Probability Seminar: Fall 2009

Wednesday Oct 14
16:00-16:50 (MS 5217)	Tomasz Luczak (Adam Mickiewicz University)	Epidemic Processes on Random Graphs
Wednesday Oct 21
16:00-16:50 (MS 5217)	Paul Jung (Sogang University)	On the Lower Phase Transition of the Contact Process
Thursday Oct 22
Probability Colloquium
16:00-16:50 (MS 6627)	Asaf Nachmias (Microsoft Research)	Random Walks on Random Fractals and the Alexander-Orbach Conjecture
Wednesday Oct 28
16:00-16:50 (MS 5217)	Angelika Steger (ETH Zurich)	On Boltzmann Samplers and Properties of Combinatorial Structures
Thursday Oct 29
11:00-11:50 (MS 5225)	Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah)	An Asymptotic Theory for Randomly-Forced Discrete Heat Equations
Thursday Nov 12
Probability Colloquium
15:00-15:50 (MS 6627)	Prasad Tetali (Georgia Institute of Technology)	Probabilistic Techniques in Computational Number Theory
Wednesday Nov 18
16:00-16:50 (MS 5217)	David Sivakoff (U.C. Davis)	Random Site Subgraphs of the Hamming Torus
Wednesday Dec 02
16:00-16:50 (MS 5217)	Oren Louidor (New York University)	Finite connections for supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D
Thursday Dec 03
Probability Colloquium
16:15-17:05 (MS 6627)	Allan Sly (Microsoft Research)	TBA
Saturday Dec 05
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
09:45-10:00 (U.C. Irvine)		Refreshments
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
10:00-11:00 (U.C. Irvine)	M. Harrison (Stanford U.)	On the Positive Recurrence of Semimartingale Reflecting Brownian Motions in Three (and Higher) Dimensions
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
11:00-11:15 (U.C. Irvine)		Coffee Break
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
11:15-12:00 (U.C. Irvine)	W. Zheng (U.C. Irvine)	TBA
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
12:00-12:45 (U.C. Irvine)	S. Roch (UCLA)	TBA
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
12:45-14:15 (U.C. Irvine)		Lunch
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
14:15-15:00 (U.C. Irvine)	E. Arias-Castro (U.C. San Diego)	TBA
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
15:00-15:15 (U.C. Irvine)		Coffee Break
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
15:15-16:00 (U.C. Irvine)	S. Lototsky (USC)	TBA
2009 Southern California Probability Symposium
16:00-16:45 (U.C. Irvine)	M. Ludkovski (U.C. Santa Barbara)	A Simulation Approach to Optimal Stopping Under Partial Information