Prob/Stat Seminar Schedule
 

Spring 2007


Date  Speaker 
Title
Special Location/Time
01/18   Geoffrey Grimmett, Cambridge     Random even graphs and the Ising model.  
01/25   Bryan Langholz USC- Preventive Medicine      
02/01   Helen Lei; UCLA    Conformal Invariance for Certain 2D Percolation Models of the Bond Triangular Type  
02/08   Ben Morris, UC Davis   Improved mixing time bounds for the Thorp shuffle and L-reversal chain  
02/15   George Moustakides, University of Patras - Greece    Change time models and performance criteria for the problem of change detection  
02/22 Wenbo Li, Delaware       Fourier Transforms with Only Real Zeros and Probability.  
02/29   Larry Goldstein, USC      
03/07   NO SEMINAR      
03/14   Alexander Korostelev, Wayne State     Detection of changes from multi-channel observations.  
03/21  NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK      
03/28   Alexander Tartakovsky, USC     Exact optimality properties of the Shriyaev-Roberts procedure for detecting changes in distributions.  
04/04   Daniel Ueltschi, Warwick     Spatial random permutations and infinite cycles  
04/11   Jing Xu, Renmin University, China   G expectation and related properties  
04/18      
04/25   NO SEMINAR; Instead notice this week's Colloquium by Sunder Sethuraman ( Iowa State)   A scaling limit for a tagged particle in a zero-range interacting particle system  Wednesday, 04/22, 3:30-4:30, KAP 249

 
 

Unless indicated otherwise, talks begin at 3:30 pm on Fridays in KAP 249.

  The Prob/Stat seminar organizer this year is  Nikos Zygouras  and Jay Bartroff. Please email any comments/suggestions to zygouras@usc.edu , bartroff@usc.edu.