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SUMMARY:Xin Guo (UC Berkeley)
DTSTART:20200504T150000Z
DTEND:20200504T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/1
DESCRIPTION:Title: Connecting Generative adversarial networks with Mean Fiel
d Games\nby Xin Guo (UC Berkeley) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysi
s and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical
Institute.\n\nAbstract\nGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have celebr
ated great empirical success\, especially in image generation and processi
ng. Meanwhile\, Mean-Field Games (MFGs)\, as analytically feasible approx
imations for N-player games\, have experienced rapid growth in theory of c
ontrols. In this talk\, we will discuss a new theoretical connections betw
een GANs and MFGs. Interpreting MFGs as GANs\, on one hand\, allows us to
devise GANs-based algorithm to solve MFGs. Interpreting GANs as MFGs\, on
the other hand\, provides a new and probabilistic foundation for GANs. Mor
eover\, this interpretation helps establish an analytical connection betwe
en GANs and Optimal Transport (OT) problems\, the connection previously un
derstood mostly from the geometric perspective. We will illustrate by nume
rical examples of using GANs to solve high dimensional MFGs\, demonstratin
g its superior performance over existing methodology.\n\nRegistration URL:
\nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oceGoqDsrH9PwXl9eEUDoA6rGri-Zaf_R\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/1/
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SUMMARY:Alexander Schied (University of Waterloo)
DTSTART:20200511T150000Z
DTEND:20200511T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/2
DESCRIPTION:Title: Weierstrass bridges\nby Alexander Schied (University
of Waterloo) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Financ
e Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nM
any classical fractal functions\, such as the Weierstrass and Takagi-van d
er Waerden functions\, admit a finite p-th variation along a natural seque
nce of partitions. They can thus serve as integrators in pathwise Itô cal
culus. Motivated by this observation\, we introduce a new class of stochas
tic processes\, which we call Weierstrass bridges. They have continuous sa
mple paths and arbitrarily low regularity and so provide a new example cla
ss of “rough” stochastic processes. We study some of their sample path
properties including p-th variation and moduli of continuity. This talk i
ncludes joint work with Xiyue Han and Zhenyuan Zhang.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/2/
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SUMMARY:Ivan Nourdin (University of Luxembourg)
DTSTART:20200518T150000Z
DTEND:20200518T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/3
DESCRIPTION:Title: The functional Breuer-Major theorem\nby Ivan Nourdin
(University of Luxembourg) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathe
matical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\
n\nAbstract\nLet $X=\\{ X_n\\}_{n\\in \\mathbb{Z}}$ be zero-mean stationar
y Gaussian sequence of random variables with covariance function $\\rho$ s
atisfying $\\rho(0)=1$. Let $\\varphi:\\mathbb{R}\\to\\mathbb{R}$ be a fun
ction such that $E[\\varphi(X_0)^2]<\\infty$ and assume that $\\varphi$ ha
s Hermite rank $d \\geq 1$. The celebrated Breuer-Major theorem asserts th
at\, if $\\sum_{r\\in\\mathbb{Z}} |\\rho(r)|^d<\\infty$ then the finite di
mensional distributions of $\\frac1{\\sqrt{n}}\\sum_{i=0}^{\\lfloor n\\cdo
t\\rfloor-1} \\varphi(X_i)$ converge to those of $\\sigma\\\,W$\, where $W
$ is a standard Brownian motion and $\\sigma$ is some (explicit) constant.
Surprisingly\, and despite the fact this theorem has become over the year
s a prominent tool in a bunch of different areas\, a necessary and suffici
ent condition implying the weak convergence in the space ${\\bf D}([0\,1])
$ of càdlàg functions endowed with the Skorohod topology is still missin
g. Our main goal in this paper is to fill this gap. More precisely\, by us
ing suitable boundedness properties satisfied by the generator of the Orns
tein-Uhlenbeck semigroup\, we show that tightness holds under the sufficie
nt (and almost necessary) natural condition that $E[|\\varphi(X_0)|^{p}]<\
\infty$ for some $p>2$.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/3/
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SUMMARY:Fabian Harang (Oslo)
DTSTART:20200525T150000Z
DTEND:20200525T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/4
DESCRIPTION:Title: Infinitely regularising paths and regularisation by noise
.\nby Fabian Harang (Oslo) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and M
athematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institu
te.\n\nAbstract\nWe discuss regularization by noise from a pathwise perspe
ctive using non-linear Young integration\, and discuss the relations with
occupation measures and local times. This methodology of pathwise regulari
zation by noise was originally proposed by Gubinelli and Catellier (2016)\
, who use the concept of averaging operators and non-linear Young integrat
ion to give meaning to certain ill posed SDEs. \nIn a recent work together
with Nicolas Perkowski we show that there exists a class of paths with
exceptional regularizing effects on ODEs\, using the framework of Gubinell
i and Catellier. In particular we prove existence and uniqueness of ODEs p
erturbed by such a path\, even when the drift is given as a Schwartz distr
ibution. Moreover\, the flow associated to such ODEs are proven to be infi
nitely differentiable. Our analysis can be seen as purely pathwise\, and i
s only depending on the existence of a sufficiently regular occupation mea
sure associated to the path added to the ODE. As an example\, we show that
a certain type of Gaussian processes has infinitely differentiable local
times\, whose paths then can be used to obtain the infinitely regularizing
effect on ODEs. This gives insight into the powerful effect that noise ma
y have on certain equations. If time permits\, I will also discuss an ong
oing extension of these results towards regularization of certain PDE/SPDE
s by noise.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/4/
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SUMMARY:Frederi Viens (Michigan State University)
DTSTART:20200601T150000Z
DTEND:20200601T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/5
DESCRIPTION:Title: A martingale approach for fractional Brownian motions and
related path dependent PDEs\nby Frederi Viens (Michigan State Univers
ity) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Semina
r\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe study
dynamic backward problems\, with the computation of conditional expectatio
ns as a special objective\, in a framework where the (forward) state proce
ss satisfies a Volterra type SDE\, with fractional Brownian motion as a ty
pical example. Such processes are neither Markov processes nor semimarting
ales\, and most notably\, they feature a certain time inconsistency which
makes any direct application of Markovian ideas\, such as flow properties\
, impossible without passing to a path-dependent framework. Our main resul
t is a functional Itô formula\, extending the Functional Ito calculus to
our more general framework. In particular\, unlike in the Functional Ito c
alculus\, where one needs only to consider stopped paths\, here we need to
concatenate the observed path up to the current time with a certain smoot
h observable curve derived from the distribution of the future paths. We
then derive the path dependent PDEs for the backward problems. Finally\, a
n application to option pricing and hedging in a financial market with rou
gh volatility is presented.\n\nJoint work with JianFeng Zhang (USC).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/5/
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SUMMARY:Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford)
DTSTART:20200608T150000Z
DTEND:20200608T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/6
DESCRIPTION:Title: The scaling limit of a critical random directed graph
\nby Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis
and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical In
stitute.\n\nAbstract\nWe consider the random directed graph $\\vec{G}(n\,p
)$ with vertex set $\\{1\,2\,\\ldots\,n\\}$ in which each of the $n(n-1)$
possible directed edges is present independently with probability $p$. We
are interested in the strongly connected components of this directed graph
. A phase transition for the emergence of a giant strongly connected compo
nent is known to occur at $p = 1/n$\, with critical window $p= 1/n + \\lam
bda n^{-4/3}$ for $\\lambda \\in \\mathcal{R}$. We show that\, within this
critical window\, the strongly connected components of $\\vec{G}(n\,p)$\,
ranked in decreasing order of size and rescaled by $n^{-1/3}$\, converge
in distribution to a sequence $(\\mathcal{C}_1\,\\mathcal{C}_2\,\\ldots)$
of finite strongly connected directed multigraphs with edge lengths which
are either 3-regular or loops. The convergence occurs the sense of an $\\e
ll^1$ sequence metric for which two directed multigraphs are close if ther
e are compatible isomorphisms between their vertex and edge sets which rou
ghly preserve the edge-lengths. Our proofs rely on a depth-first explorati
on of the graph which enables us to relate the strongly connected componen
ts to a particular spanning forest of the undirected Erdős-Rényi random
graph $G(n\,p)$\, whose scaling limit is well understood. We show that the
limiting sequence $(\\mathcal{C}_1\,\\mathcal{C}_2\,\\ldots)$ contains on
ly finitely many components which are not loops. If we ignore the edge len
gths\, any fixed finite sequence of 3-regular strongly connected directed
multigraphs occurs with positive probability.\n\nThis is joint work with R
obin Stephenson (Sheffield).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/6/
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SUMMARY:Mykhaylo Shkolnikov (Princeton)
DTSTART:20200615T150000Z
DTEND:20200615T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/7
DESCRIPTION:Title: Local stochastic volatility and the inverse of the Markov
ian projection\nby Mykhaylo Shkolnikov (Princeton) as part of Oxford S
tochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxf
ord Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nThe calibration problem for local
stochastic volatility models leads to two-dimensional stochastic differen
tial equations of McKean-Vlasov type. In these equations\, the conditional
distribution of the second component of the solution given the first ente
rs the equation for the first component of the solution. While such equati
ons enjoy frequent application in the financial industry\, their mathemati
cal analysis poses a major challenge. I will explain how to prove the stro
ng existence of stationary solutions for these equations\, as well as the
strong uniqueness in an important special case. \nBased on joint work with
Daniel Lacker and Jiacheng Zhang.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/7/
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SUMMARY:Thomas Kurtz (University of Wisconsin)
DTSTART:20200622T150000Z
DTEND:20200622T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/8
DESCRIPTION:Title: Controlled and constrained martingale problems\nby Th
omas Kurtz (University of Wisconsin) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis
and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical I
nstitute.\n\nAbstract\nMost of the basic results on martingale problems ex
tend to the setting in which the generator depends on a control. The “c
ontrol” could represent a random environment\, or the generator could sp
ecify a classical stochastic control problem. The equivalence between the
martingale problem and forward equation (obtained by taking expectations o
f the martingales) provides the tools for extending linear programming met
hods introduced by Manne in the context of controlled finite Markov chains
to general Markov stochastic control problems. The controlled martingale
problem can also be applied to the study of constrained Markov processes
(e.g.\, reflecting diffusions)\, the boundary process being treated as a c
ontrol. The talk includes joint work with Richard Stockbridge and with Cr
istina Costantini.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/8/
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SUMMARY:Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia University)
DTSTART:20201012T150000Z
DTEND:20201012T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/9
DESCRIPTION:Title: A trajectorial approach to the gradient flow properties o
f conservative diffusions and Markov chains\nby Ioannis Karatzas (Colu
mbia University) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Fi
nance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstrac
t\nWe provide a detailed\, probabilistic interpretation for the variationa
l characterization of conservative diffusion as entropic gradient flow. Jo
rdan\, Kinderlehrer\, and Otto showed in 1998 that\, for diffusions of Lan
gevin-Smoluchowski type\, the Fokker-Planck probability density flow minim
izes the rate of relative entropy dissipation\, as measured by the distanc
