Jason Swanson

Assistant Professor
University of Central Florida
Department of Mathematics
4000 Central Florida Blvd
P.O. Box 161364
Orlando, FL 32816-1364

Office: MAP 202E
Phone: (407) 823-0148
Fax: (407) 823-6253
Email: swanson@mail.singularity.ucf.edu
(Remove the singularity.)

Brief Bio

I received my B.S. in 1998, M.S. in 2003, and Ph.D. in 2004, all in mathematics, and all from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. I was a VIGRE Van Vleck Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2004--2007. My research area is probability theory, and my primary interests currently include stochastic differential equations, stochastic partial differential equations, interacting particle systems, weak convergence theorems for stochastic processes, Brownian motion, fractional Brownian motion, and financial mathematics.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Updated September 24, 2008


Links

Courses and Seminars

Calculus and Analytic Geometry I Honors
Calculus and Analytic Geometry III
UCF Probability and Statistics Seminar

Conferences

Gaussian Analysis & Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (October 2008)
Seminar on Stochastic Processes (March 2009)
33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (July 2009)
International Congress of Mathematicians (August 2010)

Recreation

Monthly Math Puzzles


Research Articles

Preprints

A change of variable formula with Itô correction term
(with Krzysztof Burdzy)
[arXiv:0802.3356]

Publications

Variations of the solution to a stochastic heat equation (pdf)
Ann. Probab. 35 (2007), no. 6, 2122--2159. link: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1191860418
[arXiv:math.PR/0601007]

Asymptotic behavior of a generalized TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
(with Teunis J. Ott)
J. Applied Prob. 44 (2007), no. 3, 618--635. link: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jap/1189717533
[arXiv:math.PR/0608476]

Weak convergence of the scaled median of independent Brownian motions
Probab. Theory Related Fields, 138 (2007), Nos. 1-2, 269--304. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00440-006-0024-3
[arXiv:math.PR/0507524]

Stationarity of some processes in transport protocols
(with Teunis J. Ott)
SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev. 34, 3 (Dec. 2006), 30--32. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1215956.1215969

Theses

Variations of stochastic processes: alternative approaches
My doctoral dissertation. [pdf]

An introduction to the proof of Fermat’s last theorem
My undergraduate honors thesis. Supervised by Ralph Greenberg. [pdf]


Slides/Lecture Notes

A change of variable formula with Itô correction term


Instructional/Expository Articles

The Sleeping Beauty problem
The Feynman-Kac representation
The expectation of a product of Gaussian random variables
Lemmas for the Skorohod space
On the variance of pure jump processes
Game theory and poker
Randomness in science
Supplemental theorems for the Wick product approach to SPDEs
Elementary limit theorems in probability
The penny game


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