AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:57

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Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, I
Room 201, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some examples of mixing random fields.
  Richard C. Bradley*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (874-60-83)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Probabilistic analysis of exceptional points for critical Weiererstrass nondifferentiable functions.
  Loren D. Pitt*, University of Virginia
  J. M. Anderson, University College London, England
  (874-60-21)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Applications of stochastic planar matching.
  Peter W. Shor*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  (874-60-02)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A general form of Gambler's ruin.
  Terry R. McConnell*, Syracuse University
  Philip S. Griffin, Syracuse University
  (874-60-63)

Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, II
Room 201, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 2:45 p.m.
  Decoupling,expansions and tail behavior of Chaos processes.
  Miguel A. Arcones, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
  Evarist Gin\'e*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (874-60-93)
- 3:15 p.m.
  The exact asymptotic behavior of transportation cost.
  Vladimir Dobric*, Lehigh University
  Joe Yukich, Lehigh University
  (874-60-95)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Rate of convergence of empirical measures in the Wasserstein metric.
  Joseph Horowitz*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Rajeeva Karandikar, Indian Statistical Institute, India
  (874-60-133)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Baxter's inequality and convergence of finite predictors of multivariate stochastic processes.
  Mohsen Pourahmadi*, Northern Illinois University
  R. Cheng, University of Louisville
  (874-60-13)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Laws of the iterated logarithm for the local times of symmetric Levy processes and random walks.
  Michael B. Marcus*, City College, City University of New York
  Jay Rosen, College of Staten Island and City College, City University of New York
  (874-60-121)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, III
Room 201, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rice formula: The expected number of low and high level crossings for stationary stable processes.
  Robert J. Adler, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  Gennady Samorodnitsky*, Cornell University
  (874-60-19)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some nonlinear operators on two distribution functions.
  R. M. Dudley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (874-60-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Densities with Gaussian tails.
  A. A. Balkema, University of Amsterdam, Holland
  Claudia Kl\"uppelberg, Eidgen Technological Hochschule, Germany
  Sidney Resnick*, Cornell University
  (874-60-20)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Geography of level sets of the Brownian sheet.
  Robert C. Dalang*, Tufts University
  John B. Walsh, University of British Columbia
  (874-60-09)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generalized stable moving averages.
  Jan Rosinski*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (874-60-38)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, IV
Room 201, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 2:45 p.m.
  Some problems in classical probability.
  Abram Kagan, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  Larry Shepp*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  (874-60-73)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Self-normalized trimmed sums: Nonormal limits.
  Daniel C. Weiner*, Boston University
  (874-60-41)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Exact convergence rates for the bounded law of the iterated logarithm in Hilbert space.
  Uwe Einmahl*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (874-60-100)

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