e traveled in terms of the quadratic Wasserstein metric in the ambient spa
ce of configurations. Using a very direct perturbation analysis we obtain
novel\, stochastic-process versions of such features\; these are valid alo
ng almost every trajectory of the motion in both the forward and\, most tr
ansparently\, the backward\, directions of time. The original results foll
ow then simply by “aggregating”\, i.e.\, taking expectations. As a bon
us\, the HWI inequality of Otto and Villani relating relative entropy\, Fi
sher information\, and Wasserstein distance\, falls in our lap\; and with
it the celebrated log-Sobolev\, Talagrand and Poincare inequalities of fun
ctional analysis. Similar ideas work in the context of continuous-time Mar
kov Chains\; but now both the functional analysis and the geometry are con
siderably more involved.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/9/
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SUMMARY:Steve Shreve (Carnegie Mellon University)
DTSTART:20201026T160000Z
DTEND:20201026T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/10
DESCRIPTION:Title: Diffusion Limit of Poisson Limit-Order Book Models\n
by Steve Shreve (Carnegie Mellon University) as part of Oxford Stochastic
Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathem
atical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nTrading of financial instruments has largel
y moved away from floor trading and onto electronic exchanges. Orders to
buy and sell are queued at these exchanges in a limit-order book. While a
full analysis of the dynamics of a limit-order book requires an understand
ing of strategic play among multiple agents\, and is thus extremely comple
x\, so-called zero-intelligence Poisson models have been shown to capture
many of the statistical features of limit-order book evolution. These mod
els can be addressed by traditional queueing theory techniques\, including
Laplace transform analysis. In this work\, we demonstrate in a simple se
tting that another queueing theory technique\, approximating the Poisson m
odel by a diffusion model identified as the limit of a sequence of scaled
Poisson models\, can also be implemented. We identify the diffusion limit
\, find an embedded semi-Markov model in the limit\, and determine the sta
tistics of the embedded semi-Markov model. Along the way\, we introduce an
d study a new type of process\, a generalization of skew Brownian motion t
hat we call two-speed Brownian motion.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/10/
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SUMMARY:Christa Cuchiero (University of Vienna)
DTSTART:20201019T150000Z
DTEND:20201019T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/11
DESCRIPTION:Title: Deep neural networks\, generic universal interpolation a
nd controlled ODEs\nby Christa Cuchiero (University of Vienna) as part
of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture
held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nA recent paradigm vie
ws deep neural networks as discretizations of certain controlled ordinary
differential equations\, sometimes called neural ordinary differential equ
ations. We make use of this perspective to link expressiveness of deep net
works to the notion of controllability of dynamical systems. Using this co
nnection\, we study an expressiveness property that we call universal inte
rpolation\, and show that it is generic in a certain sense. The universal
interpolation property is slightly weaker than universal approximation\, a
nd disentangles supervised learning on finite training sets from generaliz
ation properties. We also show that universal interpolation holds for cert
ain deep neural networks even if large numbers of parameters are left untr
ained\, and are instead chosen randomly. This lends theoretical support to
the observation that training with random initialization can be successfu
l even when most parameters are largely unchanged through the training. Ou
r results also explore what a minimal amount of trainable parameters in ne
ural ordinary differential equations could be without giving up on express
iveness.\n\nJoint work with Martin Larsson\, Josef Teichmann.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/11/
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SUMMARY:Julien Dubedat (Columbia University)
DTSTART:20201102T160000Z
DTEND:20201102T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/12
DESCRIPTION:Title: Stochastic Ricci Flow on surfaces\nby Julien Dubedat
(Columbia University) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathemati
cal Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nA
bstract\nThe Ricci flow on a surface is an intrinsic evolution of the metr
ic converging to a constant curvature metric within the conformal class. I
t can be seen as an (infinite-dimensional) gradient flow. We introduce a n
atural 'Langevin' version of this flow\, thus constructing an SPDE with in
variant measure expressed in terms of Liouville Conformal Field Theory.\n\
nJoint work with Hao Shen (Wisconsin).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/12/
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SUMMARY:Massimiliano Gubinelli (Bonn)
DTSTART:20201116T160000Z
DTEND:20201116T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/13
DESCRIPTION:Title: Elliptic stochastic quantisation and supersymmetry\n
by Massimiliano Gubinelli (Bonn) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and
Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Insti
tute.\n\nAbstract\nStochastic quantisation is\, broadly speaking\, the use
of a stochastic differential equation to construct a given probability di
stribution. Usually this refers to Markovian Langevin evolution with given
invariant measure. However we will show that it is possible to construct
other kind of equations (elliptic stochastic partial differential equation
s) whose solutions have prescribed marginals. This connection was discover
ed in the '80 by Parisi and Sourlas in the context of dimensional reductio
n of statistical field theories in random external fields. This purely pro
babilistic results has a proof which depends on a supersymmetric formulati
on of the problem\, i.e. a formulation involving a non-commutative random
field defined on a non-commutative space. \nThis talk is based on joint wo
rk with S. Albeverio and F. C. de Vecchi.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/13/
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SUMMARY:Beatrice Acciaio (ETH Zurich)
DTSTART:20201130T160000Z
DTEND:20201130T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/14
DESCRIPTION:Title: Model-independence in a fixed-income market and weak opt
imal transport\nby Beatrice Acciaio (ETH Zurich) as part of Oxford Sto
chastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxfor
d Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nI consider model-independent prici
ng problems in a stochastic interest rates framework. In this case the usu
al tools from Optimal Transport and Skorokhod embedding cannot be applied.
I will show how some pricing problems in a fixed-income market can be ref
ormulated as Weak Optimal Transport (WOT) problems as introduced by Gozlan
et al. I will present a super-replication theorem that follows from an ex
tension of WOT results to the case of non-convex cost functions.\n\nThis t
alk is based on joint work with M. Beiglboeck and G. Pammer.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/14/
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SUMMARY:RenYuan Xu (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20201123T160000Z
DTEND:20201123T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/15
DESCRIPTION:Title: Excursion risk\nby RenYuan Xu (University of Oxford)
as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\
nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nThe risk and
return profiles of a broad class of dynamic trading strategies\, including
pairs trading and other statistical arbitrage strategies\, may be charact
erized in terms of excursions of the market price of a portfolio away from
a reference level. We propose a mathematical framework for the risk analy
sis of such strategies\, based on a description in terms of price excursio
ns\, first in a pathwise setting\, without probabilistic assumptions\, the
n in a Markovian setting.\n\nWe introduce the notion of δ-excursion\, def
ined as a path which deviates by δ from a reference level before returnin
g to this level. We show that every continuous path has a unique decomposi
tion into δ-excursions\, which is useful for scenario analysis of dynamic
trading strategies\, leading to simple expressions for the number of trad
es\, realized profit\, maximum loss and drawdown. As δ is decreased to ze
ro\, properties of this decomposition relate to the local time of the path
.\n\nWhen the underlying asset follows a Markov process\, we combine these
results with Ito's excursion theory to obtain a tractable decomposition o
f the process as a concatenation of independent δ-excursions\, whose dist
ribution is described in terms of Ito's excursion measure. We provide anal
ytical results for linear diffusions and give new examples of stochastic p
rocesses for flexible and tractable modeling of excursions. Finally\, we d
escribe a non-parametric scenario simulation method for generating paths w
hose excursion properties match those observed in empirical data.\n\nJoint
work with Anna Ananova and Rama Cont.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/15/
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SUMMARY:Diyora Salimova (ETH Zurich)
DTSTART:20201109T160000Z
DTEND:20201109T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/16
DESCRIPTION:Title: Space-time deep neural network approximations for high-d
imensional partial differential equations\nby Diyora Salimova (ETH Zur
ich) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Semina
r\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nIt is one
of the most challenging issues in applied mathematics to approximately so
lve high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) and most of the
numerical approximation methods for PDEs in the scientific literature suf
fer from the so-called curse of dimensionality (CoD) in the sense that the
number of computational operations employed in the corresponding approxim
ation scheme to obtain an approximation precision 𝜀>0 grows exponentia
lly in the PDE dimension and/or the reciprocal of 𝜀. Recently\, certain
deep learning based approximation methods for PDEs have been proposed an
d various numerical simulations for such methods suggest that deep neural
network (DNN) approximations might have the capacity to indeed overcome th
e CoD in the sense that the number of real parameters used to describe th
e approximating DNNs grows at most polynomially in both the PDE dimension
𝑑∈\n and the reciprocal of the prescribed approximation accuracy
𝜀>0. There are now also a few rigorous mathematical results in the scie
ntific literature which substantiate this conjecture by proving that DNN
s overcome the CoD in approximating solutions of PDEs. Each of these resu
lts establishes that DNNs overcome the CoD in approximating suitable PDE s
olutions at a fixed time point 𝑇>0 and on a compact cube [𝑎\,𝑏]
𝑑 but none of these results provides an answer to the question whether
the entire PDE solution on [0\,𝑇]×[𝑎\,𝑏]𝑑 can be approximated
by DNNs without the CoD. \nIn this talk we show that for every 𝑎∈\\R
\, 𝑏∈(𝑎\,∞) solutions of suitable Kolmogorov PDEs can be appro
ximated by DNNs on the space-time region [0\,𝑇]×[𝑎\,𝑏]𝑑 witho
ut the CoD.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/16/
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SUMMARY:Patrick Cheridito (ETH Zurich)
DTSTART:20201207T160000Z
DTEND:20201207T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/17
DESCRIPTION:Title: Efficient approximation of high-dimensional functions wi
th neural networks\nby Patrick Cheridito (ETH Zurich) as part of Oxfor
d Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in
Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe develop a framework for sho
wing that neural networks can overcome the curse of dimensionality in diff
erent high-dimensional approximation problems. Our approach is based on th
e notion of a catalog network\, which is a generalization of a standard ne
ural network in which the nonlinear activation functions can vary from lay
er to layer as long as they are chosen from a predefined catalog of functi
ons. As such\, catalog networks constitute a rich family of continuous fun
ctions. We show that under appropriate conditions on the catalog\, catalog
networks can efficiently be approximated with ReLU-type networks and prov
ide precise estimates on the number of parameters needed for a given appro
ximation accuracy. As special cases of the general results\, we obtain dif
ferent classes of functions that can be approximated with ReLU networks wi
thout the curse of dimensionality.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/17/
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SUMMARY:Donghan Kim (Columbia University)
DTSTART:20210125T160000Z
DTEND:20210125T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/18
DESCRIPTION:Title: Open Markets\nby Donghan Kim (Columbia University) a
s part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nL
ecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nAn open market
is a subset of a larger equity market\, composed of a certain fixed number
of top‐capitalization stocks. Though the number of stocks in the open m
arket is fixed\, their composition changes over time\, as each company's r
ank by market capitalization fluctuates. When one is allowed to invest als
o in a money market\, an open market resembles the entire “closed” equ
ity market in the sense that the market viability (lack of arbitrage) is e
quivalent to the existence of a numéraire portfolio (which cannot be outp
erformed). When access to the money market is prohibited\, the class of po
rtfolios shrinks significantly in open markets\; in such a setting\, we di
scuss how to construct functionally generated stock portfolios and the con
cept of the universal portfolio.\nThis talk is based on joint work with Io
annis Karatzas.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/18/
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SUMMARY:Mathieu Lauriere (Princeton)
DTSTART:20210118T160000Z
DTEND:20210118T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/19
DESCRIPTION:Title: Machine Learning for Mean Field Games\nby Mathieu La
uriere (Princeton) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical
Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstr
act\nMean field games (MFG) and mean field control problems (MFC) are fram
eworks to study Nash equilibria or social optima in games with a continuum
of agents. These problems can be used to approximate competitive or coope
rative situations with a large finite number of agents. They have found a
broad range of applications\, from economics to crowd motion\, energy prod
uction and risk management. Scalable numerical methods are a key step towa
rds concrete applications. In this talk\, we propose several numerical met
hods for MFG and MFC. These methods are based on machine learning tools su
ch as function approximation via neural networks and stochastic optimizati
on. We provide numerical results and we investigate the numerical analysis
of these methods by proving bounds on the approximation scheme. If time p
ermits\, we will also discuss model-free methods based on extensions of th
e traditional reinforcement learning setting to the mean-field regime.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/19/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Titus Lupu (Sorbonne Universite)
DTSTART:20210201T160000Z
DTEND:20210201T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/20
DESCRIPTION:Title: Extremal distance and conformal radius of a $CLE_4$ loop
.\nby Titus Lupu (Sorbonne Universite) as part of Oxford Stochastic An
alysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathemat
ical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nThe $CLE_4$ Conformal Loop Ensemble in a 2D s
imply connected domain is a random countable collection of fractal Jordan
curves that satisfies a statistical conformal invariance and appears\, or
is conjectured to appear\, as a scaling limit of interfaces in various sta
tistical physics models in 2D\, for instance in the double dimer model. Th
e $CLE_4$ is also related to the 2D Gaussian free field. Given a simply
connected domain D and a point z in D\, we consider the $CLE_4$ loop that
surrounds z and study the extremal distance between the loop and the bound
ary of the domain\, and the conformal radius of the interior surrounded by
the loop seen from z. Because of the conformal invariance\, the joint law
of this two quantities does not depend (up to a scale factor) on the choi
ce of the domain D and the point z in D. The law of the conformal radius a
lone has been known since the works of Schramm\, Sheffield and Wilson. We
complement their result by deriving the joint law of (extremal distance\,
conformal radius). Both quantities can be read on the same 1D Brownian pat
h\, by tacking a last passage time and a first hitting time. This joint la
w\, together with some distortion bounds\, provides some exponents related
to the $CLE_4$. \n\nThis is joint work with Juhan Aru and Avelio Sepulve
da.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/20/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Pierre Del Moral (INRIA (France))
DTSTART:20210308T160000Z
DTEND:20210308T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/21
DESCRIPTION:Title: A backward Ito-Ventzell formula with an application to s
tochastic interpolation\nby Pierre Del Moral (INRIA (France)) as part
of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture
held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe discuss a novel bac
kward Ito-Ventzell formula and an extension of the Aleeksev-Gröbner inter
polating formula to stochastic flows. We also present some natural spectra
l conditions that yield direct and simple proofs of time uniform estimates
of the difference between the two stochastic flows when their drift and d
iffusion functions are not the same\, yielding what seems to be the first
results of this type for this class of anticipative models.\n\nWe illustr
ate the impact of these results in the context of diffusion perturbation t
heory\, interacting diffusions and discrete time approximations.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/21/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Stefano Olla (Paris Dauphine)
DTSTART:20210215T160000Z
DTEND:20210215T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/22
DESCRIPTION:Title: Thermal boundaries for energy superdiffusion\nby Ste
fano Olla (Paris Dauphine) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathe
matical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\
n\nAbstract\nhttps://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/38174\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/22/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon)
DTSTART:20210208T160000Z
DTEND:20210208T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/24
DESCRIPTION:Title: Finance and Statistics: Trading Analogies for Sequential
Learning\nby Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon) as part of Oxford Stoch
astic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford
Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nThe goal of sequential learning is to
draw inference from data that is gathered gradually through time. This is
a typical situation in many applications\, including finance. A sequentia
l inference procedure is `anytime-valid’ if the decision to stop or cont
inue an experiment can depend on anything that has been observed so far\,
without compromising statistical error guarantees. A recent approach to an
ytime-valid inference views a test statistic as a bet against the null hyp
othesis. These bets are constrained to be supermartingales - hence unprofi
table - under the null\, but designed to be profitable under the relevant
alternative hypotheses. This perspective opens the door to tools from fina
ncial mathematics. In this talk I will discuss how notions such as superma
rtingale measures\, log-optimality\, and the optional decomposition theore
m shed new light on anytime-valid sequential learning. \n\nThis talk is ba
sed on joint work with Wouter Koolen (CWI)\, Aaditya Ramdas (CMU) and Joha
nnes Ruf (LSE).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/24/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Michael Röckner (Bielefeld)
DTSTART:20210301T160000Z
DTEND:20210301T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/25
DESCRIPTION:Title: Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with measures as initi
al data and McKean-Vlasov equations\nby Michael Röckner (Bielefeld
) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n
\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nThis talk is
about joint work with Viorel Barbu. We consider a class of nonlinear Fokk
er-Planck (- Kolmogorov) equations of type \n∂𝑡𝑢(𝑡\,𝑥)−Δ
𝑥𝛽(𝑢(𝑡\,𝑥))+div(𝐷(𝑥)𝑏(𝑢(𝑡\,𝑥))𝑢(𝑡\,
𝑥))=0\,𝑢(0\,⋅)=𝜇\,\nwhere (𝑡\,𝑥)∈[0\,∞)×ℝ𝑑\,
𝑑≥3 and 𝜇 is a signed Borel measure on ℝ𝑑 of bounded variatio
n. In the first part of the talk we shall explain how to construct a solut
ion to the above PDE based on classical nonlinear operator semigroup theor
y on 𝐿1(ℝ𝑑) and new results on 𝐿1−𝐿∞ regularization of t
he solution semigroups in our case. In the second part of the talk we shal
l present a general result about the correspondence of nonlinear Fokker-Pl
anck equations (FPEs) and McKean-Vlasov type SDEs. In particular\, it is s
hown that if one can solve the nonlinear FPE\, then one can always constru
ct a weak solution to the corresponding McKean-Vlasov SDE. We would like t
o emphasize that this\, in particular\, applies to the singular case\, whe
re the coefficients depend "Nemytski-type" on the time-marginal law of the
solution process\, hence the coefficients are not continuous in the measu
re-variable with respect to the weak topology on probability measures. Thi
s is in contrast to the literature in which the latter is standardly assum
ed. Hence we can cover nonlinear FPEs as the ones above\, which are PDEs f
or the marginal law densities\, realizing an old vision of McKean.\n\nRefe
rences V. Barbu\, M. Röckner: From nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations to s
olutions of distribution dependent SDE\, Ann. Prob. 48 (2020)\, no. 4\, 19
02-1920. V. Barbu\, M. Röckner: Solutions for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equ
ations with measures as initial data and McKean-Vlasov equations\, J. Func
t. Anal. 280 (2021)\, no. 7\, 108926.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/25/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Bruno Bouchard (Paris Dauphine)
DTSTART:20210315T160000Z
DTEND:20210315T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/26
DESCRIPTION:Title: Ito formula for C1 functionals and path-dependent applic
ations in mathematical finance\nby Bruno Bouchard (Paris Dauphine) as
part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLec
ture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe will discuss s
everal versions of Ito’s formula in the case where the function is path
dependent and only concave or C1 in the sense of Dupire. In particular\, w
e will show that it can be used to solve (super) hedging problems\, in the
context of market impact or under volatility uncertainty.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/26/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Benjamin Fehrman (Oxford)
DTSTART:20210222T160000Z
DTEND:20210222T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/27
DESCRIPTION:Title: Non equilibrium fluctuations in interactive particle sys
tems and conservative Stochastic PDEs\nby Benjamin Fehrman (Oxford) as
part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLe
cture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nInteracting part
icle systems have found diverse applications in mathematics and several re
lated fields\, including statistical physics\, population dynamics\, and m
achine learning. We will focus\, in particular\, on the zero range proces
s and the symmetric simple exclusion process. The large-scale behavior of
these systems is essentially deterministic\, and is described in terms of
a hydrodynamic limit. However\, the particle process does exhibit large
fluctuations away from its mean. Such deviations\, though rare\, can have
significant consequences---such as a concentration of energy or the appea
rance of a vacuum---which make them important to understand and simulate.\
n\nIn this talk\, which is based on joint work with Benjamin Gess\, I will
introduce a continuum model for simulating rare events in the zero range
and symmetric simple exclusion process. The model is based on an approxim
ating sequence of stochastic partial differential equations with nonlinear
\, conservative noise. The solutions capture to first-order the central l
imit fluctuations of the particle system\, and they correctly simulate rar
e events in terms of a large deviations principle.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/27/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah)
DTSTART:20210524T150000Z
DTEND:20210524T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/28
DESCRIPTION:Title: Phase Analysis for a family of stochastic reaction-diffu
sion equations\nby Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah) as part of
Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture hel
d in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe consider a reaction-di
ffusion equation of the type\n∂tψ=∂2xψ+V(ψ)+λσ(ψ)W˙on (0\,∞)
×𝕋\,\nsubject to a "nice" initial value and periodic boundary\, where
𝕋=[−1\,1] and W˙ denotes space-time white noise. The reaction term V
:ℝ→ℝ belongs to a large family of functions that includes Fisher--KP
P nonlinearities [V(x)=x(1−x)] as well as Allen-Cahn potentials [V(x)=x(
1−x)(1+x)]\, the multiplicative nonlinearity σ:ℝ→ℝ is non random
and Lipschitz continuous\, and λ>0 is a non-random number that measures t
he strength of the effect of the noise W˙.\nThe principal finding of this
paper is that: (i) When λ is sufficiently large\, the above equation has
a unique invariant measure\; and (ii) When λ is sufficiently small\, the
collection of all invariant measures is a non-trivial line segment\, in p
articular infinite. This proves an earlier prediction of Zimmerman et al.
