AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:04

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday May 21, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, I
Room 202A, DuSable Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  Branching processes in varying environments.
  Russell Lyons*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (882-60-76)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Regular conditional probabilities and a linear birth-death predator-prey process.
  John Coffey*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
  (882-60-09)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Limiting behavior of the connectivity function of oriented percolation with long range.
  Bao Nguyen*, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Wei-Shih Yang, Temple University
  (882-60-05)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Operator valued weight functions on the torus: Factorization and invariant subspaces.
  Ray Cheng*, University of Louisville
  (882-60-03)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Stochastic modeling of seismic records based on deterministic formulations.
  G. R. Dargahi-Noubary*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
  (882-60-13)
- 5:30 p.m.
  AR cyclostationary processes and period uncertainty.
  Peter J. Sherman*, Iowa State University
  (882-60-148)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Stochastic analysis for measuring income inequality and poverty.
  Ibrahim A. Ahmad*, Northern Illinois University
  (882-60-92)

Saturday May 22, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, II
Room 202A, DuSable Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Poisson and Poisson process approximations for random tournaments.
  Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Technological University
  Jinghua Qian, Michigan Technological University
  (882-60-32)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Necessary and sufficient conditions for L^p convergence of sums of independent random variables.
  Nasrollah Etemadi*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (882-60-70)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Empirical distribution functions and strong approximation theorems for dependent random variables.
  Walter Philipp*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (882-60-26)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Differential geometrical structures related to forecasting error variance ratios.
  Daming Xu*, University of Oregon
  (882-60-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lyanpunov exponent of the stochastic harmonic oscillator.
  Mark Pinsky*, Northwestern University
  (882-60-14)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Random walks on the free groups and homogeneous trees.
  Steven P. Lalley*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (882-60-97)

Saturday May 22, 1993, 1:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, III
Room 202A, DuSable Hall
- 1:30 p.m.
  On the completeness of the spectral domain for harmonizable processes.
  Abol G. Miamee, Hampton University
  Bernd S. W. Schr\"oder*, Hampton University
  (882-28-69)
- 2:00 p.m.
  An example of a periodically correlated sequence whose spectral domain is not complete.
  A. Makagon*, Michigan State University
  H. Salehi, Michigan State University
  (882-60-81)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Prediction and moving average representation for strongly harmonizable processes.
  Marc H. Mehlman*, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
  (882-60-143)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Inference for heavy tailed distributions.
  K. B. Athreya, Iowa State University
  S. N. Lahiri, Iowa State University
  Wei Wu*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (882-60-23)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Random polynomials.
  K. Farahmand*, University of Ulster, Nothern Ireland
  (882-60-02)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Alan Turing and the central limit theorem.
  Sandy Zabell*, Northwestern University
  (882-01-177)

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