Large Deviations

Large Deviations

Theory and Applications of
Large Deviation Statistics
June 4-8, 2007
335 West Hall, University of Michigan
1085 S.University Ave, Ann Arbor MI 48109
The Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics

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List of Talks and Times
(06/04/07)

		June 4, 2007 (Monday)
8:45 AM		Opening Remarks
9:00 AM	Mark Freidlin	Metastability and Stochastic Resonance in Multiscale Systems
9:45 AM		Coffee Break
10:15 AM	Daniel Stein	Large Fluctuations, Classical Activation, Quantum Tunneling, and Phase Transitions
11:15 AM	Michael Woodroofe	Law of the Iterated Logarithm For Stationary Processes
12:00 PM		Lunch
2:00 PM	Jin Feng	Large deviation and variational problems
3:00 PM	Maria G. Reznikoff	Limiting regimes of action minimization
3:45 PM		Coffee Break


		June 5, 2007 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM	Mark Dykman	Critical Exponents in Activated Escape of Nonequilibrium Systems
9:45 AM		Coffee Break
10:15 AM	Alex Kamenev	Rare Events and Phase Transitions in Reaction-diffusion Systems
11:15 AM	Eric Vanden-Eijnden	The Minimum Action Method or How to exploit Freidlin Wentzell theory of Large Deviations to do Computations?
12:00 PM		Lunch
2:00 PM	Sid Redner	On the Role of Global Warming on the Statistics of Record-Breaking Temperatures
3:00 PM	Raluca Balan	The Stochastic Heat Equation Driven by Markov Property
3:45 PM		Coffee Break


		June 6, 2007 (Wednesday)
9:00 AM	Tim Newman	Strong Fluctuations in Extinction and Population Cycles
9:45 AM		Coffee Break
10:15 AM	Baruch Meerson	Spectral Theory of Large Deviations in Birth-Death Systems
11:15 AM	Sam Kou	Fractional Gaussian Noise, Subdiffusion and Stochastic Networks in Biophysics
12:00 PM		Lunch
		Afternoon: Excursion


		June 7, 2007 (Thursday)
9:00 AM	Daniel ben-Avraham	Rare Events Statistics of Random Walkers on the Line
9:45 AM		Coffee Break
10:15 AM	Håkan Andersson	Applications of Large Deviations Techniques in Credit Risk Modeling
11:15 AM	Eli Ben-Naim	Randomness in Competitions
12:00 PM		Lunch
2:00 PM	David A. Kessler	The SIR Infection Model as a Time-Dependent Random Walk
3:00 PM	Ingemar Nasell	Persistence in Population Biology Models
3:45 PM		Coffee Break

6:30 PM		Banquet

		June 8, 2007 (Friday)
9:00 AM	Alexander Wentzell	Limit theorems with asymptotic expansions for stochastic processes.
9:45 AM		Coffee Break
10:15 AM	Sergey Lototsky	LDP for SPDEs: a Martingale Approach
11:15 AM	Eric Gautier	Two Applications of Large Deviations to Random Perturbations of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves
12:15 PM	Robert Keener	Random Walks Conditioned to Stay Positive

		Conference Concludes

Greenfield Village Trip
Wednesday, June 6,
following the
afternoon session

Banquet Information
June 7th 6:30 PM

Organizing Committee

Anna Amirdjanova,
Department of Statistics,
University of Michigan

Charlie Doering,
Departments of Mathematics and
Physics & MCTP
University of Michigan

Len Sander,
Department of Physics
& MCTP
University of Michigan

List of Talks and Times (06/04/07)

List of Talks and Times
(06/04/07)