Events Archive

Designing Importance Sampling Schemes for Simulating Rare Events in Reflected SDEs and Random Graphs

SpeakerChia Ying LeeUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hillhttp://www.dam.brown.edu/people/cylee/ Description Understanding rare events in stochastic systems and random networks is important in...

Nonintrusive Polynomial Chaos on Nested Unstructured Meshes

SpeakerAkil NarayanUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouthhttp://www.math.umassd.edu/~anarayan/ Description We present a novel method for construction of polynomial interpolation grids on arbitrary...

Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics for Network Models

Statistical Inference for Fractional SDEs and Applications

About Equations with Drift and Diffusion

SpeakerLuis SilvestreUniversity of Chicagohttp://www.math.uchicago.edu/~luis/ Description We will discuss the parabolic equation which consists on the heat equation plus a first order term. This term...

Mariusz Nieweglowski

Variational Implicit Solvation of Biomolecules

SpeakerBo LiUCSDhttp://math.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/Bo-Li/ Description The structure and dynamics of biomolecules such as DNA and proteins determine the functions of underlying biological systems...

Sharp Estimates on the Dirichlet Heat Kernels of Subordinate Brownian Motions

Speaker Renming Song University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~rsong/ Description A subordinate Brownian motion can be obtained by replacing the time parameter of a Brownian...

Correlation Pursuit: Forward Stepwise Variable Selection for Index Models

SpeakerMichael ZhuPurdue Universityhttp://www.stat.purdue.edu/~yuzhu/ Description A stepwise procedure, correlation pursuit (COP), is developed for variable selection under the sufficient dimension...

Zero Forcing and Its Applications

SpeakerMichael YoungIowa State Universityhttp://orion.math.iastate.edu/myoung/ Description Zero forcing is a type of propagation on a simple, undirected graph based on the color-change rule: Given...