| Date | Speaker
| Topic
|
| Oct 17 |
Yung Tong
(Georgia Tech)
|
Dimension-Reduction Inequalities for Exchangeable Random
Variables, With Applications to Statistical Inference
|
| Oct 24 |
Doug Down
(Georgia Tech) |
Stability and Monotone Properties of a Tandem
Queueing Network under Window Flow Control
|
| Oct 31 |
Tom Kurtz
(University of Wisconsin) |
Martingale problems for partially observed
Markov processes
|
*Nov 1
(Friday - 11am) |
Reuven Y. Rubinstein
(Technion, Israel) |
Optimization of
Computer Simulation Models with Rare Events |
| Nov 7 |
Walter Philipp
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
|
Weak Dependence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory
|
| Nov 14 | Raid Amin
(University of West Florida) |
Some Control Charts Based on the Extremes
|
Nov 20
(Wednesday - 3pm)
|
Serguei Foss
(Visiting Colorado State University) |
Coupling and Renovation |
| Dec 5 |
Minping Qian
(Peking University, Beijing, China)
|
An accelerated algorithm of Gibbs sampling
|
| Dec 12 |
Magdy H. Metry
(State University of West Georgia)
| Rearrangement Increasing Orderings
|
| Jan 10 |
Andre Dabrowski
(University of Ottawa) |
Statistical Analysis of Ion Channel Data |
| Jan 16 |
Christian Houdre
(Georgia Tech) |
An Interpolation Formula and Its Consequences |
| Jan 23 |
Ronghui Xu
(University of California San Diego) |
Estimation in the proportional hazards model under censoring |
| Jan 30 |
Ming Liao
(Auburn University) |
L'evy processes on Lie groups and stochastic flows |
| Feb 6 |
Dana Randall
(Georgia Tech) |
Testable algorithms for generating self-avoiding walks
|
| Feb 13 |
Steen Andersson
(Indiana University) |
Models combining group symmetry and conditional independence
in a multivariate normal distribution |
| Feb 20 |
No Seminar
(CAP Conference) |
Southeastern Probability Days |
*Feb 27
(11am, IC 205) |
Dimitris Bertsimas
(Sloan School, MIT) |
Optimization of multiclass queueing networks via infinite
linear programming and singular perturbation methods |
*Mar 5
(Wednesday, 3pm
IC 207) |
Paul Glasserman
(Columbia University) |
Importance Sampling for Rare Event Simulation: Good News and
Bad News |
Mar 13
(IC 209) |
Hayriye Ayhan
(Georgia Tech, ISyE)
|
On the Time-Dependent Occupancy and Backlog Distributions for the
GI/G/infinity Queue |
| Apr 17 |
Andrew Nobel
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
|
Adaptive Model Selection Using Empirical Complexities |
| Apr 24 |
Robert Adler
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and
Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology)
|
An Introduction to Superprocesses |
| May 1 |
Alex Koldobsky
(University of Texas at San Antonio)
|
More on Schoenberg's problem on positive definite functions |
| May 8 |
Bok Sik Yoon
(Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea & Georgia Tech)
|
QN-GPH Method for Sojourn Time Distributions in General Queueing
Networks |
| May 15 |
Jan Rosinski
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
|
Problems of unitary representations arising in the study of stable
processes |
| May 22 |
Robert Cooper
(Florida Atlantic University)
|
Polling Models and Vacation Models in Queueing Theory:
Some Interesting and Surprising Stuff |
| May 29 |
Takis Konstantopoulos
(University of Texas, Austin)
|
Distributional Approximations of Processes, Queues and Networks
under Long-Range Dependence Assumptions
|
| June 5 |
Alan F. Karr
(National Institute of Statistical Sciences)
|
Does Code Decay? |