AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:49

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, I
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Richard B. Sowers, University of Illinois-Urbana r-sowers@math.uiuc.edu
Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University elton@math.nwu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dirichlet functions, random walks, spanning forests, and percolation.
  Russell D Lyons*, Indiana University
  (935-60-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some laws of the iterated logarithm for functionals of Harris recurrent Markov chains.
  Xia Chen*, Case Western Reserve University
  (935-60-28)
- 10:00 a.m.
  One-dimensional interacting particle systems with spatially-inhomogeneous flip rates.
  Shirin Joy Handjani*, The University of Mississippi
  (935-60-100)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some central limit theorems for the motion of a tagged particle in the simple exclusion process.
  Sunder Sethuraman*, Iowa State Univ.
  Horng-Tzer Yau, Courant Inst.
  Srinivasa Varadhan, Courant Inst.
  (935-60-117)

Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, II
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Richard B. Sowers, University of Illinois-Urbana r-sowers@math.uiuc.edu
Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University elton@math.nwu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Robustness of phase transition for general spherical models.
  Robin Pemantle*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
  Jeff Steif, Math. Department, Chalmers Univ.
  (935-60-32)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality for Some Models of Random Walks.
  Tzong-Yow Lee*, University of Maryland
  Horng-Tzer Yau, New York University
  (935-60-35)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Stochastic Curvature Driven Flows.
  Nung Kwan Yip*, University of Wisonsin-Madison
  (935-60-95)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Doubly perturbed random walk and Brownian motion.
  Burgess J Davis*, Purdue University
  (935-60-31)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Martin Boundary and Integral Representations for Harmonic Functions of Symmetric Stable Processes.
  Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University
  Renming Song*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapign
  (935-60-48)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Problems of Perturbation Theory.
  I H Dinwoodie*, Tulane University
  (935-60-63)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, III
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Richard B. Sowers, University of Illinois-Urbana r-sowers@math.uiuc.edu
Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University elton@math.nwu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A class of multi-scale processes and their phase changes with time.
  Rabi Bhattacharya*, Indiana University
  (935-60-99)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the mixing rate of the Lagrangian velocity field .
  Craig L Zirbel*, Bowling Green State University
  (935-60-102)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homogenization for Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs with random Hamiltonian.
  Fraydoun Rezakhanlou*, UC Berkeley
  (935-60-226)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Yang-Mills fields and random holonomy in small geodesic balls.
  Robert O Bauer*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (935-60-57)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Anisotropic Stochastic Growth Models on Trees .
  Steven P Lalley*, Purdue University
  (935-60-120)

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