Class meets every Wednesday from 9 to 11 AM in KAP 245 

Organizer: Sergey Lototsky.

Office: KAP 248D.

Phone: (213) 740-2389.

Office Hours: MF 8:30-10:00am.

Walk-ins and appointments at other time are welcome.

The objective this semester: To discuss current research projects and future plans of participating students.

Participating students: Hyun-Jung Kim, Shuang Li, Alperen Ozdemir, Jian Wang, Nathakhun Wiroonsri

Participating post-docs: James-Michael Leahy, Torstein Nilssen


What we did

  • January 13: Presentation by Torstein on the rough path transport equation with discontinuous drift.
  • January 20: Presentation by Hyun-Jung on the stochastic heat equation.
  • January 27: Presentation by Nathakhun on Stein’s method.
  • February 3: Presentation by James on non-linear filtering in discrete time.
  • February 10: Presentation by James on foundations of non-linear filtering in continuous time.
  • February 17: Presentation by Alperen on the longest increasing subsequence in different settings.
  • February 24: Presentation by James on foundations of non-linear filtering in continuous time (part II).
  • March 2: Presentation by James on jump processes and random measures.
  • March 9: Presentation by James on stochastic parabolic equations driven by jump processes.
  • March 16: Spring Break.
  • March 23: Short presentations by all the participants about the possible next step after graduation.
  • March 30: Presentation by Jian on parameter estimation in second-order autoregressions with dependent noise.
  • April 6: Presentation by Shuang on Monte Carlo methods.
  • April 13: Presentation by Nathakhun on normal approximation via Stein’s methods for statinary random fields.
  • April 20: Presentation by Alperen on the asymptotic distribution of the longest increasing subsequence in a random word.
  • April 27: A presentation about rough drivers, bounded (by Torstein) and unbounded (by James).