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PROBABILITY SEMINARS Seminars: 2009-10; 2008-09; 2007-08; 2005-06; earlier. Seminar coordinator (2005-2008): Takis Konstantopoulos. Friday 20 June 2008 Heriot-Watt University Room CM-T01 3:15-4:15 pm Ari Arapostathis (University of Texas at Austin) Uniform stability of controlled Markov processes and applications Friday 20 June 2008 Heriot-Watt University Room CM-T01 2:15-3:15 pm Mokshay Madiman (Yale University) Information inequalities for joint distributions, with interpretations and applications Notes from the Lecture Friday 30 May 2008 University of Edinburgh Seminar Room 5215, JCMB, The King's Buildings 4:00-5:00 pm Ben Hambly (University Oxford) Local limit theorems for simple random walks on sequences of graphs (Part of the North British Probability Seminar) Friday 23 May 2008 Heriot-Watt University Room CM-G01 3:15-4:15 pm Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford) Behaviour near the extinction time in stable fragmentation processes Friday 16 May 2008 Heriot-Watt University Room CM-T01 4:15-5:15 pm Juan Carlos Pardo Millan (Univ. Paris VI) Positive self-similar Markov processes Friday 25 April 2008 Heriot-Watt University Room CM-T01 4:15-5:15 pm Alexei Piunovskiy (University of Liverpool) Fluid approximation of birth-and-death processes Friday 14 March 2008 University of Edinburgh Seminar Room 7.20 (Michael Swann Building, The King's Buildings) 4:00-5:00 pm Terry Lyons (University Oxford) Old work of Krylov and new uses for Ito's map Wednesday 5 December 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 2:15-3:15 pm Ron Doney (University of Manchester) The Reflected Process of a Random Walk or Levy Process Notes from the Lecture Friday 30 November 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 3:15-4:15 pm Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) The British Option Friday 23 November 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 3:15-4:15 pm Nikita Vvedenskaya (IPPI, Moscow) Differential Equations Arising in Network Problems Wednesday 14 November 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 3:15-4:15 pm Nikolai Leonenko (University of Cardiff) Multifractality of products of geometric Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type processes Wednesday 24 October 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 3:15-4:15 pm Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Combinatorial and stochastic approaches in phylogenetics Friday 12 October 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 3:15-4:15 pm Stephen Connor (University of Warwick) Couling: Co-adapted vs. maximal Friday 27 July 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMT01 2:15-3:15 pm Florin Avram (University of Pau, France) Talk Friday 29 June 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMS01 4:15-5:15 pm Vladimir Rykov (Moscow) Queueing networks with transparent calls Friday 15 June 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 4:15-5:15 pm Thomas Liniger (ETH Zurich) Multivariate Hawkes processes and applications Friday 15 June 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 3:15-4:15 pm Vassili Kolokoltsov (Warwick University) Fractional dynamics and continuous time random walks Jointly with Heriot-Watt Mathematics Colloquium Friday 18 May 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMG01 3:15-4:15 pm Peter Mörters (Bath University) Intersections of random walks in supercritical dimensions Tuesday 1 May 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMT01 2:15-3:15 pm Alexander Veretennikov (Leeds University) On Doeblin-Doob and other mixing conditions for Markov processes Friday 27 April 2007 Heriot-Watt University Room CMT01 4:15-5:15 pm Moez Draief (Imperial College, London) Threshold for virus spread on networks