AMS :: Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2014 00:23:13

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday March 29, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Open Problems in Stochastic Analysis and Related Fields, I
Sondheim 114, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Masha Gordina, University of Connecticut maria.gordina@uconn.edu
Tai Melcher, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Some Free Boundary Problems for Stochastic Systems.
  Amarjit Budhiraja*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Rami Atar, Technion, Israel
  (1098-60-124)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The leading root of a formal power series $f(x,y) = \displaystyle \sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty a_n(y) x^n$, with connections to probability.
  James Allen Fill*, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
  Alan D. Sokal, New York University, Department of Physics; University College London, Department of Mathematics
  (1098-05-311)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Smoothness of solutions and Harnack inequality for Kimura diffusion operators.
  Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
  Camelia A. Pop*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1098-35-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  How to integrate on U(N).
  Jonathan Novak*, MIT
  (1098-22-193)

Saturday March 29, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Open Problems in Stochastic Analysis and Related Fields, II
Sondheim 114, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Masha Gordina, University of Connecticut maria.gordina@uconn.edu
Tai Melcher, University of Virginia
- 3:00 p.m.
  Intermittency in the random media.
  Stanislav A Molchanov*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (1098-60-220)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Characterization of stationary distributions of reflected diffusions.
  Weining Kang*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  Kavita Ramanan, Brown University
  (1098-60-284)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mixing of Exclusion Chains.
  Nayantara Bhatnagar*, University of Delaware
  (1098-60-287)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Ballisticity conditions and trapping for higher-dimensional random walk in random environment.
  Alexander Drewitz*, Columbia University
  (1098-60-307)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Stochastic Processes with Catalyst and Quasi-Stationary Distribution.
  Ilie Grigorescu, University of Miami
  Min Kang*, North Carolina State University
  (1098-60-100)

Sunday March 30, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Open Problems in Stochastic Analysis and Related Fields, III
Sondheim 114, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Masha Gordina, University of Connecticut maria.gordina@uconn.edu
Tai Melcher, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  Excited random walks, or the "cookie" phenomenon.
  Elena Kosygina*, Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center
  (1098-60-158)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Loop measures and loop soups.
  Jay Rosen*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  (1098-60-92)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hypoellipticity and heat kernels in infinite dimensions.
  Bruce K. Driver, UC San Diego
  Nathaniel Eldredge*, University of Northern Colorado
  Tai Melcher, University of Virginia
  (1098-60-178)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Questions in stochastic sub-Riemannian geometry.
  Thomas A Laetsch*, University of Connecticut
  (1098-60-256)

Sunday March 30, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Open Problems in Stochastic Analysis and Related Fields, IV
Sondheim 114, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Masha Gordina, University of Connecticut maria.gordina@uconn.edu
Tai Melcher, University of Virginia
- 3:00 p.m.
  Stochastic transport in periodic channels.
  Leonid Koralov*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1098-60-196)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On continuum limits of random matrices.
  Brian Rider*, Temple University
  (1098-60-107)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Gaussian Free Field in random matrices and $2d$ statistical mechanics.
  Vadim Gorin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1098-60-103)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Some open problems at the intersection of probability and information theory.
  Mokshay Madiman*, University of Delaware
  (1098-60-327)