Física

Quasi-invariant gaussian measures for the nonlinear wave equation

Nikolay Tzvetkov
Univ. de Cergy-Pontoise

Abstract: We will show that a natural class of gaussian measures living on Sobolev spaces of varying regularity are quasi-invariant under the flow of the two dimensional cubic defocusing wave equation. For that purpose, we introduce renormalised energies and we establish the associated energy estimates. This is a joint work with Tadahiro Oh (Edinburgh University).

A sessão ocorreu a 30 de setembro de 2016 e incluiu demonstrações interativas sobre medição de sinais elétricos no corpo humano. Esta atividade foi coordenada pelo Núcleo de Estudantes de Biomédica da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. Rui Agostino, professor do Departamento de Física e diretor do Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa, coordena o ciclo.

Conditional moment matching approximations by stochastic bridges for exponential Brownian functionals

Nicolas Privault
Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore

Abstract: Using Doob transform techniques we will derive closed-form expectations for exponential functionals of Brownian motion in several settings, including Brownian motion on matrix Lie groups. We will also propose numerical approximations constructed by conditional moment matching and stochastic bridges, which turn out to be numerically more stable than closed form expressions.
Applications to option pricing will be mentioned.

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