Probability and Statistics Seminar

Calendar 2011-12

Fridays 3:30 - 4:30 in KAP 414

SPRING 2012

1/13/12 Tonci Antunovic, UC-Berkeley, "Competing first passage percolation on random regular graphs"

1/20 No seminar this week

1/27 Joscha Diehl, TU-Berlin, "Rough path theory"

2/3 Fengzhu Sun, USC, "Alignment-free genome and metagenome comparison using k-tuples"

2/10 Larry Goldstein, USC, "Concentration of measure by size bias couplings"

2/17 Philip Protter, Columbia University, "Can one detect a bubble in real time?"

2/24 Sergey Lototsky, USC, "Parameter estimation in second-order continuous time linear autoregressions"

3/2 Sebastien Roch, UCLA, "Relating Combinatorial and Variational Distances on Trees"

3/9 Moritz Biskamp, UC-Irvine, "Asymptotic support theorem for planar isotropic Brownian flows"

3/16 SPRING BREAK

3/23 No seminar

3/30 Jelena Bradic, UC-San Diego, "Regularization for Cox's proportional hazards model with NP-dimensionality"

4/6 Vlad Vysotsky, Arizona State U., "Positivity of random sequences"

4/13 Wenjie Guo, Fudan Univ. and USC, and Jia Zhuo, USC, "Probabilistic Numerical Methods for Fully Nonlinear PDE's"

4/20 Rahul Jain, USC, "To queue or not to queue: Strategic behavior in queueing systems"

4/27 Jason Fulman, USC, "Analysis of casino shelf-shuffling machines"

FALL 2011

9/9/11 Jianfeng Zhang, USC, "On Viscosity Solutions of Path Dependent PDEs"

9/16/11 No seminar

9/23/11 Dilap Madan, U. of Maryland, "Capital minimization as a hedging criterion"

9/30 Osonde Osoba, EE-Systems, USC, "Bayesian Inference with Adaptive Fuzzy Priors and Likelihoods"

10/7 (joint with Math Finance Colloq.) Alain Bensoussan, U. of Texas at Dallas and Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., "Comparison Between Martingale Methods and Dynamic Programming"

10/14 Sergei Zuyev, Chalmers Univ., "Stability for random measures, point processes and discrete semigroups"

10/21 Georgios Fellouris, USC, "Parameter estimation under communication constraints"

10/28 Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes, UC-Irvine, "Current flow and negative dependence in the symmetric exclusion process"

11/4 (joint with Math Finance Colloq.) Rich Sowers, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11/11 Mike Cranston, UC-Irvine

11/18 (joint with Math Finance Colloq.) George Yin, Wayne State U.

11/25 THANKSGIVING

12/2 Stephen DeSalvo, USC

12/3 (Saturday) Southern California Probability Symposium, at USC:
                 Tom Alberts, Cal Tech
                 Jinqiao Duan, IPAM and Illinois Institute of Technology
                 Tomoyuki Ichiba, UC Santa Barbara
                 Allan Sly, UC Berkeley
                 Konstantin Zuev, USC