Seminars and Workshops
                                        2007

 
DECEMBER

December 20, 2007, 11.00-13.00 h. changed to 9.30-11.30 h., 2007, LG 1.110
Reading Seminar (RSS) on "Large Deviations"
Organiser Sébastien Blachere & Francesca Nardi

December 18, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., 2007, LG 1.105(QPA)
Joris Walraevens, EURANDOM
Title and abstract t.b.a.

December 13, 2007, 11.00-13.00 h., 2007, LG 1.105
Reading Seminar (RSS) on "Large Deviations"
Organiser Sébastien Blachere & Francesca Nardi

December 12, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (SIM)
Shota Gugushvili, Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Decompounding under Gaussian noise

December 12, 2007, 11.30-12.30 h., HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt

December 12, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (EPPS)
Ambedkar Dukkipati
On Applications of Grobner Bases of Elimination Ideals to Maximum Entropy models

December 10 & 11, 2007
QPA-MVR Workshop "Multivariate Risk Management"

December 6, 2007, 11.00-13.00 h., 2007, LG 1.110
Reading Seminar (RSS) on "Large Deviations"
Organiser Sébastien Blachere & Francesca Nardi

December 4, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., 2007, LG 1.105(QPA)
Artem Sapozhnikov, CWI
From microscopic to macroscopic perspectives on stochastic networks
NOVEMBER

November 27, 2007, 14.00-16.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA-MVR)
Dimitris Cheliotis, EURANDOM
Exit problems for spectrally negative Lévy processes

November 27, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h. - LG 1.105 (RSS)
Alessandro Pellegrinotti, Università degli Studi Roma 3
Random walk in fluctuating random environment

November 22, 2007, 15.30-16.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Gregory Maillard, Institut de Mathematiques, EPFL Lausanne
Ergodic behavior of signed voter model

November 22, 2007, 14.30-15.30 h. - LG 1.105 (RSS)
Jürgen Gärtner Technische Universität Berlin
On the parabolic Anderson model driven by voter dynamics

November 22, 2007, 11.00-13.00 h., 2007, LG 1.110
Reading Seminar (RSS) on "Large Deviations"
Organiser Sébastien Blachere & Francesca Nardi

November 21, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., 2007, HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven statisticians
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt

November 20, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Dmitriy Kim, Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Oscillating random processes

November 15 & 16, 2007
Workshop "E-Quality"

November 8, 2007, 11.00-13.00 h., 2007, LG 1.110
Reading Seminar (RSS) on "Large Deviations"
Organiser Sébastien Blachere & Francesca Nardi

November 7, 2007, 14.00-16.00 h., LG 1.105 EURANDOM - PHILIPS LECTURES
14.00-15.00 h. Gerald Lucassen en Pieter de Bokx "Multivariate data analysis applied in  molecular diagnostics"
15.00-15.15 Break
15.00-16.00 h. Ashish Pandharipande "Cognitive radio"

November 6, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Lasse Leskelä, Eindhoven University of Technology
On the uniqueness of fluid limits for queueing systems

November 6, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h, LG 1.105 (RSS)
Wioletta Ruszel, Groningen University
Conservation and loss of Gibbsianness of interacting spins moving on circles

November 2 & 3, 2007 BRG-meeting (closed meeting)
OKTOBER

October 31, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt

October 30, 2007, 10.30-12.30 h., LG 1.105 (GEN) time changed to 14.30-16.30 h.
EURANDOM Chair, Professor Roberto Fernandez
Mini series of Lectures  on "Fields and Processes: common framework and relations
Lecture IV: Relation between processes and one-dimensional fields. Phase transitions in the half line

October 25, 2007, 11.00-13.00 h., 2007, LG 1.110
Reading Seminar (RSS) on "Large Deviations"
Organiser Sébastien Blachere & Francesca Nardi

October 24, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (EPPS)
Efang Kong, EURANDOM
Uniform Bahadur Representation for Local Polynomial Estimates of  M-regression and Its Applications

October 23, 2007, 14.30-15.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Francesco Caravenna, Universita` degli Studi di Padova
The quenched critical point of a diluted disordered polymer model

October 23, 2007, 10.30-12.30 h., LG 1.105 (GEN)
EURANDOM Chair, Professor Roberto Fernandez
Mini series of Lectures  on "Fields and Processes: common framework and relations
Lecture III: Overview of uniqueness results (boundary uniformity, Dobrushin criterion, disagreement percolation) and examples of phase transitions
Lecture IV: October 30

October 17, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Marko Boon, Eindhoven University of Technology
Comparison of Interpolation, Smoothing, and Gridding techniques to obtain reliable estimates for the depth of rivers in The Netherlands
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt

October 17-19, 2007
 QPA Workshop Queueing theory without limits: transient and asymptotic analysis

