| Date | Speaker-Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| August 30 |
Stochastic Markov evolutions in continuum Elena Zhizhina Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Moscow, Russia) |
We establish a link between spin-flip dynamics on the lattice
and Markov evolutions in continuum. Then we describe birth-and-death stochastic continuous processes (contact, voter, multi-type models), present results and discuss open problems. |
| September 13 |
The old Riccati map and RMT B. Rider Dept. of Math., CU Boulder |
We prove a recent conjecture of Edelman and Sutton that the Tracy-Widom laws
of Random Matrix Theory coincide with the distribution of the ground state eigenvalue of a certain (random) 1-d Schrödinger operator. Then, by Riccati, we provide a new description of the Tracy-Widom laws in terms of the explosion probability for a diffusion of type Brownian Motion plus drift. |