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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego Convention Center and Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, San Diego, CA
January 10-13, 2018 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1135

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

AMS Special Session on Markov Chains, Markov Processes and Applications

• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Markov Chains, Markov Processes and Applications
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University ackrinik@cpp.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cutoff for the random-to-random card shuffle.
    Megan Bernstein*, Georgia Tech
    Evita Nestoridi, Princeton University
    (1135-60-530)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Cutoff for a stratified random walk on the hypercube, related to a mysterious random walk on invertible matrices modulo 2.
    Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
    (1135-60-1635)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Matrix Properties of a Class of Birth-Death Chains and Processes.
    Alan Krinik*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Uyen Nguyen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Ali Oudich, University of California, Irvine
    Pedram Ostadhassanpanjehali, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Luis Cervantes, California State University, Long Beach
    Chon In Luk, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Matthew McDonough, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Jeffrey Yeh, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Lyheng Phey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1135-60-1551)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Random Walks in the Quarter Plane with Time-Varying Periodic Transition Rates.
    Barbara H Margolius*, Cleveland State University
    L Felipe Martins, Cleveland State University
    (1135-60-22)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Favorite sites of a persistent random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$.
    Steven Noren*, Iowa State University
    Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
    Alex Roitershtein, Iowa State University
    (1135-60-1071)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The flashing Brownian ratchet and Parrondo's paradox.
    Stewart N. Ethier*, University of Utah
    Jiyeon Lee, Yeungnam University
    (1135-60-998)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Brownian particles interacting through their ranks.
    Andrey Sarantsev*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-60-1267)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Winner Plays Model.
    Sheldon Ross*, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    Yang Cao, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    (1135-60-999)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of a Predator-Prey Model through Stochastic Methods.
    Diana Curtis*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Jennifer Switkes, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1135-60-84)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Network conditions for positive recurrence of stochastically modeled reaction networks and mixing times.
    Jinsu Kim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    David F Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1135-60-311)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Persistence of sums of correlated increments and clustering in cellular automata.
    Hanbaek Lyu*, The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics
    David Sivakoff, The Ohio State University, Department of Statistics and Mathematics
    (1135-60-808)