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# Mathematics

Seminar Calendar
for Mathematics Colloquium events the year of Thursday, May 24, 2018.

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Questions regarding events or the calendar should be directed to Tori Corkery.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Tuesday, January 16, 2018

#### Nonparametric Inference for Sensitivity of Haezendonck-Goovaerts Risk Measure

###### Xing Wang (Georgia State University)

Abstract: Recently Haezendonck-Goovaerts (H-G) risk measure has been popular in actuarial science. When it is applied to an insurance or a financial portfolio with several loss variables, sensitivity analysis becomes useful in managing the portfolio, and the assumption of independent observations may not be reasonable. This paper first derives an expression for computing the sensitivity of the H-G risk measure, which enables us to estimate the sensitivity nonparametrically via the H-G risk measure. Further, we derive the asymptotic distributions of the nonparametric estimators for the H-G risk measure and the sensitivity by assuming that loss variables in the portfolio follow from a strictly stationary α-mixing sequence. A simulation study is provided to examine the finite sample performance of the proposed nonparametric estimators. Finally, the method is applied to a real data set.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Wednesday, January 17, 2018

#### Semi-Coherent Multi-Population Mortality Modeling: The Impact on Longevity Risk Securitization

###### Wai-Sum Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Abstract: Multi-population mortality models play an important role in longevity risk transfers involving more than one population. Most of the existing multi-population mortality models are built upon the hypothesis of coherence, which stipulates the differential between the mortality rates of two related populations at any given age to revert to its corresponding long-term equilibrium, thereby preventing diverging long-term forecasts that do not seem to be biologically reasonable. However, the coherence assumption may be perceived by market participants as too strong and is in fact not always supported by empirical observations. In this paper, we introduce a new concept called 'semi-coherence', which is less stringent in the sense that it permits the mortality trajectories of two related populations to diverge, as long as the divergence does not exceed a specific tolerance corridor, beyond which mean-reversion will come into effect. We further propose to produce semi-coherent mortality forecasts by using a vector threshold autoregression. The proposed modeling approach is illustrated with mortality data from US and English and Welsh male populations, and is applied to several pricing and hedging scenarios.

Friday, January 19, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Friday, January 19, 2018

#### Investment, Consumption, and Pricing: A Forward-Thinking Approach

###### Wing Fung Chong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Abstract: Under the expected utility paradigm, the optimal investment and consumption problem was solved by Merton in 1969. His pioneering work adopting the expected utility framework inspired numerous optimality problems in various topics of actuarial and financial mathematics. The theory of indifference pricing is one of the representative instances. However, these elegant theories were built upon, first, fixing an investment and consumption horizon and, second, a priori assuming future utilities. In this talk, a recently developed notion called forward investment performance process by Musiela and Zariphopoulou will be introduced. With the element of consumption, SPDE and BSDE representations of forward investment and consumption performance processes will be presented. Properties and the large maturity behavior of forward entropic risk measures will be explored via BSDE representations.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, January 25, 2018

#### Garden of Eden Theorems for dynamical systems: old and new

###### Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein (Universita' del Sannio (Benevento))

Abstract: In this talk, completely self-contained, I would like to survey the classical Garden of Eden Theorem for cellular automata with finite alphabet over the group Z^d, originally establisehd by E.F. Moore and J. Myhill in the early 1960', and its more recent generalizations (with other alphabet sets and over larger classes of groups) as well as some extensions to other dynamical systems of algebraic origin, obtained in collaboration with Michel Coornaert.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, February 15, 2018

#### Conformal Tilings of the Plane: Theory and Practice

###### Kenneth Stephenson (University of Tennessee)

Abstract: The Penrose Tiling of the plane is the most famous traditional "tiling" of the type which motivated this work. With just two tile types, a "kite" shape and a "dart" shape, and a corresponding subdivision rule, it provides fascinating tilings, ones in which the eye finds endless repetitions, but which in fact have no periodicities. Here we will discuss a new, even richer class of tilings, one in which conformal shapes replace the traditional euclidean shapes. The talk will intermingle the discrete world of circle packing with the continuous world of analytic maps and will convey --- I hope --- the pleasing blend of theory, computation, experimentation, and visualization that I have so enjoyed in this new topic. It will be a largely visual tour, so no background in tiling, circle packing, or analytic function theory is needed. (Much of this is joint work with Phil Bowers of Florida State University.)

