Proposed visit of Professor Gunter Last (Karlsruhe University, Germany)
Lead Research Organisation:
Heriot-Watt University
Department Name: S of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Abstract
The aim of this proposal is to bring Professor Gunter Last of Karlsruhe University, a distinguished mathematician withparticular expertise in the probability theory of stochastic geometryand stochastic stability, tothe UK for a period of two months. During this period ProfessorLast would give a short course on ``Some topics in stochastic geometry'' at Heriot-Watt University under an umbrella of Maxwell Institute, andwould hold an intensive exchange of ideas with the proposedInvestigators and their colleagues as an initial phase of proposedcollaboration. He would also visit other UK Institutions to giveseminar talks and to hold further scientific discussions with colleaguesat those places.
Organisations
Publications
Last G
(2011)
Characterization of mass-stationarity by Bernoulli and Cox transports
in Communications on Stochastic Analysis
Last, G.
(2014)
Unbiased shifts of Brownian motion
in Annals of Probability
Description | Our discussion (Prof Last, Prof Konstantopoulos, Prof Foss) was essential for promoting the beautiful theory of stable matchings and allocations. The the stable allocation theory won the Nobel price in economics in 2012 (Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth). |
Exploitation Route | It is important for teaching students (including students of economics) and for a new textbook "Lectures on the Poisson Process" (by Guenter Last and Mathew Penrose), to be published by OUP. The book will contain a chapter on stable allocations and the extra head problem. |
Sectors | Education Other |
Description | Prof Last has written two papers (they were published in top journals) , with acknowledgements to the grant. Jointly with Prof Penrose (U of Bath) he has written an advanced textbook (to be published by OUP). Prof Foss and Prof Konstantopoulos used the ideas in joint paper (2010). Prof Last has given a series of lectures attended by colleagues from several Scottish universities. |
First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
Sector | Education,Other |
Impact Types | Cultural |