Joint Applied Math and Probability Seminar
Winter Quarter 2004
Friday, 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner, Building 380, Room 380-C
Organized by Amir Dembo and Doron Levy

January 9	Tai-Ping Liu Stanford University	Some aspects of Boltzmann equations
January 15 Dept.Colloq. Room 380-W 4:15pm	Mitchell Luskin U. of Minnesota	Mathematical and Computational Models for Structural Phase Transformation, Metastabilty, and Microstructure
January 16	Ioana Dumitriu UC Berkeley	Global Spectrum Fluctuations for the Beta-Hermite and Beta-Laguerre Ensembles
January 21 2:30pm Room 383-N	Richard Kenyon Paris Sud (Analysis Seminar)	Dimers and Amoebae
January 23	Yingyu Ye MS&E, Stanford University	Ad hoc wireless sensor network localization and other Euclidean geometry problems
January 30	Alexander Elgart Stanford University	An Adiabatic Theorem of Quantum Mechanics and its Applications
February 6	Serban Nacu UC Berkeley	Fast Simulation of New Coins From Old
February 9 Time: 4:15pm Sequoia 200	Ken McLaughlin UNC Chapel-Hill	Random Matrices, Random Tilings, and Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials
February 13	Cedric Villani ENS, Lyon	Recent Trends in Optimal Transportation
February 20	Roger Lee Stanford University	Robust Replication of Volatility Derivatives
February 23 Time: 4:15pm Sequoia 200	Shmuel Friedland University of Illinois, Chicago	Probabilistic and Deterministic Methods to Compute the Monomer-Dimer Entropies
February 27	Elchanan Mossel UC Berkeley	Sensitivity of Voting and Coin Tossing Schemes
March 5	Franz Merkl University of Leiden and UCLA	Edge-Reinforced Random Walks
March 12	Jonathan Goodman Courant Institute, NYU	Time Stepping Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations

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