- Class schedule: Sunday, May 4th, 2014 from 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
- Location: Building 1, Room 4214
- Refreshments: Available @ 01:45 pm
- Seminar material available at: link
Abstract
We present some models of random motions with finite velocity in Euclidean spaces.
In R1 we discuss the telegraph process and give the main distributional
results. We consider also the case of the asymmetric telegraph process and
use relativistic transformations for its probabilistic analysis.
Random motions in the plane with infinite and with a finite number of
possible directions of motion are discussed.
We then consider random flights in Rn where the particle performing the
random motion changes direction at Poisson paced times and takes spherically uniform orientation at each change of direction.
Finally some fractional generalizations of these random motions are examined by applying the Mc. Bride theory of fractional powers of D’Alembert
operators.
References
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Short Bio:
I took my degree in 1970 in statistical
and actuarial sciences. I became assistant in stochastic processes in
February 1975 and associated professor in 1983 in the University of Rome
La Sapienza in analysis.
I became full professor of probability
theory in 1986 at the University of Salerno and starting from 1989 again
at the University of Rome.
I have been visiting professor in many
universities above all in Russia, China, Ukraine. The list of my talks
can be found in my homepage as well as the journals for which I refereed
and of which I am currently editor.
My main fields of scientific interest
have been random motions at finite velocity, some types of random
fields, pseudoprocesses, motions on hyperbolic spaces and fractional
calculus and its applications to stochastic processes.