Seminars 2004
The University of Queensland

General  

Periodically we hold a special series of seminars highlighting research done by MASCOS Qld research staff and students. Topics range from mathematical modelling in ecology, genetics and finance, to theoretical stochastic processes and ergodic theory

Venue  

2004 seminars took place in Room 641 of the Priestley (Mathematics) Building (67-641) on Fridays at 10:00am

Schedule  

Aug	20	Phil Pollett	Path integrals for continuous-time Markov chains [talk]
	27	Ben Cairns*	Extinction in metapopulations with environmental stochasticity driven by catastrophes [talk]
Sep	03	Olena Kravchuk	Brownian Bridge, the Cramer-von Mises test and the trigonometric score rank test of location [talk]
	10	Hanjun Zhang	The decay parameter and the smallest Dirichlet eigenvalue of a birth-death process [talk]
	17	Mark Seeto	The Collision Branching Process and related problems
	24	David Sirl	Quasi-stationary distributions for continuous-time Markov chains [talk]
Oct	08	Joshua Ross*	Diffusion approximation for a metapopulation model with habitat dynamics [talk]
	15	Antony Stace*	The Volume Weighted Average Option [talk]
	22	Martin O'Hely	Problems in the study of duplicate gene preservation

* MASCOS PhD scholar