October 16, 2007, 10.30-12.30 h., LG 1.105 (GEN)
EURANDOM Chair, Professor Roberto Fernandez
Mini series of Lectures  on "Fields and Processes: common framework and relations
Lecture II: Extremality, tail-field triviality, mixing properties, limit measures. Translation invariance and ergodicity
Lecture III: October 23, Lecture IV: October 30

October 15, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 Reading Seminar Series: Levy processes in finance and queuing (QPA-MVR)
Brian Fralix, EURANDOM
Levy processes at first passage and insurance risk
Organisers Henrik Jönsson & Viktoria Masol (EURANDOM)

October 8-10, 2007
SIM Workshop Shape Restricted Inference
October 11, 2007, 15.00-16.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Stefan Thonhauser, Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria
Optimal Dividend Strategies For A Risk Process Under Force Of Interest

October 11, 2007, 11.00-13.00 h., 2007, LG 1.110 changed to LG 1.105
Reading Seminar (RSS) on "Large Deviations"
Organiser Sébastien Blachere & Francesca Nardi

October 10, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt

October 8, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.110 (QPA-MVR)
Stelios Bekiros, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance, Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty of Economics & Econometrics, University of Amsterdam
Advanced Techniques in Quantitative Finance

October 2, 2007, 10.30-12.30 h., LG 1.105 (GEN)
EURANDOM Chair, Professor Roberto Fernandez
Mini series of Lectures  on "Fields and Processes: common framework and relations
Lecture 1: Basic definitions, oriented specifications, examples, reconstruction from single-site kernels
Lecture II: October 16, Lecture III: October 23, Lecture IV: October 30
SEPTEMBER

September 26, 2007, 15.15 h., LG 1.105
Public Lecture EURANDOM Chair, Professor Roberto Fernandez
Random processes, partially ordered fields, gibbs fields

September 24-26, 2007
SIM Workshop "Algorithms in Complex Systems"
VIDEO

September 19, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (SIM)
Ildar Ibragimov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Estimation of Analytic functions

September 18, 2007 (RSS), LG 1.105,
11.00-12.00h., Andreas Greven, Erlangen
On the evolution of random trees
14.30-15.30h., Matthias Birkner,WIAS Berlin
Quenched LDP for words in a letter sequence

September 12, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt

September 10-11-12-13, 2007
RSS Workshop Sandpile models and related fields

September 5, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt
AUGUST

August 20, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
 Michael Steele, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Probability Inequalities: Concentration via Local Changes
August 14, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.110 (RSS)
Julien Berestycki (Aix-Marseille 1 and Paris 6)
The speed of coalescence

JULY
July 12, 2007
3rd Korea-Netherlands workshop on
"Queueing theory and its applications to telecommunication systems" (QPA)
July 9-10-11, 2007
 Applied Probability INFORMS Conference
July 4, 2007 11.30-12.00 h., HG 9.41 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
- Eefje van den Dungen (TU/e Master's student mathematics) will give a 20 minute presentation on her Bachelor's project (topic: Integration of statistical process control with feedback control).
- Professor Laurie Davies (TU/e) will share with us his personal views on how to analyse the well-known seat belt data set (a 3-level factorial design, see Chapter 5 of the Wu and Hamada book on experimental design).
Contact A. Di Bucchianico & S. Kuhnt

JUNE
June 29, 2007, 11-12.30 h., LG 1.105, Lecture series on the max-plus algebra (QPA)
Bernd Heidergott (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
June 26, 2007, 15.00-16.00 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Omer Angel (University of Toronto, Canada)
Mixing times and diophantine approximations
June 26, 2007, 13h30-14h30, LG 1.105 (RSS)
Jesse Goodman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Invasion percolation on regular trees
June 26, 2007, 10h30-11h30, LG 1.105 (QPA)
Brian Fralix (EURANDOM)
Approximating jump processes
June 22, 2007, 14-15.30 h., LG 1.110, Lecture series on the max-plus algebra (QPA)
Bernd Heidergott (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
June 19, 2007,  10.15-11.00 h., LG 1.110 (QPA-MVR)
Peter den Iseger (Cardano, The Netherlands)
New algorithms for Laplace Transform Inversion
June 18-22, 2007
 RSS Workshop "Random Polymers"
June 18, 2007, 13h30-14h30, LG 1.110 (QPA)
A.T.M. Aerts (TU/e)
Modelling and simulation of the CMS Tier0 input buffering process
June 14, 2007, LG 1.105 (QPA-MVR)
13.00-14.00 h., Ivo Adan (TU/e), Insurance Risk with Variable Number of Policies
14.15-15.15 h., Johan van Leeuwaarden (TU/e), The Wiener-Hopf Factorisation
June 13, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (EPPS)
Wouter Kager and Mark Holmes (EURANDOM)
Senile walks, episodes II The scaling limit strikes back! and III Return of the Martingale
June 12, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Emilio Cirillo (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Decay of correlations in disordered systems
June 11, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Ananth Krishnamurthy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA)
Recent progress and Trends in Stochastic Models for Manufacturing Systems with Product Variety
June 8, 2007, 11-12.30, LG 1.105 Lecture series on the max-plus algebra (QPA)
Bernd Heidergott (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
June 7, 2007, 9.30-10.15 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Alexander Basuev (St.-Petersburg Federal University of Technology and Design, Russia)
Results on the semi-infinite Ising model
June 7, 2007, 10.30-11.30 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Bert Zwart (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA)
An extension of the square root law of TCP
June 6, 2007, 11.30-12.30 h., HG 9 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Discussion on stochastic problems arising in designing SRAMs at low voltage
Toby Doorn (NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen) and Jan van Gellecum (TU/e)
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt
June 5, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Mark Holmes (EURANDOM)
 Lattice trees, super-Brownian motion, the lace expansion, and integers larger than 8

