Eindhoven SPOR Seminar

2020

The Stochastics and Combinatorics groups will be joined together to form SPOR. Under this name this seminar series will continue with speakers from all research areas within this "cluster".

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Sep 29	Laura Sanità
Sep 15	Zsolt Bartha
Sep 15	Elisa Perrone

March 2020: the STO-seminar programme has been discontinued due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Feb 26	Rob van der Mei (CWI - VU)
Feb 4	Jim Portegies (TU Eindhoven)
Jan 16	Seva Shneer (Heriot-Watt University)

2019

Dec 16	Gianmarco Bet (University of Florence) Weighted Dyck paths for non stationary queues
Dec 3	Kay Bogerd (TU Eindhoven) Detecting small communities in inhomogeneous random graphs
Nov 28	Johannes Schmidt-Hieber (UTwente) Towards a statistical foundation of deep learning
Nov 12	Tim Hulsof (TU Eindhoven) t.b.a.
Oct 24	Joost Jorritsma (TU Eindhoven) Typical weighted distance in preferential attachment models - Interpolating small and mini worlds
Oct 8	Albert Senén Cerdà ; Pim van der Hoorn; Martin Zubeldia (TU Eindhoven) New colleagues introducing themselves and their research
Sep 18	Corli van Zyl (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa) Signed sequential rank cumulative sum charts
Sep 12	Richard Post (Eindhoven University of Technology) Complex nanomaterials: a stochastic view
Feb 8	Siva Athreya (Indian Statistical Institute) Respondent Driven Sampling and Random Graph Convergence
Jan 24	Sam Thomas (Cambridge) Cutoff for Random Walk on Dynamical Erdos-Renyi
Jan 17	Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie University) Recognizing graphs formed by a spatial random process

2018

Dec 12	Ziv Scully (Carnegie Mellon University) SOAP: One Clean Analysis of All Age-Based Scheduling Policies
Dec 11	Stefan Klootwijk (University of Twente) On Random Shortest Path Metrics
Oct 5	Andreas Kyprianou (University of Bath) Some strange results in fragmentation-coalescence models
Oct 5	Joris Mulder (Tilburg University) The Matrix-F Prior for Estimating and Testing Covariance Matrices
Aug 27	Nicolas Broutin (Sorbonne Université) Fragmentations and tree-like fractals: a functional fixed-point approach
Aug 27	David Goldberg (Cornell University) Beating the curse of dimensionality in options pricing and optimal stopping
Aug 27	Lutz Warnke (Georgia Institute of Technology) A dynamic view on the probabilistic method: random graph processes
Aug 10	Yoshiaki Inoue (Osaka University, Dept. of Information and Communications Technology) Sample-Path Analysis of the Age of Information (AoI) and Its Applications to FCFS Single-Server Queues
June 8	Santiago Duran (CNRS, LAAS & Universite de Toulouse) Asymptotic Optimal Control of Markov-Modulated Restless Bandits
June 5	Ambedkar Dukkipati (Indian Institute of Science) Spectral graph algorithms for community detection in networks: Statistical Analysis and Consistency
May 24	Adelle Coster (UNSW Sydney) Mathematical Modelling of Insulin Regulation in Glucose Transport
May 23	Botond Szabo (Universiteit Leiden) Bayesian nonparametric approach to log-concave density estimation
May 15	Chang-Han Rhee (CWI) On Heavy-Tailed Rare-Event Analysis
May 8	Yutaka Sakuma (National Defense Academy) An arrival distribution for the equilibrium expected waiting time in a discrete-time single-server queue with acceptance period and Poisson population of customers
Apr 25	Zhuozhao Zhan (Eindhoven University of Technology) Optimal Unidirectional Switch Design
Apr 24	Frits Spieksma (Eindhoven University of Technology) Robust Balanced Optimization Problems
Apr 4	Eyal Castiel (Toulouse Mathematical Institute (IMT) and ISAE) Queuing Networks and separation of time scales using Log-Sobolev inequality
Mar 28	Liudmila Prokhorenkova (Yandex) Community detection through likelihood optimization: in search of a sound model
Mar 21	Céline Comte (Nokia Bell Labs France and Telecom ParisTech) Performance of Balanced Fairness in Resource Pools: A Recursive Approach
Feb 1	Benny van Houdt (Universiteit Antwerpen) On the Response Time Distribution of a Class of Limited Processor Sharing Queues
Feb 1	Nicolas Gast (INRIA & University of Grenoble Alpes) A Refined Mean Field Approximation

