IMA Complex Systems Seminar

2003-2004 Special Year on Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems

1:30 Thursday afternoons

409 Lind Hall

Spring Semester

Date	Speaker	Title
January 22	Hui Wang Brown University and IMA	Importance sampling, large deviations, and differential games
January 29	Maury Bramson University of Minnesota	Application of fluid models to recurrence and central limit theorems of queueing networks
February 5	Wanyang Dai Department of Mathematics	On the existence and non-sample estimation of stationary densities of semimartingale reflecting Brownian motions
February 12	No Seminar, IMA Workshop	Robustness in Complex Systems
February 19	Zhi-Li Zhang University of Minnesota	Understanding and Limiting BGP Instabilities Powerpoint slides
February 26	Jacek Wesolowski Warsaw Technical University	Conditional moments of q-Meixner processes
March 4	Ilze Ziedins University of Auckland	Multicasting and phase transitions in tree loss networks
March 11	No Seminar, IMA Workshop	Control and Pricing in Communication
March 18	David McDonald University of Ottawa	Mean Field Convergence of a rate model of multiple TCP connections through a buffer implementing RED Slides
March 25	Arkady Khodursky University of Minnesota	Spatial patterns of transcriptional activity in the chromosome of Escherichia coli
April 1	No Seminar, IMA Short Course	Tools for Modeling and Data Analysis in Finance/Asset Pricing
April 8	Greg Rempala University of Louisville and IMA	Incomplete U-statistics, random permanents and beyond
April 15	No Seminar IMA Workshop	Risk Management and Model Specifications Issues in Finance
April 22	David Heath Carnegie Mellon University	Consistency among trading desks
April 29	Rene Carmona Princeton University	Energy Trading: Mathematical Challenges slides
May 6	No Seminar IMA Workshop	Model Implementation, Algorithms and Software Issues
May 13	No Seminar IMA Hot Topics Workshop	Compatible Spatial Discretizations for Partial Differential Equations
May 20	Luis Roman Worcester Polytechnic Institute	A New Measure of Manager’s Performance Based on the “Stochastic Discount Factor”
May 27	No Seminar IMA Workshop	Financial Data Analysis and Applications

Fall Semester

Date	Speaker	Title
September 24	Fern Hunt NIST	Alignment of biological sequences using a Markov decision process
October 1	No seminar, IMA Workshop	Statistical Methods for Gene Expression: Microarrays and Proteomics
October 8	Michael Newton University of Wisconsin-Madison and IMA	Randomization test for array-based comparative genomic hybridization
October 15	Stephen Willson Iowa State University and IMA	Finding supertrees using distance methods Powerpoint slides
October 22	No seminar IMA Workshop	IMA/RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics
October 29	Shmuel Friedland University of Illinois at Chicago	Missing Value Estimation Methods for DNA Microarrays
November 5	No seminar, IMA Hot Topics Workshop	Agent Based Modeling and Simulation
November 12	Tom Kurtz University of Wisconsin-Madison	Infinite population models in population genetics
November 19	No seminar, IMA Workshop	Networks and the Population Dynamics of Disease Transmission