Prob/Stat Seminar Schedule
 

Fall 2010 -- Spring 2011


Unless indicated otherwise, talks begin at 3:30 pm on Fridays in KAP 414.

  The Prob/Stat seminar organizer this year is  Jianfeng Zhang . Please email any comments/suggestions to jianfenz@usc.edu .



Date  Speaker  University 
Title
Special notes
8/27        
9/3   Tze Leung Lai   Stanford University   Sequential Monte Carlo methods for rare event simulation  joint with MF Colloquium
9/10  Aleksey Polunchenko  USC   On Optimality of the Shiryaev-Roberts-Pollak Procedure for Detecting a Change in Distribution  
9/17  Jason Schweinsberg  UCSD  The genealogy of branching Brownian motion with absorption  
9/24   Boris Rozovsky   Brown University  Stochastic PDEs and Malliavin Calculus  CAMS 20th Anniversary
10/1        
10/8   Fengzhu Sun   USC  Diffusion Kernel over Networks and Their Applications in Systems Biology  
10/15   Oren Louidor   UCLA   Finite connections for supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D  
10/22   Michael Magill   USC  Reforming Capitalism  
10/29   Steve Kou   Columbia University    joint with MF Colloquium
11/5  James Flegal   UC Riverside    
11/12   Remigijus Mikulevicius   USC  On L_p theory for Zakai equation with discontinuous observation process  
11/19   Hong Yin   USC    
11/26   Thanksgiving      Thanksgiving
12/3   Charles Fefferman   Princeton University  The Muskat Problem  CAMS distinguished lecture
1/14        
1/21   Robertas Gabrys   USC  Monitoring the intraday volatility pattern  
1/28        
2/4        
2/11        
2/18        
2/25        
3/4        
3/11   Qing Zhang   University of Georgia    joint with MF Colloquium
3/18  Spring recess      Spring recess
3/25        
4/1        
4/8        
4/15        
4/22        
4/29        
5/6