Colloquia 2006
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.  The 2006 series has now concluded.

Venue  

Room 216 of the Prentice Building (42-216) on Thursdays at 11:00am

Schedule  

Mar	09	David Sirl*	Bounds for the decay parameter of a general birth-death process
	16	Antony Stace*	The Volume Weighted Average Price Option
	23	Joshua Ross*	Metapopulation modelling: dynamic landscapes and protected patches
	30	Martin O'Hely	Modelling the fates of duplicate genes
Apr	06	Thomas Taimre*	Counting Self-Avoiding Walks via Sequential Importance Sampling
	13	Ganes S Ganesalingam	Ranked Set Sampling versus Simple Random Sampling in the Estimation of Mean and Ratio
- Mid-semester break -
	27	Olena Kravchuk	Tail weight estimators and adaptive rank procedures of symmetric distributions with application to financial data
May	04	Hanjun Zhang	Convergence Rates for Ergodic Markov Chains
	11	Phil Pollett	Reversing time as an analytical tool: Isn't that just Radon-Nikodym?

* MASCOS PhD scholar