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Field Theory of Four Interactions

SpeakerShouhong WangIndiana Universityhttp://www.indiana.edu/~fluid/ Description Abstract: In this talk, I shall present a few first principles and laws for four fundamental forces of Nature...

Invariant Measures for Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equations

SpeakerOleksandr MisiatsPurdue Universityhttp://www.math.purdue.edu/~omisiats/index.html Description Abstract: We study the long-time behavior of systems governed by nonlinear reaction-diffusion type...

Numerical Real Algebraic Geometry with Applications to Kinematics

Speaker Charles Wampler General Motors http://www3.nd.edu/~cwample1/ Description Recently, numerical algorithms have been developed for computing cell decompositions of the real points in complex...

The Euclidean Distance Degree

SpeakerBernd SturmfelsUniversity of California-Berkeleyhttp://math.berkeley.edu/~bernd/ Description The nearest point map of a real algebraic variety with respect to Euclidean distance is an algebraic...

Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications in Statistics

SpeakerDennis LinPennsylvania State Universityhttp://sites.stat.psu.edu/people/faculty/dlin.html Description Dimensional Analysis (DA) is a fundamental method in the engineering and physical sciences...

Nonlinear Evolution Equations Driven by Nonlocal Infinitesimal Generators and Their Probabilistic Interpretations

Speaker Wojbor Woyczynski Case Western Reserve University http://sites.google.com/a/case.edu/waw Description ABSTRACT: One of the motivations of our program was to develop an understanding of the...

Horn formulas and directed hypergraphs

Host Rob Ellis Speaker Gyorgy Turan University of Illinois-Â鶹APP http://www.math.uic.edu/people/profile?netid=gyt Description A Horn formula in propositional logic is a set of rules of the form a,b...

The Majority-rule Paradigm in Supertree Construction

Host Department of Applied Math Speaker F.R. McMorris Professor Emeritus, IIT www.iit.edu/directory/people/fr-mcmorris Description The problem of aggregating the individual preferences of a group of...

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Small-Time Asymptotics and Expansions of Option Prices Under Levy Based Models

SpeakerRuoting GongGeorgia Institute of Technologyhttp://www.math.gatech.edu/users/rgong Description The small-time asymptotic behavior of option prices and implied volatilities for jump-diffusion...