Speaker: Professor M. Takeda, Tohoku University, Japan

1. Title: Dirichlet forms -- L^2 theory in symmetric Markov processes
Time: 3:30-4:30, Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009
Place: 1801

2. Title: Some variational formulas on additive functionals of symmetric Markov processes(I)
Time: 3:00-4:30, Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009
Place: 1801

3. Title: Some variational formulas on additive functionals of symmetric Markov processes(II)
Time: 3:00-4:30, Thursday, Dec 3, 2009
Place: 1801

Topics in 2 and 3 include
Donsker-Varadan type large deviation principle for symmetric Markov processes
Random time change and a formula on scattering length