Past Probability Seminars Spring 2020: Difference between revisions
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== Thursday, November 26, No Seminar, Thanksgiving Break == | == Thursday, November 26, No Seminar, Thanksgiving Break == | ||
== Thursday, December 3, TBA == | == Thursday, December 3, TBA == | ||
== Thursday, December 10, | == Thursday, December 10, [http://www.case.edu/artsci/math/esmeckes/ Elizabeth Meckes], [http://www.case.edu/artsci/math/ Case Western Reserve University] == | ||
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In recent years, tropical rainfall statistics have been shown to conform to paradigms of critical phenomena and statistical physics. In this talk, stochastic models will be presented as prototypes for understanding the atmospheric dynamics that leads to these statistics and extreme events. Key nonlinear ingredients in the models include either stochastic jump processes or thresholds (Heaviside functions). First, both exact solutions and simple numerics are used to verify that a suite of observed rainfall statistics is reproduced by the models, including power-law distributions and long-range correlations. Second, we prove that a stochastic trigger, which is a time-evolving indicator of whether it is raining or not, will converge to a deterministic threshold in an appropriate limit. Finally, we discuss the connections among these rainfall models, stochastic PDEs, and traditional models for critical phenomena. | In recent years, tropical rainfall statistics have been shown to conform to paradigms of critical phenomena and statistical physics. In this talk, stochastic models will be presented as prototypes for understanding the atmospheric dynamics that leads to these statistics and extreme events. Key nonlinear ingredients in the models include either stochastic jump processes or thresholds (Heaviside functions). First, both exact solutions and simple numerics are used to verify that a suite of observed rainfall statistics is reproduced by the models, including power-law distributions and long-range correlations. Second, we prove that a stochastic trigger, which is a time-evolving indicator of whether it is raining or not, will converge to a deterministic threshold in an appropriate limit. Finally, we discuss the connections among these rainfall models, stochastic PDEs, and traditional models for critical phenomena. | ||
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Fall 2015
Thursdays in 901 Van Vleck Hall at 2:25 PM, unless otherwise noted.
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Thursday, September 17, Nicholas A. Cook, UCLA
Title: TBA
Thursday, September 24, Reed Ogrosky, UW-Madison
TBA
Thursday, October 8, No Seminar due to the Midwest Probability Colloquium
Midwest Probability Colloquium
Thursday, October 15, Louis Fan, UW-Madison
Thursday, October 22, Tom Kurtz, UW-Madison
Thursday, October 29, Ecaterina Sava-Huss, Cornell
TBA