Yimin Xiao
                                                                                        
Professor
                                                                                Department of Statistics and Probability
                                                                                             Michigan State University

 

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E-mail: xiao@stt.msu.edu
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Teaching (Fall Semester, 2009)

STT 881: M. W. F. 1:50--2:40pm; C-102 Wells Hall


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Research Interests

Stochastic processes and random fields: Gaussian and stable random fields, self-similar processes,
L¨¦vy processes, additive L¨¦vy processes and the L¨¦vy sheets.


Fractal geometry: Measure theory of random fractals, Hausdorff and packing dimensions.


Nonparametric regression: Long memory (long range dependence), wavelet methods.

 

Survey Articles

 

[3]. Properties of local nondeterminism of Gaussian and stable random fields and their applications.  Ann. Fac.
Sci. Toulouse Math
. XV (2006), 157¡ª193.

 

[2]. Additive L¨¦vy processes: capacity and Hausdorff dimension. (with Davar Khoshnevisan)  Proc. of Inter. Conf. on

Fractal Geometry and Stochastics III., Progress in Probability, 57, pp. 151--170, Birkhauser, 2004.

 

[1]. Random fractals and Markov processes. In: Fractal Geometry and Applications: A Jubilee of Benoit Mandelbrot,

(Michel L. Lapidus and Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, editors), pp. 261--338, American Mathematical Society, 2004.



Preprints and Selected Recent Publications



[30]. Hausdorff and packing dimensions of the images of random fields. (with N.-R. Shieh),
Submitted, 2009.

[29]. Properties of strong local nondeterminism and local times of stable random fields.
Submitted, 2008.

[28]. Regularity of intersection local times of fractional Brownian motions. (with D. Wu).
To appear in J. Theoret. Probab. 2009.

[27]. On uniform modulus of continuity of random fields. To appear in Monatsh. Math., 2009.

[26]. Correlated continuous time random walks. (with M. M. Meerschaert and E. Nane). Statist.
Probab. Letters
79 (2009), 1194--1202.

[25]. Continuity with respect to the Hurst index of the local times of anisotropic Gaussian
random fields
. (with D. Wu). Stochastic Process. Appl. 119 (2009), 1823--1844

[24]. Hitting probabilities and the Hausdorff dimension of the inverse images of anisotropic
Gaussian random fields
. (with H. Bierme and C. Lacaux ). Bull. London Math. Soc. 41 (2009), 253--273

[23]. A packing dimension theorem for Gaussian random fields. Statist. Probab. Letters 79 (2009), 88--97.

[22]. Harmonic analysis of additive Levy processes. (with D. Khoshnevisan). Probab. Theory
Rel. Fields,
2008. [The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com]

[21]. Sample path properties of anisotropic Gaussian random fields. In: A Minicourse on Stochastic
Partial Differential Equations
, (D. Khoshnevisan and F. Rassoul-Agha, editors), Lecture Notes
in Math. 1962, pp. 145--212, Springer, New York, 2009.

[20]. Linear fractional stable sheets: wavelet expansion and sample path properties. (with A. Ayache and F. Roueff).
Stochastic Process. Appl. 119 (2009), 1168–-1197.

[19]. Packing dimension profiles and fractional Brownian motion. (with D. Khoshnevisan). Math. Proc. Cambridge Philo.
Soc.
145 (2008), 205--213.

[18]. Local times of multifractional Brownian sheets. (with M. Meerschaert and D. Wu). Bernoulli 14(3) (2008), 865--898.

[17]. Joint continuity of the local times of fractional Brownian sheets. (with Antoine Ayache and D. Wu). Ann. Inst. H.
Poincare Probab. Statist.
44 (2008), 727--748.

[16]. Large deviations for local time fractional Brownian motion and applications. (with M. M. Meerschaert and E. Nane). J. Math. Anal. Appl. 346 (2008), 432--445. [The original publication is available at www.elsevier.com/locate/jmaa]

[15]. Packing dimension of the range of a Levy process. (with D. Khoshnevisan). Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 2597--2607.

