AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31

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Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday October 11, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, I
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Convergence of random series and symmetric infinitely divisible processes with sample paths in Orlicz spaces
  Michael Braverman, Ben-Gurion University
  Gennady Samorodnitsky*, Cornell University
  (915-60-72)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometric Stable Laws through Series Representations
  Krzysztof Podg\'orski*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI, Indianapolis
  (915-60-20)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Toward Numerical Approximation of the Skew-Stable Distributions
  J. H. McCulloch*,
  (915-41-155)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Estimation of stable spectral measures
  John P. Nolan,
  Anna K. Panorska*,
  Huston J. McCulloch,
  (915-60-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Geometric stable processes and their applications
  Tomasz J. Kozubowski*,
  Krzysztof Podgorski,
  (915-60-127)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Structural analysis of stationary stable random fields
  Jan Rosinski*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (915-60-106)

Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, II
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  An interpolation formula and its (many) consequences
  Christian Houdr\'e*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (915-60-75)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A logarithmic hypercontraction inequality.
  Jerzy Szulga*,
  (915-60-154)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Random sphere of influence graphs
  Tae K. Chalker, Department of Mathematics, Occidental College
  Anant P. Godbole*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Tech University.
  Joshua Radcliff, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
  Otto G. Ruehr, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Tech University
  (915-60-22)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Non-linear Models for Time Series Using Mixtures of Experts
  Robert J . Adler*,
  (915-60-163)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Limit Theorems for Discounted-Sum Decision Processes in Multiple-Asset Sales and Energy Storage
  Robert P. Kertz*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (915-62-86)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Extremal properties of random fields
  Malcolm R. Leadbetter*, University of NC at Chapel Hill
  (915-60-262)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Optimal Adaptive Control of a Class of Partially Observed Stochastic Control Systems.
  Kurt Helmes*, University of Kentucky
  (915-60-359)

Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, III
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Tail Parameter Estimation for Linear Processes
  Somnath Datta*, University of Georgia
  (915-60-79)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Approximating the distribution of extreme values for random fields via geometric methods.
  William P. McCormick*,
  (915-60-73)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tails of weighted sums of iid standard Weibull random variables
  Pawel Hitczenko*, NC State University
  (915-60-89)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The QQ-estimator and Heavy Tails
  Marie F. Kratz*,
  Sidney I. Resnick,
  (915-62-152)
- 10:00 a.m.
  CED Model for Asset Returns and Fractal Market Hypothesis
  Aleksander Weron*,
  (915-60-153)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An estimate of semi-stable measure of small balls in Banach spaces with applications
  Balram S Rajput*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (915-60-88)

Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, IV
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalized hitting and quitting kernels, with applications to classical potential theory
  Olav H. Kallenberg*,
  (915-60-156)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Transport coefficients and limit theorems for interacting particles systems.
  Leonid Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (915-60-138)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Positive Harris Recurrence for Multiclass Queueing Networks: A Unified Approach via Fluid Limit Models
  Jim Dai*,
  (915-60-130)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Construction of a stochastic motion in Hilbert space based on kinematics.
  Leszek P. Gawarecki*, GMI Engineering and Management Institute
  (915-60-18)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A nonlinear differential equation associated with a class of interacting diffusion systems
  Jie Xiong*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (915-60-77)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Diffusion in flows of hydrodynamic type
  Wojbor A. Woyczynski*,
  (915-60-132)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A class of nonstationary point processes and their application to queueing systems.
  Peter C. Kiessler*, SIAM
  (915-60-294)

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