Speaker: Prof. Jie Xiong (熊捷教授）

Time: 10:30-11:30, December 8, 2023 (Friday) (Beijing time)

Venue: T2-102, UIC

Abstract

In this talk, I will explore various limiting behavior of the radius of the largest ball around the origin which is not occupied by a super-Brownian motion and that not by a branching random walk according to the spatial dimension as time tends to infinity.

About Prof. Xiong

Professor Jie Xiong received his B.S. from Peking University in 1983 and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. He joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee in 1993 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1999 and promoted to Professor in 2004; In 2012, he was invited to join the University of Macau as a tenured professor, and in 2017, he joined the Department of Mathematics of the Southern University of Science and Technology as a chair professor. Professor Xiong's research focuses on stochastic filtering and control and their applications, especially mathematical problems related to financial mathematics and biomathematics. A striking feature of his work is the combination of mathematical rigour and real-world applications. He has published more than hundred papers in top journals like Annals of Probability, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Annals of Applied Probability etc., and four monographs in Springer, AMS Monograph, Oxford University Press and World Science Press.