Hugo Steinhaus Symposium

May 6th-7th, 2011

Hugo Steinhaus Center

May 6th, 17:00 - 19:00 - general audience session

17.00 - 17.15 - Prof. Aleksander Weron (HSC) - Welcome address
17.15 - 17.45 - Prof. Roman Duda (Wroclaw University) - Hugo Steinhaus' Ph.D. Thesis, Gettingen May 10, 1911
17.45 - 18.15 - Prof. Wojbor A. Woyczyński (CWRU, Cleveland) - Hugo Steinhaus and his contribution to probability theory
18.15 - 19.00 - Prof. Susana H.Case (NYIT, New York) - Poems of mathematics from the "Scottish Cafe" , (Raisins -.wav)
19.00 - Reception

May 7th, 9:00 - 12:00 - Workshop on Stochastic Methods

09.00 - 09.20 - Wojbor A. Woyczyński (CWRU, Cleveland) - In the footsteps of older Steinhaus: adventures of a mathematician in biosciences
09.20 - 09.40 - Ralf Metzler (TU, Munich) - Single particle trajectories in complex systems: Anomalous diffusion and violation of ergodicity
09.40 - 10.00 - Krzysztof Burnecki (HSC) - Identification and validation of anomalous diffusion dynamics
10.00 - 10.15 - Coffee break
10.15 - 10.35 - René Schilling (TU Dresden) - Subordination and functional inequalities
10.35 - 10.55 - Karol Szczypkowski (WUT) - Stochastic processes with drift
10.55 - 11.15 - Andrzej Pyć (WUT) - Transition density of hyperbolic Brownian motion killed on exiting a ball
11.15 - 11.30 - Coffee break
11.30 - 11.50 - Krzysztof Podgórski (Lund University) - Spatio-temporal stochastic models with embedded deterministic dynamics
11.50 - 12.10 - Agnieszka Wyłomańska (HSC) - Anomalous diffusion models in finance
12.10 - 12.30 - Marek Teuerle (HSC) - Optimizing the success of random searches driven by the two dimensional Levy walk with α-stable displacements