[14]. Hausdorff dimension of the contours of symmetric additive Levy processes. (with D. Khoshnevisan and N.-R. Shieh). Probab. Th. Rel. Fields. 140 (2008), 169--193. [The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.]

[13]. Sample path properties of bifractional Brownian motion. (with Ciprian A. Tudor). Bernoulli 13 (2007), 1023--1052.

[12]. Joint continuity of the local times of linear fractional stable sheets. (with A. Ayache and F. Roueff). C. R. Acad. Sci.
Paris, Ser. A.
344 (2007), 635--640.

[11]. Local and asymptotic properties of linear fractional stable sheets. (with A. Ayache and F. Roueff). C. R. Acad. Sci.
Paris, Ser. A.
344 (2007), 389--394.

[10]. On the minimax optimality of block thresholded wavelet estimators with long memory data. (with Linyuan Li) J. Statist. Plann. Inference 137 (2007), 2850--2869.

[9]. Mean integrated squared error of nonlinear wavelet-based estimators with long memory data. (with Linyuan Li) Ann. Inst. Statist. Math. 59 (2007), 299--324.

[8]. Geometric properties of the images fractional Brownian sheets (with D. Wu). J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 13 (2007), 1--37. [The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com .]

[7]. Images of the Brownian sheet. (with Davar Khoshnevisan)   Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007), 3125--3151.

[6]. Sectorial local non-determinism and the geometry of the Brownian sheet
(with D. Khoshnevisan and D. Wu). Electron. J. Probab. 11 (2006), 817--843.

[5]. Asymptotic properties and Hausdorff dimensions of fractional Brownian sheets. (with Antoine Ayache) J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 11 (2005), 407--439. [The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.]

[4]. L¨¦vy processes: capacity and Hausdorff dimension. (with Davar Khoshnevisan) Ann. Probab. 33 (2005), 841--878.

[3]. Packing measure of the trajectories of multiparameter fractional Brownian motion. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philo. Soc. 135 (2003), 349--375

[2]. Measuring the range of an additive L¨¦vy process. (with Davar Khoshnevisan and Yuquan Zhong) Ann. Probab. 31 (2003), 1097--1141.

[1]. Level sets of additive Levy process. (with Davar Khoshnevisan) Ann. Probab. 30 (2002), 62--100.


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Some Talks


[1]. Packing Dimension Profiles and Random Fractals. for Mini-Symposium on Geometry of Random Fractals. Berlin, Germany, March 25--30, 2007.

[2]. Sample Path Properties of Anisotropic Gaussian Random Fields. Probability Seminar at the University of Utah, February 22, 2006.

[3]. Properties of Local Nondeterminism of Self-Similar Random Fields and Their Applications. (Second Conference on Self-Similarity and Applications at L¡¯Institut National des Sciences Appliqu¨¦s, Toulouse, France, June 20--24, 2005).

[4]. Potential Theory of Additive Levy Processes, Capacity and Hausdorff Dimension. (The First Northeastern Probability Seminar at CUNY's Graduate Center on November 20--21, 2003).

[5]. Fractal Geometry of Random Fields. (International Conference on Fractal Geometry & Stochastics III at Friedrichroda, Germany, March 17--22, 2003).


Some Related Conferences

 


[44]. The 6th International Conference on Levy Processes and Applications. Dresden, Germany, July 26--30, 2010.

[43]. The 33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. Berlin, Germany, July 27--31, 2009.

[42]. International Conference on Self-Similarity of Stochastic Processes and Its Applications. Angers, France, July 20--24, 2009.

[41]. The Third International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications. Beijing Instittute of Technology, Beijing, China, July 13--17, 2009.

[40]. IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability. Weihai, China, July 3--6, 2009.

[39]. The First IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting. Seoul, Korea, June 28--July 1, 2009.

[38]. Spring School on Random Differential Equations and Gaussian Fields. Chateau de Mons, France, June 15--19, 2009.