June 1, 2007, 11.00-12.30 h., LG 1.105 Lecture series on the max-plus algebra, (QPA)
Bernd Heidergott (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
MAY
May 23, 2007, 11.30-12.30 h., HG 10 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Anne Krampe (University of Dortmund)
New methods for contingency tables using algebraic statistics
 Contact A. Di Bucchianico & Sonja Kuhnt
May 23, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (EPPS)
Christian Spitoni (EURANDOM)
Homogenous nucleation for Glauber dynamics
May 22, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Henri van den Esker (TU Delft)
 A Preferential Geometric Graph Model with Initial Attraction
May 14, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Jozef Skokan (LSE and UIUC)
Numbers in Ramsey Theory
May 9, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., HG 6.05 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Contact A. Di Bucchianico & S. Kuhnt
May 7, 2007, 11.30-12.30 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Evsey Morozov (Institute of Applied Mathematical Research and Petrozavodsk University, Russia)
 Stability analysis of a multiserver system with a dependence between workload, input and service time
May 3, 2007, 10.30-11.30 h., LG 1.105 Reading Seminar Series: Levy processes in finance and queuing (QPA-MVR)
Seva Shneer (EURANDOM
 Subordinators at first passage and renewal measures
May 2, 2007, 14.00-16.15 h., LG 1.105 EURANDOM - PHILIPS LECTURES
14.00 h., Martin F. McKinney
Music Content Analysis: Extracting the style and mood from musical audio
15.15 h., Radu S. Jasinschi
Markers for Neurodegenerative Diseases
May 1, 2007, 11h00-12h00, LG 1.105 (RSS)
Nicolas Pétrélis (EURANDOM)
On the localized phase of a copolymer in an emulsion: super-critical percolation regime

APRIL
April 25, 2007, 11.30-12.30 h., HG 10 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Exchange of ideas on the organisation, and Remco van der Hofstad: Probabilistic examples for teaching
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
April 24, 2007, 10.00-11.00 h., LG 1.105 Reading Seminar (QPA-MVR)
Andreas Löpker (EURANDOM)
General Storage models and paths of bounded variation
April 24, 2007, 10.30-11.30 h., LG 1.110, (RSS) postponed
 Henri van den Esker (TU Delft)
A Preferential Geometric Graph Model with Initial Attraction
April 18, 2007, 13.00-14.00 h., LG 1.110 (RSS)
Louigi Addario-Berry (Oxford)
A General Ballot Theorem
April 17, 2007, 15.00-16.00 h., LG 1.110 (RSS)
Marco Lenci (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Recurrence for quenched-random Lorentz gases and similar systems
April 17, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.110 (RSS) time changed to 13.00-14.00 h.
Dimitris Cheliotis (Bahen Center for Information Technology, Toronto, Canada)
Repeating patterns for one-dimensional random walk in random environment. A law of the iterated logarithm
April 16-17-18, 2007
QPA Workshop Mathematical Methodologies for Operational Risk
April 10, 2007, 10.45-11.45 h., LG 1.110 (QPA)
Rieske Hadianti (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
Wiener-Hopf techniques for the analysis of the time-dependent behavior of queues
April 10, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.110 (RSS)
R. Kang (Oxford University)
The t-improper chromatic number of random graphs
April 4, 2007, 11.30-12.00 h., HG 10 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Andrey Sidorenko (TU/e)
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
April 3, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Yuri Yakubovich (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Slicing Young diagrams of partitions and compositions

