Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering, September 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004

IMA Events, September 1, 2003 through August 31, 2004

• 9/8/03 Course on "Theory and Applications of Random Matrices," Greg Anderson and Ofer. Zeitouni (University of Minnesota), 8:30-10 am, Lind Hall 409
  
  
• 9/11/03 Course on "Theory and Applications of Random Matrices," Greg Anderson and Ofer. Zeitouni (University of Minnesota), 1-2:30 pm, Lind Hall 409
  
  
• 9/12/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Robert Crone (Seagate Technology, Minneapolis, MN) Applied Mathematics and Disk Drive Design
  
  
• 9/15-19/03 Complex Systems Tutorial Week: Tools for Model and Data Integration in the Genome Sciences/Information Integration Technologies for Complex Systems
  
  
• 9/15/03 Public Lecture by Leroy Hood, After the Human Genome Project: Systems Biology and Predictive, Preventive and Personalized
  
  
• 9/23/03 IMA Postdocs Introductory Talks and Poster Session, EE/CS 3-180 (whole day event starting at 9:45 am). Contact Don Aronson, Director of Postdoctoral Programs for details)
  
  
• 9/26/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Dipak Chowdhury (Corning Inc, Corning, NY) Simulation of Extreme Events in Optical Communication System
  
  
• 9/29-10/03 Complex Systems Workshop 1: Statistical Methods for Gene Expression: Microarrays and Proteomics
  
  
• 10/7/03 Postdoc Seminar: Taerim Lee (Korea National Open University), Tree Structured Prognostic Model for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  
  
• 10/8/03 IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Lili Ju (IMA Postdoc), Numerical Simulations of the Quantized Vortices in a Thin Superconducting Hollow Sphere
  
  
• 10/8/03 Complex Systems Seminar 3:30 PM, Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin - Madison and IMA, will speak on Randomization test for array-based comparative genomic hybridization
  
  
• 10/9/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133.
  
  
• 10/10/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Indraneel Das (United Technology Research Center, Hartford, CT) Challenges in Industrial Optimization ... Technical or Otherwise
  
  
• 10/11-12/03 IMA Board of Governors Meeting, 4th floor, Lind Hall
  
  
• 10/14/03 Postdoc Seminar: Simon Morgan (Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota ), Applications of Geometric Measure Theory to Variational Problems with Surfaces
  
  
• 10/14/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133.
  
  
• 10/15/03, 12:00 noon IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Sabera Kazi (Honeywell), QOS-enabled MAC protocol for Wireless Networks of UAVS
  
  
• 10/15/03 Complex Systems Seminar 2:30 PM, Stephen Willson, Iowa State University and IMA, Finding Supertrees Using Distance Methods
  
  
• 10/16/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133.
  
  
• 10/17/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Dharmashankar Subramanian (Honeywell Labs, Minneapolis, MN) Mathematical Programming and Multiaircraft Conflict Resolution
  
  
• 10/20-24/03 Complex Systems Workshop 2: IMA/RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics
  
  
• 10/28/03 Postdoc Seminar: Mohammad Kazim Khan (Kent State University) On SPRT and CUSUM Procedures and Some Open Problems
  
  
• 10/28/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133.
  
  
• 10/29/03 IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Huiqiang Jiang (University of Minnesota) Singular Elliptic Equation in Thin Film Rupture)
  
  
• 10/29/03 Complex Systems Seminar 3:30 PM, Shmuel Friedland (University of Illinois at Chicago) Missing Value Estimation Methods for DNA Microarrays
  
  
• 10/30/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133.
  
  
• 10/31/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Nikos Paragios (Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, NJ) Variational Methods, Implicit Representation & Visual Grouping
  
  
• 11/3-6/03 "Hot Topics" Workshop: Agent Based Modeling and Simulation
  
  
• 11/11/03 Postdoc Seminar: Thomas G. Kurtz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  Introduction to Martingale Problems (Note : A follow up talk will be on November 12 in the Complex System Seminar)
  
  
• 11/11/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133.
  
