Jason Swanson
Assistant Professor
University of Central Florida
Department of Mathematics
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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 December 7, 2011


Links

Courses and Seminars

Homepage for MAC 2312 Calc II
Homepage for MAA 6229 Analysis II

Conferences

Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2012, University of Kansas (Mar 22-24, 2012)
AMS Central Meeting, Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, University of Kansas (Mar 30-Apr 1, 2012)
Graduate Student Probability Conference 2012, Georgia Tech (Apr 27-29, 2012)
2012 Southeastern Probability Conference, Duke University (May 14-15, 2012)
Probability, Control and Finance: A Conference in Honor of Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia University (Jun 4-8, 2012)
8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul (Jul 9-14, 2012)
Thirty Fourth Midwest Probability Colloquium, Northwestern University (Oct 11-13, 2012)
Workshop for Women in Probability, Duke University (Oct 14-16, 2012)
36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, University of Colorado Boulder (Jul 29-Aug 2, 2013)

Careers in mathematics

Careers involving probability and statistics
Careers in Mathematics
The Best and Worst Jobs in the U.S.
Student Careers
Mathematics-Related Professions
Why Major In Mathematics?
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition: Mathematicians

Other

Peter Donnelly on YouTube (Title: How juries are fooled by statistics)
Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management
The Probability Web
MathOverflow
Wolfram|Alpha
ProofWiki
Almost Sure
mathtube.org
The Mathematical Atlas
GmailTeX


Research Articles

Preprints

The calculus of differentials for the weak Stratonovich integral (pdf)
[arXiv:1103.0341]

Publications

Fluctuations of the empirical quantiles of independent Brownian motions (pdf)
Stochastic Process. Appl., 121(3):479–514, 2011. link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2010.11.012
[arXiv:0812.4102]

The weak Stratonovich integral with respect to fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter 1/6 (pdf)
(with Ivan Nourdin and Anthony Réveillac)
Electron. J. Probab., 15:2087–2116, 2010. link: http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/
[arXiv:1006.4238v1]

Crowding of Brownian spheres (pdf)
(with Krzysztof Burdzy and Soumik Pal)
ALEA Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat., 7:192–205, 2010. link: http://alea.impa.br/english/index_v7.htm
[arXiv:1002.1057]

A change of variable formula with Itô correction term (pdf)
(with Krzysztof Burdzy)
Ann. Probab., 38(5):1817–1869, 2010. link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOP523
[arXiv:0802.3356]

Asymptotic behavior of a generalized TCP congestion avoidance algorithm (pdf)
(with Teunis J. Ott)
J. Appl. Probab., 44(3):618–635, 2007. link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1239/jap/1189717533
[arXiv:math/0608476]

Variations of the solution to a stochastic heat equation (pdf)
Ann. Probab., 35(6):2122–2159, 2007. link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117907000000196
[arXiv:math/0601007]

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

Stationarity of some processes in transport protocols (pdf)
(with Teunis J. Ott)
SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev., 34(3):30–32, 2006. link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1215956.1215969

Theses

Variations of stochastic processes: alternative approaches (pdf)
My doctoral dissertation.

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


Slides

The calculus of differentials for the weak Stratonovich integral
Fluctuations of the empirical quantiles of independent Brownian motions
A change of variable formula with Itô correction term


Lecture Notes

Elementary properties of functions with one-sided limits
Malliavin Calculus in Rd
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