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In this talk, we'll use classic definitions from calculus of real variables to motivate what it means to be a polynomial functor of degree n, the construction of the derivative of a functor and the basics of the `Taylor Series' of a functor as well...

It is a well-known property of Monte Carlo methods that quadrupling the sample size halves the error. In the case of simulations of a stochastic partial differential equations, this implies that the total work is the sample size times the...

Atmospheric dispersion refers to the transport of contaminants in the atmosphere under the influence of advection (due to the wind) and turbulent diffusion. When the contaminant is emitted from a stationary point source, then the governing advection...

The 2010 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Summer School in Probability will be held at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research from June 21 to July 10, 2010. The school will be devoted to training doctoral students...

We construct a supercritical interacting measure-valued diffusion with representative particles that interact with the center of mass by using the historical stochastic calculus of Perkins to modify a super Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. In doing so we...

Summer School The summer school will be a mix of theoretical and practical courses, which will be taught by ten world experts in the field. It will be organized in modules (2×3 hours of lectures) over 5 days. The range of topics that will be covered...

In joint work with Tom Salisbury, we study a class of random directed graphs on Z^d that includes site percolation and oriented percolation. Motivated by the study of random walks in these random environments, we focus on those models in two...

Probabilistic and decision-theoretic graphical models, such as Bayesian networks, provide compact yet powerful formalisms for building intelligent systems, known as agents in the field of artificial intelligence, that must function in partially...

The wave concept is arguably the most widely used single concept in all of physical science. It links together such diverse disciplines as geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, and physiology. The wave concept is one that unifies many...

The Summer School will feature three 10-Lecture Series: 1. The structure of nuclear C*-algebras (Brown and Toms) 2. KK-theory and the Baum-Connes conjecture (Emerson and Meyer) 3. C*-dynamical systems (Laca and Neshveyev)