(2000). Our methods also say a great deal about the structure of these inv
ariant measures.\n\nThis is based on joint work with Carl Mueller (Univ. R
ochester) and Kunwoo Kim (POSTECH\, S. Korea).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/28/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Jean-Pierre Fouque (University of California Santa Barbara)
DTSTART:20210614T150000Z
DTEND:20210614T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/29
DESCRIPTION:Title: Linear-Quadratic Stochastic Differential Games on Direct
ed Chain Networks\nby Jean-Pierre Fouque (University of California San
ta Barbara) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance
Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe
present linear-quadratic stochastic differential games on directed chains
inspired by the directed chain stochastic differential equations introduc
ed by Detering\, Fouque\, and Ichiba in a previous work. We solve explicit
ly for Nash equilibria with a finite number of players and we study more g
eneral finite-player games with a mixture of both directed chain interacti
on and mean field interaction. We investigate and compare the correspondin
g games in the limit when the number of players tends to infinity. \nThe l
imit is characterized by Catalan functions and the dynamics under equilibr
ium is an infinite-dimensional Gaussian process described by a Catalan Mar
kov chain\, with or without the presence of mean field interaction.\n\nJoi
nt work with Yichen Feng and Tomoyuki Ichiba.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/29/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Thaleia Zariphopoulou (University of Texas\, Austin)
DTSTART:20210426T150000Z
DTEND:20210426T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/30
DESCRIPTION:Title: Human-machine interaction models and robo-advising\n
by Thaleia Zariphopoulou (University of Texas\, Austin) as part of Oxford
Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Ox
ford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nI will introduce a family of hum
an-machine interaction (HMI) models in optimal portfolio construction (rob
o-advising). Modeling difficulties stem from the limited ability to quanti
fy the human’s risk preferences and describe their evolution\, but also
from the fact that the stochastic environment\, in which the machine optim
izes\, adapts to real-time incoming information that is exogenous to the h
uman. Furthermore\, the human’s risk preferences and the machine’s sta
tes may evolve at different scales. This interaction creates an adaptive c
ooperative game with both asymmetric and incomplete information exchange b
etween the two parties.\n\nAs a result\, challenging questions arise on\,
among others\, how frequently the two parties should communicate\, what in
formation can the machine accurately detect\, infer and predict\, how the
human reacts to exogenous events\, how to improve the inter-linked reliabi
lity between the human and the machine\, and others. Such HMI models give
rise to new\, non-standard optimization problems that combine adaptive sto
chastic control\, stochastic differential games\, optimal stopping\, multi
-scales and learning.\n\nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEudOysqDktEtRY
1O1qvMurCmzAEkP0c91V\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/30/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (University of California\, Berkeley)
DTSTART:20210517T150000Z
DTEND:20210517T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/31
DESCRIPTION:Title: Kinetic Theory for Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs\nby Fraydoun
Rezakhanlou (University of California\, Berkeley) as part of Oxford Stoch
astic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford
Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nThe flow of a Hamilton-Jacobi PDE yie
lds a dynamical system on the space of continuous functions. When the Hami
ltonian function is convex in the momentum variable\, and the spatial dime
nsion is one\, we may restrict the flow to piecewise smooth functions and
give a kinetic description for the solution. We regard the locations of ju
mp discontinuities of the first derivative of solutions as the sites of pa
rticles. These particles interact via collisions and coagulations. When th
ese particles are selected randomly according to certain Gibbs measures in
itially\, then the law of particles remains Gibbsian at later times\, and
one can derive a Boltzmann/Smoluchowski type PDE for the evolution of thes
e Gibbs measures. In higher dimensions\, we assume that the Hamiltonian f
unction is independent of position and that the initial condition is piec
ewise linear and convex. Such initial conditions can be identified as (Lag
uerre) tessellations and the Hamilton-Jacobi evolution can be described a
s a billiard on the set of tessellations.\n\nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/regis
ter/tJMtce6vrzojHd0_w6e6eOTwrgM1AL7v6GT9\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/31/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Ilya Chevyrev (University of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20210510T150000Z
DTEND:20210510T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/32
DESCRIPTION:Title: Superdiffusive limits for deterministic fast-slow dynami
cal systems\nby Ilya Chevyrev (University of Edinburgh) as part of Oxf
ord Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held i
n Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe consider multidimensional
fast-slow dynamical systems in discrete-time with random initial conditio
ns but otherwise completely deterministic dynamics. The question we will i
nvestigate is whether the slow variable converges in law to a stochastic p
rocess under a suitable scaling limit. We will be particularly interested
in the case when the limiting dynamic is superdiffusive\, i.e. it coincide
s in law with the solution of a Marcus SDE driven by a discontinuous stabl
e Lévy process. Under certain assumptions\, we will show that generically
convergence does not hold in any Skorokhod topology but does hold in a ge
neralisation of the Skorokhod strong M1 topology which we define using so-
called path functions. Our methods are based on a combination of ergodic t
heory and ideas arising from (but not using) rough paths. We will finally
show that our assumptions are satisfied for a class of intermittent maps o
f Pomeau-Manneville type.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/32/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Yuchong Zhang (University of Toronto)
DTSTART:20210607T150000Z
DTEND:20210607T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/33
DESCRIPTION:Title: Risk-Taking Contest and its Mean Field Approximation
\nby Yuchong Zhang (University of Toronto) as part of Oxford Stochastic An
alysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathemat
ical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nIn the risk-taking model of Seel and Strack\,
n players decide when to stop privately observed Brownian motions with dr
ift and absorption at zero. They are then ranked according to their level
of stopping and paid a rank-dependent reward. We study the optimal reward
design where a principal is interested in the average performance and the
performance at a given rank. While the former can be related to reward ine
quality in the Lorenz sense\, the latter can have a surprising shape. Next
\, I will present the mean-field version of this problem. A particular fea
ture of this game is to be tractable without necessarily being smooth\, wh
ich turns out to offer a cautionary tale. We show that the mean field equi
librium induces n-player ε-Nash equilibria for any continuous reward func
tion— but not for discontinuous ones. We also analyze the quality of the
mean field design (for maximizing the median performance) when used as a
proxy for the optimizer in the n-player game. Surprisingly\, the quality d
eteriorates dramatically as n grows. We explain this with an asymptotic si
ngularity in the induced n-player equilibrium distributions.\n\nJoint work
with M. Nutz.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/33/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Jin Ma (University of Southern California)
DTSTART:20210621T150000Z
DTEND:20210621T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/34
DESCRIPTION:Title: Set-valued Backward SDEs and Set-valued Stochastic Analy
sis\nby Jin Ma (University of Southern California) as part of Oxford S
tochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxf
ord Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe establish an analytic framewor
k for studying Set-Valued Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (SVBS
DE for short)\, motivated largely by the current studies of dynamic set-va
lued risk measures for multi-asset or network-based financial models. Our
framework will be based on the notion of Hukuhara difference between sets\
, in order to compensate the lack of “inverse” operation of the tradit
ional Minkowski addition\, whence the vector space structure\, in traditio
nal set-valued analysis. We shall examine and establish a useful foundatio
n of set-valued stochastic analysis under this algebraic framework\, inclu
ding some fundamental issues regarding Aumann-Ito integrals\, especially w
hen it is connected to the martingale representation theorem. We shall ide
ntify some fundamental challenges and propose some extensions of the exist
ing theory that are necessary to study the SVBSDEs.\n\nThis talk is based
on the joint work with Cagın Ararat and Wenqian Wu.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/34/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Samuel Cohen (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20211011T150000Z
DTEND:20211011T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/35
DESCRIPTION:Title: Arbitrage-free market models via neural SDEs\nby Sam
uel Cohen (University of Oxford) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and
Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Insti
tute.\n\nAbstract\nModelling joint dynamics of liquid vanilla options is c
rucial for arbitrage-free pricing of illiquid derivatives and managing ris
ks of option trade books. This paper develops a nonparametric model for th
e European options book respecting underlying financial constraints and wh
ile being practically implementable. We derive a state space for prices wh
ich are free from static (or model-independent) arbitrage and study the in
ference problem where a model is learnt from discrete time series data of
stock and option prices. We use neural networks as function approximators
for the drift and diffusion of the modelled SDE system\, and impose constr
aints on the neural nets such that no-arbitrage conditions are preserved.