MARCH
March 27, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Pierre Mathieu (Aix-Marseille I, France)
Invariance principles for random walks with random i.i.d. conductances
March 27, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.110 (RSS)
Thierry Bodineau (Paris 7, France)
Current large deviations in stochastic systems
March 19-23, 2007 (RSS)
 Workshop "YEP IV (Young European Probabilists) 2007"
Random Graphs and Complex Networks
March 23, 2007 Stieltjes AFTERNOON
Lectures on the work of two Fields Medal 2006 prizewinners, Andrei Okounkov and Wendelin Werner
March 15, 2007, 10.00-11.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA-MVR)
Henrik Jönsson (EURANDOM)
Some distributional and path-related properties of general Lévy processes
March 15, 2007, 11.15-12.15 h., LG 1.105 (QPA-MVR)
Hansjoerg Albrecher (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Ruin theory in the presence of dividend and tax payments
March 13, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Persi Diaconis (Stanford University, USA)
What do we know about the metropolis algorithm
March 8, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 (EPPS)
Josine Bruin (EURANDOM)
Cyclic Multi-item production systems
March 7, 2007, 12.30-13.15 h., HG 5.95 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians Edwin van den Heuvel (Organon-TU/e)
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
March 1, 2007,  (11.00-12.00 h.) changed 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 (EPPS)
Andreas Löpker, EURANDOM
Transient analysis of a Data transfer model

FEBRUARY
February 28, 2007, 12.30-13.15 h., HG 5.95 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Olaf Wittich (Universität Tübingen)
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
February 23, 2007, 10.30-11.00 h., 11.15-13.00 h., 15.00-16.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Dmitrii Silvestrov, Mälardalen University, Sweden
 Mini-Course "Quasi-stationary Phenomena in Nonlinearly Perturbed Stochastic Systems"
February 21, 2007, 10.00-12.30 h., LG 1.105 EURANDOM - PHILIPS LECTURES
10.00 - 11.15 h., Wim Verhaegh (Philips Research Laboratories)
Data Mining for Biomarker Discovery
11.30 - 12.30 h.  Bart Bakker (Philips Research Laboratories)
In-Silico Models for Clinical Diagnostics
February 20, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Wouter Kager (EURANDOM)
Patterns on percolation clusters: ratios and limit theorem
February 15, 2007, 14.00-16.15 h., LG 1.105 (QPA-MVR)
14.00-15.00 h., Michel Mandjes (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Levy Processes, reflected Levy processes, and Markov modulation
15.15-16.15 h. Reading seminar Viktoria Masol (EURANDOM)
Levy-Ito decomposition and path structure
February 14, 2007, 12.30-13.15 h., HG 5.95 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Francesca Nardi (TU/e)
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
February 13, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105, (RSS)
Sara Brofferio (Université Paris-Sud, France)
Some properties of the lamplighter's walks
February 12, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Zinoviy Landsman (University of Haifa, Israel)
Portfolio optimization invariant and positive homogeneous risk measure and minimazation of the root of quadratic funcional
February 7, 2007, 12.30-13.15 h., HG 5.95 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
February 6, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Pierluigi Contucci (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Correlation Inequalities for Spin Glasses
February 5, 2007, 15.00-16.00 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Christof Kuelske (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Time-evolved mean-field measures and catastrophe theory
February 5, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
F. Guerra (Università Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
Broken replica symmetry bounds in spin glass theory

JANUARY
January 31, 2007, 11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA-MVR) cancelled
Hansjoerg Albrecher (Graz Universit of Technology, Austria)
Ruin theory in the presence of dividend and tax payments
January 24, 2007, 11.30-12.15 h., HG 5.95 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
January 25, 2007, 14.00-15.00 h., LG 1.105 (SIM)
Ruilin Li (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
The application of Markov model in health insurance actuary
January 24, 2007, 12.00-12.45 h., HG 5.95 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Remco van der Hofstad (TU/e)
Importance sampling
Contact A. Di Bucchianico
January 22, 2007, 12.00-13.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Andrew Zalesky (University of Melbourne)
40 Years of Erlang's Fixed-Point Approximation
January 18, 2007, LG 1.105 (QPA-MVR)
2 lectures on "Levy processes in Finance and Queuing”
14.00-15.00 h., Budhi Arta Surya (Universiteit Utrecht)
Principles of Smooth and Continuous Fit in the Determination of Endogenous Bankruptcy Levels
15.15-16.15 h., Jacques Resing (TU/e)
1st Reading Seminar on Lévy Processes: Levy Processes and Applications
January 16, 2007, 13.30-14.30 h., LG 1.105 (RSS)
Alexis Gillet (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
An introduction to renormalisation and discretisation techniques for continuum percolation model
January 15, 2007,  11.00-12.00 h., LG 1.105 (QPA)
Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
From Web server farms to Limited-time-sharing systems
January 10, 2007, 11.30-12.30 h., HG 10 Informal meeting Eindhoven Statisticians
Olaf Wittch (TU/e), Reading group Monte Carlo Methods
Contact A. Di Bucchianico

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