Stochastics in Finland, Helsinki 10.-11.1. 2002
and related events
Program
Thursday 10.1. 2002
Session I 10.15 - 12.00, room SI, Department of Mathematics
Chair: E. Valkeila
- 10.15 Opening
- 10.30 I. Norros (VTT) Most probable path techniques
for Gaussian queueing systems.
- 11.00 S. Aalto (TKK) Teletraffic analysis of
multicast networks.
- 11.30 N. Carlsson (ÅA)
Asymptotic properties
of a simple TCP model.
Lunch 12 - 13
Session II 13 - 14.30, room SI, Department of
Mathematics
Chair: A. Kupiainen
- 13.00 L. Holmström (RNI) Data prebinning as a computational
speed-up in kernel estimation of functions.
- 13.30 D. Gasbarra (RNI) Particle filters for counting
process observations
- 14.00 P. Koistinen (RNI) Using local linear ridge regression
in forest remote sensing.
Coffee break 14.30 - 15.00
Session III 15.00 -17.15, room SI, Department of Mathematics
Chair: L. Holmström
- 15.00 V. Hakulinen (HY) Passive advection for pedestrians.
- 15.30 P. Salminen (ÅA) On some topics from the
theory of Brownian motion.
- 16.00 Break.
- 16.15 A. Schenkel (HY) Thermal conduction in
finite anharmonic chains.
- 16.45 A. Kupianen (HY) Motion in a rough random vectorfield.
Dinner: restaurant Via.
Friday 11.1. 2002
Session IV, 9.30 - 12.00, room SI, Department of Mathematics
Chair: P. Salminen
- 9.30 E. Valkeila (HY)
On information quantities in filtered
experiments.
- 10.00 P. Piiroinen (OY) On the comparison of
statistical measurements.
- 10.30 Coffee break.
- 11.00 L. H. R. Alvarez (TuKKK) Optimal
rotation and stochastic forest
growth.
- 11.30 G. Högnäs (ÅA) Competition between
two stochastic Ricker populations (joint work with H. Fagerholm and
M. Gyllenberg).
Lunch 12- 13.
Session V 13.00- 14.30, room SI, Department of Mathematics
Chair: I. Norros
- 13.00 S. Geiss (JY) On the complexity of martingales in
Stochastic Analysis.
- 13.30 E. Saksman (TaTKK) On adaptive MCMC.
- 14.00 M. Gyllenberg (TY) Probabilistic models for bacterial taxonomy.
Accommodation
The participants are asked to find the accommodation by
themselves.
The workshop is organized by A. Kupiainen
Antti.Kupiainen@Helsinki.Fi and
E. Valkeila
Esko.Valkeila@Helsinki.Fi .
Timetable for the lectures:
- Monday 14.1. 10 - 12 lecture room SIII
- Tuesady 15.1. 10 - 12 SIII and 13 - 15 SIII
- Wednesday 16.1. 10 - 12 SIII and 14 - 16 lecture room of Rolf
Nevanlinna Institute
- Thursday 17.1. 10 - 12 P722 (Porthania building)
All lectures, except the last at Yliopistonkatu 5.
More information: E. Valkeila
Esko.Valkeila@Helsinki.Fi .
An afternoon with large deviations 14.1. 2002
Department of Mathematics, University of Helsinki Yliopistonkatu 5,
lecture room SI (4th floor)
Program
- 13.00 - 14.00 Jeffrey Collamore (ETH, Zuerich)
Multidimensional risk processes and large
deviations.
- 14.15 - 15.00 Esa Nummelin (University of Helsinki)
Large deviations of random equilibrium
prices.
- 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
- 15.30 - 16.15 Harri Nyrhinen (University of Helsinki)
On the upper bounds in the Gärtner-Ellis
theorem.
For more information, please contact
Esa Nummelin
esa.nummelin@helsinki.fi or Harri Nyrhinen
harri.nyrhinen@helsinki.fi
.
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