In particular\, we give methods to calibrate neural SDE models which are g
uaranteed to satisfy a set of linear inequalities. We validate our approac
h with numerical experiments using data generated from a Heston stochastic
local volatility model\, and will discuss some initial results using real
data.\n\nBased on joint work with Christoph Reisinger and Sheng Wang\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/35/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Gregorios Pavliotis (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20211018T150000Z
DTEND:20211018T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/36
DESCRIPTION:Title: On the diffusive-mean field limit for weakly interacting
diffusions exhibiting phase transitions\nby Gregorios Pavliotis (Impe
rial College London) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematica
l Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute\, L3.\n
\nAbstract\nI will present recent results on the statistical behaviour of
a large number of weakly interacting diffusion processes evolving under th
e influence of a periodic interaction potential. We study the combined mea
n field and diffusive (homogenisation) limits. In particular\, we show tha
t these two limits do not commute if the mean field system constrained on
the torus undergoes a phase transition\, i.e.\, if it admits more than one
steady state. A typical example of such a system on the torus is given by
mean field plane rotator (XY\, Heisenberg\, O(2)) model. As a by-product
of our main results\, we also analyse the energetic consequences of the ce
ntral limit theorem for fluctuations around the mean field limit and deriv
e optimal rates of convergence in relative entropy of the Gibbs measure to
the (unique) limit of the mean field energy below the critical temperatur
e. This is joint work with Matias Delgadino (U Texas Austin) and Rishabh G
valani (MPI Leipzig).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/36/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Yvain Bruned (University of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20211101T160000Z
DTEND:20211101T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/37
DESCRIPTION:Title: Locality for singular stochastic PDEs\nby Yvain Brun
ed (University of Edinburgh) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mat
hematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute
.\n\nAbstract\nWe will present the tools of regularity structures to deal
with singular stochastic PDEs that involve non-translation invariant diffe
rential operators. We describe in particular the renormalized equation for
a very large class of spacetime dependent renormalization schemes. Our ap
proach bypasses the previous approaches in the translation-invariant setti
ng. \n\nThis is joint work with Ismael Bailleul.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/37/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:David Proemel (Mannheim)
DTSTART:20211108T160000Z
DTEND:20211108T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/38
DESCRIPTION:Title: Model-free portfolio theory: a rough path approach\n
by David Proemel (Mannheim) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Math
ematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.
\n\nAbstract\nClassical approaches to optimal portfolio selection problems
are based on probabilistic models for the asset returns or prices. Howeve
r\, by now it is well observed that the performance of optimal portfolios
are highly sensitive to model misspecifications. To account for various ty
pe of model risk\, robust and model-free approaches have gained more and m
ore importance in portfolio theory. Based on a rough path foundation\, we
develop a model-free approach to stochastic portfolio theory and Cover's u
niversal portfolio. The use of rough path theory allows treating significa
ntly more general portfolios in a model-free setting\, compared to previou
s model-free approaches. Without the assumption of any underlying probabil
istic model\, we present pathwise Master formulae analogously to the cla
ssical ones in stochastic portfolio theory\, describing the growth of weal
th processes generated by pathwise portfolios relative to the wealth proce
ss of the market portfolio\, and we show that the appropriately scaled asy
mptotic growth rate of Cover's universal portfolio is equal to the one o
f the best retrospectively chosen portfolio. \n\nThe talk is based on join
t work with \nAndrew Allan\, Christa Cuchiero and Chong Liu.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/38/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Isao Sauzedde (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20211025T150000Z
DTEND:20211025T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/39
DESCRIPTION:Title: Brownian windings\nby Isao Sauzedde (University of O
xford) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Semi
nar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nGiven a
point and a loop in the plane\, one can define a relative integer which c
ounts how many times the curve winds around the point. We will discuss how
this winding function\, defined for almost every points in the plane\, al
lows to define some integrals along the loop. Then\, we will investigate s
ome properties of it when the loop is Brownian.\nIn particular\, we will e
xplain how to recover data such as the Lévy area of the curve and its occ
upation measure\, based on the values of the winding of uniformly distribu
ted points on the plane.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/39/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Johannes Wiesel (Columbia University)
DTSTART:20211115T160000Z
DTEND:20211115T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/40
DESCRIPTION:Title: Measuring association with Wasserstein distances\nby
Johannes Wiesel (Columbia University) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analys
is and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical
Institute.\n\nAbstract\nLet π ∈ Π(μ\, ν) be a coupling between two
probability measures μ and ν on a Polish space. In this talk we propose
and study a class of nonparametric measures of association between μ and
ν\, which we call Wasserstein correlation coefficients. These coefficient
s are based on the Wasserstein distance between ν and the disintegration
of π with respect to the first coordinate. We also establish basic statis
tical properties of this new class of measures: we develop a statistical t
heory for strongly consistent estimators and determine their convergence r
ate in the case of compactly supported measures μ and ν. Throughout our
analysis we make use of the so-called adapted/bicausal Wasserstein distanc
e\, in particular we rely on results established in [Backhoff\, Bartl\, Be
iglböck\, Wiesel. Estimating processes in adapted Wasserstein distance. 2
020]. Our approach applies to probability laws on general Polish spaces.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/40/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Hendrik Weber (University of Bath)
DTSTART:20211122T160000Z
DTEND:20211122T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/41
DESCRIPTION:Title: Gibbs measures in infinite dimensions - new results on a
classical topic\nby Hendrik Weber (University of Bath) as part of Oxf
ord Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held i
n Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nGibbs measures on spaces of
functions or distributions play an important role in various contexts in m
athematical physics. They can\, for example\, be viewed as continuous cou
nterparts of classical spin models such as the Ising model\, they are an i
mportant stepping stone in the rigorous construction of Quantum Field Theo
ries\, and they are invariant under the \nflow of certain dispersive PDEs\
, permitting to develop a solution theory with random initial data\, well
below the deterministic regularity threshold. \n\nThese measures have been
constructed and studied\, at least since the 60s\, but over the last few
years there has been renewed interest\, partially due to new methods in st
ochastic analysis\, including Hairer’s theory of regularity structures a
nd Gubinelli-Imkeller-Perkowski’s theory of paracontrolled distributions
. \n\nIn this talk I will present two independent but complementary result
s that can be obtained with these new techniques. I will first show how to
obtain estimates on samples from of the Euclidean $\\phi^4_3$ measure\, b
ased on SPDE methods. In the second part\, I will discuss a method to show
the emergence of phase transitions in the $\\phi^4_3$ theory.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/41/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20211129T160000Z
DTEND:20211129T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/42
DESCRIPTION:Title: Critical exponents for a three-dimensional percolation m
odel\nby Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (Imperial College London) as part o
f Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture h
eld in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe will report on recen
t progress regarding the near-critical behavior of certain statistical phy
sics models in dimension 3. Our results deal with the second-order phase t
ransition associated to two percolation problems involving the Gaussian fr
ee field in 3D. In one case\, they determine a unique ``fixed point'' corr
esponding to the transition\, which is proved to obey one of several scali
ng relations. Such laws are classically conjectured to hold by physicists
on the grounds of a corresponding scaling ansatz.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/42/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:James Morrill (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20220117T160000Z
DTEND:20220117T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/43
DESCRIPTION:Title: Neural rough differential equations\nby James Morril
l (University of Oxford) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathema
tical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\
nAbstract\nNeural controlled differential equations (CDEs) are the continu
ous-time analogue of recurrent neural networks\, as Neural ODEs are to res
idual networks\, and offer a memory-efficient continuous-time way to model
functions of potentially irregular time series. Existing methods for comp
uting the forward pass of a Neural CDE involve embedding the incoming time
series into path space\, often via interpolation\, and using evaluations
of this path to drive the hidden state. Here\, we use rough path theory to
extend this formulation. Instead of directly embedding into path space\,
we instead represent the input signal over small time intervals through it
s \\textit{log-signature}\, which are statistics describing how the signal
drives a CDE. This is the approach for solving \\textit{rough differentia
l equations} (RDEs)\, and correspondingly we describe our main contributio
n as the introduction of Neural RDEs. This extension has a purpose: by gen
eralising the Neural CDE approach to a broader class of driving signals\,
we demonstrate particular advantages for tackling long time series. In thi
s regime\, we demonstrate efficacy on problems of length up to 17k observa
tions and observe significant training speed-ups\, improvements in model p
erformance\, and reduced memory requirements compared to existing approach
es.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/43/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Avi Mayorcas (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20220131T160000Z
DTEND:20220131T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/44
DESCRIPTION:Title: Distribution dependent SDEs driven by additive continuou
s and fractional Brownian noise\nby Avi Mayorcas (Cambridge) as part o
f Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture h
eld in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nDistribution dependent
equations (or McKean—Vlasov equations) have found many applications to p
roblems in physics\, biology\, economics\, finance and computer science. H
istorically\, equations with either Brownian noise or zero noise have rece
ived the most attention\; many well known results can be found in the mono
graphs by A. Sznitman and F. Golse. More recently\, attention has been pai
d to distribution dependent equations driven by random continuous noise\,
in particular the recent works by M. Coghi\, J-D. Deuschel\, P. Friz & M.