Thursday, February 22, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, February 22, 2018

###### Sergey Norin (McGill University)

Abstract: Hadwiger's conjecture from 1943 states that every simple graph with no $K_t$ minor can be properly colored using t-1 colors. This is a far-reaching strengthening of the four-color theorem and appears to be currently out of reach in its full generality. In the last three years, however, several relaxations have been proven. In these relaxations one considers colorings such that every color class induces a subgraph with bounded maximum degree or with bounded component size. We will survey recent results on such improper colorings of minor-closed classes of graphs. Based on joint work with Zdenek Dvorak and with Alex Scott, Paul Seymour and David Wood.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

4:00 pmThursday, March 8, 2018

#### CANCELLED

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

4:00 pm in 314 Altgeld Hall,Tuesday, March 27, 2018

#### CANCELLED

###### Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Wednesday, March 28, 2018

#### CANCELLED

###### Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)

Thursday, March 29, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, March 29, 2018

#### CANCELLED

###### Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)

Thursday, April 5, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, April 5, 2018

#### Ideals in L(L_p)

###### William B. Johnson (Texas A&M University)

Abstract: I'll discuss the Banach algebra structure of the spaces of bounded linear operators on l_p and L_p := L_p(0, 1). The main new results are
1. The only non trivial closed ideal in L(L_p), 1 ≤  p < ∞ , that has a left approximate identity is the ideal of compact operators (joint with N. C. Phillips and G. Schechtman).
2. There are in nitely many; in fact, a continuum; of closed ideals in L(L_1) (joint with G. Pisier and G. Schechtman).
The second result answers a question from the 1978 book of A. Pietsch, "Operator ideals".

Thursday, April 19, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, April 19, 2018

#### Puzzles, flag manifolds, and Gromov-Witten invariants

###### Anders Skovsted Buch (Rutgers University)

Abstract: The development of algebraic geometry has been motivated by enumerative geometric questions where one asks for the number of geometric figures of some type that satisfy a list of conditions. For example, the Gromov-Witten invariants of a flag manifold counts the number of curves that meet a list of Schubert varieties in general position. Many enumerative problems can be reduced to understanding the Schubert structure constants of flag manifolds. Standard conjectures about #P-functions indicate that these structure constants are best expressed as the number of objects in some combinatorially defined set. The classical Littlewood-Richardson rule for the structure constants of Grassmannians is an example of this, but it is not known if all Schubert structure constants can be (reasonably) expressed in this way. I will speak about recent results that express Schubert structure constants as the number of puzzles that can be created from a given list of puzzle pieces, as well as relations to the Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, April 26, 2018

#### Random Matrices, Heat Flow, and Lie Groups

###### Todd Kemp (UCSD)

Abstract: Random matrix theory studies the behavior of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of random matrices as the dimension grows. In the age of data science, it has become one of the hottest fields in probability theory and many parts of applied science, from material deposition to wireless communication. Initiated by Wigner in the 1950s (with some key results going back further to Wishart and other statisticians in the 1920s), there is now a rich and well-developed theory of the universal behavior of random spectral statistics in models that are natural generalizations of the Gaussian case. In this talk, I will discuss a generalization of these kinds of results in a new direction. A Gaussian random matrix can be thought of as an instance of Brownian motion on a Lie algebra; this opens the door to studying the eigenvalues of Brownian motion on Lie groups. I will present recent progress understanding the asymptotic spectral distribution of Brownian motion on unitary groups and general linear groups. The tools needed include probability theory, functional analysis, combinatorics, and representation theory. No technical background is required; only an interest in trying to understand some cool and mysterious pictures.

Thursday, September 6, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, September 6, 2018

#### TBA

###### Hugh Thomas (University of Quebec at Montreal)

Thursday, September 13, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, September 13, 2018

#### TBA

###### Maryanthe Malliaris (University of Chicago)

Thursday, September 20, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, September 20, 2018

#### TBA

###### Moira Chas (Stony Brook University)

Thursday, October 4, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, October 4, 2018

#### TBA

###### Gregor Kovacic (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Thursday, October 18, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, October 18, 2018

#### TBA

###### Tanya Christiansen (University of Missouri)

Thursday, October 25, 2018

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Thursday, October 25, 2018

#### TBA

###### Ilijas Farah (York University)

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

4:00 pm in Altgeld Hall,Tuesday, November 27, 2018

#### To Be Announced

###### Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College)

Abstract: Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College) will present the Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures, November 27-29, 2018. A reception will be held in 239 Altgeld Hall following the first lecture.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

4:00 pm in Altgeld Hall,Wednesday, November 28, 2018

#### To Be Announced

###### Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College)

Abstract: Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College) will present the Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures, November 27-29, 2018.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

4:00 pm in Altgeld Hall,Thursday, November 29, 2018

#### To Be Announced

###### Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College)

Abstract: Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College) will present the Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures, November 27-29, 2018.