| Tuesday
June 5, 2007 |
| 9:00 am |
On-site registration and coffee |
9:30 am
|
Welcome |
9:45 am
|
Dr. Miklós Csörgo (about Don) |
10:00 am
|
Don Dawson, Carleton University (plenary talk)
Reflections on probability and stochastic processes 1957-2007
|
11:00-11:15 am
|
Coffee |
11:15 am
|
Edwin Perkins, University of
British Columbia
On uniqueness for some singular sde's arising in branching
models |
12:00 am
|
J. Theodore Cox, Syracuse University
Convergence of interacting particle systems to super-Brownian
motion |
12:45-1:30 pm
|
Lunch |
1:30 pm
|
Gordon Slade, University of British Columbia
Random walk on the incipient infinite cluster for oriented
percolation |
2:15 pm
|
Neal Madras, York University
Polymers and Percolation on Hyperbolic Graphs |
3:00-3:30 pm
|
Coffee |
3:30 pm
|
Peter March, The Ohio State University
and National Science Foundation
Some models of polymer dynamics |
| 4:15 pm |
Hao Wang, University of Oregon
A Basic Interacting Model and Beyond |
| Wednesday
June 6, 2007 |
9:00 am
|
Andreas Greven, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat
Evolving genealogical trees |
9:45 am
|
Byron Schmuland, University of Alberta
Reversible Fleming-Viot processes |
10:30-11:00 am
|
Coffee |
| 11:00 am |
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa
Genome evolution and random graphs |
| 11:45 am |
Reg Kulperger, University of Western Ontario
Sufficient Conditions for Ergodicity for a Stochastic Competing
Species Model |
12:30-1:30 pm
|
Lunch |
1:30 pm
|
Luis Gorostiza, Centro de Investigacion
y de Estudios Avanzados
Self-Similar Stable Processes Arising from High-Density Occupation
Times of Particle Systems |
2:15 pm
|
Tom Salisbury, York University
Conditioned super-Brownian motion |
3:00-3:30 pm
|
Coffee |
3:30 pm
|
Carl Mueller, University of Rochester
Negative moments for a linear SPDE |
| 4:15 pm |
Bruno Remillard, HEC Montreal
Malliavin calculus and Clark-Ocone formula for functionals
of a square-integrable Levy process |
| 5:00-6:30 pm |
Reception |
|
Thursday June 7, 2007
|
9:00 am
|
Thomas G. Kurtz, University of Wisconsin
- Madison
Poisson representations of measure-valued processes |
9:45 am
|
B. Gail Ivanoff, University of Ottawa
Poisson Limits for Empirical Point Processes |
10:30-11:00 am
|
Coffee |
11:00 am
|
Anton Wakolbinger, J.W. Goethe-Universitat
Interacting Locally Regulated Diffusions and the Virgin Island
Model |
| 11:45 am |
Peter Mörters, University of Bath
Localisation of mass in random media |
12:30-1:30 pm
|
Lunch |
1:30 pm
|
Jürgen Gärtner, Technische Universitat
Berlin
On the parabolic Anderson model driven by catalytic exclusion
and voter dynamics |
2:15 pm
|
Leonid Mytnik, Technion - Israel Institute
of Technology
Regularity of densities for (a,d,ß)-superprocess |
3:00-3:30 pm
|
Coffee |
3:30 pm
|
Jie Xiong, University of Tennessee
Local extinction for superprocesses in random environments
|
| 4:15 pm |
Xiaowen Zhou, Concordia University
A zero-one law of almost sure local extinction for super-Brownian
motion |
|
Friday June 8, 2007
|
9:00 am
|
Peter Glynn, Stanford University
Heavy Tails, Sharp Thresholds, and Stochastic Modeling
|
9:45 am
|
Colleen Cutler, University of Waterloo
Repeat Sampling of Extreme Observations with Error: Regression
to the Mean and Asymptotic Error Distributions |
10:30 am
|
Michael Kouritzin, University of Alberta
Microstructure Filtering in Finance |
11:15-11:45 am
|
Coffee with refreshments |
11:45 am
|
Shui Feng, McMaster University
Limiting Theorems Associated With Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution
|
12:30 pm
|
Feng-Yu Wang, Beijing Normal University
Harnack inequality for Markov semigroups and applications
|
| 1:15 pm |
Wei Sun, Concordia University
On Girsanov and generalized Feynman-Kac transformations for
symmetric Markov processes |