Maurelli\, with applications to battery modelling. Furthermore\, the pheno
menon of regularisation by noise has received new attention following the
works of D. Davie and M. Gubinelli & R. Catellier using techniques of aver
aging along rough trajectories. Building on these ideas I will present rec
ent joint work with L. Galeati and F. Harang concerning well-posedness and
stability results for distribution dependent equations driven first by me
rely continuous noise and secondly driven by fractional Brownian motion.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/44/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Clement Mouhot (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20220207T153000Z
DTEND:20220207T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/45
DESCRIPTION:Title: Quantitative Hydrodynamic Limits of Stochastic Lattice S
ystems\nby Clement Mouhot (Cambridge) as part of Oxford Stochastic Ana
lysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathemati
cal Institute.\n\nAbstract\nI will present a simple abstract quantitative
method for proving the hydrodynamic limit of interacting particle systems
on a lattice\, both in the hyperbolic and parabolic scaling. In the latter
case\, the convergence rate is uniform in time. This "consistency-stabili
ty" approach combines a modulated Wasserstein-distance estimate comparing
the law of the stochastic process to the local Gibbs measure\, together wi
th stability estimates à la Kruzhkov in weak distance\, and consistency e
stimates exploiting the regularity of the limit solution. It avoids the us
e of “block estimates” and is self-contained. We apply it to the simpl
e exclusion process\, the zero range process\, and the Ginzburg-Landau pro
cess with Kawasaki dynamics. This is a joint work with Daniel Marahrens an
d Angeliki Menegaki (IHES).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/45/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20220228T153000Z
DTEND:20220228T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/46
DESCRIPTION:Title: A general criterion for the existence and uniqueness of
maximal solutions for a class of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
\nby Dan Crisan (Imperial College London) as part of Oxford Stochastic
Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathe
matical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nModern atmospheric and ocean science requi
re sophisticated geophysical fluid dynamics models. Among them\, stochasti
c partial differential equations (SPDEs) have become increasingly relevant
. The stochasticity in such models can account for the effect of the unres
olved scales (stochastic parametrizations)\, model uncertainty\, unspecifi
ed boundary condition\, etc. Whilst there is an extensive SPDE literature\
, most of it covers models with unrealistic noise terms\, making them un-a
pplicable to geophysical fluid dynamics modelling. There are nevertheless
notable exceptions: a number of individual SPDEs with specific forms and n
oise structure have been introduced and analysed\, each of which with besp
oke methodology and painstakingly hard arguments. In this talk I will pres
ent a criterion for the existence of a unique maximal strong solution for
nonlinear SPDEs. The work is inspired by the abstract criterion of Kato an
d Lai [1984] valid for nonlinear PDEs. The criterion is designed to fit vi
scous fluid dynamics models with Stochastic Advection by Lie Transport (SA
LT) as introduced in Holm [2015]. As an immediate application\, I show tha
t the incompressible SALT 3D Navier-Stokes equation on a bounded domain h
as a unique maximal solution.\n\nThis is joint work with Oana Lang\, Danie
l Goodair and Romeo Mensah and it is partially supported by European Resea
rch Council (ERC)\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/46/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:XueRong Mao (University of Strathclyde)
DTSTART:20220307T153000Z
DTEND:20220307T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/47
DESCRIPTION:Title: Positivity preserving truncated Euler-Maruyama method fo
r stochastic Lotka-Volterra model\nby XueRong Mao (University of Strat
hclyde) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Sem
inar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nMost o
f SDE models in epidemics\, ecology\, biology\, finance etc. are highly no
nlinear and do not have explicit solutions. Monte Carlo simulations have p
layed a more and more important role. This talk will point out several wel
l-known numerical schemes may fail to preserve the positivity or moment of
the solutions to SDE models. Reliable numerical schemes are therefore req
uired to be designed so that the corresponding Monte Carlo simulations can
be trusted. The talk will then concentrate on new numerical schemes for t
he well-known stochastic Lotka--Volterra model for interacting multi-speci
es. This model has some typical features: highly nonlinear\, positive solu
tion and multi-dimensional. The known numerical methods including the tame
d/truncated Euler-Maruyama (EM) applied to it do not preserve its positivi
ty. The aim of this talk is to modify the truncated EM to establish a new
positive preserving truncated EM (PPTEM).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/47/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Gudmund Pammer (ETH Zurich)
DTSTART:20220221T153000Z
DTEND:20220221T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/48
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Wasserstein space of stochastic processes & computat
ional aspects\nby Gudmund Pammer (ETH Zurich) as part of Oxford Stocha
stic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford M
athematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWasserstein distance induces a natural
Riemannian structure for the probabilities on the Euclidean space. This i
nsight of classical transport theory is fundamental for tremendous applica
tions in various fields of pure and applied mathematics. We believe that a
n appropriate probabilistic variant\, the adapted Wasserstein distance $AW
$\, can play a similar role for the class $FP$ of filtered processes\, i.e
. stochastic processes together with a filtration. In contrast to other to
pologies for stochastic processes\, probabilistic operations such as the D
oob-decomposition\, optimal stopping and stochastic control are continuous
w.r.t. $AW$. We also show that $(FP\, AW)$ is a geodesic space\, isometri
c to a classical Wasserstein space\, and that martingales form a closed ge
odesically convex subspace. Finally we consider computational aspects and
provide a novel method based on the Sinkhorn algorithm.\nThe talk is based
on articles with Daniel Bartl\, Mathias Beiglböck and Stephan Eckstein.\
n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/48/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Lukasz Szpruch (Alan Turing Institute)
DTSTART:20220509T143000Z
DTEND:20220509T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/49
DESCRIPTION:Title: Exploration-exploitation trade-off for continuous-time e
pisodic reinforcement learning with linear-convex models\nby Lukasz Sz
pruch (Alan Turing Institute) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Ma
thematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institut
e.\n\nAbstract\nWe develop a probabilistic framework for analysing model-b
ased reinforcement learning in the episodic setting. We then apply it to s
tudy finite-time horizon stochastic control problems with linear dynamics
but unknown coefficients and convex\, but possibly irregular\, objective f
unction. Using probabilistic representations\, we study regularity of the
associated cost functions and establish precise estimates for the performa
nce gap between applying optimal feedback control derived from estimated a
nd true model parameters. We identify conditions under which this performa
nce gap is quadratic\, improving the linear performance gap in recent work
[X. Guo\, A. Hu\, and Y. Zhang\, arXiv preprint\, arXiv:2104.09311\, (202
1)]\, which matches the results obtained for stochastic linear-quadratic p
roblems. Next\, we propose a phase-based learning algorithm for which we s
how how to optimise exploration-exploitation trade-off and achieve subline
ar regrets in high probability and expectation. When assumptions needed fo
r the quadratic performance gap hold\, the algorithm achieves an order $O(
N‾‾√lnN)$ high probability regret\, in the general case\, and an ord
er $O((lnN)^2)$ expected regret\, in self-exploration case\, over N episod
es\, matching the best possible results from the literature. The analysis
requires novel concentration inequalities for correlated continuous-time o
bservations\, which we derive.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/49/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:James Norris (Cambridge University)
DTSTART:20220425T143000Z
DTEND:20220425T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/50
DESCRIPTION:Title: Scaling limits for Hastings-Levitov aggregation with sub
-critical parameters\nby James Norris (Cambridge University) as part o
f Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture h
eld in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe consider\, in a fram
ework of iterated random conformal maps\, a two-parameter aggregation mode
l of Hastings-Levitov type\, in which the size and intensity of new partic
les are each chosen to vary as a power of the density of harmonic measure.