2017

Dec 6	Nelly Litvak (University of Twente, TU/e) Who needs mathematics: talking maths to a general public
Oct 11	Hermann Þórisson (University of Iceland) Palm Versions and Extra Heads
June 21	Jan Nagel (TU/e) The speed of biased random walk among random conductances
Jun 1	Ron Kenett (University of Turin) On the Performance of Sequential Procedures for Detecting a Change, and Information Quality (InfoQ)
May 18	Galit Yom-Tov (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) An Invitation Control Policy for Proactive Service Systems: Balancing Efficiency, Value and Service Level
Feb 15	Paulo Serra (TU/e) Dimension Estimation using Random Connection Models

2016

Nov 30	Rob van den Berg (VU Amsterdam) Near-critical and frozen percolation
Oct 18	Rob J Hyndman (Monash University, Australia) Forecasting large collections of related time series
Sept 28	Tim Hulshof (TU/e) Higher order corrections for anisotropic bootstrap percolation
Sept 13	Gábor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) How to estimate the mean of a random variable?
Sept 13	Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin - Madison) How to estimate the mean of a random variable?
June 21	Alessandro Di Bucchianico (TU/e) Developments in Monitoring Dynamic Data
June 15	Alexandre Mauroy (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine) An operator-theoretic approach to network identification
May 11	Nikhil Bansal (TU/e) On the Komlos Conjecture, or, how to Control your Brownian Motion
Feb 23	Edwin van den Heuvel (TU/e) Randomized Controlled Trials: The Stepped Wedge Design
Feb 10	Christian Borgs (Microsoft Research New England) Graphon processes as a new model for large, sparse graphs
Jan 26	Miklós Telek Technical University of Budapest Markovian point, terminating and branching processes
Jan 20	Joachim Arts TU/e, IE&IS, OPAC group Repairable Stocking and Expediting in a Fluctuating Demand Environment: Optimal Policy and Heuristics

2015

Dec 16	Sándor Kolumbán (Technical University Eindhoven) Data perturbation methods for hypothesis testing in nonlinear estimation problems
Nov 24	Jan Ramon (INRIA-Lille and KU Leuven) Learning evolutionary models from a snapshot
Oct 14	Luca Avena (Leiden University) Random walks in Markovian environments: a perturbative approach
June 10	Jan-Pieter Dorsman (Leiden University) Analysis of fibre-loop optical buffers with a void-avoiding schedule
May 26	Phil Whiting (Macquarie University) Compute and Forward for Wireless Networks - Scheduling and Capacity in Heterogenous Networks
May 6	Botond Szabó (CWI and Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Adaptive horseshoe estimation
Apr 29	Balázs Ráth (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Multiplicative coalescent with linear deletion: a rigid representation
Apr 22	Elena Pulvirenti (Leiden) Metastability for the Widom-Rowlinson model
Mar 18	Rui Castro (TU/e) On adaptive sensing for inference of structured sparse signals
Mar 11	Carlo Lancia (University of Rome TorVergata) Parallel TASEP on a ring: blockage problem and non-analyticity of the current
Mar 4	Daniel Valesin (Groningen) Percolation on the stationary distribution of the voter model on Z^d
Feb 25	Stella Kapodistria (TU/e) Scheduling preventive maintenance on a wind turbine based on quantitative data
Feb 3	Martin Roth (KNMI and TU/e) Analysis of trends in extreme rainfall: A regional approach
Feb 3	Murtuza Ali Abidini (TU/e) Performance Analysis in Optical Networks
Jan 27	Laurens Smit (Leiden University) Explicit Solutions, Properties and Applications of DES and RES Markov processes
Jan 10	Tobias Muller (Utrecht University) A hyperbolic model for complex networks
Jan 6	Robert Fitzner (Stockholm Universiteit) Using Super-Resolution Microscopy to Probe Exchange Pathways (a joint venture of chemistry and mathematics)

Organizers

Rui M. Pires da Silva Castro Jaron Sanders Julia Komjáthy Youri Raaijmakers

 

 

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