  
• 11/12/03 IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Tim Garoni (IMA Postdoc) Impenetrable Bosons, Random Matrix Averages and Log-Gases
  
  
• 11/12/03 Complex Systems Seminar 2:30 PM, Thomas G. Kurtz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Infinite Population Models in Population Genetics
  
  
• 11/13/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133.
  
  
• 11/17-21/03 Complex Systems Workshop 3: Networks and the Population Dynamics of Disease Transmission
  
  
• 11/18/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133 12:45-2:15 pm
  
  
• 11/20/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133 12:45-2:15 pm
  
  
• 11/20/03 IMA Public Lecture: Richard A. Tapia, Math at Top Speed: Breaking Myths in the Drag Racing Folklore
  
  
• 11/25/03 Postdoc Seminar: Karen Ball (IMA Postdoc), Factors of Processes on Groups and Graphs
  
  
• 11/25/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133 12:45-2:15 pm
  
  
• 11/26/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Antar Bandyopadhyay (IMA Postdoc), Frozen Percolation Process: What Are Known and What Are Not Known , 12:00 noon
  
  
• 12/2/03 Postdoc Seminar: Amir Niknejad (University of Chicago, visiting IMA), Missing Data Imputation for Gene Expression Arrays: An Algebraic Approach
  
  
• 12/2/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133 12:45-2:15 pm
  
  
• 12/4/03 Random Matrices, G. Anderson and O. Zeitouni, This course (Math 8660) meets in Physics 133 12:45-2:15 pm
  
  
• 12/5/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Thomas Hoffend (3M, St Paul, MN) Characterization, Modeling, and Donor Media Design for a Laser-Induced Thermal Imaging Process
  
  
• 12/9/03 Postdoc Seminar: Soohan Ahn (Seoul National University (SRCCS), Visiting IMA), Transient Analysis of Fluid Flow Models via Stochastic Coupling to a Queue
  
  
• 12/10/03 Complex Systems Seminar 2:30 PM,  Michael A. Newton (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Topics in the Theory and Practice of Juggling
  
  
• 12/12/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Scott Shald (Coherent Technologies, Inc. Littleton, CO). Modeling of a Natural Gas Pipeline Leak Sensor
  
  
• 1/7-9/04 Complex Systems Short Course: The Internet for Mathematicians
  
  
• 1/7/04 IMA Public Lecture: Steven H. Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
  
  
• 1/11/04 Complex Systems Tutorial: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis of the Internet
  
  
• 1/12-16/04 Complex Systems Workshop 4: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis of the Internet
  
  
• 1/20/04 Postdoc Seminar: Gerard Awanou (IMA Postdoc), Trivariate Spline Approximations of 3D Navier-Stokes Equations
  
  
• 1/20/04 Random Matrices, O. Zeitouni, Large deviations and stochastic calculus for random matrices, I, 12:45 Vincent Hall 203B
  
  
• 1/20/04 BOG teleconference at 2:00 pm CST
  
  
• 1/21/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Steen Moeller (University of Minnesota), Parallel Imaging in MRI/fMRI at 7T
  
  
• 1/22/04, Thursday, 1:30 pm Complex Systems Seminar, Hui Wang (Brown University), Importance Sampling, Large Deviations, and Differential Games
  
  
• 1/23/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Edward Keyes (Orisar / Semiconductor Insights) Open Algorithmical Problems in the Analysis of Integrated Circuits
  
  
• 1/27/04 Postdoc Seminar: Olga Brezhneva (IMA Postdoc), Modified Methods for Nonlinear Optimization and Complementarity Problems in the Absence of Strict Complementarity
  
  
• 1/29/04, Thursday, 1:30 pm Complex Systems Seminar, Maury Bramson (University of Minnesota), Application of Fluid Models to Recurrence and Central Limit Theorems of Queueing Networks
  
