Seminario Rodney Wolff - 10 luglio 2003

[Patrizia Piacentini <piacent@stat.unipd.it>]

        UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
       Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche

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                    Seminario

  HARRY POTTER AND THE QUEST FOR NON-LINEARITY

                   RODNEY WOLFF
    Jesus College, Oxford, Great Britain and
Queesland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

              Giovedi' 10 luglio 2003
                     ore 10:30
                   Aula Cucconi

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SUMMARY
The world is non-linear: everything, from the view of the 
globe from space to the gentle and deceptive bend of 
Oxford Street in London, bears witness to this fact.  
Research over the past 25 years or so has rendered many 
and varied techniques for modelling non-linear phenomena 
observed through time.  In this talk, three episodes of 
research carried out Hogwarts (or similar places) will be 
described.  The first is the development of bootstrap 
tests for percentiles with applications in testing for 
the presence of chaos in a time series.  The second is an
 extension of spectral methods to test for the presence 
and kind of non-linearity. And the last is a speculative 
attempt to employ methods from chaotic dynamical systems 
to determine the coding ability of DNA sequences.

RODNEY WOLFF is an Associate Professor in Financial 
Econometrics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) 
in Brisbane, Australia.  He currently holds a Visiting 
Senior Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford.


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Patrizia Piacentini
Segreteria  Organizzativa  Convegni e Seminari
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche
Università degli Studi di Padova
Via C. Battisti, 241
35121 Padova

tel 049 8274167
fax 049 8274170
e-mail segrorg@stat.unipdit
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