AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

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

Friday March 12, 1999, 8:10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Probability on Algebraic Structures, I
Room 235, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Gregory M. Budzban, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale gregb@math.siu.edu
Philip Feinsilver, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale pfeinsil@math.siu.edu
Arunava Mukherjea, University of South Florida arun@math.usf.edu
- 8:10 a.m.
  Hecke pairs, locally compact hypergroups and probability theory.
  Herbert Heyer*, Mathematisches Institut, Universitaet Tuebingen, GERMANY
  (940-60-12)
- 8:50 a.m.
  Break
- 9:30 a.m.
  Martingale characterizations of L\'evy processes on locally compact groups.
  Michael P Voit*, Universitaet Tuebingen
  (940-60-18)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Markov kernels related with Dunkl operators.
  Margit M Roesler*, TU Muenchen, Germany
  Michael P Voit, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
  (940-60-21)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Brownian motion and the classical groups.
  Anthony J. D'Aristotile*, SUNY at Plattsburgh
  Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
  Charles Newman, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (940-60-10)

Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Probability on Algebraic Structures, II
Room 235, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Gregory M. Budzban, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale gregb@math.siu.edu
Philip Feinsilver, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale pfeinsil@math.siu.edu
Arunava Mukherjea, University of South Florida arun@math.usf.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symmetric cones as Gelfand pairs: probabilistic applications.
  Gerard G. Letac*, Universite Paul Sabatier, 31062 TOULOUSE, France.
  (940-60-100)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Moments of The Wishart Distribution.
  Helene M Massam*, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  Gerard G Letac, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  (940-62-199)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Break
- 4:00 p.m.
  Stochastic processes and operator calculus on quantum groups.
  Rene' Schott*, Universite' Henri Poincare'-Nancy 1
  (940-60-40)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Le\'vy Processes on Quantum Groups.
  Uwe Franz*, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universit\"at Greifswald
  (940-60-101)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Bernstein and Skitovic-Darmois Theorems on Algebraic Structures.
  Daniel Neuenschwander*, University of Lausanne, Institute for Actuarial Science
  (940-60-245)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Probability on Algebraic Structures, III
Room 235, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Gregory M. Budzban, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale gregb@math.siu.edu
Philip Feinsilver, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale pfeinsil@math.siu.edu
Arunava Mukherjea, University of South Florida arun@math.usf.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the embedding problem for infinitely divisible probabilities on groups and semigroups.
  M. McCrudden*, University of Manchester
  (940-60-229)
- 8:50 a.m.
  Probability Theory without Probabilities: From Delphic Semigroups to Hungarian semigroups and Further.
  Gabor Szekely*, Bowling Green State University
  (940-60-231)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break
- 9:50 a.m.
  Remarks on Measure-Valued Cocycle Equations .
  Zbigniew J. Jurek*, University of Wroclaw
  (940-60-233)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Infinite-Dimensional Cocycles and Stochastic Systems with Memory.
  Salah-Eldin A. Mohammed*, Southern Illinois University
  (940-60-257)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Probability on Algebraic Structures, IV
Room 235, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Gregory M. Budzban, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale gregb@math.siu.edu
Philip Feinsilver, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale pfeinsil@math.siu.edu
Arunava Mukherjea, University of South Florida arun@math.usf.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Algebraic Aspects of Probability Theory.
  Valeri Maximow*, Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku
  (940-60-345)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Topics in random matrix theory.
  Goran Hognas*, Abo Akademi University
  (940-60-284)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:20 p.m.
  Arithmetics of Probability Measures on Symmetric Spaces.
  Piotr Graczyk*, Universite d'Angers
  (940-60-234)
- 4:50 p.m.
  On shifted convolution powers and concentration functions in locally compact groups.
  Wojciech Jaworski*, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
  (940-60-217)

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