#### Fall 2014 Brown Probability Seminar, Division of Applied Mathematics

Organizer: David Lipshutz. Click on a title to display the associated abstract. Non-standard seminar times and locations are emphasized in bold.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 1 p.m., Room 110:
Anastasios Matzavinos, Brown University.
Stochastic homogenization of the one-dimensional Keller-Segel chemotaxis system
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Marguerite Zani, Paris 12 Val de Marne University.
Large deviations for the clocks of some semistable processes
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
David Kaspar, Brown University.
Scalar conservation laws with Markov initial data
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Jin Feng
, Kansas University.
First order Hamilton-Jacobi equation in space of probability measures and applications
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Josh Reed, New York University.
Series expansions for the all-time maximum of $\alpha$-stable random walks
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Sandra Cerrai, University of Maryland, College Park.
Small noise asymptotics for the 2D-Navier Stokes equation perturbed by space-time white noise.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Yannis Pantazis
, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Parametric sensitivity analysis of complex stochastic models: an information-theoretic approach.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 11 a.m.:
Maury Bramson
, University of Minnesota.
Proportional switching in FIFO networks
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 3 p.m., Kassar 105:
Maury Bramson
, University of Minnesota.
Convergence of the maximum of 2-dimensional Gaussian free field and connections with branching Brownian motion
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 11 a.m., Barus and Holley 190:
David Gamarnik
, MIT.
Limits of local algorithms for randomly generated constraint satisfaction problems
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Mykhaylo Shkolnikov
, Princeton University.
Intertwinings, wave equations and beta ensembles.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Pierre Nyquist
, Brown University.
Min-max representations of viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations and applications in rare-event simulation
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 11 a.m., Room 110:
Panagiotis Souganidis, University of Chicago.
Pathwise solutions to scalar conservation laws with multiple spatially dependent rough fluxes.