[37]. The Second Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium University of Chicago, March 27--28, 2009.

[36]. The 15th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis. Heinrich-Fabri-Institute in Blaubeuren, Germany, March 22--27, 2009.

[35]. The Workshop on Infinitely Divisible Processes. CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, March 15--21, 2009.

[34]. The Workshop on Random Fields and Stochastic Geometry. The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), Canada, February 22--27, 2009.

[33]. The Workshop on Models and Images of Random Media. Paris, January 12--16 , 2009.

[32]. The First Joint AMS-SMS Meeting. Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 17--21, 2008.

[31]. The Seventh Northeast Probability Seminar., Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University, November 20--21, 2008.

[30]. The AMS 2008 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting. University of Alabama in Huntsville, October 24--26, 2008.

[29]. The Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium. Northwestern University, October 23--25, 2008.

[28]. Fractal Geometry and Stochastics, 4. Greifswald, Germany, September 8-12, 2008.

[27]. The CBMS Conference on Malliavin Calculus and Its Applications. Kent State University, August 7--12, 2008.

[26]. The first IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability. Hangzhou, June 11--13, 2008.

[25]. The 2nd International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications (ICSAA). Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, May 28--31, 2008.

[24]. The Fifth International Conference on High Dimensional Probability. The Centre International de Recntres Mathematiques (C.I.R.M.) in Luminy, France, May 26-May 30, 2008.

[23]. Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications. Ascona, Switzerland, May 19--23, 2008.

[22]. Seminar on Stochastic Processes. University of Delaware, April 3--5, 2008.

[21]. Fractals and Related Fields. Monastir, Tunisia, September 8--13, 2007.

[20]. Levy Processes: Theory and Applications. Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 13--17, 2007.

[19]. 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August, 6--10, 2007.

[18]. Mini-Workshop on "Geometric Measure Theoretic Approaches to Potentials on Fractals and Manifolds". Oberwolfach Research Institute (MFO), Germany. April 8--14, 2007.

[17]. Mini-Symposium on Geometry of Random Fractals. Berlin, Germany, March 25--30, 2007.

 

[16]. Twenty Eighth Midwest Probability Colloquium at the Northwestern University, October 21--22, 2006.

 

[15]. Interface of Stochastic PDEs and Gaussian Analysis at the University of Utah, October 7-- 8, 2006.

 
[14]. Mathematics on Fractals 2006 at Kyoto University, Japan, September 4--8, 2006.

 

[13]. The 31st  Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. Paris, July 17¡ª21, 2006.

 

[12]. International Conference on Asymptotic Theory in Probability and Statistics. CMS, Zhejiang University, June 18¡ª21, 2006.

[11]. Minicourse on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. Organized by Davar Khoshnevisan at the University of Utah, May 8 ¨C19, 2006.

[10]. Workshop on Stochastic and Harmonic Analysis of Processes with Jumps. Angers, France, May 2¡ª9, 2006.

 

[9]. Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Connections to Dynamics, Geometric Measure Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory. AMS Spring Western Section Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 29--30, 2006.

 

[8]. Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2006. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey,  March 23--25, 2006.

 

[7]. The Fourth Northeastern Probability Seminar at CUNY's Graduate Center, November 17--18, 2005.   

[6]. Workshop on Small Deviation Problems for Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, in St.Petersburg, Russia,   September 12¡ª19, 2005.

[5]. Second Conference on Self-Similarity and Applications at L¡¯Institut National des Sciences Appliqu¨¦s, Toulouse, France, from Monday, June 20--24, 2005.

[4]. The Fourth International Conference on High Dimensional Probability (HDP) . Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 20--24, 2005.

[3]. Fourth Symposium on Levy Processes: Theory and Applications Manchester University, England, January 10--15, 2005.

[2]. The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Hong Kong,  December 17--22, 2004.

[1]. Power Laws in Probability and Statistics, Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques, France , March 22--26, 2004.





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