Title: Scheduling Modular Projects on a Bottleneck ResourceSpeaker: Dr. Roel Leus Affiliation: Faculty of Business and Economics of KU LeuvenLocation: Room 572A Huxley BuildingTime: 11:00amAbstract. In this paper, we model a research-and-development project as consisting of several modules, with each module containing one or more activities. We examine how to schedule the activities of such... Read more »

Title: Tutorial on Stochastic CalculusSpeaker: Florian LockerAffiliation: Institute for Statistics and Mathematics of WULocation: CPSE seminar room (C615 Roderic Hill)Time: 2:00pmAbstract. This tutorial session provides an introduction to stochastic calculus along the lines of the Merton model for asset pricing. Some properties of the components of this model will be explained and used to construct... Read more »

Title: On Control and Random Dynamical Systems in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert SpacesSpeaker: Dr. Boumediene HamziAffiliation: Department of Mathematics of Imperial CollegeLocation: CPSE seminar room (C615 Roderic Hill)Time: 2:00pmAbstract. We introduce a data-based approach to estimating key quantities which arise in the study of nonlinear control systems and random nonlinear dynamical systems. Our approach hinges on... Read more »