Then we consider a limit in which the overall intensity of particles beco
me large\, while the particles themselves become small. For a certain `sub
-critical' range of parameter values\, we can show a law of large numbers
and fluctuation central limit theorem. The admissible range of parameters
includes an off-lattice version of the Eden model\, for which we can show
that disk-shaped clusters are stable. Many open problem remain\, not least
because the limit PDE does not yet have a satisfactory mathematical theor
y. \nThis is joint work with Vittoria Silvestri and Amanda Turner.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/50/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Mouhamadou Sy (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20220523T143000Z
DTEND:20220523T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/51
DESCRIPTION:Title: Constructing global solutions to energy supercritical PD
Es\nby Mouhamadou Sy (Imperial College London) as part of Oxford Stoch
astic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford
Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nIn this talk\, we will discuss invari
ant measures techniques to establish probabilistic global well-posedness f
or PDEs. We will go over the limitations that the Gibbs measures and the s
o-called fluctuation-dissipation measures encounter in the context of ener
gy-supercritical PDEs. Then\, we will present a new approach combining the
two aforementioned methods and apply it to the energy supercritical Schr
ödinger equations. We will point out other applications as well.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/51/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Thaleia Zariphopoulou (University of Texas Austin)
DTSTART:20220516T143000Z
DTEND:20220516T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/52
DESCRIPTION:Title: This seminar has been cancelled\nby Thaleia Zariphop
oulou (University of Texas Austin) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis a
nd Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Ins
titute.\n\nAbstract\nI will introduce a class of mean-field games under fo
rward performance and for general risk preferences. Players interact throu
gh competition in fund management\, driven by relative performance concern
s in an asset diversification setting. This results in a common-noise mean
field game. I will present the value and the optimal policies of such gam
es\, as well as some concrete examples. I will also discuss the partial in
formation case\, i.e.. when the risk premium is not directly observed.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/52/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:James Michael Leahy (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20220613T143000Z
DTEND:20220613T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/53
DESCRIPTION:Title: Fluid dynamics on geometric rough paths and variational
principles\nby James Michael Leahy (Imperial College London) as part o
f Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture h
eld in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nNoether’s theorem pla
ys a fundamental role in modern physics by relating symmetries of a Lagran
gian to conserved quantities of the Euler-Lagrange equations. In ideal flu
id dynamics\, the theorem relates the particle labeling symmetry to a Kelv
in circulation law. Circulation is conserved for incompressible fluids and
\, otherwise\, is generated by advected variables through the momentum map
due to a broken symmetry. We will introduce variational principles for fl
uid dynamics that constrain advection to be the sum of a smooth and geomet
ric rough-in-time vector field. The corresponding rough Euler-Poincare equ
ations satisfy a Kelvin circulation theorem and lead to a natural framewor
k to develop parsimonious non-Markovian parameterizations of subgrid-scale
dynamics.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/53/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Christa Cuchiero (University of Vienna)
DTSTART:20221128T153000Z
DTEND:20221128T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/54
DESCRIPTION:Title: Universal approximation of path space functionals\nb
y Christa Cuchiero (University of Vienna) as part of Oxford Stochastic Ana
lysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathemati
cal Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe introduce functional input neural networks
defined on infinite dimensional weighted spaces\, where we use an additiv
e family as hidden layer maps and a non-linear activation function applied
to each hidden layer. Relying on approximation theory based on Stone-Weie
rstrass and Nachbin type theorems on weighted spaces\, we can prove global
universal approximation results for (differentiable and) continuous funct
ions going beyond approximation on compact sets. This applies in particula
r to approximation of (non-anticipative) path space functionals via functi
onal input neural networks but also via linear maps of the signature of th
e respective paths. We apply these results in the context of stochastic po
rtfolio theory to generate path dependent portfolios that are trained to o
utperform the market portfolio. The talk is based on joint works with Phil
ipp Schmocker and Josef Teichmann.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/54/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick)
DTSTART:20221024T143000Z
DTEND:20221024T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/55
DESCRIPTION:Title: Edwards-Wilkinson fluctuations for the Anisotropic KPZ i
n the weak coupling regime\nby Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warw
ick) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Semina
r\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe presen
t recent results on an anisotropic variant of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equa
tion\, the Anisotropic KPZ equation (AKPZ)\, in the critical spatial dimen
sion d=2. This is a singular SPDE which is conjectured to capture the beha
viour of the fluctuations of a large family of random surface growth pheno
mena but whose analysis falls outside of the scope not only of classical s
tochastic calculus but also of the theory of Regularity Structures and par
acontrolled calculus. We first consider a regularised version of the AKPZ
equation which preserves the invariant measure and prove the conjecture ma
de in [Cannizzaro\, Erhard\, Toninelli\, "The AKPZ equation at stationarit
y: logarithmic superdiffusivity"]\, i.e. we show that\, at large scales\,
the correlation length grows like t1/2 (log t)1/4 up to lower order correc
tion. Second\, we prove that in the so-called weak coupling regime\, i.e.
the equation regularised at scale N and the coefficient of the nonlinearit
y tuned down by a factor (log N)-1/2\, the AKPZ equation converges to a li
near stochastic heat equation with renormalised coefficients. Time allowin
g\, we will comment on how some of the techniques introduced can be applie
d to other SPDEs and physical systems at and above criticality.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/55/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Konstantinos Dareiotis (University of Leeds)
DTSTART:20221017T143000Z
DTEND:20221017T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/56
DESCRIPTION:Title: Regularisation of differential equations by multiplicati
ve fractional noise\nby Konstantinos Dareiotis (University of Leeds) a
s part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nL
ecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nIn this talk\,
we consider differential equations perturbed by multiplicative fractional
Brownian noise. Depending on the value of the Hurst parameter $H$\, the re
sulting equation is pathwise viewed as an ordinary ($H>1$)\, Young ($H \\
in (1/2\, 1)$) or rough ($H \\in (1/3\, 1/2)$) differential equation. In
all three regimes we show regularisation by noise phenomena by proving the
strongest kind of well-posedness for equations with irregular drifts: st
rong existence and path-by-path uniqueness. In the Young and smooth regime
$H>1/2$ the condition on the drift coefficient is optimal in the sense th
at it agrees with the one known for the additive case.\n\nIn the rough reg
ime $H\\in(1/3\,1/2)$ we assume positive but arbitrarily small drift regul
arity for strong \nwell-posedness\, while for distributional drift we obta
in weak existence. \nThis is a joint work with Máté Gerencsér.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/56/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Laure Dumaz (Ecole Normale Superieure)
DTSTART:20221031T153000Z
DTEND:20221031T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/57
DESCRIPTION:Title: Some aspects of the Anderson Hamiltonian with white nois
e\nby Laure Dumaz (Ecole Normale Superieure) as part of Oxford Stochas
tic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Ma
thematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nI will present several results on the A
nderson Hamiltonian with white noise potential in dimension 1. This operat
or formally writes « - Laplacian + white noise ». It arises as the scali
ng limit of various discrete models and its explicit potential allows for
a detailed description of its spectrum. We will discuss localization of it
s eigenfunctions as well as the behavior of the local statistics of its ei
genvalues. Around large energies\, we will see that the eigenfunctions are
localized and follow a universal shape given by the exponential of a Brow
nian motion plus a drift\, a behavior already observed by Rifkind and Vira
g in tridiagonal matrix models. Based on joint works with Cyril Labbé.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/57/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Johannes Ruf (LSE)
DTSTART:20221114T153000Z
DTEND:20221114T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/58
DESCRIPTION:Title: Minimum curvature flow and martingale exit times\nby
Johannes Ruf (LSE) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical
Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbst
ract\nWhat is the largest deterministic amount of time T∗ that a\nsuitab
ly normalized martingale X can be kept inside a convex body K in Rd?\nWe s
how\, in a viscosity framework\, that T∗ equals the time it takes for th
e\nrelative boundary of K to reach X(0) as it undergoes a geometric flow t
hat\nwe call (positive) minimum curvature flow. This result has close link
s to\nthe literature on stochastic and game representations of geometric f
lows.\nMoreover\, the minimum curvature flow can be viewed as an arrival t
ime\nversion of the Ambrosio–Soner codimension-(d − 1) mean curvature
flow of the\n1-skeleton of K. We present very preliminary sampling-based n
umerical\napproximations to the solution of the corresponding PDE. The num
erical part\nis work in progress.\nThis work is based on a collaboration w
ith Camilo Garcia Trillos\, Martin\nLarsson\, and Yufei Zhang.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/58/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Eyal Neuman (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20221010T143000Z
DTEND:20221010T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/59
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Effective Radius of Self Repelling Elastic Manifolds
\nby Eyal Neuman (Imperial College London) as part of Oxford Stochasti
c Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Math
ematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe study elastic manifolds with self-repe
lling \nterms and estimate their effective radius. This class of \nmanifol
ds is modelled by a self-repelling vector-valued Gaussian free field \nwit
h Neumann boundary conditions over the domain $[-N\,N]^d\\cap \\mathbb{Z}^
d$\, \nthat takes values in $\\mathbb{R}^D$. Our main results state that f
or two \ndimensional domain and range ($D=2$ and $d=2$)\, the effective ra
dius $R_N$ of the manifold is\napproximately $N$. When the dimension of th
e domain is $d=2$ and the dimension of the range is $D=1$\, the effective
radius $R_N$ of the manifold is approximately $N^{4/3}$. This verifies the
conjecture of Kantor\, Kardar and Nelson. \n\nWe also provide results for
the case where $d \\geq 3$ and $D \\leq d$\, namely we give a lower bound
on \n$R_N$ of order $N^{\\frac{1}{D} \\left(d-\\frac{2(d-D)}{D+2} \\right
)}$ and an \nupper bound proportional to $N^{\\frac{d}{2}+\\frac{d-D}{D+2}
}$. These results \nimply that self-repelling elastic manifolds with a low
dimensional range \nundergo a significantly stronger stretching than in t
he case where \nd=D. \n\nThis is a joint work with Carl Mueller.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/59/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Tadahiro Oh (University of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20221107T153000Z
DTEND:20221107T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/60
DESCRIPTION:Title: Gibbs measures\, canonical stochastic quantization and s
ingular stochastic wave equations\nby Tadahiro Oh (University of Edinb
urgh) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Semin
ar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nI will d
iscuss the (non-)construction of the focusing\nGibbs measures and the asso
ciated dynamical problems. This study was\ninitiated by Lebowitz\, Rose\,
and Speer (1988) and continued by Bourgain\n(1994)\, Brydges-Slade (1996)\
, and Carlen-Fröhlich-Lebowitz (2016). In\nthe one-dimensional setting\,
we consider the mass-critical case\, where a\ncritical mass threshold is g
iven by the mass of the ground state on the\nreal line. In this case\, I w