  
• 1/30/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Dan Wack (KLA-Tencor) Application of Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering to Critical Dimension Measurement and Control in Semiconductor Production
  
  
• 2/3/04 Postdoc Seminar: Greg Rempala (University of Louisville, visiting IMA), Bootstrapping Parametric Models of Mortality
  
  
• 2/4/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Shmuel Friedland (University of Illinois - Chicago/IMA), Singular Value Decomposition in Inner Product Spaces with Applications to DNA Microarrays
  
  
• 2/5/04 Complex Systems Seminar, Wanyang Dai (Nanjing University), On the Existence and Non-Sample Estimation of Stationary Densities of Semimartingale Reflecting Brownian Motions
  
  
• 2/8/04 Complex Systems Tutorial: Robustness and the Internet: Design, Evolution, and Theoretical Foundations
  
  
• 2/9-13/04 Complex Systems Workshop 5: Robustness in Complex Systems
  
  
• 2/17/04 Joint IMA Postdoc/Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: 11:15-12:15, Lili Ju (IMA Postdoc) Finite Volume Method on Spherical Voronoi Meshes
  
  
• 2/17/04 Joint IMA Postdoc/Random Matrices Seminar, Vincent Hall 570: 12:45-1:15, Tim Garoni IMA Postdoc), Absolute Moments of Products of Characteristic Polynomials, and Impenetrable Bosons - I
  
  
• 2/19/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota), Understanding and Limiting BGP Instabilities
  
  
• 2/20/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: William H. Frey (General Motors Research and Development Center), Modeling Buckled Developable Surfaces for Binder Design in Sheet Metal Forming
  
  
• 2/24/04 Joint IMA Postdoc/Random Matrices Seminar, Vincent Hall 570: 12:45-1:15, Tim Garoni IMA Postdoc), Absolute Moments of Products of Characteristic Polynomials, and Impenetrable Bosons - II
  
  
• 2/25/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar: Julien Bremont (CMLA, ENS Cachan), Maximizing Measures and Related Questions, 12:00 noon
  
  
• 2/26/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, Jacek Wesolowski (Warsaw Technical University), Conditional Moments of q-Meixner Processes
  
  
• 2/27/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Darek Madej (Symbol Technologies dmadej@symbol.com http://www.symbol.com), Matching Wavelets to Signals. Speckle Noise Filtering in a Laser Bar Code Scanner
  
  
• 3/4/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, Ilze Ziedins (University of Auckland), Multicasting and phase transitions in tree loss networks
  
  
• 3/5/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Curt Flory (Agilent Technologies), Intuitive Understanding of Grating-Coupled Radiation Using Green's Function Methods
  
• 3/7/04 Complex Systems Tutorial: Control and Pricing in Communication and Power Networks
  
  
• 3/8-13/04 Complex Systems Workshop 6: Control and Pricing in Communication and Power Networks
  
  
• 3/16/04 Postdoc Seminar: Ilze Ziedins (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Optimal Routing in Parallel Tandem Queues with Loss
  
  
• 3/16-18/04 Thomas G. Kurtz Special Lectures: Infinite dimensional semimartingales and convergence of stochastic integrals, Tuesday (March 16) 1:30 - 2:30; Wednesday (March 17) : 1:30 - 2:30; Thursday (March 18) : 11:00 - 12:00. All talks will be at 409 Lind Hall
  
  
• 3/18/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, David McDonald (University of Ottawa), Mean Field Convergence of a rate model of multiple TCP connections through a buffer implementing RED
  
  
• 3/23/04 Postdoc Seminar: Noam Berger (California Institute of Technology) Non-uniqueness for Specifications in 1²⁺
  
  
• 3/24/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00 Chuan-Hsiang Han, IMA Variance Reduction for Monte Carlo Methods to Evaluate Option Prices Under Multi-Factor Stochastic Volatility Models
  
  
• 3/25/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, Arkady Khodursky (University of Minnesota)
  Title TBA
  
