| Friday, May 7 |
9:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Dr. Stanislaw Kwapien
"Decoupling as a way of proving theorems for dependent
random variables via theorems for independent random
variables" |
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11:00 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
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11:15 - 11:45 |
Dr. Anand Vidyashankar, University of Georgia
"Almost Sure Central Limit Theorem for Branching Processes" |
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11:45 - 12:15 |
Dr. Broderick Oluyede, University of Georgia
"Some General Notions of Variability Ordering with Applications" |
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12:15 - 2:00 |
Lunch |
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2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. Philip Heidelberger, IBM , T.J. Watson Research
Center,
"Application of Rare Event Simulation Techniques
to Problems in Computational Finance" |
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3:00 - 3:15 |
Break |
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3:15 - 3:45 |
Dr. David McDonald, University of Ottawa
"Cell Loss Probability for M|G|1 and Time-Slotted
Queues" |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
Dr. Isaac Sonin, University of North Carolina
"The Elimination Algorithm for the Problem of Optimal
Stopping" |
| |
4:15 - 4:45 |
Dr. Dai Wang, Emory University
"Estimation of Mutation Rate during Error-prone Polymerase
Chain Reaction" |
| |
6:00 - 8:00 |
Bufet - MARC Atrium |
| Saturday, May 8 |
9:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
| |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Dr. Stanislaw Kwapien
"One Step Method of Proving Probabilistic Inequalities" |
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11:00 - 11:15 |
Break |
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11:15 - 11:45 |
Dr. Robert L. Taylor, University of Georgia
"A Strong Law of Large Numbers for Arrays of Rowwise
Negatively Dependent Random Variables" |
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11:45 - 2:15 |
Dr. Alexander Gordon, University of North Carolina
"Central Limit Theorem for Random Walk on the Circle" |
| |
12:15 - 2:00 |
Lunch |
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2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. Philip Heidelberger, IBM , T.J. Watson Research
Center, "VARiance Reduction Techniques" |
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3:00 - 3:15 |
Break |
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3:15 - 3:45 |
Dr. Tomasz J. Kozubowski, University of Tennessee
"Asymmetric Laplace Laws and modeling financial data" |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
Dr. Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Tech
"Selforganization and Propagation in Random Media
(when space and time exchange places)" |