, March 4 Carl Mueller, UR The lowest eigenvalue for the Laplacian with white noise potential (a paper of McKean)
Friday, March 18 Carl Mueller, UR A survey of determinental and permanental point processes, according to two recent papers
Friday, April 1 Kijung Lee, UR More questions about Brownian motion
Friday, April 15 Haya Kaspi, The Technion Infinitely divisible square Gaussian processes and symmetric transient Markov processes
Friday, April 29 Yonathan Shapir, UR Physics Dept. Random directed polymers, KPZ surface growth, and the rest
Wednesday, May 11 Jie Xiong, University of Tennessee Long-term behavior for a superprocess over a stochastic flow
Thursday, June 30 Lorenzo Zambotti, University of Milan A probabilistic model for periodic copolymers near a selective inferface

Fall 2004 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Friday, September 17 Kijung Lee, University of Rochester L_p theory on stochastic partial differential systems
Friday, September 24 Rui Chen, University of Rochester The heat equation with white noise potential
Friday, October 1 Kijung Lee, University of Rochester L_p theory on stochastic partial differential systems, continued
Friday, October 8 Bin Fang, University of Rochester Heat equation with fractional white noise potentials
Friday, October 15 Kijung Lee, University of Rochester L_p theory on stochastic partial differential systems, continued
Friday, October 22 Carl Mueller, University of Rochester The heat equation with a multiplicative Poisson noise term
Friday, October 29 Kijung Lee, University of Rochester L_p theory on stochastic partial differential systems, continued
Friday, November 5 Kijung Lee, University of Rochester L_p theory on stochastic partial differential systems, continued
Friday, November 19 Paul Jung, Cornell Adding edges to the contact process
Wednesday, November 24 Leonid Mytnik, The Technion On pathwise uniqueness for stochastic heat equations with non-Lipschitz coefficients

Spring 2004 Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Monday, January 19 Anja Sturm, University of British Columbia Measure valued branching processes
Monday, January 26 David Galvin, Microsoft Research Hard-core model in statistical physics, communications networks and computer science
Friday, February 6 Aurel Stan, University of Rochester On the Wick product
Friday, February 13 James Fill, Johns Hopkins Random sums, Mellin transforms, Gaussian random fields, small deviations, and reversion
Friday, March 19 Leonid Hanin, UR, Biostatistics Iterated birth and death Markov process and its biological applications
Friday, April 9 Steven Landsburg, UR, Economics Nash Equilibria in Quantum Games
Friday, April 16 Stanislov Molchanov, U. of North Carolina at Charlotte Spectral bifurcations for random subgraphs of homogeneous graphs
Wednesday, April 28 Kyounghee Kim, Syracuse Financial Mathematics