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 Stochastics Seminar Time: Feb 25, 2016 (02:00 PM) Location: Parker Hall 322 Details: Speaker: Olav Kallenberg Title: Palm trees via extended Brownian snake Abstract: A Dawson-Watanabe superprocess arises in the diffusion limit from a randomly branching and evolving population in a Euclidean space. Though the limiting process $\xi$ can be thought of as a randomly evolving diffuse cloud, its genealogy is given by a discrete Yule "stick-breaking" process. A fundamental role in the theory is played by the associated Palm trees, which describe the conditional structure of $$\xi$$, given that $$\xi_t$$ hits some specified points $$x_1,\dots,x_n$$. Though the distributions of the latter are suggested by some circumstantial evidence, a formal proof has long been elusive. In this talk, I shall indicate how my Palm tree conjecture, and much more, can be proved by an argument involving an extension of Le Gall's Brownian snake. As always, I will maintain a bird's-eye point of view, trying to avoid the subtle technicalities of the subject.

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