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 April 16, 2009


Links

Courses and Seminars

MAA 6238 Measure and probability
UCF Probability and Statistics Seminar

Conferences

Seminar on Stochastic Processes (March 2009)
Special Session on Stochastic Dynamics, AMS Meeting (April 2009)
The Third International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications (July 2009)
33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (July 2009)
International Congress of Mathematicians (August 2010)

Other

Monthly Math Puzzles
Peter Donnelly on YouTube (Title: How juries are fooled by statistics)


Research Articles

Preprints

Fluctuations of the empirical quantiles of independent Brownian motions
[arXiv:0812.4102]

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/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/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/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

Fluctuations of the empirical quantiles of independent Brownian motions
A change of variable formula with Itô correction term


Lecture Notes

Conditional expectation (for professionals)
Conditional densities, mass functions, and expectations (for undergraduates)
Transfinite induction
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
Supplemental theorems for the Wick product approach to SPDEs
Elementary limit theorems in probability


Instructional/Expository Articles

Game theory and poker
Randomness in science
The penny game


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