| Date | Speaker | Topic
|
| Jan 9 | David Nualart (University of
Barcelona)
| Regularity of probability laws via Malliavin Calculus |
| Jan 18 | Jim Dai (Georgia Tech) | Performance and
Scheduling of Processing Networks |
| Jan 25 | Dan Mauldin (University of North
Texas) | Random Distributions and Homeomorphisms |
| Feb 2 (Friday) | David
McDonald (University of Ottawa) | Rare events for a Markov chain |
| Feb 8 | M. Borodovsky (Biology - Georgia Tech) | |
| Feb 15 | G. Weiss (Haifa) | A process of zigzag lines with Poisson breakpoints |
| Feb 22 | Michael Monticino (University of North Texas) | Search, Information, and Gambling |
| Mar 1 | Richard Durrett
(Cornell
University) | From the voter model to species area curves |
| Fri., Mar 8 | Jianqing Fan (UNC) | Exploiting hidden structure in high dimensional data analyses |
| Fri., Mar 15 | Victor Perez-Abreu (CIMAR, visiting Georgia Tech) | |
| Thur., Mar 28 (Skiles 249) & Fri., Mar. 29 (Skiles 269) | David Aldous
(University of California-Berkeley) | Probability Models for
Splitting and Coalescing Brownsian Excursions, Critical Random Graphs and the Multiplicative Coalescent |
| Mon., Apr. 1 & Tue., Apr. 2 (both Skiles 269) | M. Marcus
(City College of NY) | A surprising relationship
between Levy processes and stationary Gaussian processes Renormalized self-interaction local times and Wick power Gaussian chaos processes |
| Apr. 4 | Jin Feng
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Nonlinear Martingale Problems for Large Deviations of Markov Processes |
| Tue., Apr. 9 (IC) | Martin Puterman
(University of British Columbia) | |
| *Apr. 11 (IC) | Ward
Whitt (AT&T) | |
| Apr. 18 | Victor Perez-Abreu
(CIMAT, visiting Georgia Tech) | On a class of martingales |
| Apr. 25 | M. Borodovsky
(Georgia Tech) | |
| May 2 | Ted Hill
(Georgia Tech) | |
| May 9 | Sigrun Andradottir
| Accelerated Regeneration for Markov Chain Simulations |
| * Tue., May 14 (IC 215 11 am) | Sandy
Stidham (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) | Airline Yield Management with Overbooking, Cancellations, and No-Show |
| May 16 | D. Sun
(University of Missouri) | |
| May 23 | L. DeHaan
(Rotterdam) | |
| May 30 | J. Sun
(University of Michigan) |
Unless otherwise noted, the seminar meets Thursdays at 3 PM in 269 Skiles. For further information, contact Ted Hill (hill@math.gatech.edu, (404)853-9111)
Last updated: May 14, 1996 by J. Shear ( joannas@isye.gatech.edu)