MS Thesis Defense-Wesley Maddox (April 5, 2017)

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 (1:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Dependency measures and copulas for multidimensional infinitely divisible distributions Speaker: Wesley Maddox (Case Western Reserve University) Advisor: Wojbor Woyczynski (Professor, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: Multivariate Linnik distributions, despite their potential usefulness, have not been well-studied due to their difficulty in finding representations and estimators. Parameter estimation methods are...

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MS Thesis Defense-James Austrow (March 31, 2017)

Friday, March 31, 2017 (2:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Conservation Laws Driven by Lévy Stable and Linnik Diffusions: Shock Dissolution and Hausdorff Dimension Speaker: James Austrow (Case Western Reserve University) Advisor: Wojbor Woyczynski (Professor, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: We study two problems involving stochastic Burgers flows. The first concerns the solutions of fractal conservation laws, as...

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