Past Probability Seminars Spring 2020
Fall 2016
Thursdays in 901 Van Vleck Hall at 2:25 PM, unless otherwise noted.
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Thursday, September 8, Daniele Cappelletti, UW-Madison
Title: Reaction networks: comparison between deterministic and stochastic models
Abstract: Mathematical models for chemical reaction networks are widely used in biochemistry, as well as in other fields. The original aim of the models is to predict the dynamics of a collection of reactants that undergo chemical transformations. There exist two standard modeling regimes: a deterministic and a stochastic one. These regimes are chosen case by case in accordance to what is believed to be more appropriate. It is natural to wonder whether the dynamics of the two different models are linked, and whether properties of one model can shed light on the behavior of the other one. Some connections between the two modelling regimes have been known for forty years, and new ones have been pointed out recently. However, many open questions remain, and the issue is still largely unexplored.
Friday, September 16, 11 am Elena Kosygina, Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Please note the unusual day and time
The talk will be in Van Vleck 910 as usual.
Title: Homogenization of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations: a remark and an application.
Abstract: It has been pointed out in the seminal work of P.-L. Lions, G. Papanicolaou, and S.R.S. Varadhan that for the first order Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equation, homogenization starting with affine initial data should imply homogenization for general uniformly continuous initial data. The argument utilized the properties of the HJ semi-group, in particular, the finite speed of propagation. The last property is lost for viscous HJ equations. We remark that the above mentioned implication holds under natural conditions for both viscous and non-viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations. As an application of our result, we show homogenization in a stationary ergodic setting for a special class of viscous HJ equations with a non-convex Hamiltonian in one space dimension. This is a joint work with Andrea Davini, Sapienza Università di Roma.
Thursday, September 22, TBA, TBA
Title: TBA
Thursday, September 29, Joseph Najnudel, University of Cincinnati
Title: TBA
Thursday, October 6, TBA, TBA
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Thursday, October 13, No Seminar due to Midwest Probability Colloquium
For details, see Midwest Probability Colloquium.
Thursday, October 20, Amol Aggarwal, Harvard
Title: TBA
Thursday, October 27, TBA, TBA
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Thursday, November 3, TBA, TBA
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Thursday, November 10, TBA, TBA
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Thursday, November 17, TBA, TBA
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Thursday, November 24, No Seminar due to Thanksgiving
Thursday, December 1, TBA, TBA
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Thursday, December 8, TBA, TBA
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Thursday, December 15, TBA, TBA
Title: TBA