Seminar information archive

2010/01/07

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:30-18:00   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Luc Rey-Bellet (Univ. Massachusetts)
Large deviations, Billiards, and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

GCOE Seminars

16:30-18:00   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
LucRey-Bellet (Univ. Massachusetts)
Large deviations, Billiards, and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
[ Abstract ]
Large deviations have applications in many aspects of statistical mechanics. New applications for the steady states of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics have emerged during the past ten years and these applications deal with the fluctuations of the entropy production. After discussing some general aspects of entropy production we turn to concrete examples, in particular billiards with and without external forces and discuss large deviations theorems for such systems.

2010/01/05

Tuesday Seminar on Topology

16:30-18:30   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

The volume growth of hyperkaehler manifolds of type $A_{\\infty}$
[ Abstract ]

Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis

16:30-18:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Alan Huckleberry (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Hyperbolicity of cycle spaces and automorphism groups of flag domains

Applied Analysis

16:00-17:30   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Hatem Zaag (CNRS / パリ北大学)
A Liouville theorem for a semilinear heat equation with no gradient structure
[ Abstract ]
We prove a Liouville Theorem for entire solutions of a vector
valued semilinear heat equation with no gradient structure. Classical tools such as the maximum principle or energy techniques break down and have to be replaced by a new approach. These tools involve a very good understanding of the dynamical system formulation of the equation in the selfsimilar setting. Using the Liouville Theorem, we derive uniform estimates for blow-up solutions of the same equation.

2009/12/16

Seminar on Probability and Statistics

15:00-16:10   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Stefano Maria Iacus (Department of Economics, Business and Statistics, University of Milan, Italy)
ecent results on volatility change point analysis for discretely sampled stochastic differential equations
[ Abstract ]
In this seminar we review recent advances on change point analysis for the volatility component of stochastic differential equations under different discrete sampling schemes. We consider both ergodic and high frequency and non ergodic cases. Results have been obtained by means of least squares, CUSUM tests and quasi-maximum likelihood approach. We show an application to the recent financial crisis and finally present a Monte Carlo study to compare the three methods under different setups.

Join work with Prof. Nakahiro Yoshida.
[ Reference URL ]
http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kengok/statseminar/2009/12.html

2009/12/15

Lie Groups and Representation Theory

17:00-18:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

Open Problems in Discrete Geometric Analysis
[ Abstract ]
Discrete geometric analysis is a hybrid field of several traditional disciplines: graph theory, geometry, theory of discrete groups, and probability. This field concerns solely analysis on graphs, a synonym of "1-dimensional cell complex". In this talk, I shall discuss several open problems related to the discrete Laplacian, a "protagonist" in discrete geometric analysis. Topics dealt with are 1. Ramanujan graphs, 2. Spectra of covering graphs, 3. Zeta functions of finitely generated groups.
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Tuesday Seminar on Topology

17:00-18:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

Open Problems in Discrete Geometric Analysis
[ Abstract ]
Discrete geometric analysis is a hybrid field of several traditional disciplines: graph theory, geometry, theory of discrete groups, and probability. This field concerns solely analysis on graphs, a synonym of "1-dimensional cell complex". In this talk, I shall discuss several open problems related to the discrete Laplacian, a "protagonist" in discrete geometric analysis. Topics dealt with are 1. Ramanujan graphs, 2. Spectra of covering graphs, 3. Zeta functions of finitely generated groups.

2009/12/14

Seminar on Probability and Statistics

14:00-15:10   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
L. VOSTRIKOVA (LAREMA, Departement de Mathematiques, Universite d’Angers, FRANCE)
On the stability of contingent claimes in incomplet models under statistical estimations.
[ Abstract ]
In exponential semi-martingale setting for risky asset we estimate the difference of prices of options when initial physical measure P and corresponding martingale measure Q change to tilde{P} and tilde{Q} respectively. Then, we estimate L1 distance of option’s prices for corresponding parametric models with known and estimated parameters. The results are applied to exponential Levy models with special choise of martingale measure as Esscher measure, minimal entropy measure and f^q -minimal martingale measure. We illustrate our results by considering GMY and CGMY models.
[ Reference URL ]
http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kengok/statseminar/2009/11.html

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

14:40-16:10   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Sergey Galkin (IPMU)
Invariants of Fano varieties via quantum D-module
[ Abstract ]
We will introduce and compute Apery characteristic
class and Frobenius genera - invariants of Fano variety derived from
it's Gromov-Witten invariants. Then we will show how to compute them
and relate with other invariants.

2009/12/11

Lecture Series on Mathematical Sciences in Soceity

16:20-17:50   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

2009/12/10

Lectures

10:40-12:10   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:30-18:00   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

Symmetric norms and spaces of operators modelled on a semifinite von Neumann algebra

2009/12/09

Lectures

14:40-16:10   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)