  
• 3/26/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Ilya Kolmanovsky (Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company), Parameter Governors for Constrained Nonlinear Systems
  
  
• 3/29-4/2/04 Complex Systems Short Course: Tools for Modeling and Data Analysis in Finance/Asset Pricing
  
  
• 3/30/04 IMA Public Lecture: Stephen Ross, Behavioral Finance - The Closed End Fund Puzzle
  
  
• 4/2/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Richard Derrig (President, OPAL Consulting LLC, Visiting Scholar, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
  Mathematical Models for Insurance Fraud Detection
  
  
• 4/6/04 Postdoc Seminar: Peter Bank (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) , American Options, Finite-Fuel Problems, and the Multi-Armed Bandit
  
  
• 4/8/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, Greg Rempala (University of Louisville and IMA), Incomplete U-Statistics, Random Permanents and Beyond
  
  
• 4/9/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: William Morokoff (KMV LLC), Modeling and Computational Challenges in Measuring Portfolio Credit Risk
  
  
• 4/12-16/04 Complex Systems Workshop 7: Risk Management and Model Specifications Issues in Finance
  
  
• 4/20/04 Postdoc Seminar: Yuhong Yang (Iowa State University), Multi-armed Bandits with Covariates
  
  
• 4/21/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00, Peter Tankov, Ecole Polytechnique Multidimensional Models with Jumps for Finance and Insurance
  
  
• 4/26-27/04 "Hot Topics" Workshop: Enhancing the Search of Mathematics
  
  
• 4/28/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00, Hans Foellmer and Peter Bank (Humboldt University) Comments on El Karoui' s Max-Plus decomposition of supermartingales
  
  
• 4/29/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, Rene Carmona (Princeton University), Energy Trading: Mathematical Challenges
  
  
• 4/30/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Apo Sezginer (Invarium Inc.), How to Fit 100-Millon Transistors on a Thumbnail
  
  
• 5/3-7/04 Complex Systems Workshop 8: Model Implementation, Algorithms and Software Issues
  
  
• 5/11-15/04 "Hot Topics" Workshop: Compatible Spatial Discretizations for Partial Differential Equations
  
  
• 5/12/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00, Ulrich Horst (Humboldt University of Berlin), Equilibria in Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Agents
  
  
• 5/17-21/04 Participating Institution Conference: Mathematical Modeling in Cardiovascular Mechanics, Texas A&M
  
  
• 5/18/04 Postdoc Seminar: Scot Adams (IMA Associate Director)
  
  
• 5/19/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00, Srdjan Stojanovic (University of Cincinnati), Optimal Portfolio Series Formula under Dynamic Appreciation Rate Uncertainty
  
  
• 5/20/04 Complex Systems Seminar, 1:30 pm, Luis Roman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), A New Measure of Managers Performance Based on the "Stochastic Discount Factor"
  
  
• 5/24-28/04 Complex Systems Workshop 9: Financial Data Analysis and Applications
  
  
• 6/2/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00, Jun Zhao (IMA), Overlapping Schwarz Methods for Maxwell Equations
  
  
• 6/7-18/04 2004 Summer Program: n-Categories: Foundations and Applications
  
  
• 6/7-27/04 2004 IMA PI Summer Program for Graduate Students: Coding and Cryptography
  
  
• 6/9/04 IMA Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00, Gerard Awanou (IMA), Shortfall Risk Minimization in the Presence of Inside Information
  
  
• 6/27-30/04 "Hot Topics" Workshop: Adaptive Sensing and Multimode Data Inversion
  
  
• 7/6-16/04 New Directions Short Course: Computational Topology
  
  
• 7/24/04 IMA Participating Institutions Council and IMA Industrial Advisory Board Members Meeting, 9:15 AM in 305 Lind Hall
  
  
• 8/9-18/04 Mathematical Modeling in Industry - A Workshop for Graduate Student

 

Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering, September 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004

IMA Calendar of Events