Statistical Laboratory
Probability Seminars
Lent Term 2002
All interested are encouraged
to take part to the full by presenting their ideas and discussing
those of others.
Talks will be in Meeting Room 12 of the
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Pavilion D.
Tuesday 22 January
2pm James Norris
On the emergence of the giant hyper-component
Tuesday 29 January
2pm Chris Rogers (Bath)
Monte Carlo valuation of American options
Tuesday 5 February
2pm Ostap Hryniv
Self-avoiding interfaces
Friday 8 February
(Note change of day)
2pm Erwin Bolthausen
A CLT for convolution equations with
applications to weakly self-avoiding
random walks
Tuesday 12 February
2pm Richard Kenyon (Orsay)
Dominos, spanning trees and hyperbolic geometry
Tuesday 19 February
2pm Martin Barlow (UBC, ENS)
Which value of the volume growth and escape time exponents
are possible for a graph?
Tuesday 26 February
2pm James Martin
Directed percolation and growth models
Tuesday 5 March
2pm Alan Bain
Flow control: From stochastic models
to differential equations
Abstract.
Various simple differential equation systems have been proposed to
model window based flow control schemes such as TCP and its derivatives.
These have the advantage that they are amenable to classical dynamical
systems analysis, and their stable regions can be determined.
Tuesday 12 March
2pm Nicolas Fournier (Nancy)
A particle numerical scheme for a coagulation equation with diffusion
Tuesday 30 April
2pm Yuri Suhov
Tuesday 14 May
2pm Michail Louklakis
Tuesday 28 May
2pm John Kingman
Probability in battles
Graduate students especially are urged to attend.
Directions to the Laboratory.
The CMS is reached by a path along the east
side of the Isaac Newton Institute in Clarkson Road.
The stochastic behaviour of the actual flow control system is more
complex. We shall look at a simplified model of a window based flow
control and outline a framework by which under a suitable scaling regime,
we may obtain a fluid limit of the stochastic process. This will turn
out to be similar in form to the simple differential equations, but with
some interesting differences.
Easter Term
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