SSP 2009 Short Presentation Schedule & Abstracts

Thursday 2:15 ‐ 3:45 Wenbo Li

Greg Lawler Chicago - A result about the Brownian loop measure

Zbigniew Jurek Wroclaw - Remarks on the random integral method

Vladislav Kargin Stanford - On free stochastic differential equations

Oana Mocioalca Kent State - Regularity of solutions of the heat equation driven by Gaussian processes

Thursday 4:15 ‐ 6:00 Chris Burdzy

Janos Englander UCSB - Strong law of large numbers for branching diffusions

Richard Liang Berkeley - A stepping stone model of population genetics with continuous geography

Kevin Ross Stanford - Stochastic singular control and optimal stopping

Daniel Conus Utah - Ito‐Taylor expansion for the solution of non‐linear SPDEs

Bedros Afeyan Polymath Research - Resonant interactions between waves in random media

Friday 10:45 ‐ 12:30 Jay Rosen

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov Stanford - Competing particle systems evolving by i.i.d. increments

Jason Miller Stanford - Thick points of the Gaussian free field

Partha S Dey Berkeley - Curie‐Weiss model at criticality: Concentration of magnetization

Arnab Sen Berkeley - The incomparability window of random width two partially ordered sets

Shirshendu Chatterjee Cornell - Persistence of Activity in Random Boolean Networks

Friday 4:15 ‐ 6:00 Ruth Williams

Chao Zhu UW‐Milwaukee - Competitive Lotka‐Volterra model in random environments

Kamil Szczegot Stanford - Brownian approximation for density‐dependent Markov chains

Ajitabh Kumar Chevron Corp - Large‐scale probability density evolution using ensemble Kalman filters

Jessica Zuniga Stanford - Time inhomogeneous Markov chains with wave like behavior

Zhen‐Qing Chen Washington - Conductance and heat kernel estimates

Problem session, Friday 2:15 ‐ 3:45 Steve Evans

Krzysztof Burdzy Washington - Billiards with uniform reflection angle

Alice Vatamanelu Purdue - Subelliptic gradient bounds on the discrete Heisenberg group

Tanya Gordeeva Berkeley