ill show that the Gibbs measure is indeed\nnormalizable at the optimal mas
s threshold\, thus answering an open\nquestion posed by Lebowitz\, Rose\,
and Speer (1988).\n\nIn the three dimensional-setting\, I will first discu
ss the construction\nof the $\\Phi^3_3$-measure with a cubic interaction p
otential. This\nproblem turns out to be critical\, exhibiting a phase tran
sition:\nnormalizability in the weakly nonlinear regime and non-normalizab
ility\nin the strongly nonlinear regime. Then\, I will discuss the dynamic
al\nproblem for the canonical stochastic quantization of the\n$\\Phi^3_3$-
measure\, namely\, the three-dimensional stochastic damped\nnonlinear wave
equation with a quadratic nonlinearity forced by an\nadditive space-time
white noise (= the hyperbolic $\\Phi^3_3$-model). As\nfor the local theory
\, I will describe the paracontrolled approach to\nstudy stochastic nonlin
ear wave equations\, introduced in my work with\nGubinelli and Koch (2018)
. In the globalization part\, I introduce a new\,\nconceptually simple and
straightforward approach\, where we directly work\nwith the (truncated) G
ibbs measure\, using the variational formula and\nideas from theory of opt
imal transport.\n \n\nThe first part of the talk is based on a joint work
with Philippe Sosoe\n(Cornell) and Leonardo Tolomeo (Bonn/Edinburgh)\, whi
le the second part\nis based on a joint work with Mamoru Okamoto (Osaka) a
nd Leonardo\nTolomeo (Bonn/Edinburgh).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/60/
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SUMMARY:Darrick Lee (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20221121T153000Z
DTEND:20221121T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/61
DESCRIPTION:Title: Mapping Space Signatures\nby Darrick Lee (University
of Oxford) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance
Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe
introduce the mapping space signature\, a generalization of the path sign
ature for maps from higher dimensional cubical domains\, which is motivate
d by the topological perspective of iterated integrals by K. T. Chen. We s
how that the mapping space signature shares many of the analytic and algeb
raic properties of the path signature\; in particular it is universal and
characteristic with respect to Jacobian equivalence classes of cubical map
s. \nThis is joint work with Chad Giusti\, Vidit Nanda\, and Harald Oberha
user.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/61/
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SUMMARY:ZhongMin Qian (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20230206T153000Z
DTEND:20230206T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/62
DESCRIPTION:Title: Monte-Carlo simulations for wall-bounded incompressible
viscous fluid flows\nby ZhongMin Qian (University of Oxford) as part o
f Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture h
eld in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nI will present several
new stochastic representations for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation
s in a wall-bounded region\, in the spirit of mean field theory. These new
representations are\nobtained by using the duality of conditional laws as
sociated with the Taylor diffusion family.\nBy using these representation\
, Monte-Carlo simulations for boundary fluid flows\, including\nboundary t
urbulence\, may be implemented. Numerical experiments are given to demonst
rate the usefulness\nof this approach.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/62/
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SUMMARY:Patrícia Gonçalves (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Jan
eiro)
DTSTART:20230123T153000Z
DTEND:20230123T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/63
DESCRIPTION:Title: Particle exchange models with several conservation laws<
/a>\nby Patrícia Gonçalves (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Jan
eiro) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Semin
ar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nIn this
talk I will present an exclusion process with different types of particles
: A\, B and C. This last type can be understood as holes. Two scaling limi
ts will be discussed: hydrodynamic limits in the boundary driven setting\;
and equilibrium fluctuations for an evolution on the torus. In the later
case\, we distinguish several cases\, that depend on the choice of the jum
p rates\, for which we get in the limit either the stochastic Burgers equa
tion or the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation. These results match with predicti
ons from non-linear fluctuating hydrodynamics. \n(Joint work with G. Canni
zzaro\, A. Occelli\, R. Misturini).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/63/
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SUMMARY:Peter Bank (TU Berlin)
DTSTART:20230227T153000Z
DTEND:20230227T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/64
DESCRIPTION:Title: Trading on a noisy signal: explicit solution to an infin
ite-dimensional stochastic optimal control problem\nby Peter Bank (TU
Berlin) as part of Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Sem
inar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nWe con
sider an investor who is dynamically informed about the future evolution o
f one of the independent Brownian motions driving a stock's price fluctuat
ions. The resulting rough semimartingale dynamics allow for strong arbitra
ge\, but with linear temporary price impact the resulting optimal investme
nt problem with exponential utility turns out to be well posed. The dynami
cally revealed Brownian path segment makes the problem infinite-dimensiona
l\, but by considering its convex-analytic dual problem\, we show that it
still can be solved explicitly and we give some financial-economic insight
s into the optimal investment strategy and the properties of maximum expec
ted utility. \n(Joint work with Yan Dolinsky\, Hebrew University of Jerusa
lem).\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/64/
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SUMMARY:Ellen Powell (Durham)
DTSTART:20230306T153000Z
DTEND:20230306T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/65
DESCRIPTION:Title: Brownian excursions\, conformal loop ensembles and criti
cal Liouville quantum gravity\nby Ellen Powell (Durham) as part of Oxf
ord Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held i
n Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nIt was recently shown by Aid
ekon and Da Silva how to construct a growth fragmentation process from a p
lanar Brownian excursion. I will explain how this same growth fragmentatio
n process arises in another setting: when one decorates a certain “criti
cal Liouville quantum gravity random surface” with a conformal loop ense
mble of parameter 4. This talk is based on joint work with Juhan Aru\, Nin
a Holden and Xin Sun.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/65/
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SUMMARY:Roland Bauerschmidt (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20230220T153000Z
DTEND:20230220T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/66
DESCRIPTION:Title: Random forests and the OSp(1|2) nonlinear sigma model\nby Roland Bauerschmidt (University of Cambridge) as part of Oxford Stoc
hastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford
Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nGiven a finite graph\, the arboreal
gas is the measure on\nforests (subgraphs without cycles) in which each ed
ge is weighted by a\nparameter β greater than 0. Equivalently this model
is bond percolation\nconditioned to be a forest\, the independent sets of
the graphic matroid\,\nor the q→0 limit of the random cluster representa
tion of the q-state\nPotts model. Our results rely on the fact that this m
odel is also the\ngraphical representation of the nonlinear sigma model wi
th target space\nthe fermionic hyperbolic plane H^{0|2}\, whose symmetry g
roup is the\nsupergroup OSp(1|2).\n\nThe main question we are interested i
n is whether the arboreal gas\npercolates\, i.e.\, whether for a given β
the forest has a connected\ncomponent that includes a positive fraction of
the total edges of the\ngraph. We show that in two dimensions a Mermin-Wa
gner theorem associated\nwith the OSp(1|2) symmetry of the nonlinear sigma
model implies that the\narboreal gas does not percolate for any β greate
r than 0. On the other\nhand\, in three and higher dimensions\, we show th
at percolation occurs\nfor large β by proving that the OSp(1|2) symmetry
of the non-linear\nsigma model is spontaneously broken. We also show that
the broken\nsymmetry is accompanied by massless fluctuations (Goldstone mo
de). This\nresult is achieved by a renormalisation group analysis combined
with\nWard identities from the internal symmetry of the sigma model.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/66/
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SUMMARY:Thomas Cass (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20230116T153000Z
DTEND:20230116T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/67
DESCRIPTION:Title: Topologies and functions on unparameterised path space\nby Thomas Cass (Imperial College London) as part of Oxford Stochastic
Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held in Oxford Mathem
atical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nThe signature is a non-commutative exponent
ial that appeared in the foundational work of K-T Chen in the 1950s. It is
also a fundamental object in the theory of rough paths (Lyons\, 1998). Mo
re recently\, it has been proposed\, and used\, as part of a practical met
hodology to give a way of summarising multimodal\, possibly irregularly sa
mpled\, time-ordered data in a way that is insensitive to its parameterisa
tion. A key property underpinning this approach is the ability of linear f
unctionals of the signature to approximate arbitrarily any compactly suppo
rted and continuous function on (unparameterised) path space. We present s
ome new results on the properties of a selection of topologies on the spac
e of unparameterised paths. We discuss various applications in this contex
t.\nThis is based on joint work with Willliam Turner.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/67/
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SUMMARY:Luitgard Veraart (London School of Economics)
DTSTART:20230130T153000Z
DTEND:20230130T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/68
DESCRIPTION:Title: Systemic Risk in Markets with Multiple Central Counterpa
rties\nby Luitgard Veraart (London School of Economics) as part of Oxf
ord Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture held i
n Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nAbstract: We provide a frame
work for modelling risk and quantifying payment shortfalls in cleared mark
ets with multiple central counterparties (CCPs). Building on the stylised
fact that clearing membership is shared among CCPs\, we show how this can
transmit stress across markets through multiple CCPs. We provide stylised
examples to lay out how such stress transmission can take place\, as well
as empirical evidence to illustrate that the mechanisms we study could be
relevant in practice. Furthermore\, we show how stress mitigation mechanis
ms such as variation margin gains haircutting by one CCP can have spillove
r effects on other CCPs. The framework can be used to enhance CCP stress-t
esting\, which currently relies on the “Cover 2” standard requiring CC
Ps to be able to withstand the default of their two largest clearing membe
rs. We show that who these two clearing members are can be significantly a
ffected by higher-order effects arising from interconnectedness through sh
ared clearing membership. Looking at the full network of CCPs and shared c
learing members is therefore important from a financial stability perspect
ive.\n\nThis is joint work with Iñaki Aldasoro.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/68/
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SUMMARY:Nikolas Tapia (Weierstrass Institute Berlin)
DTSTART:20230213T153000Z
DTEND:20230213T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T090516Z
UID:OxfordStochasticAnalysis/69
DESCRIPTION:Title: Stability of deep residual neural networks via discrete
rough paths\nby Nikolas Tapia (Weierstrass Institute Berlin) as part o
f Oxford Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar\n\nLecture h
eld in Oxford Mathematical Institute.\n\nAbstract\nUsing rough path techni
ques\, we provide a priori estimates for the\noutput of Deep Residual Neur
al Networks in terms of both the input data and\nthe (trained) network wei
ghts. As trained network weights are typically very\nrough when seen as fu
nctions of the layer\, we propose to derive stability\nbounds in terms of
the total p-variation of trained weights for any p∈[1\,3].\nUnlike the C
1-theory underlying the neural ODE literature\, our estimates\nremain boun
ded even in the limiting case of weights behaving like Brownian\nmotions\,
as suggested in [Cohen-Cont-Rossier-Xu (2021) Scaling Properties of Deep\
nResidual Networks\, http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/cohen21b/cohen21b.p
df ]. \nMathematically\, we interpret residual neural network as solutions
to (rough) difference equations\, and analyse them based on recent result
s of discrete time signatures and rough path theory. Based\non joint work
with C. Bayer and P. K. Friz.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/OxfordStochasticAnalysis/69/
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