AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

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

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Probability, I
Room B313, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin-Madison griffeat@math.wisc.edu
Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison seppalai@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some rigorous results for the NK model.
  Vlada Limic*, University of British Columbia
  (980-60-98)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Scaling Limit for a Fleming-Viot Type System.
  Ilie Grigorescu*, University of Miami
  Min Kang, North Carolina State University
  (980-60-226)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Probability, II
Room B313, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin-Madison griffeat@math.wisc.edu
Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison seppalai@math.wisc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Approximating the effect of advantageous mutations by coalescents with multiple collisions.
  Jason R. Schweinsberg*, Cornell University
  Rick Durrett, Cornell University
  (980-92-25)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Max-plus linearity for growth models.
  Min Kang*, North Carolina State University
  Ilie Grigorescu, University of Miami
  (980-60-227)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Large Deviations of the Asymmetric Exclusion Process.
  Leif H. Jensen*, Columbia University
  (980-60-293)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Probability, III
Room B313, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin-Madison griffeat@math.wisc.edu
Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison seppalai@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Refinement of Wigner semicircle law in a neighborhood of the spectrum edge for random symmetric matrices with distribution of matrix elements decaying polynomially at infinity.
  Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, Purdue University
  (980-60-83)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Fluid Limit of an Overloaded Processor Sharing Queue.
  Amber L. Puha*, Cal State San Marcos
  Alexander L. Stolyar, Bell Laboratories
  Ruth J. Williams, UCSD
  (980-60-146)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Probability, IV
Room B313, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin-Madison griffeat@math.wisc.edu
Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison seppalai@math.wisc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Continuous Processes Have Gaussian Short Term Behavior.
  Masanori Hino, Kyoto University
  Jose Ramirez*, Cornell University
  (980-60-153)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A martingale proof of Dobrushin's theorem for non-homogeneous Markov chains.
  Sunder Sethuraman*, Iowa State University
  S.R.S. Varadhan, Courant Institute
  (980-60-214)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Remarks on the homogenization of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
  Elena Kosygina*, Baruch College - CUNY
  Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California, Berkeley
  (980-60-174)

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